Allentown High School - Derrick Yearbook (Allentown, NY)

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Unarii nf lEiiuratxnn CATHERINE TUNSTED, President. SIDNEY S. CLEVELAND, Secretary. MAY ALLEN BOYD, KATHERINE S. HILL. GEO. SWARTHOUT. A. E. BRANDON, Treasurer. MRS. JOHN SNOWDEN, Collector. JOHN SNOWDEN, Truant Officer. FRANK RAMILARD, Janitor. ANGELO O. TUCKER, Principal. ELIZABETH E. STAFFORD, Grammar. LINDA H. MEAD, A. Primary. JflantltB EMMA K. CARTWRIGHT, Preceptress THERESA C. HARRINGTON, Intermediate HARRIETT S. SWARTHOUT, B. Primary. Board meeting second Tuesday of each month.

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S dj0ul iatxmj In writing the history of Allentown Union High School, the matter of data is very limited, and all historic items are scattered over intervals of time quite promiscuously. Yet »ve have discovered that a man by the name of Emerson granted a High School site about the same p!ace as today’s site, in 1840. Whereon was erected a log school house which answered the purpose for many years, when the new site including the old site was purchased of Marshall Phillips and title given, so long as used for public school, otherwise to revert to the Phillips estate. Then a frame building was built 1848 to ’49 which served a term of years being the same building now used by the W. C. T. U. Society. Then came the larger frame building built in 1885-86 which stood the pressure of school affairs until 1903-04 when the beautiful brick building with its modern and up-to-date facilities was duly installed. Principal O. M. Burdick during his term of four years. ,91-’95, organized this school into a graded one, and Principal Walters placed it under the visitation of t)ie Regents. Petitioners were Robert A. McCutcheon, Horace L. Hulett, Henry Howe, Seymore J. Richardson, Alpheus L. Witherspoon, certificate issued and went into effect June 25, 3:40 p. m., 1900. Signed Anson Judd Upson, Chancellor; James Russell Parsons, Secretary, and January 4, 1904, was granted a middle school certificate signed by James Russel Parsons, Secretary and December 5, 1906. a senior certificate was granted by Andrew S. Draper, Commissioner of Education. The following list of teachers were the faithful pedagogues of the district, arranged to the best of our ability, we expect the years are more or less mixed, but the re-writer may correct it to his satisfaction. Allentown teachers and' years of service, nearly. 1842 Katherine Bellamy, first teacher. 1843 Mary Coon, 1844 Sarah Green, 1845 Betsy Foster, 1846-47 Sophia Wright 1848 Sally Buckley, 1849 Cynthia Buckley, 1850 Racheal Burrows, 1851 Melvin Burdick, 1852 Alfred Tits- worth, 1853 Franklin Sepheus, 1854 Alythia Mapes, 1855 Flora Zimmer, 1856 DeEtta McKee, 1857 Helen Howard, 1858 Louis Ackerman, 1859 Eugenia Holmes, 1860 Alexis Halbard, 1861-62 Mary West, 1863 Richard R. Allen, 1864 Mar- tha Welch, 1835 Freeland Wright, 1866 C. W. Fernald, Lenora Coats, 1867 P. C. Carrington, Florence Austin, 1868 Marcus Fernald, 1869 Porter W. Cowles, Mary E. Russell, 1870 Frank S. Green, Nina B. Lathrop, 1871 Norman Penny, Percy Ann Lewis, 1872 Mary Crowner, Lois Fewin, 1873 Maria Blackman, Avis Jordan, 1874 James Bab- cock, 1875 Esther Burnettson Alta Emerson, 1876 Edwi i A. Bentley, 1877 Chas. Vincent, Nellie Fernald, 1878 Clias. Vincent. Hattie Gale, 1879 Elias Hammond, Electia Fory, 1880 Alta Emerson, Flora Zimmer, 1881 Adelbert Wether-