Hanover High School - Nornir Yearbook (Hanover, PA)

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..s-.sw x i . l S ,... .-. ,., mm Leif to Right: Guy R. Goodfellow, Vice President, 'Henry M. Bollinger, Sccretay, Clyde H, Zart- man, C. Homer Meredith, Reuben W. Snyder, Wilson M. Naceg 'Dr Karl Bohren, Superintendent Lawrence B. Sheppard, Presidentg Harry Mi Folm er, 'Robert M. Laird, Solicitor. 'Non-Members BOARD OF EDUCATION Our Board of Education of the Hanover Borough School District is com- posed of seven members elected by the voters of Hanover. These members, some of whom have been teachers, are all successful men of our community. The work of the Board is conducted in the American Way, the democratic Way. Important issues are presented to the proper committees for advice and recommendations. The members, after careful consideration, present the results for final action to the Whole Board. The paramount problems of the Board of Education arefchoosing and observing personnel, taking care of the finances of the school system, and providing equipment and materials necessary for the adequate and proper education of the children of Hanover. The Board holds regular meetings which are open to the public, and they give decisions of satisfaction to all concerned Whenever possible. 6

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PRESENTATION OF ATHLETIC FIELD TO DISTRICT C Myers, H. Sheppard, L, Sheppard, H. Bollinger. November 25th, 1947, will be long remembered in Hanover as the beginning of an extensive program for the promotion of physical education and recreation. It was a special meeting in the morning of this day that a tract of land containing approximately l5 acres facing on McAllister Street, Wirt Avenue, and Iohn Street in Penn Township was presented to the school district by H. D. Sheppard, C. N. Myers and L. B, Sheppard, the plot being form-erly owned by the Hanover Shoe Farms. In presenting the deed, Mr. H. D, Sheppard said For a long time my associates and myself have had in mind building an athletic field for Hanover for the promotion of physical education, and we feel now is the time when the school district shoul.d be doing something about it. We have gotten together and decided to give it to you. Here is the deed to about 15 acres of land which, we believer is ideally situ- ated for your purposes. Mr. C. N. Myers, representing the Clinton N. Myers Foundation Inc., then gave Secretary Bollinger a letter and a Sl5,000 check after which Attorney Robert M. Laird, secretary of the Lawrence B. Sheppard Foundation Inc., presented a similar letter and check for 515,000 to the secretary. The letters were identical, as follows: We herewith tender to the School District of the Borough of Hanover, Pa., as a gift the en- closed check by the undersigned Corporation. The gift is made without conditions or qualification. lt is the hope of the donor organization and of its officers that the District will use the fund for the furtherance of the physical education phase of its program, and if the District elects to so use the fund, we hope that we may as your plans progress, make further contributions to such project. At a later meeting the Hanover Elks Club pledged 535,000 to be paid at the rate of 331,000 a year. On December 2nd the Advisory Committee of Citizens appointed made a report of a preliminary survey and outlined the possibilities of a football stadium, club house and gymnasium, baseball field, and tennis courts. Then on December 24, 1947, Mr. L. B. Sheppard, President of the Hanover Shoe Inc., agreeably sur- prised the School Board by making a magnificent gift of HIl00,000 to be used for the promotion of the physical education and recreational program of the district for the benefit of its citizens. 7