Conemaugh Township Area High School - Connumach Yearbook (Davidsville, PA)

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HISTORY OF SCHOOLS Left to right: Top row-Hostetler, Maple Ridge, Wertzg Second Row: Blough, Foustwell Livingston: Third row: air views of new high school building: Fourth row: Keafer, Thomas Mills, Millerg Bottom row: Saylor, Hiyasota, Yoder Q U

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THE FACULTY First row: Miss Elizabeth Lohr, Miss Ruth Williamson, Miss Carol Henderson, Miss Mary Crock, Mr. G. W. Stephens, Mr. Telford Blough. Miss Alice Boyer, Miss Elizabeth Schrall, Miss Helen Mathias, Miss Anna Blough Second row: Mr, Paul Eerkebile, Miss Eleanor Zimmerman, Mrs, Helen Aldstadt, Miss Ruth Ioseph, Miss Carolyn Segel, Miss Melba Saylor, Miss Ethel Bender, Miss Blanche Shaffer, Miss Marie Lower, Miss lane Thom, Miss Marguerite Ward Third row: Mr. Ioseph H. Iones, Mr. Peter Fee, Mr. Robert Kelly, Miss Elizabeth Young, Miss Verda Long, Mr. Thomas Webber, Mr, Kenneth Thomas, Mr. Donald Trexel, Mr. Galen R. Oellig Fourth row: Mr, Glenn C. Hess, Mr. Charles Legters, Mr. Robert Iohns, Mr. Iohn Kaufman, Mr. Robert Haines, Mr. Robert Kautz

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HISTORY OF SCHOOLS CZXLJITH the building of the new Conemaugh Township High School, one of the largest and finest rural high schools in Pennsylvania, a climax to over one hundred and five years of education was reached. Actual construction on this modern educational plant was begun on Ianuary 1, 1938, sixty-nine years after the first free school system was adopted by the township. Located on a thirteen-acre plot, the building is four hundred and eight feet long. It is approximately one-quarter mile around the exterior perimeter of the building. Mr. C. Yenter, the general contractor, reports that more than 125,000 man hours of labor went into the building. The structure required 580,000 bricks, 80,000 tile, 13,300 sacks of cement which was mixed with 266,000 shovelfuls of sand and 1,064,000 shovelfuls of stone, 90,000 feet of lumber, 6,000 cubic yards of excavation, 18,000 square yards of plastering, 32,000 square feet of wood floors, 7,000 feet of steam pipe, 5,600 square feet of radiation, and 522 electric lights. Water is supplied from a two hundred foot well with an 11,000 gallon pressure supply tank. The cost. of which forty-five percent was contributed by the Federal Government through the Public Works Administration, for the building and equipment was more than flS350,000. The building contains 34 class rooms including vocational agriculture shop, industrial arts shops, library, music room, labora- tories, home economics rooms, gymnasium, auditorium and conference rooms. DAVIDSVILLE SCHOOL The new high school building is the newest school plant in Davidsville. The first school in Davidsville was made of log construction in 1835. This structure was used for both school and church purposes. Nelson McMillen was the first teacher in this building under the free school system which was adopted in 1869 by Conemaugh Township, one of the last in the county to have free schools. Prior to 1869 only subscription school was held. About 1870 a new school building was erected at the south end of the town. A. F. Swank taught in this school. Later the school site was moved to the other end of town north of the Lutheran Church. ln 1913 the school was moved to its present location on land bought from Charles Yeoman. IEROME SCHOOL The town of Ierome is situated on the farm of the late Iacob Blough. The mine was opened in 1904 and many of the houses were erected at once. The building of a town and the moving in of families necessitated the building of a school. About this time the Conemaugh- Township School Board erected a two room building which was soon outgrown and two additional rooms were added. Later this was vacated and an eight room building was erected on the site of the present structure. During the winter of 1920-21 while the board of directors were planning to add four additional rooms to the building, it was destroyed by fire in the