Beaver High School - Shingas Yearbook (Beaver, PA)

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Mr. Smith, Mrs. Cummins, Mr. Paterick EXEl'llTI E PIIMMITTEE IN FORMER years, the question of how to thank our advisers for their part in our school year was usually solved by listing the activities of the class and expressing the students' gratitude tor the advisers' part in them. This year, however, we want to try to ex- press our feelings more adequately. Your help in all our big proiects has been invalu- able to be sure, but we are most grateful for all the little things, the everyday, often un- noticed little thoughts and helps you so freely gave us which helped make all our activities a success in this our last year in Beaver High. Mrs. Cummins and Mr. Smith, we thank you for the personal interest you have shown toward all our projects. Your willingness to use your time unhesitatingly, your sound suggestions, your good judgment have been prime factors in making our Senior year a success. We wish to thank you, Mr. Paterick, for your patience, your advice, and your help in solving the thousand and one problems en- countered in completing our l943 Shingas.

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TlONFQl2l.lBEl2TV,llNl ,Y r - 4a.u:.m5.L .BA 1 I 1 v 0 n . 1 Q 1 1 1 1 l f -HH T f i V T0 THE TUCKHULDER AFTER the Shingas staff was selected and the preliminary work completed, there arose the problem of to whom to dedicate our book. A subject for a dedication is not an easy choice and is more difficult this year with so many persons, places or things eligible. Many names of groups and indi- viduals were suggested. Each choice was given equal consideration and the reasons for that selection were weighed carefully. We tried to find one person or group that had worked wholeheartedly and enthusiasti- cally in our behalf. After looking at many names, all seemingly equal in merit, we be- gan to see that although each of the nom- inees had rendered invaluable services to us, the book was of too wide o scope to be dedi- cated to one individual or even one organ- ization. lt is not fair to thank one group and yet overlook the services of so many others. Then came the realization that all these people are part of one unit, part of the very backbone of our American democ- racy-our American community. Why not, then, recognize this group and give credit to all its members who have helped us, in- stead of singling out only a few? Directly or indirectly, all the benefits we have received during our school days have come from you, our friends in the com- munity. Out of your hands, through our school board, have come the improvements to our school and its property. We enjoy the use of a modern gymnasium and audi- torium, the school receives new equipment of all kinds, new subjects are constantly be- ing added to the curriculum to suit the needs of the students. Nor has your work been limited to the school grounds. Our new stadium, swimming pool and recreation center owe their existence to the foresight and effort on the part of the taxpayers of the community. However, let us not think only in terms of the material benefits we have received. Of tremendous importance is the splendid way you have supported all our functions. For all our class plays, benefit activities, and athletic contests are as necessary a part of our education as our classroom work. Whenever some student organization has sponsored a project, you have shown a com- mendable eagerness to help make it a suc- cess. By purchasing tickets, lending us equipment, and by adding those little extra bits of encouragement and advice, you have made it possible for us to gain valuable ex- perience of a practical nature in these ac- tivities. Thus it is with a great deal of pride and with deepest gratitude that we dedicate our i943 Shingas to you, the parents and friends in our community who have not only greatly aided the cause of education in Beaver but have also, in a large sense, made this yearbook possible.

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ALT e stockholders control a corporation they are too widely scattered across the country to conduct its business directly. Therefore they elect a board of directors to conduct all the business of the organization. This board, acting upon rec- ommendations from the plant managers, strives to improve production, controls the finances, promotes activities and is respon- sible for the maintenance and repair of the corporation's buildings and equipment, ln the same sense, the citizens of the community could not manage the school's HOUCH th affairs efficiently, so they elect a board of school directors. The members serve a six- year term. This board is responsible for set- ting up the school's standards of education, managing school funds, sponsoring school activities, and the upkeep of school build- ings, equipment and grounds. For its fine work, for which no salary is received, and for its fine spirit in changing the school curriculum to suit the needs of the armed services and war industries, the class of i943 extends its sincerest to the board of ' thanks school directors. 3 Left to Right: J, Ral h W Scott p Patterson, W. Edgar Kaye, Charles R. Snitger . Moore, Jr., Solicitor, G. A. McCormick, Superintendent Harold F. Reed, President of Board, Isabella K Bennett, W. Glenn Anderson, CI of Schools? enah, Secretary, Virgil E. aude H. Nelson.