Pottsville High School - Hi S Potts Yearbook (Pottsville, PA)

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I MR BOARD OF EDUCATION MR. EDGAR DOWNEY President MR. WILLIAM REID Vice-President . HOWARD S. FERNSLER MR. LLOYD L. MARTZ Secretary Treasurer MR. I-IERRWOOD HOBBS MR. PETER PUGH MR. LESLIE D. LAMONT

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L. A. BUDAHN A Tribute Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress, Working together is success. The retirement of L. A. BuDahn in june will be merely a laying aside of the many arduous and routine duties of his office. His great interest in us as individuals, and in this school system, which he has so ably served, will con- tinue to warm and inspire us as we strive toward goals that are always just enough beyond our reach to keep us professionally alert. Mr, BuDahn is an idealist, but with his idealism he has a realist's point of view. Between the high goals which he has set and the existing situations he has woven a work- able pattern. To Mr. BuDahn, teaching is not just seating a pupil at his desk, putting a book into his hand, and hearing the recitation. Teaching is the giving of the teacher's inner self to the task: counseling the shy little mite, helping youth baffled by circumstances, dreaming with the talented, bolstering the self-esteem of the down-and-out, trying to reach the mentally slow, polishing the manners of the crude, and bringing delinquents into an understanding of their true worth. Teaching is a dedication to youth and to the progress of civilization through the patient and inspired development of the best in every child. He believes thoroughly that working together is progress and is particularly cognizant that any real success is the direct result of individuals interested in improvement. Durin Mr. BuDahn's tenure as superintendent, the School District of the City of Tottsville has expanded its facilities and services in many ways. A new high school and stadium were erected, Art was added to the program of studies: additional library facilities were made available: an adequate health program was developed: the vocational curriculum was augmented by the inclusion of courses in auto mechanics and electricityg and the intramural ath- letic program was inaugurated. ' The seventh and eighth grades were departmentalized and housed in the Patterson Building. Later, a six-year junior-senior high school was estab- lished. A school psychologist, a home-and-school coordinator, a full-time nurse at the high school, a full-time band and orchestra teacher, an 4 -1 special school teacher were added to the staff. ln several of the buildings, additional physical facilities were made avail- able, and the Peacock Street Vocational Shops were acquired from the Federal Government. To facilitate his administration, Mr. BuDahn supplied the teachers with handbooks each year and established an educational cabinet composed of directors, principals, and supervisors. ln 1937-38, a survey of the entire school system was undertaken. Mr. BuDahn's great interest in opportunities for the youth of Pottsville is shown by the inspiration and the aid he has given in the established and suc- cessful functioning of the Lincoln House, the Penn State Center, the junior traffic patrols, the Veterans' Training School, and related training night school. In these past eighteen years, Mr. BuDal-in has done much for Pottsville, and he leaves his laurels forever fresh and green on the altar of public school education.

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M MR. L. A. BU DAHN MR. D. H. H. LENGEL Superintendent of Schools Principal T fM'QMUX MR. MILES S. KIEHNER Assistant Principal in Charge of Patterson Division