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The Thirties
As the nation sought to rid itself of bad stocks and remove its money from failing banks, a new president entered the scene. Franklin Delano Roosevelt set out to bring the nation out of its slump before it collapsed permanently. People tried to find ways to recover, but with Congressional disapproval of reform measures, the nation fell into a dark depression.
FDR’s first hundred days were spent developing a New Deal program stress­ ing the three R's - relief, recovery, and reform. He set out with enthusiasm to change the nation, strong in the belief that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." FDR proposed many new acts designed to help people find em­ ployment and save money. Congress rejected many of the proposals but fi­
nally accepted a few such as the Ten­ nessee Valley Authority and Labor Acts.
As FDR attempted to save the na- tiona, Stalin in Russian and Hitler in Germany rapidly rose in power. Both dictators desired to gain more land and take over Europe. More aggressive in his demands, Hitler took over France. As a consequence, Great Bri­ tain declared war on Germany and hoped the United States would aid their effort. Instead, FDR chose to re­ main neutral, but the decade ended with the American view again direct­ ed toward Europe and its problems.
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he would often deliver an inspirational oration that students would remember for years to come.
Of the ten members of the class of 1956. six were ad­ mitted MIT. Brown, Yale, Trinity and two to Lehigh. By 1959, enrollment had increased to well over 200 students, with a graduating class of seventeen. This last class under Mr. Wardlaw’s tutelage was the largest in the school's history. At the emotional final commencement in June, 1959, the graduating class presented a silver shafted cane with their signatures as a fitting tribute to a man who was undoubtedly one of the most loved headmasters at any private school in the nation.
On February 15, 1951, John A. Darsie. president of the Hartridge board of trustees, announced that Mrs. Philips planned to retire at the end of the school year.
He said. "When Mrs. Philips submitted her resignation to the board of trustees, it was accepted with the deepest personal regret by the members of the board.
"Under the guidance of Mrs. Philips, the school has not only carried on the fine tradition established by Miss Har­ tridge, but has maintained its position of high rank in the secondary field.
"The naming of a successor has not been a serious prob­ lem, however, for in Miss Sleeper and Miss Hitchings the school has on its staff able administrators who have had many years of service in education, a large part of which has been at the Hartridge School. The school, we fell sure, will carry on the same high standard of scholarship that existed under the leadership of Miss Hartridge and Mrs. Philips.”
He noted that Miss Sleeper had wide training and exper­ ience. The daughter of the late Prof. Henry D. Sleeper, for many years head of the Music Department at Smith College, she graduated from Smith In 1923. Miss Sleeper then taught
Busby Berkeley transformed the screen musical by expanding tradition to a previously undreamed of scale. Above: Dames, 1934.
By the thirties (billboard on Highway 99), the automobile was a symbol of the good of life. By the mid century, it had produced the superhighway and the suburban 'shopping center’ and was drawing away population, and was changing the character of urban life.
WORLDS HIGHE
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