Bedford High School - Echo Yearbook (Bedford, PA)

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I ■■■ to discover a way by which all poverty may be obliterated. His junior students say that he leads them a merry tour through all the trials and tribulations met in setting up a government in Amer¬ ica as well as through all the problems met since its formation. After two years’ work with Miss Brice, the girls look forward with pleasure to the time when they will have complete charge of a home. To learn how to cook and to sew well are only two of the many things the girls learn in the Home Eco¬ nomics department. If every boy could study for four years under the guidance of Mr. Townsend, head of the Vocational Agriculture de¬ partment, there would be a great “back to the land” movement. To see those boys testing milk, eggs, seeds, or what have you? is enough to convince all of us that very few farmers know all there is to be learned about farming. Take a look at that big 2700 egg incubator if you think the Future Farmers of America are not doing things in a big way. And did you see that large flock of broilers just before Easter? That was a splendid project, boys! “Exit, Maggie,” directs Miss Baker to an earnest student in dramatics. “Be sure your are cutting the right end of the worm,” directs the same voice, but we are no longer in dramatics; we have Upper Group • Left to right: Mr. Sproul, Miss Litz- inger, Mr. Sheely. Middle Group Left to right: Miss Brice, Mr. Croft, Miss Donahoe. Lower Group Left to right: Mr. Towns end, Mr. Tritt, Miss Border. Here we see our future dressmakers at their various tasks in the sewing room. Page Thirteen

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FACULTY in ' 1 W OB Library—To this bright, sunny room, the Library, students come day after day to gain more knowledge. AVID G. Behrers, principal of the Bedford Junior High School and in¬ structor in seventh and eighth grade mathematics, and the Junior High School Guidance classes, came to Bedford in 1928 as principal of the Elementary School. In 1928, when the Junior High School was or¬ ganized, he was made principal of that or¬ ganization. Mr. Behrers is keenly interested in music and in 1932 he sponsored a music apprecia¬ tion club for the members of the band from the Junior High School. His efforts cast forth in this work were greatly appreciated. He is now the pianist at our chapel pro¬ grams. Mr. Behrers attended the summer courses at the Cumberland Valley State Normal School and Elizabethtown College, and taught in rural schools of Center and Hunt¬ ingdon counties. Since that time he has taken summer courses toward his degree at the Pennsyl¬ vania State College Branch School in Al¬ toona, Pennsylvania. DAVID G. BEHRERS Page Twelve ARLEZ-VOUS Francais?” is the first question. “Non, Mademoi¬ selle, non,” is the answer Miss Litzinger frequently receives in reply to that first question. This French instruct¬ or says that nearly every first year stu¬ dent, upon hearing her ask that first question, looks at her as if she is a big bad wolf. “The Peace of Westphalia is a prominent landmark in universal history. It stands at the dividing line of two great epochs. It marks the end of the Refor¬ mation period and the beginning of that of the Political Revolution.” This is the same lady speaking to whom we listened a moment ago in a French class. But now she has a different group and is try¬ ing to help her wards get a perfect view of world history. “But you say the Interstate Commerce Commission has the power to require the railroads to carry a passenger for two cents per mile?” asks a student in a Prob¬ lems of American Democracy class. Yes,” replies Mr. Sheely, the instructor in charge, and he goes on to explain that the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was the first step toward the effective control of railways and of railway rates. When we visit this instructor again, we hear him telling his class that “the supply of labor depends on the increase in the numbers of mankind.” And again we listen to him and his class as they attempt

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moved over to the biology laboratory. Finally, we see this instructor in another department, explaining the fundamentals cf sophomore English. HCl + NaOH=? Just chemistry. Test tubes, beakers, burners, acids, and all sorts of equipment go to make up Mr. Croft’s laboratory. Here too, we find equipment used by this instructor in teaching the problems of physics. “It has been shown that the exponent of any letter in the product is equal to the sum of its exponents in the two fac¬ tors; and now boys and girls, I will show you that the same rule applies when the exponents are fractional.” That voice belongs to either Mr. Sproul or Mr. Wise, but we are not certain which because both of them teach algebra. Mr. Wise in¬ structs also in shop work, and Mr. Sproul instructs in geometry and trigonometry. “Who are the common carriers?” No, it’s not biology; it’s Commercial Law with Mr. Tritt as Lawyer in Chief. Here commercial students learn to debit and credit in bookkeeping and all about bank¬ ing in arithmetic. Miss Border trains those fine stenogra¬ phers and typists you hear talking so much about the “kays” and “gays” and the difficulties they present. She also in¬ structs in Commercial English. “Whistler painted the picture ‘Mother,’ and it is beautiful,” explains Miss Dona- Upper Group ri 5 ht: Miss Baker Miss Koontz, Coach Hubisak. Like the Village Smithy. Hitting the iron while it’s hot. Middle Group Left to right: Mr. Koontz. Miss Harnard, Miss Morse, Lower Group Left to right: Miss Bell, Mr. Wise, Miss Garbrick. Page Fourteen