Beaver River Central High School - Beaverian Yearbook (Beaver Falls, NY)

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White remembers Mr. Semper as having, charge .oil. the school in 1890. Mr. Malowning probably succeeded. Mr. Semper as head of the school. An . ald.register shows that Mr. Gilligan carried out the duties of the principalship from 1893 to 1395» Mr. Boy N. Porter served the school from 1897-1598 and possibly from 1895-1897 Ifc 1898 Mr. Portor was succeeded by Mr. Edward G. Carr who served as principal the next two years. The successor of Mr. Carr's was Mr. Charles J. Campbell who was principal for the year 1900-1901. In 1902 Mr. Allan N. Roberts was engaged as principal, a position which he held until 1911 with the exception of the two years from March 190b- to 1906 when his brother, Louis, was then acting principal. It was during Mr. Allan Robert's principalship that the two year high school was startod, the school receiving this rating in 1910. At this time English, Latin, German, Ancient and American History, Civics, Algebra, Geometry, Biology and Chemistry made up the curriculum» Ur. Wesley O'Brien remembers that Miss Eell started the Latin department and that Miss Marilloy taught German which was dropped from the curriculum during the World War. Mr. Roberts was responsible for the school's obtaining a flag, the money for which was raised by popular subscriptions. The present school colors, the orange and the green, were adopted about 1909 or 1910 which would be during Mr. Robert's period of service. Mr. Roy C. Ireland succeeded Mr. Roberts as principal in 1911 and remained until 191b. The first graduate of Beaver Falls High School was Seymour White who received his diplom» in 19lb. Seymour received the two years instruction in school and gained the extra required credits for graduation from the outside coaching of Mr. Ireland. At the Commencement Exercises held in the M.E. Church, Seymour gave a Commencement speech entitled, The Panama Canal , which was com- pleted in the year 19lU. Until this time very little, if any, interest had been taken in Athletics, but during Mr. Ireland's principalship a baseball team was formed. In 1912 the school boasted a very good Nine which was composed of Wesley O'Brien, Lawrence Wardell, Seymour White, Wesley Heimhilger, Wesley Bach, Louis Stoffel, Walter O'Brien, Madore LaMouroy and Arthur Osborne. Mr. Harry W. Davis succeeded Mr. Ireland as principal in 19lb and served in that capacity until 1916. The next principal was Mr. Smith Goff who was here only one year. From 1917 to 1919 Miss Charlotte Mawson served as principal. She was succeeded by Mr. C. T. Mackey who was here for only one year. The 1920 and 1921 terns were under the principalship of Mr. Francis I. Meehan. In 1921, Mr. Orson Babbit became principal in which capacity he served the school until 1929. During his principalship the three and four year high school departments were both startod. When the school received its four year high school rating in 1925, the subjects in the curriculum included English, French, Latin, Ancient and American History, Civics, Design and Representation, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra, Biology and Physics. The French Department under the di- rection of Miss Dorothy Babbit (Mrs. Harold Nortz) was added to the curriculum in about I92U. In 1925 the first class with the exception of Seymour White was grad- uated from Boaver Falls High School. This class was composed of seven girls and two boysJ Rebecca Branhall, (Mrs. Fred Widmeyer); Mary Lewis, (Mrs. William Groat; Louise Nuffer, (Mrs. Roy Ruhnka); Laurene Cassidy, (Mrs. Stanley Rotary); E-olyn Honor, (Mrs. Glenn Sheldon); Frances Lyndaker, (Mrs. Phillips); Dorothy Parker, (Mrs. Mitchell); Lawson Ramage, Jr.; and Elmer Streeter. In about 1924 or 1925 Mrs, Graoe Lewis Cornwall wrote the present school song. The first Senior Play was directed by Mrs» Daisy Babbit, in about 1928. »9 41

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Daring the latter part of Mr. Babbit’s long service as principal, the old school became only a memory, for in November IT ? '-ho present red brick build- ing was erected This school, which was designjc avia : the lines of the eight- eenth century American architecture, was dedicated ou January 13i 1928. At the ded ication Mr. Hi ran called the name s in t er which posses ses. grad uating the new in 1 9 2 8. and three reived thdr a t this new school many only in its J u ne th its cur- these TTfTn if » 1 » t h iff ed not 0 f 1 n b 0 extra But would not vived the teen years found ation old schools of the years past had not been firm and solid. In confidence serene ex ercis es Van A man roll of the his regis - h e still The fir s t c la s s of school was Two girls boys re- di pi onas time. This has witness- c h a n ges the num ber gradu ates but also in regular and r i c ulum. ch a n g es ha v e sui - al most foun- i f the laid in the Mr. Babbit was succeeded by Mr. Clifford Berry who served from 1929 to 1936. The depression of 1929 changed the trend of education toward that of earning a living. Thus the Domestic Science and Industrial Arts and later the Agricultural Departments were added to the school curriculum. In 1931 in- dustrial Arts Departments was started under the direction of Mr. Edward Whitt- ington. Miss Miriam Jenkins, (Mrs. Oscar Hassler) was the first instructor in the Domestic Science Department which was started in 1932. The Commerce Depart- ment was added to the curriculum in 1935» with Miss Inez Roberts(Mrs. C, Phelps Carter) being the first teacher. Another change in the curriculum of the school w;-s made in 1929 when the Music Department was started under the direction of Y:ss Blanche Rutherford. At this time a school chorus and orchestra were start- ed by kiss Rutherford. A little later the Beaver Palls School participated in the county music work under which plan only a certain number of periods a week were given over to music. Other changes in the school curriculum which still survive but on a larger scale were the school paper (The Beaver's Tale) started by Miss Miriam Jenkins in the spring of 1935 an ! girls' and boys' basketball in 1331 under the coaching of Mr. Edward Whittington.Also in 1931 the U—Kum-C—Fest was first presented under the direction of Miss Marion Jamieson (Mrs. Lawson Hanage.) Simultaneously with the changes made in the regular and extra curricu- lur., a greater number of students enrolled each year in the school. Many of these pupils came from the outlying districts from which transportation to the Beaver Palls School had to be furnished. In 193--» the school board purchased a 30 passenger bus cmd also the small bus which had carried pupils from the Bolfort school. k 37 passenger bus and also a h-9 passenger bus were prehased in August 1935 and in the summer of I936 a garage to house these buses was erected on the ground behind the school. if 41 ...