Upper Darby High School - Oak Yearbook (Upper Darby, PA)

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Aboard for Washington !

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CUSTOM and two days of roin never foil to go olong with the seniors when they oonuolly pilgnmoge to the notion's copitol This year, traveling via the Balti- more ond Ohio Roilrood, wth custom on hand to hurry things along ond the roin trying its best to slow things down, all events occurred on schedule Arnvmg ot Union Station shortly before nocn of April 17, the three hundred forty students and teachers grcbbed a hasty lunch and boarded sight-seeing busses for a full ofterncons date with the Department of Justice, Coogress, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian Institution Between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning came Thursday night, the time wl»en the seniors really enjoy themselves at the Lee House ond the Lafayette Hotel Pete Ruton mode more no»se keeping his room quiet than if tie hod let them alone Horry Morns ond Bob Wolf silently ployed cords oil night Bob Ambrogi. Jock Dcn- cghue, Dot Miller, ond Dot Wenger donced till curfew The poor Iwuse detective searched for the person who threw the bog of water in vain Up ot 7.30 on Friday morning, the sightseers gobbled o lorge breakfost ond traveled through o downpour to the Bureau of Printing ond Engraving, thence to the Pon-Amencon Union, Corcoran Galleries, where many a weaned soul grabbed forty winks, ond the White House After lunch ot the hotels, the splendors of St. Alban's Cathedral were opened to them. Ther, after the sixteen-mile ride to Mount Vernon, where the class picture wos taken, the class conducted its own ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery. And so bock to the sumptuous Raleigh Hotel, where waiters ware toils ond spilled dishes Thus was the long-awoited Washington trip ended Only reminiscences remain, reminiscences of Bill Diggory's ond Bill Anderson's Mr Hyde and Frankenstein oct, of Den Kulp's. Warren Newbury's, ond Malcolm Shannon's daring departure from the hotel, ond of Dr. Dome in his nightgown, trying to quiet a noisy hall All I. Washington Monument. 2. Edna Strotton ploces wreoth at Unknown Soldier's Monument. 3. Dovid Madden joins the Washington street eleoners. 4. In the Pan- Amcrican Building. 5. Jock Voscy hos a drink ot the White House pool. 6. Mr. Tyson with his Chombcrlain umbrella. 7. Jock McGill ond o Supreme Court stotuc. 8. Up the steps to Lincoln Monument 9. Miss Bock. 10. Hodficld, Roof, Pilkington, ond Luckcr pretend to be resting. 11. A foot-weary group enjoys o rest. 12. McIn- tyre, Hamilton, and Miller look very happy. 13. This group looks very annoyed obout something. 14. Tired chaperones. IS. Brown ond Sailer in perfect comfort.

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Upper Uarl y NAME NICKNAME USUALLY SEEN AMBITION Estelle Howley 'Stell Looking for the Oak staff To understand sociology Jeon Roberts Jean Going to a meeting To be a nurse Edna St rot ton Edie Saying hello To be a house mother at Princeton Morion Abel Abie Shooting a basket To graduate from U. D. H. S. Ruth Diller Killer-Diller Counting Acorn money To marry a millionaire Virginio Korn Ginny Gossiping with the girls To be an actress Roberta Armstrong Bobbie Reoding o ploy To be a leading lady Kothryn Renzulli Colly Kidding someone To pronounce her r's Esther Ridpoth Es Working on the Acorn To be president of Swarthmore College Dorothy Miller Dot Swimming To swim in the Olympics Ruth Wise Ruthie Talking to Bot To win a jitterbug contest Elizabeth Heyl Betty In a gym suit To play All-American hockey Mory Beckenstrater Becky Copying over Latin To hitch-hike around the world Emma Cor fledge Em As a cheer leoder To be a second Zorina Moryonne Woodard Venus Managing tennis To solve the crime problem Patricia Collins Pot Cromming for French To be a French interpreter Jean Caris Jean Working To be a moth teacher Anne Hynson Hynse Taking Oak money To be a lady of leisure Betty Jane Gartland B. J. At the Information Desk To eat in lunch study Dorothy Heller Dot Working on the Upi-Doh To write a best-seller Helen Louise Evans Helen In Acorn office To settle down Kothleen Johnson Koy Studying chemistry To make a hole in one Marijone Bottomley Bot Talking to Cally To ossist Mr Herzog's gym classes One Hundred Two