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

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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

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N A N N To The Class of 1932 4 s I 9 3 2 Z E L I E , ,J Q .MMM 3 'X x':A vt I The presentation of this Zelie-Ann marks the climax of your school activities. lt will stand as evidence of your fine spirit of co-operation as a class and as a definite record of your achievements, long after your individual names have been forgotten in the school activities of Z. H. S. l congratulate you on your accomplishments which have brought honor to ourselves and to your school. Particularly should you be com- mended for the successful publication of this annual in a time of financial depression. While the present issues and those you have experienced in your high school days may appear paramount and the multitudinous activities of a modern school program may absorb all of, your attention, it is my sincere hope that the greater values, the fundamental values, of a high school education shall not be lost as you, of necessity, participate in this busy program which to many uninformed critics appears quite un- necessary in an educational program. Fortunately, the public school, nor any other educational institution, does not have a definite formalized program that guarantees an individual to be labeled as edu- catedn. The chief concern of a public school in such a complex society which now exists, particularily in our American democracy, is to create constructive attitudes, acquire certain fundamental knowledge, and cultivate proper habits of behavior. Although you have been formally tested and scored in subject material and pre- sented a diploma signifying to the world that you have completed a prescribed course of study, nevertheless, the degree of success and happiness you will experience in the future wgill depend upon the attitude you assume towards your personal problems and those of the society in which you find yourself, the body of knowledge of your chosen vocation, and those habits of right conduct, such as respect for authority, co-operation, and self-control that you practice among your fellowmen. Your successes in high school have been outstanding. This fact reliects your ac- quired attitu.des and habits of behavior, and now as you leave this school that has sought with patient effort to instill and perpetuate these fundamental prerequisites of success, may you continue to practice them as you go forth to seek more specific knowledge in your chosen vocations. G. A. MCCORMICK SIXTEEN