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

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l , .. . 9 SCIENCE CLUB OF 1928 STANDING: Everett Girty, Frederick Hicher, William Girty Paul Nolan Albert Jones, Mr. A. E. Jack. SEATED: Arvid Westland. Lezter Strohm Loui.e Kleeber Ruth Bliel, Laura Pfaub, Harold Braun nlichael Dra anjac. FRONT: Charles Prager, Rocco Damiano. 1930 SENIOR PLAY CAPPY RlCKS STANDING: George Blackham, Dorothy Stoll, Florence Dunn, Marie Besdek, Louis Beiswinger, Joseph Lutz. KNEELING: Irvine Calvert, Maurer Arnold. FLAT: David Fletcher. i, v? ,Ya Sw Y W ir.. - v :SE gd gyg .fy To T 2 j lf ' 4 fs f -el-t..4 . I ' I H ia-f -h- 1 A . , Pl I. ' ': . ' 5 A . J. Q 19 . ,, .a it :,::: 'f f g r A V X ' at i tll X i . 5 cp ,I -t. -qi, ' gb 9 ff . 74 'Q-H -f w 2,j7 .n i fs 7 . tt . -tl+ll-altf t.- .t .::' We ' - 2 FACULTY OF 1938 FIRST HOW: Ilt-len Kane-, Susan Justice, Florence Yerkins, Helen Hassenlritn, ,le-an Illav-kwnod, Ircnr- Coulter, Virginia Reiter, Violet Nlusselmar, H:-lt-n Hot-, Mabel Sawyer, Ida Schor, Martha Gardner, Blanfhf- Campln-ll. Ida llurnitv-, Laura l'laulm, Nlllflllll Lytlc. SECOND HOW: Donald fllf-zinfl, Virginia Smith, Sara Seitz, Malicl Lewis, Alma Kltfcla, fltttln-rinc Intrigue, lflfirt-riw Dunn, Sarah Clark, Esthcr Ilairrl, Nlarir-lla llit-triwli, Sara Wie.-, Evelyn Armstrong, Il:-lt-n Wirth, Ilan-'I SI'-igllt, lfrantis Hamlin-s, Myrtle lloflt-l, ,lr-un IJ:-rfy, ltglymnmi Nlvtngyr, l'4tul Nl:-Klillvn. Tlllltlt liflwli llivlittrrl Nrtliurs, Ne-rle Spanulwr, fflurv-nt 1- Nl'-tzgivr. .l'YSt'IJlI Stiwyv-r, littymond Ste-pln-ns, Paul llttrk, Xlztry lit-tlilcf, Mi-s Kidnt-r, I.m1isv Wziltlr-r, Kathleen Ifrcncli, Lulu Irxint-, Nlatrit-tttt Ilml-'I, lflore-nw Irxinc, ftnn In-pus-, Lyle Im-. .loscplt Kit-Clyrnontls, Nlr. I.:-wis, Olan Mtthzincy, llohcrt llztrdrr. I-'OIilt'I'l'I ROW' Ki-itll ftrnoltl I-larry Wllitvliill Virl Ilnsti' lluuli lxclly. burg the sweet sinoers began to pelt each other' with mud balls. In those first years in the High School outstandinv Phelau pupil of Miss Helen Dodson, won the gold medal as Pennsylvanias Short Hand Champion for three years. Then under the tutelace of Miss Wilverda Hodel Martha Strohm in 1926 Grace Phelau in 1928 and Elmira Hubhes in 1929 were named Pennsylvania State Championship typists. Grace Phelau went on to further honors. In 1931 she became World Hich School Champion and in 1939 and 1942 after Draduation from Duquesne University she won the Vllorld Amateur Championship. And durinr those early years extracurricular activi- ties of diverse natures vtere whettino the interests of the students and their parents. 'Championships were won in several sports and schemes to earn money for various projects were entered into with a will. One of these projects was the annual Senior trip to Wash- inbton D.C. whereas some years later the yearbook became the major project of the seniors. Science drama and lanauage clubs were organized' plays and operettas in that day commanded three nights of standin, room only. While pride in her new hi h school was perhaps foremost those first few years Etna was aware that the foundations of a well-rounded education were being laid at the Locust and Wilson Street Schools lAt All Saint's, St. Nicholas and St. Maryls too, for by that time children from these schools were addinff new 4,-f . ,KX names to the roster: German ones like Krausg Slavish like Tomicheck and Palka: Irish ones as in Dougherty? Italian as Domiano. Miss Kathleen French had begun to teach in the seventh and eighth grades at Locust Street in 1923- 192111. She later was principal at the Wilson Street School until 1965 lwhere she was preceded by MiSS Mabel McKihlJent with the exception of the years be- tween Septemher 19:1-6 and June 1948 when the tW0 upper grades occupied rooms in the high school. During t ese two years, Miss Florence Irvine was Acting Princi- pa at Wilson Stregr.JLhf.LI2rLncipal'at-Locust Street for many' years was Miss Helen Kane who spent thirty- t , of , , U honors came to the Commercial Department. Dorothy , 7 I U 7 l 5 7 7 U V U U' Y , , T I 5 Q 1 U I U F' 5 , s Y fl' f Y 7 U a 7 U Q , 4 U , v ' or C' Q , C Ah-

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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

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Qs 'JUN six years teaching Etna children. During the ensuing time, the peak of enrollment in the High School had been reached in 1940 with a stu- dent body of close to 900. From then on, other school districts, formerly dependent on Etna, became finan- FIRST ROW: Randy Nuzum, Georgene Currin, Curtis Rometo, Patricia Spelic, Dan Anzack, Jacqueline Radick, Lynn Trapani, Katrinka Christine Leech. SECOND ROW: Linda Stephenson, William Pollock, Jane Lorkovic, Mike Craswick, Darlene Rodgers, Lynn Beggs, Linda Ritter, Barbara Straw, Frank Robich, Karen Repp, THIRD ROW: Mrs. Catherine Lange, Cary Clever, Sandra Myros, Charles Burnell, Cynthia Grynie- wicz, Paul Barkley, Mary Lou Monroe, Leslie Ott, Duane Heckman. ially able to offer four years of high school training to heir own young people, some with government assist- tnce by way of Vl7.P.A. .1 In September of 1948, the two upper grades fseventh Hand eighthb were moved from the High School back be Wilson Street and remained there until they were vinally returned to the High School in the fall of 1957. ' In the years from 1925 to the present, 1969, as in itll the early years of her history, Etna has been for- 'iunate in her choice of loyal and skilled teachers. Space fu-'loes not allow naming each one, and only the lives if their students can measure their influence, but a lil ampling of names is dedicated to the HONOR ROLL in UU lu 'JF THEM ALL. 3 Miss Kathleen French served for forty-two years as eacher and grade school principal. During those years .he was accorded among other honors the title of l Teacher of the Yearl' by the Sharpsburg-Etna Junior ,fttfhamber of Commerce, awarded at her retirement in dit 965 honorary State Life Membership in the P.T.A., Ivllllfld named First Lady of the Day on February 1, 1965, ,Slim radio station fr entlp 9 Miss Susan Justice spent nianyWyETs5as Hlgh School 3 I he Librarian until illness made it imperative for her to resign. A few years later she was succeeded in this capacity by Miss Louise Walder, who was also teacher and original sponsor of 'lSmoke.'l Mr. Raymond Stephens and scores of students struggled to translate Americanese into the King's English. Mrs. Catherine Lange fEtna forty-one yearsl will be remembered by Etnaites all over the world as their first beloved teacher. Others will accord that honor to Mrs. Alice Martin fstill in the systemj who has STANDING: Ned Lee, Ida Schor McCready, Ruth Seitz, Ethel Will Hunter, .lean Derry, Lyle Lee, Hugo Puntereri. SEATED: Lulu Irvine, Florence Irvine. FIRST ROW: Jack Mintn, Gary Wise, Kerry Malone, Rosemary Miller. SECOND ROW: Candace Cessar, Terry Huston, Nataline Sanchez, James Milcic, Leslie Dukes, Mcrilyn Spahn, James Elrick. THIRD ROW: Ruth Thompson, Jack Andrews, Shirley Bigley. Jane Knsonovich, Mary Gannon, Thomas Taslov, Thomas Mecder. 35