Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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135. '-s M -XRY lN EXVLIN Clalrton Hugh School fMary Newhnj Personnel worker one of Indlana s first wom an pubhc Off1CC holders teacher Mary Newlln has had a varxed career smce the sprlng of 1907 when she was one of Clalrton I-Ilgh School s first four graduates Her fam1ly left Clalrton for Gary Indlana soon after her graduatlon Smce a hlgh school dlploma was l1cense enough to teach IH those days Mary dld teach for a year before she entered nearby Valpalalso UDINCYSIIY After w1nn1ng her degree there she taught ag11n for two years ln Gary It was an lnterest IH p0l1IlCS that ended her teaching career and wh1ch after several years ln mmor Jobs resulted 1n her bemg the first woman 1n Indlana ever elected to the OHICC of TOWHSh1P Trustee a posltlon she held for elght years Xfary Newlln s next and final move was lnto personnel work The Bear Brand Hoslery Com pany his 1 large Gary plant and for the past twenty two years she has been 1ts Employment Manager and Personnel Drrector For fifty years Mary Newlm has given her capable and des oted se1v1ce to educatlon to government and to lndustry long and what must certamly have been a gratlfymg l1fe s career CLASS OF 1907: back row-Mr. J. MCI-ilroy, music teacherg Mr. P. F. Beatty, teacher: Emma Briner, Mr. E. H. Knoch, principzxlg front row-Mary Newlin. Austin Cort, Rose Colcord.

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Graduates of I9O Dr Cort A doctors OHICC was tl1e settlng for tl1e first 1neet1ng ol Llnrtons hrst School Board and th 1t ofhct belonged to tl1e father ot Xusun Cort who w1s to be the only boy 111 Clinton Hlsll School s Hrst graduatlng class and the o11ly o11e of the fOll1 gl lduttes who has devoted lns llle CXClLISlVCly to SCTVICC 111 111s l1OI'YlCIOW'I1 C-l1OOSlIlg to follow 111s fathers IJlOfCSS10Il XLPSIIH COII took h1s b lC,l1LlO1fS degree 1n pre 1ned1c1ne IH 1911 II tl1e UIIIVCFSIIY of P1UlSlDLlI'gll and recexved h1s NI D thexe ln 1914 He served h1s 1I1tCfI1CShlP at the Xllegheny General Hos p1tal The new Dr Cort practlced IH Clalrton untll 1918 when l1e jo1ned the army After takmg a speclahzed course 1n orthoped1cs w1th Dr Davld Sllvers tl1e ASSISIHHI Surgeon General, he served for a year and a half 111th the Amer1can forces 111 France He was able to resume h1s general pracuce 111 Cla1rton 1n 1919 and has COI'lIl1'll1Cd w1th 1t up to the present day 1n h1s ofhce 1n the XV1lson d1str1ct In 1920 Dr Cort marr1ed Caralena Gold strohm a teacher 1n the ClH1ftOI1 Schools who was later to COHIIIIUC the Cort famlly trad1t1onal 1nterest 111 the schools by servmg on and bemg pres1dent a11d stuctary ol the c,1l3lI't0Il School Board Dr and Mrs Cort hue uaxeled extenswely 111 the UI1ltCd States 1nd abroad and now spend much ol the1r t11ne at tl1e1r second home on TIOHCSIA Creek 1n northe1n Pennsylvan1a COXIMISSIONLD as .1 hrst heutenant Dr Cort poses proudly tn h1s XVor1d War I LlI1lf0l'lll before leavmg for France AUSTIN COR I' 4

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Graduates of I907 'Iwenty two years after her own graduatlon as one of the first four rn 1907 Emma Brrner Barrett no doubt wrth great prrde watched her oldest son Brmer receue h1s dlploma from Clalr ton Hrgh School wlth the class of 1929 He had been 1 leader 111 m my school 1ct1v1t1es and w is graduatrng as the vlce presxdent of l1lS class Emma Brlner too had moxed from Cl2ll1'IOl1 soon after her gl lduatxon In YVoodlawn Penn sylvanm 111 1910 she marrled Gordon Barrett Vvhen Brrner was born they were l1v1ng Braddock but shortly afterwards moved back to Clanton Emma soon found herself the center of a busy household she and Gordon had SIX more cluldren Dorrs Lawrence Florence Charles Betty and udson all Clalrton Hlgh graduates except udson w ho dred at the age ol found trme to teach Grades 5 6 1 and 8 at the New England Hollow School Her full lrfe was to be a short one howexer After an xllness Emma Barrett dred anuary 24 1938 Her husbands death occurred the next year on March 16 Thelr famrly has SIDCC scat tered to many parts of the Unrted States Charles IS the only one l1V1Hg rn the P1tfSbllI'gl1 dlstrlct -Xlthough Emma Barrett w1ll not be present thrs une for the Golden Annu ersary of her gradua tlon she w1ll surely be 111 exeryones thoughts and share equally IH the trrbute berng pa1d her class gn- W EMNIX Ql- BRIWER B XRRETT k POSINIG for a family porlrut are Nlr and Nlrs Cordon Barrett w1tl1 thelr oldest son Brlner who later proved to be 1 popular le xder 111 hls 1999 Clurton High School class . Y - Y f V . , v' L l , V Y z . ' 2 2 ' ' ' 'z J ' ' f V2 ' . , - ,L I 4 C I C - C . V y V . . in . Q-t ' I . Y J Y W 1 7 ' J 1 97' W -1 J , r ' 1 five. Even YVl1llC rearmg so large a famlly, Emma 9 I I I F-J VL 7 ' Y v y , . . I . , . J , , I C 7 h A 1 A ' A A A , J A ' f . , Y. . Y , .I Q ,259 ' 1 ,al 1 aa , ' 24 1 ,. 1 . 1 . '