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

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W ,gif ,1- at' L Q Flowers trees and well kept grass make the cam Tech High as sophomores, juniors, and seniors in four pus of Tech High one ot Mclieesport s most attractive courses of study: Academic, Business, College Pre sites This school year 1700 pupils were enrolled at paratory, and Commercial. THIH HIGH With the close of this school year, Dr. McElroy completes eleven years of service as the principal of McKeesport High School. He has occupied an administrative position, however, for twenty-one years, being principal of George Washington School and assist- ant principal of the High School before assuming his present duties. DR. HOWARD C. MCELROY

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Slllltlll ltltllt l Ill SlIHlllllS DR, JAMES H. LAWSON lust as the Board oi-Directors places its business activities in the hands of the Sec- retary, so it delegates the educational activi- ties oi the school district to the Superinten- dent of Schools. Dr. Iames H. Lawson has been Superin- tendent oi Schools in McKeesport since 1935, a period of tenure which represents half of the thirty years he has been associated With the McKeesport schools. The superintendent is in charge of the curriculum which must be constantly revised in terms oi today's changing demands, and ot the teachers Who must interpret the new developments in the classroom. The direc- tion and integration ot the school's educa- tional aims require giving attention to end- less details. The superintendents day is filled with conferences, correspondence, visits, telephone calls, and meetings. The superintendent often meets informally with teachers and principals. Here Dr. Lawson speaks to Mr. Samuel Stewart and Mr. Prank Crall in the Shaw Avenue Building.

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Prominent above the city, the mills, the river, Tech High has been a part of the McKeesport scene for over thirty years. Named McKeesport Technical High School, the building was ready for its' first students in September, 1916, replacing Shaw Avenue High School. The first class to grad- uate from the new school numbered l58 graduates. The original structure was extended by an addition in 1924 which consisted of the entire rear of the present building including Rooms 211 and 200. Even this addition had to be supplemented in the crowded 1930's by ten portables erected along the south side of the building, and used until the new Vocational School relieved the pressure in 1940. The largest class was in 1941 when 922 seniors donned caps and gowns to receive their diplomas. Plans for interviewing sophomores are discussed by Mr. Shelby Erwin, student counselor, and Miss Ger- trude Brown, girls' adviser, in the latter's third floor office. Assistance in solving school problems and advice concerning post-graduation aims are offered to students by these two counselors. MR. IOHN S. Mclfrzxrras Mr. McFeaters has been the assistant prin- cipal of the High School for eleven years, succeeding Dr. McElroy in that post in 1939. Early in this school year Mr. McFeaters was named Head of Instruction.