Mechanicsburg High School - Artisan Yearbook (Mechanicsburg, PA)

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ADMINISTRATICN High Command Superintendent IQIJVVIN B. LONG heads the administrators with his top-ranking organizing ability and never-tiring service to the Mechanics- burg High School. During several months of his last year in college Mr. Long taught at Cresson as a substitute for a teacher who was in Wvorld VVar l. After being graduated from college he became a teacher at Shippensburg, then princi- pal at Lemoyne and, finally supervis- ing principal at Millersburg. Mr. Long was granted his A.B. degree from Dickinson College and his .-LM. degree from Columbia Uni- versity Teachers College, and will continue his studies there this sum- mer when he will procure his Ph.D. degree. M. H. S.'s Superintendent is known for his excellent advisorship in Student Council. He is well-versed in music and greatly enjoys it. He plays a violin and at one time played a piano. Until Mr. Long was graduated from Central High School in Harrisburg, he played in the high school orches- tra. Later he played in a professional orchestra in Harrisburg. Second Lieutenant Former Dean of Boys, IJAVID D. BRANDT, A.B., B.D., woodworker, musician, stamp-collector, and flower- grower extraordinary, has been principal of Mechanicsburg Schools for eighteen years. Coming to M. H. S. in IQZI, he four years later attained his present position which requires patience and the expenditure of considerable time for students and their problems. Being with young people helps keep me young, says Mr. Brandt. He enjoys teaching mathematics, believes it a vital, living subject. An inveterate traveler, he has traveled through thirty-seven states of the Union and parts of Canada. His grandchildren's greatest ad- mirer, the student hearing him whisper- Annetta - need have no illusions, she's just a favorite grand- daughter. l 5 LEADERS LONG AND BRANDI' . . llze virion and the facully divine . . 10 Administration Antics P Due to a decrease in grade-school enrollment, one of the grade home- rooms on the second Hoor of the new building was last fall converted into a modern pedagogue's paradise. Us- ing the furniture from the old teachers' room, a committee com- posed of Miss Dorothy Hamilton, Miss Eva Arbegast, and Joseph VVilson completely renovated the room. Books, magazines, and several plants were added to make a com- pletely comfortable lounge. P Dean of Girls, Margaret H. Stauffer, last October and November interviewed a total of seventy-two senior girls and plans in future years to interview all ninth-grade girls, to help them plan their high school courses. P Spanish was presented for the first time this year as an elective in both commercial and academicjunior class sections, although it is now being given to academic pupils. Prior to the school year 1941-42, the three- year junior high school plan was in- troduced in M. H. Under this system, all ninth-graders have the same classes, and the selection of courses and electives is postponed until the sophomore year. P In order to improve the assembly vocalizing, the Glee Club was seated in the front rows of the center section of the auditorium. Before each assembly period, the Club rehearsed the songs to be sung. P Dean of Boys, James G.Haggerty, interviewed fifty-eight boys of the class of 1941. Of this number, thir- teen are planning to enter colleges and universities, thirty-two to seek employment, two to join the navy, two to go into aviation. Eight are as yet undecided. PAs one of the spring activities sponsored by the Administration, the annual Rural Guest Day was held Friday, May 8, with pupils from Lower Allen, Monaghan, Upper TIME, M.H.S. 1942

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ADMINISTRATION Allen, Monroe, and Hampden Town- ships attending. These students were shown several different activities and features of the school, including an assembly program. Gentlemen from Town Newly painted, cream-colored li- brary walls, defense classes organized, Spanish added to the high school curriculum, an Atlas milling machine purchased for the shop, are the various things the Board of Directors of the Mechanicsburg High School have done to improve M. H. S. Mechanicsburg's citizen school administrators are the following: Howard H. Heinaman, President, Parker H. Kuhns, Vice-President, Mrs. Margaret Iii. Simpson, Secre- tary, George If. Hurst, Treasurerg Guy H. Lucas, VV. Fisher, Heiks Paul. Acting upon the suggestion made by If. F. Thomas, Shop Instructor, the school board purchased an Atlas milling machine. The purpose of the machine is to give the boys taking shop a training on machinery from which they may benefit in later life. The milling machine is used for working on metal with a rotary cut- ter which the shop students used for cutting plain surfaces, gears, and key ways. The machine was set up by one of the boys who take shop. The school board revised the High School curriculum by changing Alge- bra I and Latin I to tenth grade, thus TIME, M.H.S. 1942 MECHANICSBURG,S SCHOOL BOARD Projectors making ninth grade a part ofjunior high school work. Spanish was also added to the High School course for the 1941-42 term. In keeping with the national emergency the directors have organ- ized various useful defense courses for the benefit of people in the com- munity and its surroundings. They have granted a meeting-place for the first-aid classes, conducted by the local Red Cross chapter. A defense course is being given to teach farmers how to repair and keep in good order their present farm machinery. This certainly is some- thing useful with the present war going on, due to the fact that prob- ably some parts of the machinery will be hard to get or unavailable. Besides adding new equipment to the shop, and sponsoring defense classes, the directors saw that the library walls were painted this last summer. Very often the students forget that the members of the school board do a lot ofgood for both the students and the school. But this year as well as other years the faculty and students can be proud of their up-to- the-minute ideas and their willing- ness to make Mechanicsburg High School a better place in which to learn. Tarcliness Terror Guidance-Principal duty of M. H. S.'s girlguider, Miss MAR- GARET Ii. STAUFFER, A.B.-graduate of Pennsylvania State College and Gettysburg College. She is very helpful to those who desire her services. Many senior girls depend largely upon the counsel which she gives them in helping to make decisions for their futures. This is also true of freshmen when they must decide upon the course which they wish to follow. One of the dislikes in her line of duty, she says, is that of the pep talk with those who have failures. Tardiness is one thing in particular which she tries to prevent, and in the past year her efforts have been well worth while. When asked for an incident which she will always remember during her services she had to concentrate quite a bit. So many things happen, she said, that it is really hard to remember anything in particular. However, I do recall this: In one of my classes there was a boy who wrote so poorly that he could not even read his own writing. One day while speaking to the boy about this handicap, I said to him, 'Don't you pity me?' In all serious- ness the boy replied, 'I don't know, I never tried to read your writing.' When looking back over the good places of high school life, among the many things to remember will be the services of Miss Stauffer. 11