Canonsburg High School - Canon Log Yearbook (Canonsburg, PA)

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FACULTY Mr. Francis P. Comer . . . Music Supervisor . . . Girls' Chorus. Mr. Charles Decker . . . Machine Shop. Miss Margaret Dickson . . . Problems of Democracy . . . Assistant Librarian . . . Sophomore Class Adviser. Mr. Alfred DeLucia . . . Commercial Subjects . . . Foot- ball Coach . . . Baseball Coach. Mr. Carl Disibio . . . English lll . . . Spanish . . Faculty Manager of Athletics. Mr. Quincy DiYenno . . . English Il . . . junior Varsity Basketball Coach. Miss Elizabeth Finley . . . Home Economics Il . . . Beta Tri-l'li-Y Club Adviser. Miss Mary L. Griffith . . . English lll . . . English l . . . Economic Geography . . . Yearbook Adviser. The thirteen women and fourteen men who compose the faculty of Canonsburg High School have been the teachers, advisers, and friends of the Nineteen Forty-Niners. It has been their task to help prepare future citizens to take their places courageously in a still pioneering and forward-looking world, a world of new freedoms, new tasks, and new opportunities. 'Tis education forms the common mind: just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. -12..

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M. L. Taggart Assistant Principal To get the gold in them thar hills, the Forty-Niners' of a century ago needed little material equipment except a pick, a pan, and a grubstake, but they did need a spirit of per- sistence, perseverance, patience, determination, and a strong physique to attain their quest. Out of the experience of the Forty-Nin- ers and the pioneers of other eras of our national history, we have forged an American Character that is optimistic, experimental, prac- tical, intelligent, mature, democratic, and in- dividualistic. The Nineteen Forty-Niners find their ma- terial equipment vastly changed. They have traded their Conestogas for Diesels and the pick and pan for automatic machines and scientific laboratories. The qualities of spirit, however, that took the Eighteen Forty-Ninersu across the plains will be the same qualities that will put the Nineteen Forty-Niners out in the lead in building the better America of the future. The great question is not what age you live in, but what perfection you achieve under the circum- stances. Robert J. 0'Conne!l Principal To many of the Forty-Ninersn the quest for gold was only an excuse for the pursuit of adventure. The group included farmers, labor- ers, gamblers, business men, some tradesmen even a few doctors and lawyers. What they all had in common was the desire for adventure. There were few conservatives among them. They were willing to risk everything to commit themselves to a course of action from which they could not turn back. Thev were all ener- getic and unafraid of the hardships that lay cn the other side of the Sierra Nevadas. It is this daring do spirit that we admire in the Forty- Ninersf' The theme, Forty-Ninersf' is appropri- ate for this yearbook only to the extent to which the bold adventurous spirit of those illustrious seekers after gold is exemplified in present willingness to sacrifice comfort and pleasures in order to attain a future worth- while goal. -11-

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1949 Mrs. Marguerite Hiles . . . English l . . . Latin . . . Gunner Gazette Adviser. Mrs. Jean Huggins . . . Algebra . . . General Math . . . English l . . . Dramatic Club Adviser. Miss Ina M. Hoch . . . English lll . . . Guidance . Librarian . . . Junior Class Adviser. Miss Josephine Laib . . . Home Economics l . . . Gen- eral Science . . . Ellen H. Richards Club Adviser. Mrs. Helen Mathia Yanchak . . . Secretary. Miss Martha M. McNary . . . Algebra . . . Geometry . . . Trigonometry . . . Applied Mathematics. 6 ,.:,.,..: , .., Miss Mariana Mehaifey . . . English I . . . History . . Assistant Librarian . . . Freshman Class Adviser . . . Home Room Council Adviser. Mr. John N. Neal . . . Industrial Arts . . . Hi-Y Club Adviser. f The members of the faculty are indeed busy people. Their duties include planning, directing, and evaluating classroom studies: keeping records for the school ofiiceg directing and coaching sports: directing plays, home room programs, and talent programs: overseeing club meetingsg advising school publicationsg managing magazine salesg attending and chaperoning social activ- ities: sitting side by side and eating with the boys and girls at weiner roasts, parties, and banquets: and offering guidance and counsel that pupils may lead happy, contented, and useful lives. ...13,