Swarthmore High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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HISTORY As we open the dusty pages of our faded memory book we muse over the happy re flectrons of our days at Swarthmore The blurred photos revrve recollections of amus mg rncrdents and give us cause for many a hearty chuckle Our thoughts flash uack to the outstanding events of our school days and we longrngly thmk of those carefree times As the first page turns over the drama of our school days rs again re enacted The barely recognrzable faces of our earliest childhood fr lends once more grm at us as the camera has caught them happily paddling rn the water at Rose Valley After that we all trooped over to Miss Pr rce s house for a prcnrc lunch This was the big, event of our kindergarten year for we met our future classmates from the other school Remember the beautiful sand castles Winnie and Graham spent hours constructing rn the sandbox'7 Even at this early age Lrttle Alrce Hornaday was up to her usual tricks and managed to break her ar nr A faded card slrps from the nerct page of the old album and the endless days of card trading are renewed agarn This was the year Doris blew rn fr om Chester and cap tured the heart of Casanova Casper Weezre and Hootie whrzzed through their first readrng book together while the rest of the class struggled along after them Drzzy and Luke decrded to set up housekeeping rn the lrttle white playhouse and wouldnt let anyone but Robbre and George vrsrt them A startling photo catches our attention next as we see a group of terrrfyrng Indran dancers with paper bags on therr heads Demure Carolvn however retained her com posure throughout the plav as the nreek squaw We really went all Indian at Rutgers thrs year and spent most of our spare moments weaving on the big loom Do you rt member how naughty lrttle Andy had to stand rn the hall for hrtrng a defenseless boy A tattered picture of a dinosaur stares at us from the following page As third grade terrors we were fascinated bv the study of prehistoric animals Peter De Groot was seriously affected by our studies and boldlv put Pattv Paul s prgtarls rn the rnkyvell The Rutgers Avenue pl ryers still rn action were a smashing success wrth therr sensa tional Mexican productron which was followed by food prepared the South American way On the next page a perfect spellrng paper rs proudlv erchrbrted recalling the days when life s blggest thrrll was the honor of showing a brg red 100 to the other classes However rt was not all work thrs year as parties were rn abundance College Avenue spent an entrre afternoon sailing boats on Patman s Pond and Rutgers not to be out done took an erccursron to Prttenger s farm The stream drdn t look that wet drd rt George? Already at thrs early age rt became clear that teachers disapproved of chew ing gum It was too bad for Blalrle that she was the one chosen to stand m front of the class with gum on her nose -1. frayed Garnet ribbon pinned to the next leaf turns our thoughts once again to the final trrumph of the Garnets rn our fifth grade field day The Polk twins starred rn all the events per usual We seemed to specialize rn stars thrs year and the climax was our trrp to the planetarrum which we all enyoyed Our studies were mainly oc cupred with tournaments and castles of medieval tunes and the girls generally 'rgreed that B111 Soden would make an rdeal knrght A withered leaf carefully pressed between the pages renrrnds us of the 6th grade A me 1 'K . , ' V - - ' ' - 1 . , . - . ' . . . v . ,. , 1 . . . . Q , . . ' ll ' ' , , rr , , ' - f ' ' . .' ' . . - H , V 77 ' ' . ' ' . - ' ' as - vu H ,, . . . . . , . . Y ' . . . y ' . v 9 ' . V . . ' . ' . . V V ' ' V .L . V . . ' V V . ' .' ' . ' . , . . . . . . ' I , . . . C Y x Y V H. . - x . l . , C ' Y ' .' V V' . ' V U 'Y V ' - ' V V - ' V . ' V , , . . ' . ' ' V ' . . r , 5 ., , - ' . . -, i . , . . y 1 ' v 1 V . V ' . V ' . . ' . .- . ' . .' ' V . ' v - ' - . s 1 v - . ' V - C v . V K . V' . . V V . ' ,

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CLASS SPGNSQRS R lv Iss DOROTHY ADAMS Ezght MR. HARRY E. CPPZNLANDER Miss IRMA ZIMMER

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Tml class trrp to Baltram s garden We were all happv because of the consprcuous rbsence of Mrs Mannel s three narled paddle The College Avenue class was luckv enough to take a trrp to Brex er s lce cleanr plant and Dave Campbell nearlv made hll'l1S6lf srck eatlng the delrcrous rce cream cake he w on The brrght spot rn the week for the Rutgers Avenue bows and grrls w as the dav when they went up to the Hrgh School for shop and sewlng respectrvelw Vle verv happrlv nrade use of the excellent opportunrtw to plax hookre VN e had reached the peak of our glade school days when we went up to the hlgh school to meet our new teachers and classmates of Junror Hrgh School Next we notlce a llber tv bell pm clipped to the book As we muse over the trrp to Phrladelphra rn the lth grade we renrember the Betsy Ross house and lunch at Horn and Hal dart s Thls was the V631 when we welcomed many new adClltlOI'lS to our class among them handsome Drck Tones who set nlany a g1llS heart a flutter untrl Carolyn took over BIISS Barton and Mr Bell had the trylng task of berng homeroom teachers to the new pl oblem chrldr en of the Junlor Hrgh School We soon lrved up to the name when some one set off an alarm clock rn a desk IH Mlss Barton s room A fl antrc five mrnutes was spent searchrng for the barted desk A star rs glued to the followlrg page of our memory album It rs a remnant of the days rn the elghth glade when we pasted the constellatlons on the cerllng of Mr Udell s room Moments rn hls room stand out brrghtly rn our memorres especlally the dav Bobble set off the stlnk bomb Mr Udell further enlrghtened our studres by frequent 6 oclock l'l10lI'llI'1g' bud walks He had an ardent followrng of grlls especlally Gmny and Hrlda We trred to conquer percentages rn Mr Mrller s classes however hls col lectron of Jokes rncludrng the one rn whlch he fell out of hls chalr lent an amuslng arr to the work A smrlmg plcture of Bob McCowan appears remrndlng us of the great honor he an artlcle about the llfe of an average boy at home and at school whlch was sent to the Latrn Anrerrcan countrres Mrss Engle gave us a very enlrghtenrng course on garbage drsposal and other crvlc dutles but she drdn t seem to know how to cope wlth Graham Foster the day he was late to class Thrs was our brg year ln Junror Hlgh because we were the lrnk between youth and maturrty ln the school It seems that one of the steps rn becomrng mature IS Latrn so we took on Doctor Irwln s Jokes and Chrlstmas carols wrth cheerful determrnatlon A crumpled program from our tenth grade year clearly remlnds us of the out standlng and unusual pageant about world peace whlch the whole class helped to produce Although few of us wrll ever forget the remarkable performances ot nlany people especlally Steve Spencer as narrator the most remarkable event of the evenlng was the Chaos Scene starrrng Betty Spencer and Anne Wrlght Thrs year was our first chance of grvrng a blg dance and our Soph Hop wrth the theme Strlctly Instru mental rn our oprnrons was strrctly wonderful We were all kept busy wrth parties projects and trlps When the class tr udged lnto the museum our teachers were qurte sure they would never find us all after we got lost among the antrques and Egyptran munlmres Sports also occupred the spotlrght and we were mrghty proud of Tubbs when he made All Delco Of course, how were we to know that he was gorng to nrake lt rn hrs Junlor and senror year too The next page rs covered wrth marks resemblrng chrcken scratches but we finally figured out that rt nlust be one of our feeble attempts to get a better mark than an E from Mr Fhrrstran Musrc as well as algebra thrrved and a boys quartet developed It s too bad thev couldn t srng at the Junror Prom but then most people were more rnterested rn other thrngs 'Neptune s Krng dom of course We leaned tow ard the French srde at our SEIN IOR BALL Sam Nowell spent the entlre evenrng chasrng those darn spots but he never caught one Our next partv was one grven by the parents durmg whlch we proved to be adept at square dancrng Many peoples hldden talents were drscovered durrng the Betty Hart Show and our senror play Prrde and Pregudrce Although 1946 to 1944 was our happrest year of all there were some sober faces on the nlght of our gr aduatlon because no matter how nluch we had complamed during the past we were stlll sure that we would mlss our happy davs at Swarthmore of f' V I-'FHS 19Pl VCA I 'lporlov ' . . .. v . . v , . , ' . . . 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