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

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Ifnmunrft In publishing this second number of the Broad Top Microcosm as it now is. the Class of Twenty-nine was prompted by two major motives: To create a more worthy picture of our stay in Broad Top which would be a source of many pleas- ant memories, and in so doing, to produce a year book which would really be worthy of the school it represents. The task, though pleasant, has not been an easy one. and we are conscious of having fallen short of our mark. If, how- ever. by our example we have established a precedent where- by some succeeding class will publish a year book which will be an adequate tribute to their days in Broad Top, we shall consider our efforts well expended.

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militant iCauitrr Tin subject of thin article was horn In Scotland In 1 49 nod when only a few months old his j mi rents brought him to America, where they made their home at Jersey City. Mere be attended the public schools until his mother died, when he was taken back to Scotland. There he entered a private school and sit the same time tiegan a four-year apprenticeship as an accountant and “writer in an office under the Crown, lie completed Ids ap- prenticeship and. in 1W17, lie returned to America and was sis signed to the head of the accounting dejMirtincut of the Kemble Coal and Iron Co.. Itiddlcsburg, Pa. The Interest he manifested in the affairs of the company and community was so great, and Ids work so well done, that four years later he was made su|«erintendent and general manager of the comimny at Ulddlesburg. For 50 years he was associated with the Kemble Co., which Is now the Colonial Iron Co., in an official capacity, as accountant, superintendent, manager, or advisor. Itut the service for which Mr. Lauder will Is longest remem- liered and which should Ik most appreciated by the boy and girls of Broad Top Township Is that which In , as a school man. gave directly to his own district ami Indirectly to the county and the Commonwealth. For 25 years he served the district as a echo'd director, always planning and often sacrificing much needed rest that the Imys and girls of the future might have equal opportuni- ties and might have access to the 1m sj training possible. He was a man with a vision, always from 10 to 20 years ahead of Ids day. Because of this he was often severely criticized, and for which the future generations will call him “Messed.” Mr. Lauder wns instrumental in providing free text book and a seven months school term a number of years Ik fore the Commonwealth made them a requirement. In 1 90. he persuaded his board of directors to give the schools of Broad Top Township the Ik im IBs of load supervision on a system entirely unique in the State. With the Introduction of local supervision in tin dis- trict his dreams «.f better things educationally began to crystal- lize when he frequently met with the teachers in their local In- 'Unites, and educational conference , at which gathering » he would make speeches on educational subjects. Through this ex- |K rlen« c he became accustomed to sinking In public and thus pre|Nircd himself for larger service. In 1903, In read a paper at the Bedford County School Directors Convention strongly em- phasizing the need of a revision of the School Iaiw «»f Pennsyl- vania. and recommended that a commission l e a pointed by the tiovernor of the State to go over the whole situation and report Its findings to the legislature. As a result of this paper. the present School Code was (Missed in 1911. which has revolutionized the school system of Pennsylvania. Mr. Lauder was a member of the School Commission and for ten years he was a memlier of the State Board of Education. In closing, we wish to quote from an article written by Hr. .1. tieorge Becht and found in the Pennsylvania School Journal. March. 1921. issue. In which he says f Mr. Lauder: “He was an active, energetic, |N rsonal force in promoting every plan and enterprise that tended toward tin public good. In all tlie public and semi- public positions he held, he regarded with keen Intereat the wel- fare of thoae whom he served. Church, school, and other social philanthropic institutions were the recipients of his lienefaction . His splendid | ersonulity made him hosts of friends. T’nassum- ing. loyal, openhearted. in met men on tls level of a common humanity, and with his own hands ministered to their needs. He will Ik greatly missed in the circle of his home and friends, hut he will ever live in the minds and heart of those who came with- in the range of his influence.” Page Three

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