Swarthmore High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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1 Faculty and Administration Seniors ................. Class History ...... Academy Awards . . . Superlatives ..... Underclassmen . . . The Scholastic . . . Activities ....... Music ...... Dramatics ......... Publications ......... Student Government .... Sports .............. Fall .............. Winter ..... Spring ....... In Retrospect . . . n'l:e nts A , wvmvv- H may V- - .K 1 L.. 32 34 36 39 45 49 50 54 56 58 63 64 67 69 74 N. i,,,......-1.-. M... M

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IIN xi 1 Mr Fermon Carpenter and Mr Wllham Polk Two members of our school who have con tnbuted devoted servlce are Mr Wllllam Polk and Mr Fermon Carpenter W1111am Polk has served the school 111 many CapaC1t1GS s1nce 1918 and wlll be remem bered for hxs frlendlmess h1s falthful care of our property and h1s consclentlous mterest ln every aspect of the school Many of us w111 agaln and agam thank F rmon Carpenter for the warmth of h1s un derstandlng for the wlsdom and stra1ghtfor wardness of h1s advlce and the unselfish con trxbutlons he has made to the well bemg of both students and faculty We the class of 1955 would l1ke to con gratulate these two fine men and dedlcate to them th1s yearbook dic tion . . . . D - - . , v 4 Q j - , - , . , a 2 '

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aculty Upon entering the Junior High, we are met at the top of the stairs by the smiling faces of Mr. Miller and Mr. Bell. Behind those smiling faces are fiendish ideas of drill- ing into us the basics of mathematics and social studies. In the next few years, social studies turns into history as we learn the problems of democracy with Mrs. Seymour, how to shovel it at Gettysburg with Pappy Yocum, and fight out Hammu- rabi's Code with Mr. Hofmann. Popcorn Jamison and Casanova Marish hold up the male end of the science department with experiments into the chem- X E ,Q ik if if .g. ,ggi if 32 Mr. Hall, Mr. Miller, Mr. Duncan. Absent: Mr. Klemmer. istry of distillation, while Miss Barten spe- cializes in impermeable membranes. Miss Hancock teaches us to create not only works of art, but also a general mess. The noisy end of the fine arts is exhibited between the tooting and banging of Mr. Holm's groups and the vocalizing of Miss Gooda1l's. Not to be left out of the noise, the clicking of Mrs. Martin's sewing ma- chines, the clattering of Mrs. Foley's type- Dr. Irwin, Mr. Conte, Miss Strouse, Mr. Snyder. Mrs. Mathews, Miss Zimmer, Miss McKie, Mrs. Becker, Miss Arm- strong. ag... writers, and the clanging of Mr. Watkins' hammers prove that we're being vocation- alized, as well as academicalized. Ready to separate the ain't's from the am not's are Mrs. Becker, Mrs. Wright, and Miss McKie, and a little later, Miss Armstrong manages to set us philos- ophizing on Walden Pond.-Seniors strongly suspect Mrs. Mathews and librarian Mrs. Boulter of pawning the senior English books for pocket money to buy some games, just like Miss Zimmer's. 542