Hazleton High School - Janus Yearbook (Hazleton, PA)

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Zine Qeau . . . ug 4. gs 81 3 Q 3 li 3. 1, ag fi 4 ' ,Qi Q 2 5 Vine Street High School BuildingmErected in 1912 f of u of .ef gif' 0 -' r 'B We 'S i The Pine Street School, which was erected in 1873, served as the first high school from 1876 to 1893. A. P. Supplee was the first high school principal. The principals who served in this building besides A. P. Supplee were: D. A. Harman, G. N. Vannauker, Frank Nuss, T. B. Harrison, G. K. Musselman, P. A. Gitz, Peter J. Gough, and Lewis B. Bierly, In 1893 a new high school was erected at Laurel and Green Streets, now known as the Harry F. Grebey Junior High School. The principal at this time was Lewis B. Bierly, who served until 1898. One other principal who served in this school was J. Donald Geist. This school remained the Hazleton Senior High School for nineteen years. The third high school in the history of Hazleton was the one erected in 1912 on Vine Street. J. Donald Geist was still principal when this was built, and his successors were A. D. Thomas, Ward J. D. Jordan, and Leon High. This building is used today as a junior high school. 7 X

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cf' 10 XM . J ' 'L - .Pic t W, w '11 gif X G r ix if U, r , . I W 1 V . 1 . my M X ibn. 1 ' ' I mi 3 f I fl, ,v X, Q, ' l ' fs 1 X 1 s x X, x f In September, 1928, Hazleton's million dollar Se- nior High School was dedicated and replaced the Vine Street building as a high school. The cost of construction was S1,114,378.77. The building, constructed because of the increasing population of the city, ranks among the finest school buildings in the state of Pennsylvania. In 1928, Mr. Leon High, who had been principal from the year 1926, resigned, and G. W. Davis took over the principalship. Mr. G. W. Davis served for ten years, when S. P. Turnbach became principal. At this time Mr. Bruce Lamont, our present principal, served as vice- principal. When Mr. Turnbach resigned in September 1945, Mr. Lamont became principalg Mr. George Shanno receiving the post of vice-principal. Contrasting the faculty figures, we find that in 1928 the New Senior High School had a faculty staff of thirty- two teachers. The 1950-'51 faculty of the High School consists of seventy-four instructors. Through the years from 1928 to 1950 there have been various improvements in the High School, one of the most important being the Vocational School. The Vocational School was organized in the year 1918 at the Green Street Building, as a pre-vocational course. This course included the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth grades. At this time vocational students were entirely separated from the Senior High School, graduat- ing after completing the tenth grade. In 1926 the voca- tional school was moved from the Green Street building to a location on Holly Street, where it functioned in the same respect as it did the preceeding years at Green Street. In 1941 the pre-vocational course was dropped completely, and the present vocational school, as we now