1930 Scrapbook Book. Girls' High School. Woolverton

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A 1930 Scrapbook & Autograph Book

By Miss Marion Wallace Woolverton

A Senior at the Philadelphia High School for Girls

(The First Secondary Public School for Girls in Pennsylvania)

Class of 1930

Full Details of Her Senior Year in School

Including Information about the Students' Fight to Avoid Merging with William Penn High School

52 Pages of Clippings, Autographs, Momentos, etc.

Plus Items Laid in Looseleaf

Book Size: 7 x 10 inches

Above:  The Album, with Some Items Laid in Looseleaf

(Includes Information about the Last Year in the Old School Building)

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Above:  Album by Student Marion Woolverton

Class of 1930

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52 Pages of Momentos, Autographs, and Newspaper Clippings about the School

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52 Pages of Momentos, Autographs, and Newspaper Clippings about the School

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52 Pages of Momentos, Autographs, and Newspaper Clippings about the School

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The Philadelphia High School for Girls:

This school is the first secondary public school for girls in Pennsylvania.  It was also the first municipally supported teachers' school in the U.S. This school begain in 1848 as the Girls Normal School.

This school is also known as Girls' High.  It is a public university-preparatory magnet high school in Philadelphia. It is located at Broad Street and Olney Avenue in the Olney section  of Philadelphia.

In 1893, the High School and Normal School became two separate schools, including the Philadelphia High School for Girls. In 1898, a Latin-Scientific Course “was designed to prepare students for the Women's Medical College, Cornell, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Barnard, or such courses in the University of Pennsylvania as were open to women.”

In the early 1930s, the school defeated attempts to merge it with William Penn High School, because of protests by alumnae, faculty and friends of the school.

In 1933, a new school was built at Seventeenth and Spring Garden Streets to replace the one which had stood on the site since 1876. Today it is the site of Julia R. Masterman School.

Marion Wallace Woolverton:

According to the online Federal Census, Miss Marion Woolverton was the daughter of Wirt W. Woolverton and Margaret H. Woolverton, of Philadelphia.  Her father, Wirt Woolverton, was a dealer in gas and electric fixtures.  She had a younger brother David H. Woolverton.

The Pages in the Album:

1.  Two felt pennants that say "Girls High"

2.  Newpaper clipping and illustration of the the Girls School, with history of the school.

3.  Newspaper clipping photograph of Ethel Roth ringing the old school bell. Letter to the Editor newspaper clipping by Bessie Block protesting proposed changes at the Girls School. 

4. A card with the school's motto and ideals.

5. Names of class officers: President: Virginia Smith, Vice President: Ethel Roth, Secretary: Toby Ring, Treasurer: Anna Schweitzer. Class colors.

6. A page of nicknames of 8 of Marion's friends:  Dorothy Sherman, Josephine Atkinson, Estelle Gordon, Melford Mitchell, Mezpah Mitchell, Virginia Smith, Elizabeth Luff, and Adelaide Chestnut.

7. Information about a tea given by the alumnae at the Bellvue Stratford Hotel "to interest the graduating class in the alumnae."

8. An inviation to the alumnae tea at the Belluvue Stratford Hotel "to interest the graduating class in the alumnae." Plus a hand-written party invitation to Marion from "Clare" .

9. A miniature calendar for 1929.

10. Newspaper clipping with photo of school principal Miss Jessie Alloen giving award to Peggy O'Malley. With an admission card to the Senior-Junior Gymnastic Contest, with Marion Woolverton's membership card to the school's athletic association.

11.  An program for a school play by the school's service club, with a play about Scotland, starring Girls' School students: Elizabeth Rosenfeld, Clara Evans, Helen Laughlin, Anna Kleine, Elizabeth Murphy, Gladys Schwartz, Miriam Goldenstein, Margaretta Roeger, Audrey Dunseath, Beatrice Milligan, and Edna Price.

12. An program for a vaudeville performance by the school's service club, with an admission ticket, starring Girls' School students: Margaretta Roeger, Mary Iannace, Sylvia Chodoff, Charlotte Theel, Mary Shea, Roberta Carrol. With a letter to the editor and a school lunch ticket.

13. A program for a school play "The Purple Mask" starring Girls' School students: Paulette Goettel, Dena Cohen, Ruth Lloyd, Leora Boeshore, Clara Cooper, Julia Hunter, Gertrude Schaeffer, Louise Zulick, Gladys Schwartz, Clara Evens, etc.  With an admission ticket for that play.

14. Autographs and forget-me-not messages of Marion's classmates: Dorothy L. Sherman, Elizabeth Wrigley, Charlotte Handler, Clare Schwartz, Elizabeth Luff, Sylvia Dobkin, Sarah Plotnick, Alva Detwiler, etc.

15. Autographs and Forget-me-Not statements of two of Marion's classmates: Elizabeth Luff, and Anna Schwietzer,

16. Autographs and Forget-me-Not statements of three of Marion's classmates: Willie Graves, Betty Rosenthal, and Gertrude Wolf.

14. Autographs and forget-me-not messages of Marion's classmates: Willie Graves, Adele Sabaroff, Marion Spinelle, Peggy Cain, Peggy O'Malley, Florence C. Ridley, etc.

15. Autographs and forget-me-not messages of Marion's classmates: Florence Davis, Juanita Brown, Ruth Lomish, Thelsa Heiniss, etc.

16. Autographs and Forget-me-Not statements of four of Marion's classmates: Juanita Brown, Marian Dehler, Jean A. Peters, and "Pricey".

17. Autographs and Forget-me-Not statements of four of Marion's classmates

18. Autographs and Forget-me-Not statements of three of Marion's classmates: Jo Atkinson, etc.

19. Five Autographs of Marion's classmates: Deborah G. Pressman, Lillian Snyderman, Rena M. Bernabei, etc.

20. Autographs and Forget-me-Not statements of three of Marion's classmates:  Deborah G. Pressman, Lillian Snyderman, and "Mizpah"

21. Autographs and Forget-me-Not statements of four of Marion's classmates: Irene Barnes, Rosanna Crawford, etc.

22. Autographs and Forget-me-Not statements of Marion's classmates: Rose Scharf, Ada Pessman, Anna Weiss, Melba M. Scarpa, Helen Stoner, etc.

23. through 30. Twenty-five original photographs of Marion's classmates, and their class trip to Washington D.C.

31. Three items about the Service Club at the Girls' School

31. Note about a field trip of the Natural History Club, etc.

32. Information about the field trip to Washington D.C.

33 and 34. Items from the field trip to Washington D.C.: Hotel letterhead, tickets, etc.

35. Newspaper photo of students protesting proposed merger with William Penn High School, including Pearl Pataky and Mae Dempsey.

36. Newspaper article about  a school circus event.

37. Autographs of faculty members: Aileen M. Kirkpatrick, Jane Allen Stevenson, Anne E. Fleisher, Mary L. Constable, Anna Sensenig, etc.

38 and 39. Autographs and comments of faculty members: Katharine E. Murphy, Abigail Blackburn, Marion W. Masland, Reba Byron, Elizabeth C. Reinhardt, etc.

50 through 52. Newspaper clipping and photos about the graduation ceremonies.

Plus: Marion's engraved invitation and mailing envelope for her commencement from The Philadelphia High School for Girls on June 1930 at the Walnut Street Theater.

Plus: Two typed pages, loosleaf in the album, with the words to eleven cheers and songs.

Plus: Two newspaper clippings about the last class grauduation from the old buildings at the Girls' School at 17th and Spring Garden St., before the new school buildings will be built, with newspaper photo of Ameila Wight (the first girl graduate), Anne Lane Lingelbach, Cecelia Lediger, Mildred Grill, and principal Dr. Olive E. Hart.

Plus:  Newspaper photo of 4 girls performing the play "Purple Mask": Gertrude Schaeffer, Louise Zulick, Sylvia Satinsky, and Camille Blieden.

Plus: Program for the Sophrosyne Chapter of the National Honor Society.

Condition:  Very Nice Condition.    No library or institution markings.  Pages and cover are securely attached.  Pages are clean, with no foxing or dampstains.

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