Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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EEE? EEDEEIEEE E THE NATIONALITIES REPRESENTED IN THE JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL HELEN Norms According to the last official census for the United States, approximately fifty per cent of the people in Johnstown are foreign-born or children of foreign-born parents. About fourteen per cent of the people come from foreign countries. Be- cause this is true, it is natural that this should be reflected in the enrollment of our school, where there are thirty-one nationalities represented in a student body of 1236. The parents of seventy per cent of the students were born in the United States. Twenty-four per cent of the students have foreign-born parents. Six per cent of the parents were born in a foreign country. Twenty-two students have parents who were born abroad, but of different nationalities. Of the students in the high school whose parents were both born in foreign coun- tries, sixty per cent are represented as from the Southern European Czecho-Slovakian group, while twenty per cent come from Italy, and eight per cent from Germany. These figures parallel those of the United States immigration figures for the past twenty years. Boys and girls of German, Italian, and Slovak ancestry make up approximately one half of the enrollment of the school with the Southern European nationalities in the lead. Fifty-five per cent of the parents of the pupils born in the United States are listed as of American descent. Most of the remaining forty-Hve per cent are listed as German, Italian, Slovak, Hungarian, English, and Polish nationalities, in the or- der named. In the graduating class of 1933, the greatest foreign representation is found in the German nationality, eighty students being listed as of German ancestry. Other prominent nationalities are English, Irish, Italian, and Dutch. Of the twelve students in our high school who were born in foreign countries, six are among the graduates. These students come from Russia, Poland, Hungary, Canada, and Germany. The remaining foreign-born students come from Syria, Wales, England, and Czechoslovakia. Of these countries Canada, Russia, and England each have contributed two students. While a large number of the leaders in the school are so-called pure American, some of the most active members of school clubs and leaders in school work are child- ren of foreign-born parents. This is evidenced in scholarship, many foreign-born pupils or descendants of foreign-born parents ranking high. The honor rolls of the graduating classes for the past four years show that boys and girls of Germany, Sy- rian, Italian, and English nationalities have most often held the highest honors. A consideration of the musical organizations revealed interesting facts. The Johnstown High School Band may well be called a big German Band, for about thirty per cent of the members of the organization are of German nationality or Ger- l9l