Zelienople High School - Zelie Ann Yearbook (Zelienople, PA)

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N ANN Q4 l l 9 3 2 Z E L I E ' . L l .,f1nWiZi X 'X HELEN L. BORLAND, P. RONALD CLOUSE, B. S. MRS. CLARA G. ENDRES LITT' B-1 Ri' A' University of Pittsburgh Slippery Rock State Grove City College , Teaehersi College Sorbonne, Paris 495797759 Moderrz Language, English Lois GAI,I.AG H ER Grove City College Geneva College Arithmelic, Writi7zg, Geography Junior Higlz English MRS. EMMA HAR'1'UNG F. LOUISE LAFFERTY A B Prospect Academy Latin Tw ELVE Transylvania College Syracuse University Historyi 9

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N MIIWW 1932 ZELIE-ANN History of The Zelienople Schools 'tux ' Q l is .y-nf , mC l ' X - .A Can you follow me back one hundred twenty-two years to the founding of Zelie nople's first school? Picture an eight-sided brick building standing where our grade school now stands, the pupils sitting on a bench around the wialls, the older pupils in the rear and the younger pupils in front. What a contrast with the schools of today! But here the foundations of our present day school were laid. Eight-sided school buildings were prevelant at that time, probably so constructed to place all the pupils equidistant from the teacher. This school must have been maintained through popular subscription since it was not until l834l that the public school system was established in Pennsylvania. The document dated lSl6, in which Detmar Basse deeded to three trustees the land upon which the school now, stands, is still in the possession of one of his descend- ants. This octagonal building was succeeded by another one room stru.cture which is still remembered by at least one Zelienople resident. She states, There were eight classes and one teacher with over forty students in the one room. This teacher was village school mistress at intervals extending over thirty-three years. The old bell which for eighty-seven years hastened those who tended to loiter on the way was cast for this second building and wgas removed from the present school last year and is be- ing carefully retained. About 18-H a third two story building was erected with one room for a school and the upper room serving as a town hall. This third building served until 1884 when four rooms of the present building were constructed. For ten years the fourth room was not needed. Then in l896 the Hrst high school was established due to the efforts of Mr. -lohn Kocher, who was both principal and faculty. To make room for the high school twro rooms above what is now Mr. Rogner's store were called into service. This first high school with fifteen pupils and one teacher developed in thirty-six years into a school with an enrollment of three hundred seventy-five students and a faculty of thirteen. The four front rooms of the high school building as we now know it were com- pleted in 1909. This was a three year high school until 1914 when the fourth year Work was added. In l92l iniorder to provide for overcrowided conditions the four portable rooms were built. Then April 14, 1925 the bond issue was approved providing for the erection of our present high school building. The excellent accommodations afforded by the building made possible an extensive curriculum which has not been surpassed in the county schools. History tells us that prior to 1810 the early schools of the Harmonites were also the schools of Zelienople, and it is now interesting to note that in l932 more than one hundred twenty-three years later, the Harmony High School will be discontinued, and the students will attend classes at Zelienople. The school, already sponsoring the only completely organized Health course in the county and excellent lndustrial Arts and Home Economics courses, will include in the next two years a complete Commercial course. Mr. G. A. McCormick, the supervising principal, predicts a future for the school since according to the present conditions it is the logical location for a school center or community as will undoubtedly be rec- ommended under the proposed 10 Year Program of Educational Advancement in Penn- sylvania. FOURTEEN