Westtown High School - Amicus Yearbook (Westtown, PA)

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CLASS OFFICERS CLASS SONG CLASS POEM Out in the world where the great men are working. Out where the great ships are coming to shore. There where great dreams and great visions are lurking. Great deeds are waiting for you. Twenty'Four! Answer the challenge and carry it forward. Replace the men who are working no more. Sail in the tall ships and hasten them shoreward, Westtown is trusting in you, Twenty-Four! Seek the far-reaching horizon before you. Searching to find opportunity's door. Paying no heed to the clouds gath'ring o'er you. All Life is waiting for you, Twenty-Four! Follow the vision and cling to the dream. Bearing the standards of Westtown before. Striving, as ever, to be, not to seem. Great deeds are waiting for you, Twenty-Four! Hannah P. Morris, Jr. President Theodore B. Hetzel Vice-President Richard T. Lane Secretary Charlotte O. Ely Treasurer Amy E. Sharpless Valedictorian S. Hewlings Cooper Historian K. Virginia Wood Poet Hannah P. Morris The rustle of leaves in the lofty trees Says spring is here to stay. And with that thought comes a deeper one soon we'll go away. The blue of thy lake and the gray of its shores They frame thee in colors royal. To Westtown we sing, As a true pledge we bring. We'll always, yes always, be loyal. The spirit we hold is a nobler one Than all the rest we know; Through every age, like a written page. It has weathered the tempest's blow. The courage of youth and the valor of time Are mixed with its virtues high. Nineteen twenty-four Praises thee ever more With a spirit that cannot die. Honorary Member Samuel H. Brown Colors—Blue and Grey Flower Yellow Rose Mascot—Ford Motto “To be; not to seem. There's a note of our song with a golden Touch, and lit by a golden glow. 'Tis thy fair name with immortal fame. Echoed in whispers low. 'Tis Westtown for aye, it's the word we love. We sing it anon as we go. The sun ever beams On the school of our dreams. Yes, it's Westtown, the one we know. Sarah W. Leeds. 27

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CLASS HISTORY a SAMUEL JOHNSON once said, “He who hath much to do, will do something wrong, and of that wrong must suffer the consequences. This observation may be taken to apply in this case, for in undertaking to write a history of so illustrious and extensive a class as 1924, some things will be said which may be in error, while some important incidents which should have been noted may have been omitted. Success in an undertaking has sometimes been said to depend upon the kind of beginning that is made at the outset. But if we have not been successful in our undertaking of making a fine class, it cer- tainly can be said by no one that it was due to our beginning, for the once curly-haired Hulme Brown was our first member. In 1912 he was enrolled as a full-fledged student and entered the distinctive class of 1st Grade. After struggling valiantly with the knotty problems involved in 2nd and jrd Grades, he was at length joined in the fall of 1915 by Virginia Wood. A period of three years elapsed before the gates again opened, this time to the tune of a musical laugh, and Sara Wright began her Westtown career. The fall of 1919 brought six new members, Edith Satterthwaite, Fairchild and Ellwood Houghton. Catherine Greer, Ingram Richardson, and Clayton Brown. We are not sure whether Ellwood had learned to balance things on his head at this period or not, or whether “Clayt had reached the height of his attraction to the opposite sex, but we are sure that Jack's “Dorothy-DoU” curls were admired by all, and that Speedro's laugh was just as infectious then as now. The next year, 1920-21, our ranks were swelled by a still greater delegation, New York's repre- sentative being Helen Bell, a thoroughly genteel person fated to win high honors scholastically; Ohio exerted itself to the extent of producing Doris Blackburn, noted for her amiable disposition and Horace Doan, who excels in the pole-vault; and up from the sand and desert of Texas came Francis Harvey. The East also yielded up from Pennsylvania and even such a primitive state as New Jersey, such highly res- pectable people as Billy Ewing; Ted Hctzel, our Senior president; Chatter Ely, Senior secretary; and Sally Leeds, the forecaster of Boardwalk Styles. A variously talented company entered the next fall. Hewlings Cooper considerably brightened our athletic prospect, and together with Lewis Barton attained the heights of the finals in the Elocutionary Contest. Ruth Biddle is another of the master minds entering this year who excelled along this line; moreover, she is our Northfield president and in her first class year held the office of class secretary. 29