Bradford High School - Barker Yearbook (Bradford, PA)

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B. H. S. YEAR BOOK Eleven I I I I fX:i i -fr - 'x,,..L. Lin-7. 'Year Book of the B. 5. S. Claes of Nineteen 'Cwenty-One EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor EARL DUGGAN HELEN CLEVELAND Athletics Personals Crumbs Literary Art Darius Greer Betsey Lindsey lrene Roach Jane Crosby Jack Matych Mary Schilling Shirley lVlacGowan Beatrice O'Laughlin ldelle Nusbaum Elmer Ottoson Jokes Advisors Robert Pringle, Tessie Marks G. E. Schilling, C. A. Ricker BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager-KENNETH Assistants Arthur Jackson Sadie Bergman Richard Lyon George Brink Leonard Rapp William Dunne Naomi Kopanske After spending four years in this High School we would feel very ungrateful indeed if we did not express our appreciation of the co-operation we have had in putting across our several ventures during our progress through High School. Indeed, everybody has been most kind in the support given us. We appreciate the support the public gave us and the interest shown in all our under- takings which enabled us to have the many good times which we have enjoyed. We are certain that every Senior realizes the neces- sity and importance of the public support in it's undertakings. We also wish to thank the merchants for their loyal support of this book by advertising. We appreciate Mr. Schilling's untiring efforts on our behalf. Without his support the Washington trip would have been deemed an impossibility. He was always present with his never-failing interest and cheerful co-operation in our endeavors. We thank the faculty for their never- failing support and co-operation, especially Miss Mayo, in our many undertakings. In case We have missed anyone, We thank the Whole school, both individually and collectively, for their support during the past four years.

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swear ' Twelve B. H. S. YEAR. BOOK The realization that five hundred eighty- nine pupils were registered in our High School during the past term has brought forth the fact that our building is too small. We have one hundred five pupils in our Senior Class. Take the class of 1908 for instance. There were thirty-five in the Lit- erary Department and nine in the Commer- cial Department, or forty-four in the grad- uating class. We have the same building they had. True, we have a fine gym and assembly hall, but this does not add class rooms to our school. Their old assembly hall has been turned into a physics labora- tory and quite a small lab at that. The superintendent's office and school board's room are now dismantled and are being utilized as a typewriting room, nevertheless, we still hear the cry for a larger typewriting room. Every possible corner is being used and still we lack room. The only possible solution is a new building. We have a queer system of study. The system is theoretically correct but not prac- tical. Each classroom has an imaginary di- vision. On one side is a recitation class, on the other side are the study C?l pupils. Thus the study pupil twists and groans in his or her attempts to study instead of lis- tening to the recitation which is sometimes very amusing. Finally findingit impossible he gives it up. There is a crying need for a study hall where one could spend his time in honest effort with fair reward. New teachers entering Bradford High find it most discouraging to try to keep order in two classes at once. The teachers cannot do justice to the reciting class because she often has to stop the recitation to settle a distur- bance among the study pupils. What about our lunch room? The pres- ent one is dark and far too small. It is necessary for the pupil, in order to obtain his lunch, to stand in line almost all the lunch period, enduring the heat and fumes from the furnaces. Our present lunch room isimpossible! Come and eat lunch with us some day. During the winter time, passing from class to class, we sometimes discover great things. It is a common thing for the girls to wear their coats from class to class during the en- tire winter. Do you think it pleasant to plunge into the icy depths of one room after leaving an overheated one? Needless to say, it is a detriment to good health, fur- thering colds, flu, pneumonia, etc. There- fore adequate heating facilities are needed. One acquainted with the conditions at present existing in our High School will well agree that the present building is inade- quate. True, it is satisfying, to some ex- tent, our present needs, but where will we be in a few years? Freshmen will be ready to enter High School with no place to put them. Statistics prove that the number of Freshmen is increasing every year. By the traditions of our country everyone is enti- tled to a High School education. Certainly now is the time to act! Students, talk to your mas and pas about a new High School building. Tell them the true conditions now existing in our present building. Citizens of Bradford-you who take pride in your schools as well as your city, advocate a newibuilding. This is not mere propoganda. Bradford is falling behind other cities in its educational rank. It is plain to see that a lack of vocational sub- jects is the cause. They are an impossibil- ity with the present building but certainly are as much of an educational advantage as Latin, etc. The pupil leaves the High School without any definite training. The teach- ing of vocational subjects would give him a chance to find his life's work. This is not written for our benefit. We graduate this year. Our High School days are over but we see the existing conditions in the present building and foresee the fut- ure conditions, if nothing is done to remedy them.