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

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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.

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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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MILES RAKER ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT To the Class of 1968, Congratulations! Today the world is changing rapidly. In your twelve years of school you have witnessed as much scientific advancement and sociological change as had been made in the past century. Perhaps the greatest single scientific achievement was on Oct. 4. 1957. when the world heard for the first time the beep. beep, beep, of the Russian Sputnik, soon to be followed by the viewing on television to the actual launching and recovery of our own American Astronauts. We of today speak and think in terms of material and mass production, of material and man power, of material and mass battles. We are prone to think of the spectacular battle or event and forget about all the little decisions each of us must make. Someone has aptly called these the battles fought and won behind your forehead. The forces we marshal here are those of right and wrong, of good or evil, of temperance or intemperance! the decisions are the defeats or victories depending on how we use our educational training to solve them. JAMES PRUYNE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL In this age of great armies and big battlefields, we are apt to lose sight of the battles within us which make so little noise and require so little space, battles which may be fought during the quiet of an evening in your home, during a walk over the countryside or in the silence of the night. Are not these more important than the battles won with bombs and planes? Is it not true that if we first win these battles behind our foreheads we may be spared the suffering and distraction on the vast battlefield between nations? It is in America, with a democracy like ours, that each may make his own decisions. The sum total of these individual decisions is our democratic society. and our form of government. Use your high school training to judge wisely and exercise your rights, privileges and duties as an American citizen. and we will continue to enjoy the freedoms which exist only in America. 12