Wilkinsburg High School - Annual Yearbook (Wilkinsburg, PA)

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FACULTY Mary Lou: Are teachers human? Pete: Well, yesg however they all seem to believe that there can be no freedom without responsibility and thus they teach that self-control is as important as learning the three R's. They expect us to show this trait in the classroom, chapel, halls, cafeteria, sports, and extra-curricular activities. They give unselflshly of their time and talents in the sponsoring of clubs and other school organizations. Mary Lou: Where does responsibility enter into this? Pete: Pupils come on timeg in chapel silence prevails throughout the service and programg students move through the halls in a dignified manner, in the cafeteria they return the dishes and dispose of waste paper. Campaigns, elections, service squads of all kinds, programs, plays, concerts, club meet- ings grow from the feeling, I must do my share. Year by year teachers give us more freedom until by our senior year we are almost ready to take our part in the world of adults. To the teachers who have contributed so much to our development physically, ment- ally, and philosophically we owe a debt of gratitude. Mary Lou: Yes, we certainly do. I didn't realize what an important part our teachers play in the building of our characters. I 71 Remembrance Wiley S. Woodburn taught chemistry in Wilkins- burg High School for 26 years. He had been princi- pal of Robinson Township High School and a teach- er at Canonsburg High School and the American University at Assuit, Egypt before coming to Wilkins- burg. A veteran of World War I and a graduate of Muskingum College, Mr. Woodburn had received his master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and had taken additional work at Carnegie Tech, W. Br J., and Penn State. This great teacher had long years of excellent teaching. Many have shown in their lives after grad- uation his fine influence and leadership. Students of old and recent years have expressed their gratitude and dee appreciation for the opportunity of having attended, his classes. In his passing on june 30, 1949 Wilkinsburg High School lost an inspiring teacher and a great friend. CHARLES F. BECK W. S. WOODBURN DR. W. L. THUNHURST Doctor W. L. Thunhurst, who died January 5, 1950 had served as school doctor in the junior and senior high schools continuously from 1929 until 1949. His absence in the schools, on the football bench, and at the baseball game will be felt deeply by his host of friends among the Wilkinsburg High School grad- uates. Thunny's first contact with Wilkinsburg was as a freshman student in 1902. For three years he studied and played hard and graduated with a repu- tation as a good student and a star athlete. While a student in medical school at Pitt he never lost con- tact with W. H. S. and upon graduation he took several turns at coaching the baseball team, and for many years acted as an alumni representative of the Athletic Council of the high school. So, for a period of almost half a century, Dr. Thunhurst was the loyal friend of W. H. S. E. F. EGE

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MR. F. H. CARSON Principal GUIDANCE COUNSELORS Miss EDNA M. REITZ MR. EDWARD F. ECE Dean of Girl! Guidance Coumelor -11-

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Miss Rhoda Beatty-Srijihomore English and Visual Aid . . . Miss Helen Hcazlett-Senior English . . . Miss Ruth Long-Senior English . . . Miss Helen Anderson-junior English . , . Miss Elizabeth Brindlcy-English, Vocation- al English, History. .-.lZ..