Hanover High School - Nornir Yearbook (Hanover, PA)

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RETIRING SUPERINTENDENTS MESSAGE You members of the class of 1948 may have wondered at times whether the time that you were spending in school was being used in the most profitable manner. You have probably observed that some of your former school associates who have left school after gaining a limited knowledge of the fundamental school subjects, are apparently making a monetary living and are hav- ing money to spend for passing pleasures which you have had to forego in order to complete your high school education. I congratulate you on the wisdom of your decision to complete your high school education and l extend to you my very best wishes for your continued progress and suc- cess, whether in institutions of higher learning or in any productive enterprise into which you may be about to enter. Present world conditions demand the finest traits of character and habits of citizenship which you can develop within yourself with the benefits of finest train- ing which you can secure. R. A, Bagshaw. SUPERINTENDENTS MESSAGE This graduation may be the first great accomplishment in the lives of many of you, the one long task to which you can say, l have done that Well. Each year from now on, will bring other opportunities for just as much satisfaction and happiness, if you meet them with the same spirit as you met your school tasks. The goal of eighteen years of your life Was graduation from High School. You are now equipped to begin a life for which you have to set your own goal. Make it as worth while an-d as definite as your school career has been, and you will find many happy graduatio,ns in all your coming years. Dr. Karl Bohren. PRINCIPAL S MESSAGE Every senior class carries forth from our high school the best wishes of the entire faculty for a successful, useful and happy future. Not all of you are going to be leaders. To produce a leader of ten million followers, it requires twenty thou- sand high schools and a hundred thousand graduating classes. However, we trust and we believe that the majority, in tact, nearly everyone of you, because of your rearing in this fine community and because of your education in the free public school system of your home town, will be found on the right and truthful si-de of any issue. R. W. Gray. 8

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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

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FACULTY M. PEARL BLETTNER Gettysburg College B.S., Penn State M.Ed., History Dancing Club Adviser BARRY BRAMMER University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute of Tech- nology, Director Voc. Ed. and Drafting, Future Craftsmen Club Adviser FRANCES K. BRUBAKER Hood College A.B., University of Pennsylvania, Problems of Democracy, Student Council Adviser RICHARD H. BRUBAKER Muhlenberg College A.B., Penn State and U. of P., English, Geometry, Bookkeeping, Acting Super- intendent, Faculty Manager of Athletics ERLE K. DIEHL Gettysburg A.B., Problems of Democracy, Student Council Adviser SAHAH R. DIEHL Gettysburg A.B., English, ll, Ill, V, Home Nursing Club Adviser MURIEL R. EVERHART Penn State B.S., Home Economics, F. H. A. Adviser HENRIETTA K. FLICKINGER Millersville S. T. College M.E., Susquehanna University A.B., Algebra I, ll, Business Math, History, Knitting Club Adviser RAY W. GRAY Penn State, M.A., Wabash College, Principal HAROLD S. GRUVER Gettysburg College A.B., Penn State, French I, Il, English, Latin ll, lll, Press Club Adviser, Orange and Black Adviser 9