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

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R. W MARVIN SUPERINTENDENT Graduation marks an important milestone in your life. It is the end of your public school education, an education made possible through the cooperative efforts of many people. Future education will be more the responsibility of you yourself. Your successful graduation from high school has opened many doors. The choice will be yours depending upon your ambitions and ability. This choice may be college, industry, military service or one of many others. The decision is now yours. The school has been interested in your achievement of the past twelve years. This interest will be continued in future years. It stands ready to assist and serve you as you progress through life. Congratulations! May success and happiness follow you as you continue in the profession or occupation of your choice. 10

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The size of the faculty and administration of Athens High School would shock those who were affiliated with the Academy. The one teacher and three assistants of the Academy staff have been supplanted by the seventy-one employees of the present faculty and administration. Today's cafeteria and janitorial services would amaze those early Athenians. The first teacher in the Academy. Sylvanua Garnsey. received $500 per year. The school year was divided into four quarters beginning April 25 and ending March 6. The curriculum included music, art. language, and chemistry—all taught by assistants—and reading, writing and arithmetic taught by the preceptor. The Academy, with its small but efficient staff, offered its students the best in education. Athens High School, with its well trained staff and well equipped building, offers its students

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Seated Laurence R. Kinsley. Mrs. Celia Arnold. Harlan Rowe. Dr Ralph Gregory. Robert Fraley Slumlmf. Wallace Nichols. John W Watson. Carl Morris. Dr. Clifton J. Lynch Board Of Education The Board of Education is responsible for the policies and procedures with which the administration. faculty and student body function. The Board decides on tax rates, budgets, salary schedules, and money for building maintenance. It also hires all personnel. The School Board is composed of nine members: Mr. Harlan J. Rowe, president of the Board, resides in R.D. 2 Athens. He is a mechanical superintendent with Zhc tuning Zimes. Mr. Rowe has been with the Board for sixteen years. Dr. Ralph B. Gregory. I st vice president, is in his eighth year with the Board. He lives at 208 South St.. Athens, and is an optometrist. Mr Robert Fraley lives at 202 W. Cooper St.. Athens. A garage service manager, he has been with the Board eight years. Mr. Fraley is the treasurer for the Board. Mr. Lawence Kingsley of East Smithfield is a lumberman. He is the 2nd vice president and has been on the Board six years. Another member. Mr. Carl A. Morris, has been on the Board seven years. He lives in R.D. tf I. Athens, and is a supervisor at the Ingersoll-Rand. Mr. Wallace Nichols of East Smithfield is a livestock dealer. He was just elected to the Board last November. Mr. John W. Watson has been with the Board eleven years. He is an engineer at the Ingersoll-Rand and resides in R.D. if I. Milan. Dr. Clifton J. Lynch of 304 N. Main St.. Athens, is a M.D. He has been a member of the Board for eighteen years. Mr Fenton R. Murphy has been a member for fifteen years. He is a dairy farmer and lives in R.D. I. Ulster. Mrs. Celia Arnold, although not a member of the School Board, has served as secretary for the Board for nineteen years. She is also a secretary in the high school. Mrs. Arnold resides at 703 N. Main St.. Athens. We. the students of Athens Area Schools, would like to thank the members for the time spent, without pay. to provide and maintain a very find educational system in our community.