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

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D INISTRATIO Mr. Robert J. O'Connell, principal, who gladly gives assistance to high school students and who runs his school with an understanding philosophy, looks over a student file. Mr. M. L. Taggart, assistant principal, checks the attendance of students and issues excuses to those who present valid reasons for absences. Mrs. Elizabeth Haggerty, school secretary, ef- ficiently maintains the records of students and the school and sends out all daily notices. 6

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SUPERI TE DE T YOUR YEARBOOK Now and then it seems expedient on the part of Canon Log editors to ask the superintendent of schools to write a few lines for the edition. In looking over past literary offerings in yearbooks of Canonsburg High School dating as far back as 1923, I find a Wide variety of thoughts, some highly idealistic, some down to earth, and some with a lofty poetic theme. They all seem to be worthy efforts and if read carefully, could provoke some thought. When students open their new Canon Log, they look first for their own pictures, being happy if they find it twice and still happier if some written gem of thought accompanies the picture. If the picture of some favorite boy or girl friend some- how gets into the ensemble, their happiness knows no bounds. Toward the end they look over the faculty list, beginning with the youngest and singlest, and make appropriate remarks as the spirit moves them. Fi- nally they get to the pictures of the school board and superintendent. Opening his yearbook, the superintendent does exactly the same things, too, beginning at the first page where he may find his picture, if lucky. He studies said picture with a critical if not admiring eye, marveling meanwhile at the genius of the pho- tographer in retouching lines and depressions at strategic points. He reads his own brochure and reflects that it looks well in print and might be worse in content. Then follows an hour of pleasant perusal be- ginning with the pictures of a gradually maturing faculty of which the superintendent was once a part, from there to that galaxy of beauty and manly strength, the seniors, and then down through the lesser lights. All get an approving glance, and he winds up with the patrons and friends who helped in a substantial way to put the book across. Truly, a wonderful institution, the Canon Log Yearbook, Treasure it, for in years to come it will become a memory storehouse of the past.

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IIE LTII Miss Mary Anthony, school nurse, keeps rec- ords of the health of students and is ever ready to render first aid in cases of emergency. Mrs. Evelyn Pratten assists Dr. John Kelso as he gives a medical examination to a freshman boy, Ronald Dagg. Dr. William Donaldson is assisted hy Miss Ei- leen Buckley, dental hygienist, as he checks the teeth of a freshman boy. 7