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

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r,E The 1950 UPPER DARBY HHN4SCHOOL UPPER DARBY PENNSYLVANIA

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,911 Memoriam In a sincere spirit of respect, admiration and affection, the staff of the Oak dedicates this page to R. Wayne Boyd who taught English in Upper Darby high school, from 1926 until his sudden death in his sleep Friday morning, September 23, 1949. Mr. Boyd was born in Chester County. After receiving his high school diploma at Parkesburg high school and his bachelor's degree at Dick- inson college and after teaching one year at Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, and one year at Pal- myra, New Jersey, he came to Upper Darby high school. He was soon recognized as a capable, co-operative member of the faculty, initiating and helping to administer school policies and programs with marked skill and ability. Young R. WAYNE BOYD people were attracted to him through his sincere interest in their growth and development. Mem- bers of the classes of 1934, 1943 and 1947 found in him an adviser who gave generous and helpful suggestions in planning their life programs. Mr. Boyd was thoroughly loyal and co-opera- tive in everything concerned with Upper Darby, aggressive in following sincere convictions, com- panionable and happy by disposition. Both by precept and example, he set high standards of conduct and achievement. His contribution to Upper Darby was an optimistic, ingenious, sympa- thetic outlook on life. He had a keen sense of the proper functioning of the school in commun- ity life and the part that youth may play today and in the years that lie ahead.