McKeesport High School - Yough A Mon Yearbook (Mckeesport, PA)

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Dedication We dedicaTe The i949 Yough-A-Mon To The parenTs oT The sTudenTs oT lvlcliees- porT T-ligh School. They have provided The care, The homes, and The guidance which have made possible our liTe in school. Always rnusT home and school sTand handlin hand To educaTe The young Tor adulT liTe in Their cornrnuniTy and coun- Try. Each has values To inTuse, values oT culTure, honor, and lcnowledge. And while The parenTs cannoT prepare Their children Tor The TuTure wiThouT The help oT The school, neiTher can The school give iTs sTudenTs all They musl' have wiThouT The consTanT parTnership oT The parenTs. l-lome is The child's TirsT school, and his parenTs are his greaTesT Teachers.

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THIS IS OUR CITY. One hundred and lilly-four years ago, in I795, when John McKee laid our lhe lirsl sireels of The 'rown he chose lo name in honor of his lalher, David, his mosl ambilious dream could noi have conceived rhe cily of nearly 60,000 people +ha'r now covers lhe hills and valleys of whal' were lhen limbered slopes. The lirsl while selller io be faken by The beauly ol lhe confluence ol lhe Monongahela and 'rhe Youghiogheny Rivers was David McKee, who eslablished a ferry here in l769, six years before The flames broke our al Lexinglon which were lo end in a blaze of freedom 'lor a young republic. The 'riny selllemenr expanded house by house and more farm land was cleared, buf develop- Numerous churches throughoul The Town provide everyone wifh a place of wor- ship of his own choosing .... McKeeS- porf's Times Square lbelowl where old fimers say a speciafor will see every- one who lives in The cify pass by. ,+.. menl was slow unlil lhe discovery ol coal in l83O. Twelve years laler lvlclieesporr was large enough lo be incorporaled as a borough, and ils growlh conlinued uniil I89O when wilrh a populalion of 20,74I, il was charlered as a cily, ninely-five years afler son John had drawn his plan. Wilhin lhe nexl 'rwenly years 'rhe populalion was 'ro double, reaching 42,694 by I9l0. Today McKeesporl' is 'rhe hub ol a wheel of communilies which have spread around il, com- rnunilies like Versailles, Porl Vue, Dravosburg, While Oaks, Liberly, Norlh and Soulh Versailles, Greenock, Eden Park, Boslon, and Lincoln whose children ioin 'rhose of our cify in Mclieesporl l-ligh School. g