Carnegie High School - Voyager Yearbook (Carnegie, PA)

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l IN MEMORIAM Ocrosizu 8, 1879-MARCH 9, 1937 He was twice as big as he seemed gn They lowered him flown in the earth, And there in the sunset light They scattered flowers over his grave, As meaning to say, Good-night. R. FDVVARD KNARR zXI.FRED Novus. .XL'lil,'S'l' 4, 189-lfNlA1:c'll 3, 1937 Oh, leave not, forever and forever forsaken, Your pupils and vietions to life and its tears! But sometimes return, and in mercy awaken The values you taught to their earlier years. l XVILLIAM C. BRYANT. IDA F. L.-XUl3I,l

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IN APPRECIATION R. Edward Knarr, the only son of David S. and Caroline Knarr, was born in a log house in Bloom Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, on October 8, 1879. With his five sisters he attended elementary schools in Du Bois. He was graduated from Du Bois High School in 1899, and entered Thiel College at Greenville, Pa., in the fall of the same year. He transferred, however, to VVit- tenberg College at Springfield, Ohio, when Thiel burned. He had learned the painters trade when fifteen years old, and his trade enabled him to pay all his own college expenses. He was graduated from Wittenberg in 1904. After teaching a country school for a year, he became VVard Principal in Du Bois where he served for two years. He married Miss Blanche VVonstettler of Scenery Hill, Washington County in 1907, and they went to live in Beallsville where Mr. Knarr had been made Principal of Beallsville High School. He con- tinued his service in Beallsville until 1918 when he became principal of North Belle Vernon Public Schools. ln 1919 he was elected Principal at Burgettstown where he was employed when Mrs. Knarr died in 1923. He was made Principal of Carnegie High School in 1926 and soon became a well known and respected figure in our midst. He came to guide our high school at a time of change and readjustment. His open mind and conservative judgment peculiarly fitted him to act with unusual caution while he made the adjustments necessary because of doubled enrollment. additional courses, and changing standards. He was always deliberate and sure. VVe have profited by his deliberation and sureness. The community viewed with increasing alarm his failing health during this his eleventh year of service in our high school. On March 9, 1937, he died in Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa. He is survived by his two sons: James, a graduate of Pennsylvania State College, who was recently elected to the faculty of Carnegie High School, and Weidner, who has just been graduated from Washington and Jefferson College. Many friends mourn his passing, and the students and associated teachers of Carnegie High School lament the loss of an esteemed friend, counselor, and leader. His influence will be felt in the lives of many boys and girls for a long time. His was a leadership, open and sympathetic to which his associates were happy to be loyal. It was leadership born of character rather than expediency or bleak achievement. All success that crowned his efforts came as the result of his patience, justice, kindness, and wisdom. We shall always carry in our hearts the memory of his graceful generosity, his rare modesty, his native affa- bility, his unbiased and sure judgment, his fine interest in boys and girls, which enabled him to understand their point of view and to ease situations when rela- tions became disturbed or tense. To us whose privilege it was to share his work day after day for nearly eleven years, the value of his service lies more in what he was than in what he did. He was entirely clear and honest in the performance of his duties. He exercised his powers so meekly that many did not realize the length and breadth of his iniiuence while he moved among us. When his passing brought our busy routine to a pause, we became conscious that in him we had had an ideal. He never destroyed that ideal. It still remains. He never used his faculties for ornament, self-gratification or aggrandize- ment, but rather for developing in others powers worth having. In this he was exemplary of The Great Teacher in whose eternal fellowship he now more intimately abides. EFFIE A. NIILLIRIEN.