Windber High School - Stylus Yearbook (Windber, PA)

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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

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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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X-moi? A Q fi, aa a mg . gf---'L' W Ewa A 'LQ . has PROGRESS IH ' if E l T ' .. 1 .. ji? i s -1'1' 1533.3-liirfi,-.., The grammar school accepted boys who were at least nine years of age and graduated them when they reached their fifteenth or sixteenth birthday. Many of the private schools of this time saw the need of more practical training than was offered by the Latin schools. Franklin's Academy, which opened in 1751 at Philadelphia was one of the first to offer English, science, and geography for study. This brought into existence the other type of secondary education, the aca- demies. These sprang up from the private schools. As mentioned before, these schools offered more subjects for study, but the Latinists still opposed the teaching of the vulgar tongue with anything that was connected with college. The academies sprang up in every part of the Union. The movement was at its heighth during the beginning of the nineteenth century. Approximately three hundred academies were incorporated in New York be- tween 1780 to 1850. The peak of development of this type of school was reached in 1850. ln Pennsylvania the academies carried on secondary education prior to 1890. There were four kinds of academies incorporated by the legislature: the county academy, the semi--county academy, the community academy, and the denomina- tional academy. Between 1780 and 1869, 155 academies were chartered by the legislature. The total numbered chartered by county courts was 178. Only a few of these non-sectarian academies remain today. They are: Cer- mantown Academy, Harrisburg Academy, Franklin and Marshall Academy, Chest- nut Hill Academy, Keystone Academy, York Collegiate Institute, and Kiskiminetas Springs School. The academies took care of the well-to-do youths and the Latin school, those who wanted to go to college. No provision was made for those boys and girls who were not expecting to enter college. Massachusetts has the Y as distinctive honor of starting the first high school to take care of all .Vg types of students. ln May, 1821, the new school was opened , under the name of the English Classical School. Three Peg years later the name was changed to English High School. ' -f-QP 'A ' This was the first use of the name high school, Vriv ig which has since identified itself with 22,237 sec- 5 . ondary schools in the United States. L T i l .5EiEi,EE::::'EEEE - 1 553321.15132 :ul