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

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did occupy the attention of the directors at a meeting on May 18, 1853. The following named scholars petitioned the board for but one session of school during the hot weather, school to begin at 7:30 A. M. and dismiss at 1:30 P. M.: Charles H. Krebs, Oliver C. Bosbyshell, Benjamin McCool, Francis I. Quin, F. Shelly, Sam R. Whitney, Iames Sillyman, Hiram Parker, F. M. Waters, Iohn T. Protheroe, Baird Snyder, C. Loeser, W. L. Hazzard, David Conrad, T. Carlin, William H. Carter, George W. Harlan, Robert Fletcher, Thomas A. Reilly, H. S. Thompson, William Tregeo, Luther Minnig, Sam Parker, Lamar S. Hay, Ioseph H. Gould, F. U. Farquhar, T. C. Toussaint, Robert Morris, G. H. Snyder. A paid advertisement appearing in The Miners' Iournal issue of April 26, 1851, gave the folowing regulations for the opera- tion of the common schools as adopted April 10, 1851: The hours of instruction shall be from 8M o'clock until 12 in the morning, and from 2 P. M. until 5 in the afternoon, from the lst of April until the lst of October: and from 9 o'clock until 12 in the morning and from 1M o'clock until 4M in the after- noon from the 1st of October until the lst of April. A vacation shall be allowed the month of August, and in the afternoon of each Saturday. The schools shall also be closed on the lst day of Ianuary, Good Friday, in Easter week until the Tuesday following, 4th of july, and Christmas Day, and on such other days as the directors may allow. Graduation from high school during the first eight years of its operation carried with it no tangible evidence of the fact for the boys and girls who had completed the course. According to an early newspaper clipping the Class of 1862 was the first to receive diplomas. These went to a class of ten-seven girls and three boys. Among them were Iames B. Reilly fwho later represented this area in Congressj, whose grandson Robert R. Reilly is now a member of the faculty at Pottsville High, Alfred I. Derr, joseph W. Gumpfert, and Miss Wynkoop. The commmencement was in the form of a public examination conducted by the faculty from the State Normal School. At the time, I. W. Roseberry was president of the school board, and Christo- pher Little the secretary. The receipt of a diploma, however, didn't help the school enrollment during the Civil War period. Many scholars enlisted and others went to work. The school became practically non-operative and higher education for Pottsville pupils virtually halted at the grammar school level. It was during this period that Benjamin F. Patterson, one of the outstanding figures in the history of the Pottsville school system, came on the scene. Mr. Patterson was elected high school principal in March, 1865. On April 1, 1867, he was named superintendent, a position he held until his death in july, 1906. After the Civil War a committee comprising Peter W. Sheafer, William B. Wells, Christopher Little, john W. Roseberry, and David A. Smith accomplished the reorganization of the high school and it was again placed on a firm basis. The P. H. S. Annual of 1905 said of the reorganization, At this time a curriculum was adopted which has suffered little change. The then prevailing three-year course offered the following subjects: First Uunior Yearj-History, algebra, geometry, foundation of Latin, Caesar, elocution, Second jMiddle Yearl-Geometry, physiology, literature, botany, composition, Cicero, Latin prose, Caesar, elocution, physical geography: Third jSenior Yearj- Physics, Cicero, Virgil, rhetoric, civics, astronomy, trigonometry, chemistry, geology, elocution, IACKSON STREET BUILDING ,..6,-.

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