Indiana High School - L Indien Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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Mrs. Florence Barbi, Stenographer. Mrs, Marion Bath, secretary to the Board of Education and to the Superintendent. schools at a high level. Last year's evaluation by the Middle States Associa- tion of Schools and Colleges shows that lndiana High School is superior to 79722 of all accredited schools throughout the nation. lndiana's elementary schools are recognized as among the very best. The superintendent, who is a commissioned officer of the state, is respon- sible for carrying out the policies of the Board and for administering the affairs of the schools. The Board and Superintendent believe that the safety and growth of our nation, and the welfare of all people everywhere, is dependent upon the charac- ter and enlightenment of the coming generation. Space permits picturing only few typical areas of the iany responsibilities of the :hool administration. Top left: tudent Teacher Elgin teach- ig in Mr. Craig SWauger's leventh-year English class. op right: a group in the chool cafeteria enjoying a ealthful meal. Lower left: idustrial Arts students re- airing hundreds of toys for Zhristmas distribution by the ions Service Club. Lower ght: Mr. Carnahan and Mr. awry of the maintenance staff n a repair job. ll iv,

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The Board of Education: left to right-Mr. Dwight Bay, Mr. William Peters, Mr. Andrew Stahura, Superintendent Edgar Perry, Mr. Earl Morton, Mr, Russell Guard, Mr. Harry McConn,and Dr. W. F. Weitzel, President. The Board and Superintendent lt is the responsibility of the Board and Superintendent to provide the children of the community with the best schools it can afford, a job which they execute exceptionally well. Members of the Board give many hours of their time to the business of arranging for proper financial support of the schools, to maintaining and developing the school plant, to improving the curriculum, and to the establishment of poli- cies that will provide for efficiency and growth throughout the school system. These men know how important a task it is to prepare the next generation for productive and intelligent citizen- ship, and despite rising costs, delays in procur- ing supplies, equipment, and materials, they have maintained the efficiency of the Indiana vania State College: M. A., University of Pennsyl- vania. Mr. Perry is completing his work for the Doc- tor of Philosophy degree at the University of Pitts- burgh. He is a member of Phi Delta Kappa honorary education fraternity, Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Association of District Superintendents, and Edi- tor of their publication, Super News . 10 Superintendent Edgar C. Perry, B. S., Pennsyl-

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Principal lesse Lubold, B. S., and M. A., Sus- quehanna University, -Graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Pittsburgh. Assistant Principal Lambert Ioseph, A. B., Bucknell Universityp M. A., University of West Vir- ginia, Graduate Work at Pennsylvania State Col- lege and Chicago University. Left shows a conference on agriculture as a vocation during the Career Day session for sen- iors sponsored by the guidance department and Kiwanis Club. Oiiice oi the Principal Year after year the principal's office is con- cerned With the development and regulation of all school life. Every year the administrators foster a new interest in the welfare of students at all times. They are concerned about social and scholastic adjustments in school, at home, or uptown. This is an extremely difficult aim because Indiana l-ligh is a fairly large progres- sive school of twelve hundred students. ,vue The guiding principles of the administra- tion office have been responsible for making our school more unified. The principal, his assistants, and a faculty of professional teach- ers have developed a curriculum, a guidance program, and a calendar of school activities which are designed to make students grow in mind, body, spirit, and personality. The effective school plan is responsible for the enviable record that Indiana High graduates have made in many schools. Graduates have won many scholarships and scholastic honors.