Leetsdale High School - Leet Yearbook (Leetsdale, PA)

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.M-.audit HENRY HAMILTON POOLE Born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, attended the local schools, Shippensburg State Normal, University of Pittsburgh. Spent 46 years in public school work: 8 years as teacherg 58 years as principalg 32 years in Leetsdaleg supervising princi- pal from September 1, 1906 to February 6, 1937. During that time the present school system was organized and built. MESSAGE TO THE CLASS Members of the class of 1938: I congratulate you on your achievement and accomplishments. It is indeed a fine accom- plishment and a great honor to be a graduate of a good school I commend your effort to put out a year book. I hope it may satisfy your keenest expectations. I am confident it will express your best efforts. You and I go out of this school system together. You by having completed your work, I, by automatic retirement. We go out under very different circumstances, but there is one thing we do have in common. We shall carry with us fond memories of many pleasant experiences during the time we spent here. Sincerely yours, 39:97

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ryjgfha 3-If HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL The first school in which residents of what is day on the Patterson, formerly the D. Leet Wilson In this structure which has been preserved in its several Leetsdale families received the rudiments The first school erected within the boundaries dale stood directly above the Baptist stone church school. It was destroyed by a landslide which fo perch on the hillside. The first public school in Leetsdale was erecte now Leetsdale were taught, stands to- property, directly above Shields Lane original form, the grandfathers of of education. of what is now the borough of Leets- near Fair Oaks. This was a private reed the building off its precarious d in 1858, when this region was part of Sewickley Township. The land on which this- building stands, where it is now a dwelling, is located near the Oliver Bridge, betwe the Fort Wayne Railroad. This became known as the In 1872, leetsdale withdrew from Sewickley Town Oaks, formed Leet Township. In 1880 a two room, f the side of the present grade school, but for seve the needs of Leetsdale. By 1897 another wing of t children of Fair Oaks continued at the little Fair en the Beaver Road and what was then Fair Oaks School. ship and, with Edgeworth and Fair rame school building was erected on ral years one room was adequate for wo rooms was added. The younger Oaks school while the Leetsdale school served the older Fair Oaks pupils and all grades in Leetsdale. For a short time the old Library building, at the corner of Ferry a and third grades. Leetsdale Borough was incorporated in 1903. In placed by the present grade school building on the its beginning. It now contains the six elementary For a time the two Copeland houses, in the rear high school inszructibns. Later. the old Halsey W purchased and the red brick residence was used unt Leetsdale High School on the same grounds. The High School now contains twelve class rooms nace and supply rooms, offices, and an auditorium feet and has a modernly equipped stage. The gap between the little, old, red-brick, sch knoll in Shields,and the present High School repre trict to a highly industrialized community. nd Broad Streets, housed the second 1907 the old frame building was re- same site. Here the High School had grades. of the grade school were used for illiams place on the Beaver Road was il the completion of the present , a library, a gymnasium, shop, a fur- which measures sixty feet by eighty ool house, still standing on the sents the change from a rural dis- . QQ - 51...

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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1958 With sincere pleasure I congratulate you upon the comple- tion of your secondary education. How swiftly have the years passed since you entered high school! You have achieved a brilliant record in both your classroom work and in the extra activities in which you have engaged. It is most fitting that this class which has always sought new and interesting ways of making our school life more meanful, enjoyable, and complete should publish the first year book in the history of our school as your culminating achievement. After each of you has gone his separate way in his chosen path of endeavor, may this record in pictures and story ever re- mind you of the joyous days and happy friendship in Leetsdale High School. Cordially yours,