West Philadelphia High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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r--1 g THE F CULTY B.. ,.-nw-G.. Q M Jacobson To The true Teacher 'nmes hourglass should still run qold-dust. D,f,e,,,,,1.,1

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Rf -0.-N... Ded1cat1on Mr Selden M Cary A noted phnlosopher once sand You gave but lnttle when you gxve of your possessxons It xs when you 2.,lVC of yourself that you truly gave You cannot compensate 1 man vsho truly g1ves of hxmsellf for he asks nothmg m return Such a mm IS Mr Selden M Cary chaxrman of the Art Department For years he has been the backbone of Western s cultural actxvx tres He has gxven unselfishly of hns txme and talents and wanted no recogmtxon We the class of January 1957 wnsh to thank Mr Cary smcerely for all that he has done for our class and for the school Thus yearbook a long and com pllcated undertakxng could not have been completed wlthout hns help H15 knowledge gunded us and hxs wnt and patlencc kept us going when the work looked endless We feel that the only way we can repay hlm for what he has gxven of hxmself 15 to gxve hum a httle part of us One of the few tangnble mementos ot Western that we wxll always have IS the Flame A lot of hard work went mto IC and we feel that xt IS a part of us of our class In tnme to come these pages wnll remmd us of our precnous hlgh school years and the people wxth whom we shared them For these reasons we hereby dedxcate the January 1957 yearbook to Mr Selden M Cary Q O ,,,,,.,s ffmg , , fa ' X fi W g ., X , fi, 5. kmm A YN ,,,.,:3,i.li - xx If 'fs 't,.Q fl' 2 H W 'ae 1 New www!! ,.,E 'e -ww' - , ll ' ' ll t - ' , ' . 1 ' . . , ' 3 A 9 I ' ' - . , - Y , .

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The Principals Message Employ thy tlme well nf thou meanest to gam lexsure and, smce you are not sure of a mmute, throw not away an hour Benyamzn Franklm TO THE CLASS OF JANUARY 1957 TIME' How fascnnatmg but elusxve IS 'mv attempt to consxder thas subject serxously It takes our thought back to pre creatnon txme shall I say? when m the formless void perhaps even Tnme dnd not exnst It IS xnterestmg to try to be phnlosophxcal about xt but perhaps nt wnll be more profitable to you m facmg the future nf I am more prac tncal nn my thought Tnme ns perhaps the only sp ct of hfe that everyone nch or poor hugh or low educated or uneducated has m equal measure There are just as many hours m the day of the poorest beggar as there are nn the day of the rnchest mnlhonaxre Here we have no accxdent of bxrth no muse to feel that Nature has been more bountnful wnth others than wxth us It seems that the most nmportant problem 15 what We do wxth the tnme we have- tnme for preparatnon would rqom You had all the time there was dndn t you? Perhaps nothmg ns so easv to waste to have dlsappear as you sxt and watch nt as Tnme Do you need the admonmon of Benjamnn Franklm9 Dost thou love life? Then do not squander txme for that ns the stuff hfe as made of If you reahze the truth of thns whxle you are young and do something about if vou can amass great treasures of vu dom of experxence of pleasure of proflt as you grow old I have always hked one of the tes s of a Man m Knplmg s If you can fill the unforgnvmg mmute Wxth snxty seconds worth of dnstance run Yours as the Earth and everythmg thats m xt And whxch 15 more you ll be a Man my son My very best wnshes to each of you' May Tnme be good to you Your Prmcnpal 7' V- . I I - . ' l ze' - n - . - .. ,- , , . 1 ' ' . . 2 S . , . , . , . , t u ' - my -5 - ' , . which reminds me of a teacher I had in hi h school, who, when a u il leaded lack of g P . . . . . . , , i , KI t , .fl , A Y t 1 . . . . . . ,, . . . . . ,, , . t , . . , . V S 7 f , 1 , ' t ' ' ' , ffIf.,, .. . . . . . , . Y . . , . . T ' ' 1 ! ,I , . ,