Cooper Township High School - Coopernian Yearbook (Winburne, PA)

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wi C0 QPERNI AN I957 AND I958 PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR AND JUNIOR CLASSES OF COOPER TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL

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YEARS AT COOPER Cooper Township in 1905 was in a prosperous condition. It contained three flourishing mining towns: Peale, Grassflat, and Winburne. There were also Kylertown and Drifting, which were older and quieter communities, and several smaller settlements. Each one had its own school, many of them a single room Signs of the good times in Winburne were the recent establishment of the bank and the water com- pany, along with the beginning of trolley service to Philipsburg. Winburne already had a large grade school housed in an eleven-room red-brick building. Now the decision was made to increase the educa- tion available by adding a three-year high school course. Thus began Winburne High School. At first Mr. John E. Clark, the supervising principal, was the only teacher, and the high school occupied one room. In 1908 the first commencement was held in honor of one graduate, Vogan Buzzard. The Class of 1909 likewise had only one member, Orvis Howe. Three were graduated in 1910, eight in 1911. Soon a second faculty member was added, with the enrollment steadily increasing. HIGH SCHOOL MOVED TO CROSSROADS Pupils from all over the township, some of whom walked six or seven miles, continued to come to Winburne to high school until 1918. ln that year the new high school pictured here was built at the cross- roads. That year also marked the extension of the course to four years and the addition of a third teacher. Disaster struck the growing young C,T,H,S, in February, 1923, when fire destroyed the high school building and its contents, including all records of graduates up to that time. The high school moved to Kylertown, where the grade school pupils moved out into churches to make room. Being displaced per- sons did not end student activities, however, for it was during that exile that the first Cotohisc was pub lished, inSeptember, 1923. What must have been Cooper's second football team played a full schedule that fall, too. NEW BUILDING DEDICATED On January 2, 1924, the present high school building was dedicated. An elaborate program featured talks by several local residents and County Superintendent W, P. T rostle, as well as songs in Swedish, German, Slovak, and English, sung by students of these backgrounds.