Lansdowne High School - Lahian Yearbook (Lansdowne, PA)

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Our first school colors were lavender :vi BARBARA LoNr.Ac1uQ, in the place of Miss Groce, uses the old hand bell to call the pupils of the gay '9o's to school. College Scholarship Fund of Lans- downe Higl1 School which was the first fund of its kind in Pennsylvania. Tl1e Fund provided free tuition to an in- stitution of higher learning for a 111em- ber of the graduating class, selected by the school board. It is interesting to l f n yedferclay 4 cuafoma and gold, but they were changed to garnet and gray before 1910. The orig- inal colors can be explained by the fact tl1at the high school was at one time a branch of the Upper Darby School System. Our high school ath- note that fro111 its origin I, dm , letic associations were Lansdowne Hi h School 'X' E formed in 1 00' tl1 l g Aw ,JN 9 , eooys adopted the one session 'S Ure if, in March, and the girls' plan. Accordingly, the 'X in june. Before this, all school l1ours were from ' N gpgrtg were intramural, nine 11ntil two with a 1' H ' ll and perhaps those en- fifteen-minute recess at 'M ,XJ vfixf 5. if joyed most were the field noon. In tl1e first years of fl i L T events held each spring. our school, teachers, in- stead of pupils, went fron1 one roon1 to another. Another rule that would hang over us like a dark cloud, if it were in existence today, was that a breach of good manners was considered as serious an offense as a neglected lesson. Therefore, if a pupil so much as laughed at a fellow classmate when he made a mistake, he was sent to the office and dealt with accordingly by the principal. The pun- ishments in the early days of the school were detention and depriva- tion of privileges. Only one boy was whipped because of his impertinence. Salaried coaches and equipment were not pro- vided by tl1e school, but on May 8, 1900 a musical was given to uniform our baseball team. In that same year, the school participated in its first in- terscholastic contest. This was a base- ball game with Radnor. All the pupils and teachers who wished to attend hopped into four horse coaches which were gaily decorated with flags and pennants. Many spectators took their lunches along. Programs were special- ly printed for the game. Our Hrst school paper, The Stylus, made its debut in 1901. It was edited

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we fda origin 0 fovlayji an-if . and published by Foster Gilroy, but it died an untimely death after a few years. YVe had no other school periodi- cal until the advent, in 1916, of the Garnet and Gray, a literary magazine. In 1928 it beca111e tl1e newspaper we know today. Our l1igl1 school in 1905 adopted a scl1ool savings' fund. Each student, by depositing a small su111 witl1 his teacl1- er each week, could accumulate a bank acco11nt. NVl1en tl1e student saved three dollars, l1e was entitled t0 a bank book. In 1906, after fourteen The first gy111 was co111- - years of service as Lans- pleted in 1902. Typewrit- ,., downe High's principal. ing a11d stenography were 2 su' N3 T ' Q Miss H. Emilie Croce re- . Z . . . also added in 1902, and Q.-Q TE: signed her position, and manual training in 1904. 'T- 1 . z 'D N-' 'v WVith the coming of ff f 3 X ,fs . -... 1 X tl1e twentieth century a . feeling of patriotism L..4-A .,i .51 Mr. YValter L. Philips was elected to fill her YA -'QE . 1 12 .-- ' place. Miss Croce was , -., f --. id :B 'J C- then given charge of 1 swept through our 1 f school, and everyone g wanted fiags. Tl1e First flag Hew on a forty-foot pole, but in 1903 a seventy-foot pole replaced it. lVl1en the pupils and the teacl1ers went to work to save their pennies and solicit donations, it was not long before each school room was equipped witl1 a flag. After pealing forth its summons for twelve years, tl1e old clapper hand bell was replaced by electric bells in 1910. The old bell, now in 011r trophy case, is cracked, thus showing the vin1 with which it called many students to school. - mathematics in tl1e high A Zi- scl1ool. XVe had our first scl1ool night about 1910, b11t it was carried out differently from the way it is 11ow. After the four morning classes, the pupils were dismissed until seven o'clock. At this ti111e they returned and somewhat nervously attended their remaining two classes under the observing eyes of tl1eir parents. During the first YVOrld YVar, our scl1ool was a beehive of activity. Every p11pil and teacher willingly devoted s0111e effort and ti111e to war work. The boys collected newspapers, weighed and tied them into twenty-pound bun-