Windber High School - Stylus Yearbook (Windber, PA)

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10 7 ' iii 91 ,H ,sr aft' , - ll gjaw S A 1 mi t Q5,5ui1t1.., 5-for f . iff 1 l 1- E 1'-1 1. -1f- - - U a-I EEE Hamas' llll: was ' am '. JEL PDDGRESS IH 1 .-A-'1 f 7432-IDUCATION v The Art Department, one of the latest to be added has become indispensable to the school. Art is taught to all junior high school pupils. Classes for high school pupils take care of the specially interested pupils in the field. Posters, art work for the yearbook, signs, sketches for all the departments is part of the work of this group. The Shop Department is another spec- ial department of the school. Elementary training in woodwork and mechanical drawing is given to all junior high boys. The high school boys are permitted to do advanced work in this field. The shop, A TEACHERS DESK too, takes care of the making of shelves, book-ends, tables, etc. With all these specialties, it will be seen that every boy or girl will find some interest in the high school course of study. All this has brought an increased enrollment in the school. The following list of the number of graduates will give an idea as to the growth: 1926-755 1927--104-g 1928-110, 1929-105, 1930-79, 1913-119, 1932-113, 1933-128, and 1934-130. There are over 160 in the graduating class of 1935. The faculty of the Junior-Senior High School now has thirty-three teachers. E. 1. Schall resigned as principal of the school in 1929. D. L. Quinsey was principal for two years, 1932 and 1933. ln the spring of 1932 Mr. Quinsey resigned and was succeeded by R. C. Lorenzen, who is principal of the High School at this time. ln three decades Windber High School has grown from a one teacher school o one with thirty-three. It has become from an obscure little unknown high school in Somerset County to one of the best in the State. Its if graduating class has increased from eight in 1903 to over one hund- : S- A M--. red sixty graduates in 1935. Surely such meteoric rise deserves KS 5,3 cornmendation for those who have made it possible. Windber 1 'M W 'WH school administrators and people deserve much praise for '1t 535 'Y . . . . is HQigRg,giEEQN - v the interest they have shown in the education of their --g-4 v-mesa: T ' 1

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lu ll HHH ' . lgirkxl C Bast ille! PPUGWSS I-'T saw - , . , . 1: U .M--.21 ., ,. .. ,.. .. - L ..-n 1 m--::------- -ff - ' --- All 7-1 . ID CA -:..:.....,.! ..-,L E... '- f ff Ze le'-. '15S1 1lf'.'+e:ff-li.-:L -fl 131 '-.ff .- . ill V- -- af- I 37 R' W E' W in , 9 Q- .4 4 ffmlw-4 at 111 ' T2 Y X 2, . or eighth grades were induced by these extra attractions to remain in high school, and for many to graduate. The graduating class of 1926 had increased to 75, nearly four times as many as in 1916. The Commercial Department was re-organized so as to give pupils selecting this course of study the best in modern business practices. Pupils were thus given a thorough training for positions in the business world. This department special- ized even to a greater extent in 1931. Two commercial courses were offeredg namely, the stenographic and bookkeeping. Salesmanship, Office and Clerical Practice, Commercial Geography, and Commercial Mathematics were added to the already existing subjects of Shorthand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping, Junior Busi- ness Training and Commercial Law. Business English was also introduced for this department. The new course of study called for a modern health program. 'LA sound mind in a sound bodyv is the aim of the modern school. All junior high students are required to take regular health instruction and gymnastic training. Periodical ex- aminations by the school doctor and school nurse help to bring about a realization of the importance of keeping healthy. Fine athletic teams in both football and basketball have been developed. ln 1933 Windber won the championship of the Conference. Track teams have also been formed to meet the demands of the ath- letes of the school. Windber has won praise from far and wide for its good teams and fine sportsmanship. School publications were introduced in Windber High School in 1924-. It is true that two yearbooks were published in 1903 and 1905, but after that not until 1924 had anything being done in this field. The yearbook, The Stylus, was started in 1924- and the school paper, The Windber Hi-Times, in 1926. Both the annual and the paper have become some of the best publications of their kind in the State. A number of State and National awards have been won by each. One of the most outstanding scholastic bands in the State was developed by the Music Department. From no band at all to a group of musicians numbering over sixty is the remarkable growth of this group. The band gives two excellent concerts each year, besides playing at other school functions such as football games, assembly programs, etc. The Home Economics Department has met the need of the girls of the school. Sewing and cooking arc studied and practiced by all the junior high school girls. The high school groups as S4 l'X1 se S1 I!! YT . Q it , ' ax' X ' do advanced work in the field of home economics. 1 .Tii it 'N

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TQSQ-1-fr' -1. HH 'ina ef +5?aWi ness rw ' D i 5 , wi , O ,,,,,,, V ,,,, , ill III EERE 'HHH sig' PDDGBQSS IN W iz .11 i i - f Ji' rx HM . 5, 'ist' T' 1 'Ft ' ..Q, EDUCATION' .1: li'- boys and girls. Windber students at college are second to none, and why should they be, with a I fine school in a fine community, with fine teachers, administrators and townspeople? May Windber High School grow as rapidly the next three dec- ades as it has in the past three. SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES As early as 1635 the people of Massachusetts Bay felt a need for a type of secondary education, organized under religious influence, to prepare worthy boys to enter the ministry. The only school which the colonists had any thorough knowledge of was the Winchester School in England, and so it is not surprising to find them modeling their own school after it. In 1635 came into existence the first secondary school in America, the Boston Latin School. OLD INKSTAND, SAND Box AND BUNCH or UNCUT QUILLS Its course of study was Latin, for it was felt that a thorough study of this language was the foundation for the advanced study came a tool subject. Latin grammar, or secondary roughly drilling the hoys in Latin Grammar and Terrence, Virgil, and Cicero, for the development of Other sections of the country started these Latin the southern and middle colonies still favored tutors. for the ministry. Latin he- schools, were intent on tho- classical authors, especially style in composition. grammar schools. However, The Harvard statute of 164-3 states the entrance requirements which these Latin schools were to meet. The requirements follow: When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like - classical Latin author ex temporr, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose, sua ul aiunt Marleg and de- cline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and 'verbs in the Greek tongue: Let him then and not be- fore be capable of admission into the college. C. X ,., ,I,, Q 0 .. .-eq. v xl .-me MK 'X Q. ' 4 ri A ,Q ? sv x 598: - - Sas