Beaver High School - Shingas Yearbook (Beaver, PA)

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Mr. W. W. Paferick 2

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O Captain, my Captain Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weathered every rack, The prize we sought is won. Although Walt Whitman never knew Mr. Paterick, we are certain that our Mr. Paterick is the type of individual to whom he was referring. Mr. Paterick is the Captain of the Shingas. When there are storms and rough weather at sea, everyone turns to the captain for instructions. When storms arise in the production of a yearbook, everyone turns to the adviser. Amidst all this responsibility and turmoil, Mr. Paterick commands the respect of all those who work with him. His fairness, patience, honesty and foresight are all taxed tothe utmost, for Mr. Paterick believes that all things worth doing are worth doing well. Anything that bears his name must be done correctly or not at all. This, then, accounts for the consistently fine books produced under his direction. Born at Hastings, Pennsylvania, at a very young age, fso he saysl he received his elementary and a portion of his secondary education there. After receiving his diploma from the high school at Patton, Pennsylvania, he worked for several years with the Western Electric Company in New York. Following this experience, he enrolled at Indiana State Teachers College to become the fifth member of his family to enter the teaching profession. In East McKeesport, where he started his teaching experiences, he met and later married Miss lngeborg Hedstrom. Before coming to Beaver in 1931, he took several advanced college courses as well as representing the W. F. Quarrie Co. as a salesman for the World Book Encyclopedia. In the fall of 1939 a war was starting in Europe. In Beaver, a new adviser was tackling the production of a Shingas, editing the Echo, teaching a course in Journalism and a full schedule of social studies. The war has long since ended, but the production of the Shingas goes on and on. For twenty-one years now Mr. Paterick and the Shingas have been synonomous. When we think of the Shingas we think of Mr. Paterick. The Shingas has often been called his annual headache, for each book, edited by successive senior classes has pre- sented distinct new challenges to tax his imagination and experience. Each year he must conceive new ideas and an original format, train new personnel, and finally present a book which will express the personality of the class and portray a cross-section of life in Beaver Area High School. This is no easy task. As we, through the eyes of our adviser, look back through the twenty- one years, we realize the changes wrought and the advances made in the pro- duction of the Shingas. In 1940, his first book contained 96 pages with only 73 engravings, our book contains 136 pages with 240 engravings. In 1940, 400 copies were produced, while the class of 1960 has set a new record with 1200 copies. To watch a yearbook such as the Shingas grow steadily into the produc- tion it is today,-representing a class of 230 members and a high school of approximately 1000-can only be appreciated by the one who has been asso- ciated with that growth. Not only for his personal dedication to our Shingas, but also for his interest in students, his life long devotion to his duties as teacher and adviser-we, the class of 1960, take great pride in dedicating our SHINGAS to- MR. W. W. PATERICK 6

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