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THE ECHO Of BROOKVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1955 BROOKVILLE, l PENNSYLVANIA
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ALMA MATER We sing to Brookville High School, The high school on the hill, The name that spurs us onward And makes our senses thrill. Hail! We’ll never forget our classmates, Our happy high school years; We raise our voice in hearty cheer To the school each one reveres. We pray that time will greet us As ever kind and strong; Forever we’ll be loyal And sing our joyful song. Hail! When from the field we wander. When youth has passed us by. E’en then with fleeting breath We ll praise our dear old Brookville High.
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FOREWORD As the 1955 Echo goes to press, plans for the Jefferson County Sesquieentennial are under way. Everyone is showing signs of excitement; there is discussion of contacting former residents, selecting a queen, perhaps a pageant, and even more tangible evidence in the form of beards, goatees, sideburns, and moustaches to make the 1955’ers resemble their pioneer ancestors. We in school cannot help but glance back over the years to see the almost miraculous changes that one hundred and fifty years have brought to education here. The year 1804 showed one school in this area, a cnide log building with seats of split logs, greased paper for windows, and an open fireplace. It was located on the land now belonging to the County Home Farm. 1806—another school between Port Barnett and Brookville. 1837—a school in Brookville. The Act of 1809 provided education for children aged five to twelve whose parents could not afford education. 1834—Public School Law provides free education. School term —three months. 1856—the first county institute. Civil War—a trend toward schools of more than one room. 1864 — average teacher’s salary — $96.51 yearly. 1869—5,395 pupils in Jefferson County. 1900—12,518 pupils in school. 1930— increasing trend toward consolidation. The schools that we have known are a far cry from that early log cabin with the greased paper windows. No doubt the next one hundred and fiftv years will change the things we know as radically as the past changed the pioneers’ school. Is the dream of free colleges too far ahead? Maybe just a new junior-senior high school is vision enough. 2
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