Broad Top Township High School - Top Yearbook (Defiance, PA)

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THE KROAI) TOP MICROCOSM Three llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllili Henry H. Brumbaugh whs born at Clover Creek, Blair county, October 4. 1862. In September 1872, after the death of his father he made his home with his uncle, James I). Brumbaugh, a farmer, who lived in King Township, Bedford County. He attended public school until 1883 when he spent five weeks at a summer normal school conducted by Prof. Cyrus J. Potts in Pleasantville Borough. He was granted a certificate to teach and that fall was elected to teach the Knisely school in his home township for a term of five months at a salary Of .$22.:i0 for a month of 22 days. He attended summer normal at Pleasant- ville, Bedford and Centerville, Bedford County and taught in King Township until 1889 when he moved with his uncle into Bloomfield Township where he taught two terms. In 1891 he was elected principal of the Riddlesburg school where he remained two years, when he again returned to Bloomfield Township and taught two years. In the summer of 18$» he taught a sum- mer normal school at St. Clairsville and that fall was elected principal of the St. Clairsville schools for two years. In the fall of 189(1 he accepted the position of Supervising Principal of the Broad Top Township Schools in which position he has served continuously ever since with two interruptions—the first one in 1900 when the office was discon- tinued for one year and again in 1904 when he accepted a position as man- ager of the Kenmar Coal Company in which capacity he served for 3 years, returning to the educational work in the summer of 1907. The records of the district show that in 1896, when Prof. Brumbaugh was placed in charge of the schools of Broad Top Township there were 11 school buildings and 16 teachers in the same with an enrollment of 717 pupils. The county superintendent’s report for 1926-27 shows an enrollment of 1482 pupils. The township owns 16 school buildings, and employs 34 teachers. In addition to his work as advisor to the teachers of this district, Mr. Brumbaugh also serves in the capacity cf executive secretary for the Board of Education of the district and as clerk to the treasurer.

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THE BROAD TOI MICROCOSM iiiiiitmiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiii HENRY H. BRUMBAUGH SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL We respectfully dedicate this issue of the Broad Top Microcosm to our beloved Supervising Principal who has served the schools of this eommunitv unselfishly for forty years.

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THE P.ROAD TOP MICROCOSM ............ Published five times during the schoolyear by the pupils of Broad Top Township High School. Editor-in-chief ......La Rue Rankin Assistant Editor ...........Mary Young Business Manager Charles Rankin Joke Editor ..........Geneve McIntyre Alumni Editor ........Charles Barton Literary Editor ...........Helen Ross Faculty Advisor Managing Editor.......William Walls Art Editor...........Esther Cornelius Subscription Editors Milliard Foor Willard Raker Helen Snyder Sport Editor .........Victor Musser .William Mowry IF I WERE A HIGH SCHOOL BOY Prof. Brumbaugh’s Message to the Girls and Boys of the District If I were a high school boy I would make an honest effort to be a leader in my class, my school and my com- munity so that when I became older and had more training and experience I might serve better and in a larger way. I would prepare to do this by giving attention to my studies, at school and in general reading, and thru association with my teachers and per- sons who have been successful in life. I would expect to find out for what line of service I was best fitted and when I had decided on my career I would work along three lines to ac- complish my purpose. FIRST, I would try to keep physi- cally fit by cultivating habits that would develop health, strength, and imise. SECOND. I would take up a course of study that would best prepare me for the line of work that I have desired to follow. I would then try to master every subject I had selected and take part in all ex- tra-curricular activities that would de- velop in me the power of concentration and expression. THIRD, through read- ing good books and associating with men and women of pure and noble ideals I would try to develop the spir- itual nature that is in every normal person. I would want to deserve the confidence and respect of my fellows ho h while in school and out of school. There never was a time in the his- tory of our community when Christian leadership was more needed than right now. Roger W. Babson says, “The cry- ing need of today is not more cultural and scientific knowledge, but more spir- itual knowledge.” He says further, “Unless our spiritual growth is more highly developed so as to catch up with our material growth, our national prosperity will collapse under its own weight.” He finds that it costs eight times as much to take care of our criminals as we spend for public school education. It is up to you—tlm youth of our land to save it from • destruc- tion.