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

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Perfect Highway To the Class of 1959: Your class has taken part in important exper- imental work in Upper Darby High School. Through your cooperation the program to improve instruction by the elimination of class interruptions has been successful. As the year draws to a close, faculty and students alike evaluate the experience as a major contribu- tion to our educational purpose. A retrospect of the activities of this year reveals a term of achievement which could well serve as a precedent for future groups to follow. Our especial felicitations go to fifteen members of the class of 1959 who qualified as finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Con- test. You are to be congratulated upon the suc- cessful completion of the prescribed courses in our school. We shall acknowledge and admire your future achievements as you carry high the torch and banner of your Alma Mater. The Board of Education created the Upper Darby Township School Authority in 1956 to help aid the financing and the erection of the Drexel Hill Junior High School at State Road and Penn Avenue. The School Authority has eight members, each of whom serves for five years. Smooth functioning of any school system depends upon the foresight and understanding of those to whom the principal has delegated specific authority. Upper Darby High School's reputation for careful reporting, planned guid- ance activities, and interest in the individual student is due to those who have carried out their delegated administrative duties. UPPER DARBY School Authority: Sitting: Ivon H. Peterman, secretary; J. Vernon Elson, M.D., vice-chairman; Roe V. Biester, chairman; E. Richard Werner, treasurer; Edward 1. Anderson. Standing: Albert O. Snyder, assistant secretary; R. Winfield Baile, solicitor; Thomas E. Burns, Jr. Intart: Bertha Wert, new member. ADMINISTRATION: Sitting: Stanley F. Twoes, director of attendance; Charles W. Holmes, registrar and director of guidance; James E. Nancarrow, principal; Edna MacNoir, dean of girls; Ralph M. Andersen, dean of boys.

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Planners for a Mr. John H. Tyson To the Class of 1959: You are privileged to live in the greatest era of recorded history and to share in the tre- mendous advances and improvements that result from our technological genius and our productive capacity. This will be an era in which nearly all workers, at all levels of employment, will need a broad liberal educa- tion supplemented by highly-developed tech- nical skills. And the training that will be required will not be limited to those youthful days spent in high school and college, but will continue throughout life. We who have helped to guide and stimulate you during those early years hope that you will choose pathways to further learning, lead- ing to a life of enriched experience and satis- fying services. May each of you contribute, in your own small way, in aiding people through- out the world to live together with mutual respect and lasting peace. BOARD OF EDUCATION Providing educational opportunities for approximately ten thousand students, ranging from kindergarten to twelfth grade is the duty of the nine-member Board of Education. At the present time, under the leadership of Dr. George C. Dilworth, much time is being spent upon considering advisable changes in the mathematics, science, and language curriculums so that they may prepare Upper Darby students to meet the challenge of this technological era in which we live. In addition to making curriculum changes, the Board also authorizes the purchase of physical equipment. Upon their approval, maintenance workers renovated the band room and installed new seats in the auditorium. Front row: Mr. B. Marvin Weitt, Mr. Je»J« M. Motlack, Mr . Judith M. Cameron, Mr. Vanleer I. Bond, Mr. John H. Frazier, Mr. John C. Parry, Mr . Rhoda S. Seeburger, Dr. Harlan F. Haine . Second row: Mr. John H. Ty on, Superintendent; Mr. R. Winfield Baile, Solicitor; Mr. George W. Hoehler, Attitlonl to the Superintendent; Mr. Albert O. Snyder, Secretory; Mr. Stewart B. Horkne », Treoturer; Mr. Lewi O. Goat, A i»tonl to the Superintendent; Dr. George G. Dilworth, Pretident.

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Expressing Thoughts FOREIGN LANGUAGES When in Rome do as the Romans do, is a phrase that is truly understood by Upper Darby pupils who study a foreign language. Under the guidance of Miss Lucille Noble, the foreign language department offers three years of French, Spanish, and Latin and two years of German. Students learn not only to speak a foreign language but also to appreciate many of the strange customs that other countries have; and come to sense how to cope with such problems if they should visit a foreign country. In the college preparatory course stu- dents are required to take two consecutive years of one language in order to meet college entrance requirements. In the commercial cur- ricula, languages are elective. WHAT IS football? Football it a gam . See you lator alligatori trontloto Mr. Conalot and Carol Kothland for a Spanish II clast. A JUNIOR English class is to intont on thoir work that thoy pay no attontion to Miss Yorkos' stuffed dachshund. ONE OF Miss Nobel's Latin Classes listens attentively os Carole Osterholst translates a story. 16 MISS D'AMEIIO gives dictation to stenographic students Joan Rettew, Sue Betaras, Dorothy Fistler, and Margie Canakis.