Borough of Etna - Centennial Festivities Yearbook (Etna, PA)

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....-139, - ,-T., 2 H -- i .fg'y,f+1zV V , -1-wi N . t, - If tsamet. Miss Ruth tteming ttlotnvsllt' st.-iencei, Iris lkeler. Katherine XY eisz tsalnt-J, and lsitltel Adams were added. ' 1' FT F 1 gf 2 i7f-gglsfpyj ' '-t . .. Q It was in the fall of 1918 that Mr. Elmer Rice suc- ceeded Mr. Mitchell as Superintendent. During his short three years as administrator, the died following the 1920-1921 terml enthusiasm was aroused and a bond issue launched for building a High School. To his name must go much of the credit for t.he building on the hill for it was he who encouraged activities such as parades I asv.-.k 1- K., ff.: WJ N I F is,- i 'K' 'qvrmg 7 L .7'h'I4N,a ,vat ra, .3 - -1,157 MR. SPANCLER to rouse the interest of the citizens. Mr. William Stewart, so kindly remembered hy un- numbered Etna folks, came in the fall of 1921 to replace Professor Rice and Mr. Spangler also of happy memory, took over the Principalship of the High School, which had been held for three years by Miss Elizabeth Flem- ing. New names added to the High School Faculty at this time were: Nina Smith, Mabel Anderson, Jean Agnew, and Elizabeth Eggers. Later, before the build- ing of tht- lligh School. were llferl, Korona, Ewing, Eggers, Miller and Henderson. ln the meantime, students who had started to school in Sharpsburg were permitted to finish there. Others, 32 who started heforei d.llI-iIL.lS4fHlng with the school code to be more convenient went to Allegheny High School. These also were permitted to finish from the school to which they had started. The High School remained in the Wilson Street School with an ever growing enrollment and an ever widening curriculum. This necessitated more space and in 1920 an addition was added to the end farthest from Grant Avenue. ln 1923 four more rooms were added and even then basement rooms were needed as class ETNA HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA-1927 SEATED: Howard Rogers, Arthur Young, George Hoburg, Emmett Lippold, Regis Weppelman, Irvine Calvert, Wilhelmina Hughes, Edith Forsythe, Frederick Hieber, Ralph Roth, Clarence Kurt, Alma Kleeb, Albert Thens, Clara Smith, Benjamin Rivlin, Edward Wally, Robert Beck. STANDING: Walter Stauffer, Mr. Aden L. Fillmore, Laura Pfaub, Edna Louise Hughes, Alfretta Tomlinson. ETNA HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA-1925 SEATED: Edward Wally, Fred Meyers, Clarence Kurt, Frederick Hieher, Robert Beck, Howard Rogers, George Hoberg. STANDING: Almira Ohenauf, Wilhelmina Hughes, Alfretta Tomlinson. Allwrl Thens, Ralph Roth, Walter Stauffer, Anna Richter, Katherine Burni James Wrigley, Alice Truman, Mr. A. L. Fillmore. rooms. ln the spring of l925 members of the last claSS to be graduated from Wilson Street received their diplomas. Mrs. Clara Cook of Weible Street recallS that she was a member of this class. ln the fall of 1925 the school was lnore crowded than ever. Memory still retains the sound of verb conjuga- tfins and passages from Shakespeare recited to the accompaniment of gf:dFdr'altsmen's desks scrap- X

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Tt'I1V-'1l!!'.lI1ll5!iIE',lLll4'3illtlW3'-'- 7f'9'l ? -4- il - - - -----4 1' - 'iv l and Etna I ' ' ,,......--f if Names on the faculty, among others, were L. D. Cooner, Farrell, Kock, Peters, Rohrneyer, McAulis, Crouse and Hubacher. It was during this period in the progress of Etna Schools that both he Sharpsburg and Etna Superintend- ents of many years left the field-C. C. Kelso of Sharps- 1 JOHN D. McINTYRE burg by resignation on May 10, 1944, and J. A. Irvine by death on June 29, 1914. Mr. James Mitchell was elected to replace Mr. lrvine. In 1915 Etna organized a high school of her own in the Wilson Street building. Mr. John Mclntyre was elected principal. Miss Edith Ramsey was the only other f , iv y . ' v. tpe 'asv me .N Q.. 1, is Q ,is 'S 3,5 9519, S., 23 ig, 2 ,ajii f --f-- Y-'W W 'vi---1----?. A 3- if ' ., :-. - 'J 41425. ,,..4. .f.f.-.1,g:f.w- V . W f MR. WILLIAM STEWART teacher that first year outside the teachers of special subjects: music, domestic science, and manual training. Mrs. Bessie Shaw recalls that the seventh as well as the eighth grade was given a county examination in order to obtain enough pupils to permit opening a High School. She became one of the first commercial students who through two years of concentrated study, was allowed to graduate with a business certificate. The academic pupils were required to continue for a full four years in order to win a college preparatory credit. The first four year class, therefore, was graduated from Etna High School in 1919. ln 1917 Mr. John Mclntyre had joined the armed forces and his place was taken by Mr. Shearer as Principal of the High School. Mr. Shearer remained just one year and was succeeded by Miss Elizabeth Fleming. That same year H918-19195, Miss Jean Lewis, daughter of Reverend Lewis of the First Presby- terian Church of Etna, joined the faculty. From then on the teaching staff of the High School was expanded and such names as Carlon, fManual Training5, Matthias Y Z-Z.

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li ,V ct' d f,.-R CLASS OF 1928 D. Moon, L. Thomas, R. Truman, M. Brodmerkle, M. Schreiber, J. Simpkiss, M. Kurt, G. Reynolds. SECOND ROW: J. Blackwood, F. Dietrich, H. Wirth, E. Herman, G. Hays, A. Kinzer, R. Westwood, L. Pfaub. THIRD ROW: M. Little, L. Yerkins, A. Williams, J. Lehr, E. Anderson, E. Phillips, E. Oldendorf, E. Park, FOURTH ROW: M. Lang, M. Laing, M. Iseman, M. Schafer, R. Peghtel. FIFTH ROW: J. Tawser, M. McCalmont, R. Grieneisen, M. Draganac, V. Stewart, I.. Kleber, J. Hanlon, W. Betcher, SIXTH ROW: J. Hanlon, L. Strohm, M. Otte. SEVENTH ROW: J. Lindsay, R. Damiano, E. Levine, W. Hawthorne, W. Tawser, H. Braun, J. Erdeljac, W. Girty. EIGHTH ROW: H. Brown, W. Schuster, J. Wagner, J. Stritzinger, G. Ondich. The girls made their graduation dresses in Home Economics class. FIRST ROW: ing concrete floors in one of the basement rooms. However, congestion was soon relieved and early that year classes were moved to the new Etna High School building. Thereafter, for several years, pupils came from Shaler, O'Hara, Hampton, Richland, West Deer, Indiana and districts as far removed as the outskirts of Mars in Butler County. Shaler then had a two year high school course, but it was not until these areas could establish their own high schools that they became independent of Etna. In recent years this independence tis marked indeed. The first teachers in the new Etna High School besides Mr. Stewart, Superintendent, and Mr. Spangler, High School Principal, were Mrs. Nina Smith, Miss Mabel Anderson, Mr. Forrest Henderson, Miss Hildreth Boughamer, Miss Wilverda Hodel, Mr. Chester Irons, ,Mr. Charles Bussard and Miss Helen Irvine and those teachers of special subjects: Miss Sara Tesh ldomestic sciencel, Mr. McClymonds fmanual trainingl, and Mr. Aden L. Fillmore who had been in the Etna Public Schools as Music Superintendent since 1897. He was to remain active in that capacity until 1932 coaching choruses, operettas and instrumental groups. fln reminiscing, we are reminded that in the early 1900's his Etna-Sharpsburg Chorus had competed in the choral ,groups in Western Pennsylvania Welsh Eisteddfod at ,the old Exposition and won first prize. A wonderfully iiappy group of people left the old Expo that night. This writer vividly recalls the rejoicing in her own 45 neil: home. In sharp contrast to that evening's splendid harmony was the utter lack of such at a picnic Mr. Fillmore held for the chorus in Guyasuta Hollow. Lined up on opposite sides of the Run, Etna against Sharps- GIRL'S BASKETBALL TEAM-1925 SEATED: Ann Richter. STANDING: Ida Schor. Ethel Wells, Jane Cartwright, Alice Stauffer, Gertrude Reynolds, Grace Crawford, Elizabeth Parks. FIRST ROW: Merle Spangler, Coach, Clarence Feigle, Chester Rihn, George Ondich, Arthur Broge, Robert Arenth, Tom Brown, Edwin Austen, Harry Whitehill, Coach. SECOND ROW: George Hoburg, Roy Beggs, Vernon Hollihan, Kewis Kish, John Palka, Jerry Plumskif George Lorch, Herbert Birth. THIRD ROW: Frank Grubbs, John Fredley, Joseph Wojikowski, Emery Brown, Sam Laasa, Clifford Fredley. SEATED: Charles Prager, Oaul Nolan, Walter Vollmer, Herbert Metzger, Russel Irvine, Frederick Hciher, Everett Girty, Burton Stevenson, Clar- SIICC NiCClGCkBr, Albert Jones, George Wagner. SECOND ROW: Helen Irvine, Catherine Mueller, Dorothy Phelan, Henrietta Kosht, Glenna Smith, Martha Strohm, Bessie Gray, Frances Chisler, James Brown, Jean Derry, Anna Beitle, Mary Merdian, Harriet Westhoff, Inez Paulson. Ruth Bliel, Irene Walker, Ida Schor. FOURTH ROW: Ralph Strohm Emma Koch, Emma Hartman. William Meyer, Alberta Zigan Victor Erdeljac, Catherine Betz, Clifford Parsons, Otto Sokach, James Maim- Lane Thomas, Gerald Miller, Robert Derry, Paul Metzger, l 33