Downingtown High School - Our Year Cuckoo Yearbook (Downingtown, PA)

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The cornerstone of the present building of the Downingtown Junior-Senior High School was laid September 17, 1932, on land which was purchased from W. I. Pollock. The Directors at the time this new school building was erected were as follows: Ernest Smedley, President G. Elliot Perry. Vice-President N. Leland Wilson, Secretary Thomas W. Downing. Treasurer Belle M. Hutchison Graham H. Bentley Floyd C. Fretz was the principal at this time, working with a staff of forty-two teachers. The entire enrollment of pupils in the three schools was one-thousand-three hundred, and the number in the Senior class was more than seventy. Since then the enrollment of the schools has rapidly increased. This rapid increase of pupil population has caused quite a problem, so in order to accomodate the extra pupils that are coming from the Townships, the board considered consolidation. At the November election in 1949 the borough and townships voted, and consolidation was adopted. Thus a Joint Board has been formed, and a larger building is in the process. The townships belonging to this Joint Board are: West Bradford. East Bradford, East Cain, Wallace, Upper Uwchland, Uwchland, and the Downingtown Borough. Later West Pikeland voted to join the others. Although this district has two members sitting in at the meetings, she will not become an active member until 1951. The officers of this Joint Board are: Mr. George Nixdorf, President Mrs. Edwin Baldwin, Vice President Mrs. Alice Ezrah. Secretary Mr. Howard Baldwin, Treasurer Mr. Theodore Rogers, Solicitor Work on a new wing to the present Junior-Senior High School Building has now been started and is expected to be finished sometime during the 1951-52 school year. We, the class of 1951, wish to thank Mr. Charles Emery, Supervising Principal, and Mr. Samuel Evans, Principal, for their untiring efforts to make our school a successful one.

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This year the theme for our Cuckoo is the students of Downingtown High School since they have such an important part in making the school what it is today. Without students who aspire to success in the fields of scholarship, leadership, and sports, our school could not maintain the fine reputation it holds today among other schools. As the pupils leave high school, they will carry with them the knowledge they have gained, the talents they have begun to develop, and many memories of their associations. In this way Downingtown High School will play its part in shaping the future of the world.

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For your untiring efforts to make D. H. S. a better place in which to live, for your ability to “stick in there pitching when the going was pretty rough for your effort to be a friend to everyone who has had the pleasure of working with you. for your talent of doing so much with so little, for all this and so much more, to you, we dedicate this, our 1951 Cuckoo, with all it means to us. With all the sincerity wfe can find in our hearts, thanks Mr. Irwin..........we will never forget you.