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

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TC THE CI 45S €f 1936 During the past six years of junior-senior high school life in this, your Athens High School home, the school authorities, through the teachers and the educational equipment provided, have endeavored to furnish you with a general preparation for living. They have made it possible for you to secure a training and development of life so that you may move out of school activity into another phase of life activity better prepared for the responsibilities of adulthood. Just how much good this high school preparation has done for each of you no one knows. Much has depended on your attitude toward school work and on you, as an individual, with your own interests and abilities and on your use of them; however, it has been the endeavor of your teachers to present worthwhile material with challenging and helpful tasks in your preparation for adult life. There are always two vital factors in school life: the teacher and the pupil, the instructor and the learner; and we know that many times the learner has not been as receptive or as retentive as he could have been. The pupil is the loser and will live to regret the wasted hours in high school. However, the majority of you have gladly undertaken the tasks set before you and have received the satisfaction and have earned the benefits coming to those who have done a task well. This habit of doing a task well is one of the most important objectives of your high school training. Developing desirable habits and attitudes is of more importance than imparting mere facts, and it is hoped your later life may prove that Athens High School did its full share in providing you with these valuable outcomes of your high school course. For those of you who desire to continue your education in higher institutions of learning we have endeavored to lay a foundation on which you may build successfully in those higher schools. Remember always, however, that no one ever left Athens High School or any other high school and succeeded in college without good hard study and putting the full force of his ability, continuously, into his college work. Such a small percentage of our graduates go away to school that tremendous responsibility to make good in your studies rests on you who do go. These past six years have been pleasant ones despite the interruptions caused by the tearing down and building operations in the construction of the Auditorium Annex, the P W A repairs to the school building, and the nerve racking days of the Flood of 1936. The manner in which our students conducted themselves during those trying experiences is a tribute to the self-control and self-discipline of the general high school student body of today. My hope is that this same calm spirit may be taken by you young people into your duties and responsibilities of citizenship and government in the years just ahead. The door of high school graduation has been opened for you. The wish of the school authorities and of all your teachers is that through this door you may step into adult lives of useful service; that you may face life with intelligence, moral stamina, and strength of purpose. Eugene E. Crediford Page seven

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FACULTY FIRST ROW: Isabel Sairs, Music Mansfield Teachers’ College. Nellie Storch, A.B. German, Latin, History Elmira College. Ada vonWolfradt, A.B. English, Art Mansfield Teachers’ College, Syracuse University. Lina Crocker, B.S. Junior High English Mansfield Teachers’ College. Marjorie Groat, B.A. Home Economics Pennsylvania State College. Ruth C. Faulkne }- English Mansfield Teachers’ College, Pennsylvania State College. Roberta McClarty, Secretary of Athens Schools Athens High School. SECOND ROW: Reed C. Benson. B.S. Science Mansfield Teachers’ College, University of Virginia. Esther Baxter, B.S. English, Social Studies Mansfield Teachers’ College. Evelyn Hinkley, A.B. French, Latin, Elmira College. Elizabeth Bouton, B.S. Commercial Studies Indiana Teachers’ College. Winifred Reagan, A.B. Mathematics Pennsylvania State College. Katherine Smith, Junior High Mathematics Mansfield Teachers’ College. Edith Hine, R.N. Health Robert Packer Hospital, Pennsylvania State College. Irving W. Hazard, B.S. Science, Mathematics Syracuse University. Marshall Van Scoten, B.S. Agricultural Education Pennsylvania State College. THIRD ROW: Adrain Rowe, B.S. Science, Social Studies Mansfield State Teachers’ College. Howard Evans, Manual Training, Jr. High Business Training West Chester State Teachers’ College. William S. Courtney, B.S., Athletic Coach, History Pennsylvania State College. Eugene E. Crediford, B.S. Superi'ising Principal Mansfield State Teachers’ College. Kenneth Stone, B.E. Physical Education, Social Studies LaCrosse State Teachers’ College. Dean Shroat, B.S. Mathematics, Social Studies Lock Haven State Teachers’ College. Earl K. Dill, A.B. History, Mathematics Syracuse University, University of Michigan. I tge six

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CLASS PRESIDENTS ADDRESS Classmates, for four years we have worked together under the hardest of conditions. The depression has caused many obstacles to arise before us that have made the way difficult at times. Some of us have not had the funds to join different clubs and organizations. Many had to find work in order to continue in school. During our sophomore and junior years we were handicapped by the lack of an auditorium and gymnasium ; therefore, there were very few extra-curricular activities in which we were able to participate. Even though we were handicapped, our school spirit did not falter. If it had not been for the faculty, the way would have been much more difficult. It is true they gave us problems hard to solve, but those problems were for our own benefit—to help make us the men and women we hope to be. Therefore, speaking for the senior class I wish to express our gratitude to the faculty for their aid during our school years. In June when we go out to compete with others in the business world, many of us will think there is no opportunity for us to accomplish anything worth while. In reality the world is eager for the things we ought to create. “The best verse hasn’t been rhymed yet The best house hasn’t been planned The highest mountain hasn’t been climbed yet Nor the widest river spanned.” No opportunty? There’s nothing but opportunity and we must be prepared to find it and accept it. For four short years we all have been awaiting the day of commencement; but now as it draws near, the prospect does not seem so bright. We are leaving something dear to us, our Alma Mater and its associations and friendships. In parting we extend our best wishes for the success of the class of 1937. Charles Skinner Page eight