Langley High School - Aeronaut Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE AERONAUT f MR COBATUGH Our Vlce Prmcnpal ThlS year commemorates the twenty fifth anniversary of the foundlng of Rlverslde and Langley High School u1te a few of the members of the fac ulty ofR1vers1de came to Langley shortly after If was opened Among these able teachers was Mr Cobaugh He came to Rlversxde 1n 1913 Wh lc he was there he taught varxous branches of sclence and served as head teacher as well as vocatlonal counselor Upon the openmg of Langley Mr Cobaugh became vice pr1nc1pal of the school He has retained thxs posntlon evcr smcc Prevlous to hls entrance lnto RlVLfSldL Mr Cobaugh had held stvcral posl tnons From 1907 to 1909 hc was asslstant prmclpal and mstructor m physlcs and chemlstry 1n the Brldgcton New Jersey Hugh School Aftcr rcslgnlng thxs posltlon he became prmclpal of the Conncllsullc Hugh School 1 1912 and 1913 he was an lnstructor an physics and gcology m the Southwestern State Teachers College at Callforma Pcnnsy lxanla Durlng the years m whxch Mr Cobaugh has been vuth us herc at Langley we have all knovsn hxm as a real and true frxcnd one to whom wc could take our problems and meet wxth a satlsfactory solutlon 4 X- .Q T 5 . . 'I 1 , . , , 3 YB X17 lj , .Il . XY ll x IVY , , 7. 1 ll x

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THE AERONAUT DlR JAMES N 1R1U1LlE-0ur Prmnczpal Dr James N Rule although new as the prxnclpal of our school already ICCLIVQS the respect and admxratxon of every teacher and student 1 xfe has held many posmons for Dr Rule He was graduated from the Washlngton and Jefferson College and xmmedlately followlng he obtalned a teachlng pos1t1on 1n Washxngton Hugh School ln a short t1me he became the After comlng to P1ttsburgh Dr Rule was a teacher of mathematncs at the Peabody High School for several months Then he became the prxnclpal of Central H1gh School ln September 1912 the faculty of the Central H1gh School was moved to the Schenley H1gh School Thus he was the last pr1n cxpal of Central and the hrst of Schenlex Durmg the war Dr Rule was the Natlonal DIIQCIOY of the Junlor Red Cross In 1921 he came to the State Department of Publxc Instruct1on and he was made the D1rector of Sclence In a short time he obtalned the posltlon of Deputy State Supermtendent 1n charge of the secondary schools of Penn sylvanla In 1931 Dr Rule ve as appolnted by Governor Pmchot to the office of the State Supermtendent of Schools for a term of four years In September 1935 lt was the good fortune of Langley to obtaln the servlces of Dr Rule as nts prlnclpal The semor class extends to Dr Rule xts most snncere w1sh that he may have many years of success and happlness at 1 angley principal of the-Washinrgton and Jefferson Academy. J I

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E-XEROX DR SAMUEL LANGUEY Our llnspmratlon Samuel Plcrpont langlcy for xx hom langlcy Hugh School was named xx as born at Roxburg Massachusetts on August Z2 1834 I-lc xx as asslstant at Harx ard Obscrxatorv lecturer at the Nasal Academy professor at the Allcghcny Obscrxatory and dlrcctor of thc Smlthsonlan lnstltutlon Dur mg hrs llfc Dr langlcy made many lmportant sclentlfic nnvestrgatlons has bolomctcr and hls acronautlcal attempts betng among the most lmportant ln 1896 he bullt a steam drlxcn plane whlch flevx wlthout a pllot for more than half a mllc the first such machxnc ever flown In l902 he attempted to buxld a machmc xx htch xx ould carry 1 man but could not find a motor sufhcxently llght rn vxught Many years later hovxewr vsxth a modern motor xnstallcd hrs orlglnal plane flux xx 1th perfect success How Httmg lt lS that our school should be named for thus man vsho was not only a great Amerltan astronomer and physlclst but also a man great tn soul IH personalltx and IH character 0 ' v ve , 1 lf' ., U ' R ,X ,. ,P f , 09' ' g , . ,- , N l t L1 , Dr , . ,V V , i - Y 4 - x . - . x YL I V x Y 1 Y 1 ' I I i lv i 7 , . I X V I V Y I 5 X Y Y h 5 Y 1 '