Tulpehocken High School - Yearbook (Bernville, PA)

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Social .Studied HISTORY 7 Ned Gehris, Lewis Sauer, David Burkey and Gary Spangler get into the picture in seventh grade history as they give Miss Riegel a rest. They are showing a picture to explain the result of the Third Punic War — the Romans plowing the Carthaginian soil for complete destruction. The class is look- ing on. HISTORY 8 Chester Luckenbill takes over the eighth grade history class as he explains the remote causes of the Civil War, using a drawing on servitude. If some one asks him, What do you know about the Civil War?” Chester can tell him, and so can Dennis Richert, Joyce Reber, Pauline Glosser, and Stanley Sweitz- er, who are looking on. CIVICS 9 The freshman civics class, supervised by Mr. Matthew, is engaged in the study of the United Nations. The topic for the day, as being explained by Frederick Wilhelm with the help of their text book Your Life As A Citizen, is how the United Nations was or- ganized. The topic to be discussed is about the functions of the United Nations. HISTORY 11 Marlene Beidler is making a report about Martin Van Buren, one of our former Presi- dents. During his administration, 1837-1841, he greatly helped the United States treasury with financial problems. Mr. Spare, the teacher, ties the English Literature with the history and also ties the early history with the late history. Twenty-eight

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e. —science ane GENERAL SCIENCE 9 Erenda Erehm is demonstrating her sci- ence project, a terrarium. The terrarium is made up of moss and a fern plant placed in a fish bowl with ground covering the bottom. Other science projects include various plants; such as, the carrot and sweet potatoes placed in water to grow new plants. IF}at hematics MATH. 9 This formula is the basis of solving the rectangular solid, says Jerald Hartman. Jerald, who understood this certain problem, was elected” by Mr. Sell to explain it to the class members who didn't quite under- stand it. How can X equal three today and two tomorrow? It must be like a dollar. Think, my freshmen. BIOLOGY 10 Mr. Sell points out the many interesting facts about the starfish to Jeanette Schaeffer, Carol Tobias, Robert Kline, Gerald Miller, Fern Ernst, and Gerald Heckman. In the beginning of the year Mr. Sell had the whole class go around to collect insects which they later mounted in cigar boxes. They also undertook a project of studying various kinds of birds. ALGEERA 10 Evelyn's in the dark! Evelyn Larkin, who is in the second year of algebra, doesn't quite understand an equation so Mr. Sell explains to Evelyn and also to the class the difficult part of the equation. After Evelyn and the class have the problem solved, Mr. Sell makes the remark, Simple. Twenty-seven

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Both Penn Township and Bernville can find among their citizens those who recall the enrollment ranging from twenty-four to forty-five pupils who were accommodated first by long 8-10 ft. desks and benches. These were placed along the walls of the one-room school. Then the two-and four-seated desks followed until the individual desks we use today were introduced. Heat was furnished by a pot-bellied stove. There were no lights. Drinking water was fetched in wooden buckets from a neighboring farm, and a common dipper was used. The water cooler and individual drinking cups followed. Thus the physical needs of the sweater-and-knicker-clad lads with long stockings, heavy shoos or leather boots were provided for. Boys with velvet, woolen, or denim pants came to school on foot, by horse and buggy, or by horse-drawn sleighs. Girls, we are told, wore long-sleeved, calico or gingham dresses, woolen stockings, woolen caps, and high shoes. Whoever was not too inclined toward reading, writing, and 'rithmetic, knew the meaning of standing on one leg in a corner, standing on an upright piece of chalk without breaking it. staying in at recess or after school, or even getting a spanking. Little boys who misbeheved wore ordered to sit on the girls' side of the schoolroom. This punishment was considered a disgrace. Those who did not know their spelling words or boys who pulled the girls' pig-tails and dipped them into ink-wells may have kept an eye on the hickory stick.