Chief Logan High School - Legend Yearbook (Lewistown, PA)

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,-- ' 'Q,,p'Q,,,Q,e !7s',2'53 lllIlllIAlIll Each year since the iointure of the Burnham and Derry School Districts, a greater effort has been made to ioin the students of the two schools in as many phases of their work and play as possible. Therefore we, the Senior Classes of l953, dedicate this first volume of The Legend to that spirit of co-operation which enabled the Indians and white men of old to become friends and which is today making it possible for the students of Burnham and Derry to work together and play together ina spirit of friendliness and good will. We leave our Alma Materwith the sincere hope that this spirit will continue until both schools are finally united in one new building which can offer the students of Burnham-Derry the greatest opportunities of a modern American education. .5 lg f'X U fs -49' r ,s f f- X , . xy 1 If . x ' 3 ' it E , 5 X '- i 5' Ti i ii- -

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LH ,:. S.- .3--4 li , lllIllWOI1ll Many years ago thus part of Pennsylvanua un whuch we now luve was unhabuted by Induan trubes When the whute settlers began to colonize and move farther unland these Induans and whute men after many quarrels and dusagreements learned to Iuve together as brothers and to smoke the pupe of peace As early as 1767 a new townshup, whuch embraced allofour present MufflunCounty was establushed and named Derry The name Derry typucally Scotch lrush was taken from the town and county of Londonderry un Ireland from whuch many of the settlers have come The furst record of a school un Mufflun County was the one provuded un the lower part of Derry Townshup Records show that as early as 1789 there were provusnons made for a church to be erected whuch was to be used as a school as well as a House of Wor shup Thus was on the sute of the present Presbyteruan Church un Vura Numerous other schools were establushed un Derry Townshupbetween then and 1863 when the Freedom Independent School Dustruct was formed The furst buuldung un thus dustruct was destroyed by fure A new buuldung was buuld un 1906 and deducated un 1907 In 191 1 the Burnham Borough was Incorporated and the name was changed from Freedom Independent to Burnham Borough School Dustruct By 1914 the need for a hugh school In 1937 the Freedom Buuldung was found to be unadequate and so the present Burnham Hugh School was erected The furst record ofa hugh school un Derry Townshup was around 1904 un the present Yeagertown Grade School Buuldung to whuch an annex was added un 1917 In 1937 the present Derry Hugh School Buuldung was buult to accommodate the seventh and eughth grades un addutuon to the hugh school However the populatuon of Derry Townshup has uncreased so rapudly that thus buuldung us unable to provude suffucuent opportunutues for uts many students Therefore un accordance wuth the modern trend un educatuon to create larger ed ucatuonal unuts by the lounung of smaller school dustructs on July 1, 1951 the Burnham School Dustruct and Derry Townshup School Dustruct formed a lounture known as the Burnham Derry Jount School Dustruct Although these two schools are stull operatung as two hugh schools they are provung once agaun as un the early days of our country that people who have been rivals can smoke the pupe of peace and work together un harmony Thus the Senuor Classes of Burnham-Derry bnng you the modern legend of these two schools un thus school year of 1952 and 1953 1 - x t -1- -f'cfs jQ1 -x W' MQ ., 7? - ' A ,,..V - 3: vi-,1.1T: , - n--1 T' ff- -if . . 1 . I . became apparent and the Freedom Building was constructed during the summer of 1914. ' ll . I ' . ll ' ' I 0 xg , 'Q 1 6 5 kj X 1 9 ' ,if-be M 'L 2? fr. five: gi 1,1 ' , I ep.. - M - ,, in-11 4- -i