Bell Township High School - Bee Tee Vie Yearbook (Salina, PA)

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BEE TEE VIE became exclusively school except for economics room, had years of service and demned as a fire hazlard. This required action on the school board again, a grade the home seen many was con- part of the and so in 1936 the membersgID. P. Bow- man, president, V Williams, secretary, corn, treasurer, L. memberg and Mr I. C. Mc- R. L. Al- . Weister, . Grayce Nixon, member-beglan negoti- ations for a P. W. A ., grant to help Finance such a project. A grant amounting to 4572, of the total cost was received and a bond issue started on December 7, 1937. When this new building was started, Mr. Willard, who began his work as supervising principal in 1921, was still at the head of the township school systemg and Mr. Gerheim, who started his career as high school principal in l932, was also still commanding officer of the high school. fgx ll

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Introduction problem the P. O. S. of A. Hall was rented for school use. In order to solve the problem per- manently a four room building was built in 1905. Four more rooms were added to this twelve years later. The first steps in establishing a high school curriculum were taken by Bella Glass Boden in 1908. This work was directed by lvlrs. Boden herself as Super- vising principal until 1911. Dur- ing that time E. E. Shaulis and Eugene Piatt were high school principals. ln 1911 Salina High School, offering a two year course, was officially organized with E. B. Leaf, principal. From 1913 to 1916 E. H. Keibler and james L. jones held the principalship. A third year was added in 1917, when james Hughes was principal. R. G. Bortz, V. R. Peterson, and Charles Helman served in that capacity one term each with the same curriculum. C. M. McNaughton came to Salina as high school principal in 1921 and held that position until 1929. During his stay the schools of the township were consolidated and a fourth year was added to the high school course, making it a standard fourth class high school. Mr. George Willard began his work as supervising principal, too, in 1921. In order to take care of the number of students that were being brought in from the out- lying schools the building was moved in from Wolwends and two other portable rooms were added. This situation caused the members of the school board, F. F. Weister, president, john lVlcCreary, secretary, W. J, Whitesell, treasurer, D. P. Bow- man and R. L. Alcorn, members to make plans for the erection of a new high school building. This, the first brick school building in the township, was completed in 1929. lt had eight class rooms and a spacious auditorium, which accommodated grades seven to twelve. At the same time as the new building there came a new high school principal to B. T. I-I, Sq Mr. George Gage, who remained until 1931. Mr. Mearl Gerheim, who taught in the highschool for one year when Mr. Gage was principal, was elected to the office of high school principal in 1932 A vocational course was offered for the first time in 1930. Forty- two students .were enrolled in this course the first year, and the number increased from year to year, definitely increasing the enrollment of the school. The course included all phases of home economics, as well as agriculture and shop. These, of course, interested a number of students who had not wanted the academic course offering foreign languages, science, history and advanced mathematics. The frame building, which

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w y yy y y yy Ira!! In Q. THE Freshman Class -gg , of 1934-35 hrst as- sembled as a class on September 4. IQ3-1. Thirty-seven members i of the class came from Bell Township, ten from Loyalhanna, live from Kiskiminetas. and ten from Salem. They came by busg they came in cars, they walked sometimes they even ran. Thirty-four students enrolled in the Academic course and were 'Astarted up in the way they should go by their home-room teacher, Miss Snively. These thirty-four were Anthony Ama- rose, Harry Barker, Velma Bor- ing, Viola Caldwell, William Campbell, Laura May Carnahan, Donald Dando, Ronald Dando, Glenn ljdder, ,loe Franko, Grace Freeman, Guy Grimm, john Kontra, Ruth Lenz, Agnes Mickey. Ray Muflley. Steve Olex. lvlike Pendlyshok. Andrew Povlik, Stanley Repos, Anthony Resnick, Pauline Rugh, jack Saxion, Cameron Scalise, Vera Schall, Mildred Shaffer, john Shusko, Mary Shusko, Andrew Simon, Lester White, Vincent Wilson, Ralph Woods, Frank Zerebnick, and Robert Zukas. This group elected as their home-room officers, Robert Zukas, presidentg Guy Grimm, vice presidentg Mildred Shaffer, sec retary-t reasu rer. The remaining thirty-three, who chose the Vocational course, were Dorothy Aikins, Dean Ashbaugh, Frances Boyd, Chesna Browell, Marie Burtyk, Robert Carnahan, Evelyn Cattoi The Seniors As They Were ln '34