Athens Area High School - Athenian Yearbook (Athens, PA)

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THE OLD ACADEMY Athens Academy, the most noted seat of learning in northern Pennsylvania, was erected in 1797. On account of lack of funds, the building was not completed until 1814. School was then held there continuously until 1868, graded school being introduced at that time. About 1840, the students began publishing a weekly paper called “The Athenian.” The terms of tuition are interesting; a term consisted of eleven weeks. Arithmetic, English Grammar, and Geography.....................$2.50 Rhetoric, History, Logic, Mathematics, and the Natural Sciences $4.00 Reading, Writing, and Spelling.................................$1.50 Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and Painting....................$5.00 Music, extra charge. Students were boarded for from $1.50 to $2.00 per week. To help bear expenses, different religious associations and the Masonic Lodge used the building. Athens lost a dearly loved landmark in 1925 when it became necessary to tear

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FOREWORD lender memories of our school days, How we cherish every one, Of the happy girl and hoy ways, jdnd the credit we have won! jdnd, if sometime in the future You would wish to recall the past, Take, your Annual Athenian find read the history of your class.

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EDITORIAL BOARD First Row—Eugene Eddy, Clarence Richardson, Kathryn Fox, Gladys Keir, Marguerite Engler, James McMahan. Second Row—Betty Howey, Albert Page. Elva Grant, Alice Huff, Edward Kiess, Edith Weeks. Seated—Charlotte Bennett. Charles Mills, Harlan Rowe, Millard Northrup, Joseph Thurston. Editor-in-Chief ........... Business Manager .......... Assistant Business Manager Athletic Editor ........... Exchange Editor ........... Senior Class Editors ...... Junior Class Editors....... Sophomore Editors ......... Ninth Grade Editors ....... Eighth Grade Editors ..... Seventh Grade Editors ..... ............................ Harlan Rowe ’28 ............................ Charles Mills ’28 .........................Joseph Thurston ’29 ......................... Frank McCauley ’29 ......................... Charlotte Bennett ’28 .................... Charles Mills, Elva Grant ...................Joseph Thurston, Alice Huff ................... Albert Page. Betty Howey .....................Leo Kerwin, Gladys Keir Eugene Eddy, Marguerite Engler, Edith Weeks ............ Clarence Richardson, Kathryn Fox