Westtown High School - Amicus Yearbook (Westtown, PA)

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CLASS HISTORY fe N these days of equal suffrage one does not have the resentful feeling of There goes a man first as usual when the records show us that our once chubby Hugh Oliver was the first infant pioneer and founder of 1921, emigrating from Syria in the fall Of 1913, to enter the guardian walls of VVesttown. Being the only one in this noble family a spoiled child might have developed had it not been for our ever-loyal Charlie Haines who came in the fall of 1914, a second infant in the fold. Courageously they struggled together to uphold their rights when, in the fall of 1915, jane Randolph, '21's wearer of the mantle of dignity, and Henry Kirk, the skate-king joined the number. Needless to say that Enid and Brownie, our first Delta member, were heartily welcomed as members of this little group in the fall of 1916. Then in the fall of 1917 the class began to be still more cosmopolitan in character, some of its members coming from North Carolina, Indiana and even from one of the unheard-of-towns of New Jersey. Pennsylvania must, however, bear the responsibility for three of these seekers after knowledge. Rebecca Hallett, Conard Harvey and Clifford Wickersham. 1t's rather strange that such an exceptional personage as Blanche Wood. our first class secretary, should come out of New jersey, but such is the case. VVinds coming from the south and west simultaneously blew in Mary Windle and Edwin Brown. YVe were jolly and content as weiwere but the more the merrier, so it was with glee that, in the fall of 1918, we welcomed this happy group here depicted. Tatnall Leeds Tierney to the Potter by De Longv way to avoid the VVildman. De Con, along with her friends 'fHedley and 'WVilliams, Stokes her burning desire for knowledge here among us. Our athletic outlook for 1919 was brightened by the appearance of the stalwart twins Tom and Phil, our Jack of all trades, Stewie, who can also pick amandolin much to our enjoyment, Cooper, Edgerton, and Seagraves. To keep it from being all one-sided, Arthur Young and Ernest Forsythe came to add a little variety. But these were as nothing in comparison with the motley group of girls that came from far and near to be enrolled into our company. Bert Heess our Senior Secretary, Phoebe Furnas, Evelyn Haworth of asthetic fame, Mr. Ruth Levering and wife Marjorie Pickett were among the first to arrive. Elizabeth XVills, our May Queen, Mary Russell, Eileen Todd, Helen Fe the envoy from Cuba and Jean XVarren were also in this aggregation of strangers. fC0,,fj,mpd on Page 302 27

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1921 YEAR BOOK BOARD , 'Ei Editor-ini-Chief Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor THEODORE S. RAIFORD HELEN Fe HAWORTH FRANCES R. TATNALL PHILIP E. WILDMAN Art Editor Art Editor Business M anager Advertising Manager EDITH B. DECOU BIARY A. RUSSELL JOHN D. JACOB EDWIN P. BROWN HE compiling of a Year Book is nearly as complicated a process as the compiling of a Dictionary. The gray hairs of premature old age mark the members of the Board as people who have been through much. We feel that we have completed the work of a lifetime and can now die in peace. Though the product may not seem such a masterpiece as the foregoing ought to indicate, yet We assure you that it is a careful record of the year at Westtown and especially of the doings of the illustrious class of 1921. Here is a Common Memory Book. May some page be personally suggestive for each one here at school. ffl!