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

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From Shaw Avenue and George WashingTon To Tech High and VocaTional High goes The paTh Toward graduaTion. NinTh grade sTuclenTs who choose To follow vocaTional sTudies make Voc Their home Tor The nexT Three years. Freshmen elecTing college preparaTory and corn- rnercial courses come To Tech Tor The Tinal years oT Their public school educahon During This school year 3l4O sTudenTs made daily pilgrimages To These Tour buildings ThaT Wea-...am wx K' sS -v-..,,,N Tia: W'-ur,.,r,,7,!v'T-H rr ffl? QU lin if-TSWT TogeTher are McKeesporT High School. AT Shaw Avenue were enrolled 4lO pupils: aT George WashingTon, 430: aT VocaTional, 6001 aT Tech High, I700. From These buildings This June go nearly 800 graduaTes, Talcing wiTh Them The experiences of Tour crowded years inTo The TacTory The college The hospiTal The home The sTore The oTTice inTo The communiTy and inTo adulT life N Once The only high school in The cify, Shaw Avenue build- ing :Till serves The school pub- lic alfer almost filly years. . . Hs companion for housing The ninlh grade is The George Weshinglon building whose severe facade belies The warmlh within.

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liwoerinienclenf 4 ol Schools The Superlnfendenl af his clesk ln his office in lhe Shaw Avenue Building where an informal almos- phere always puls a visilor af ease. h W---s...,,,.-... ' f ma 3+ ,,,. l 1 l Q ,ULAX ,,...nnnv-N xxx Dr. James l-l. Lawson has cornpleled his four leenlh year as Superinlendenl' ol The McKe porl Schools. Dr. Lawson came lo Mclfeesporl In 'rhe 'lall ol l92O lo 'reach malhemalics +he subjecl he had previously lauqhl al Parkersburg Wesl Virginia, and al Jelllco, Tennessee I924 he became asslslanl principal ol lhe l-llgh School, a posilion he held unlil he was elecleil Superlnlendenl of Schools In I935.