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

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Hack Row: Ruth Kintz, Howard Evans, Mary rose Kowaleski, Reed Benson, Jean Dougherty. Eugene McDonald, Lina Burns, Robert England, Emma Wood, Earl Dill, Ernest Brewer, William Courtney, Marshall Van Scoten, Kenneth Oakes, Irving Hazard Third rote: Lucille Smith, Elizabeth Bouton, Winifred Reagan. Katherine Smith, Nellie Storch. Second row: Eugene Crediford, Florence Drumm, Margaret Carl, Edith Hine. Front row: Peggy Battin, Marian White. Marie Bear. OUR FACULTY Eugene E. Crediford, M.S., Bucknell University............................Supervising Principal Miss Marie Bean, B.S., Mansfield State Teachers College..........................English. History Mr. Reed C. Benson, B.S., Mansfield State Teachers College, University of Virginia, Pennsylvania State College...............................................High School Science Miss Elisabeth Bouton, B.S., Indiana State Teachers College, Columbia University.............................................Supervisor of Commercial Department Mr. Ernest Brewer, B.S., Mansfield State Teachers College, East Stroudsburg State Teachers College.......................................................Social Studies, Coach Mrs. Lina Burns, B.S., Mansfield State Teachers College.................Jr. High School English Miss Margaret Carl, A.B.. Bucknell University....................................English, French Mr. William S. Courtney, M.Ed., Pennsylvania State College. . . .History, Jr. High School Principal Mr. Earl K. Dill, A.B., University of Michigan, Syracuse University........History, Mathematics Miss Jean Dougherty, B.S., Mary wood College..........................................Commercial Miss Florence Drumm, B.S., Kutztown State Teachers College.......................Art Supervisor Mr. Robert D. England, B.A., Bucknell University.........................History, Social Studies Mr. Howard S. Evans, Mansfield State Teachers College..................................Woodwork, Bookkeeping Mr. Irving W. Hazard, B.S., Syracuse University, Penrsylvania State College......................................................Science, High School Principal Miss Edith Hine, R.N., Robert Packer Hospital, Pennsylvania State College........School Nurse Miss Ruth Kintz, B.S., East Stroudsburg State Teachers College...)r. High School Social Studies Miss Mary rose Kowaleski. B.S.. Pennsylvania State College..........Vocational Home Economics Mr. Eugene P. McDonald, B.S., Mansfield State Teachers College, Pennsylvania State College...................................................................Mathematics, Science Mr. Kenneth Oakes, B.S., East Stroudsburg State Teachers College, Bucknell University..........................................................................Physical Education Miss Winifred Reagan, A.B., Pennsylvania State College...................Mathematics, Guidance Miss Katherine Smith, Mansfield State Teachers College...........Junior High School Mathematics Miss Lucille Smith, B.S., Ithaca College.....................................High School English Miss Nellie Storch. A.B., Elmira College, Columbia University....................English, Latin Mr. Marshall Van Scoten, B.S., Pennsylvania State College.................Vocational Agriculture Miss Marian White, B.S., Mansfield State Teachers College, Cornell University......................................................Vocational Home Economics Miss Emma Wood, B.S., Mansfield State Teachers College...........................Music Supervisor

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To The Class of 1941: You are being graduated into a world that is in trouble beyond anything known for a generation and perhaps for the whole history of civilization. What part are you to play in such a world? It is a sobering thought. Much that you are to do cannot, at the present time, be foretold. But the pattern which you are to follow is yours to determine It is our hope that there will be woven into that pattern for you and for the whole generation of which you are a part, the things of abiding value upon which the welfare of civilization depends and that these things will he so promoted in your day that the spiritual wounds of the present conflict may be healed and civilization be established on a basis that will forever make such calamities unthinkable. With sincere good wishes. I. W. Hazard. Giaduates: After leaving Junior High School in 1938, you, no doubt, thought that it would be a long time before you would graduate from the Athens High School: but, all too soon, the time has passed: and now’ you should have a good conception of what you are about to face in this Democracy of ours. This, I believe, is a good time for you to graduate, as there are now more opportunities for success than there have been in the previous decade. There is a great need for professional workers, military gen iuses, and technicians. Men and women, who not only know how to do things, but who will always insist on doing them well, conscious of their abilities as leaders, are jealous of their professional honors. They will sacrifice personal gain to uphold the dictates of conscience in their professional service. Vie have unlimited faith in your capacity as normal human beings, and if given a fighting chance to become self-sustaining, self-respecting, happy members of society, you will take your places, as did your forefathers, remembering always that those persons who are democratic are the only ones that can defend Democracy. The Junior High School says Au Revoir”, good luck and success to you.” William S. Courtney.

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OUR SCHOOL: OCR FLAG Hoxx vitally important each is to tlie other! How could one possiblx exist without the other? In such a democracy as ours it is well to consider the important link which hinds the two together and the school s part in developing our ideals of democracx through the intelligent tutoring in the schools. An educated countrx is a strong, firm countrx : an un-educated country is a weak, divided countrx. Clearlv. then, too much monex cannot l e spent on such a sure investment. Famous men throughout the ages have extolled the wisdom of creating fine schools and the good which thex contribute to their respective countries. A quotation from the Old Testament reads ' W isdom i-the principal thing: therefore get wisdom. Dryden said. A nation's backbone is its mind. President Koosexelt tells us that education is a xital link of defense. In parts of this countrx and in many foreign countries only the fundamentals of education are taught today. The average school student graduates having onlx a limited amount of theoretical knoxxledge. In this countrx. more than in anx other, the high school graduate is prepared to practice democracy, for he has been taught its value in school: perhaps that is why this is the onlx great nation of the xvorld not involved in a xvar. 1-et us never neglect education and the means of providing it. Let us never be influenced by propagandists, xxho max try to tell us that education is unnecessarv. Let the people live, and let them live happily and fully through the benefits received from education and our flag. To promote a successful educational program for our countrx. it is necessarv for all its citizens to stand behind it. In preparing our voting generation for future citizenship, the schools must teach loyalty and democracx. both directlx and indirectly -directly, through set courses in civics, problems in democracy, economics, and such subjects: indirectly, through the branches of these subjects, such as the study of current events. The student must also lie encouraged to practice democracx through sports, and. above all. he must be encouraged in a willingness to co-operate with fellow-students as well as the teachers. To accomplish this, more social clubs must be formed and developed, and the teacher must consider each student as an individual, and. if possible, treat him as such. W XRREX Ol TERBRtnC.E.