Jenner Boswell Joint High School - Rex Collium Yearbook (Boswell, PA)

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It is a rare privilege to serve one community for a consecutive period of 25 years. The success of such an undertaking calls for acknowledgement to the many teachers, members of the school board, patrons of the community, as well as to the many contacts to other high schools of the country. We are proud to give these groups due consideration for all the splendid cooperation manifested throughout these years of growth and development of the school. Our success is tied into the history of the school as other people helped to make it successful. Guiding an institution in its growth and development is like guiding an individual. lt is easy to point out material progress. Buildings, beautiful surroundings, physical equipment speak for themselves, but a school system is not iust a physical plant. The real school is ya spirit that animates -a spirit that permeates the faculty, the student body, graduates out in the fox holes, and the one who administers. It is the sum total of its service to youth. I believe it is the cumulative effect of good teaching, good contact between pupils and teachers, between teachers, and between teachers and the head of schools. We measure success in gaining opportunities for children to grow in stature of body, mind, and soul. This. phase of the work was difficult to master because the community was divided in its loyalty. Some of the students went to other schools and became loyal to those schools. It is however a spiritual fact that can not be reduced to figures and diagrams. Boswell schools have made progress during this quarter of a century. Many teachers re- mained here during these years. The high school has grown from 45 pupils in T920 to 430 in the I930's. The number of graduates increased from 4 in i914 to 88 in 1936. There are over 1,250 alumni from the school and 390 of these served in the Armed Forces. The curricula included only academic at first but gradually increased its offering to Art, Music, Com- mercial, Vocational and Industrial -Arts. The high school building was occupied in Janaary 1924 and was erected at a first cost of flS5l,000.00. Three additions were made at.a cost of 534,000.00 making the total cost now 585,000.00 with another 525,000.00 of equipment. The grade building has been remodeled and redecorated from basement to roof. All of this has been accomplished by a small community and the financial aid of the State Council of Education and the Works Progress Administration. 0 Since Boswell took the initiative in providing equal opportunities for the students of this attendance area and made the financial struggle to keep Boswell schools at a high standard of efficiency, we take this opportunity to thank our citizens for their willingness to pay 25 mills tax for school purposes. We feel proud that the remaining bonds are only 559,000.00 It is our hope that the next step will bring a Joint School and the whole area will find it possible to build additional buildings and facilities to cope with the best schools of this county. We have maintained a high standard of work through this World War ll period. Teachers have remained on the iob and students have remained loyal to the school program in spite of A-A-A-A-AL,-AA L- MAL ,ALY NYJ YY Y I. r 1. 1 in f . . .

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1 DEDICATICN: Jef 2 To H. B. Speicher in appreciation of his twenty-five years of service as Supervising Principal of Boswell Borough Schools, we dedicate this, the 1946 issue of Rea: Collium.

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mgintain our enrollment during these hard years. Now that the War is over and peace is in the making we need new courage and new determination to move on to the. goal ot higher achieve- ment. We want to encourage teachers and students to maintain high standards even though rewards may not seem so promising and say with the unknown author: Earth gets its price for what earth gives us. For a cap and bells, our lives we pay, The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in. Bubbles we buy, with a whole soul's tasking. The priest has his tee, who comes to shrive us. It is only heaven that is given away, We barter tor the graves we lie in. It is only God can be had - tor the asking! In the devil's book all things are sold, No price is set on the lavish summer, Each ounce ot dross costs its ounce ot gold. June can be had by the poorest comer. H. B. SPEICHER, Supervising Principal. We wish also to honor Mrs. Speicher tor her unseltish devotion and patronage to all school activities. Always ready to help, always willing to help, surely a friend Boswell High School is proud to list among her patrons. Such a friend, I say, and my tale is told, l wouldn't change for her weight in gold!