Mechanicville High School - Halfmoon Yearbook (Mechanicville, NY)

Page 11 text:

administration .1» LIBRA

Page 10 text:

Mechanicville High School Mechanicville, New York, U. S. A. June, 195.? Dear Friends in other countries, We would like to dedicate this book to you as an everlasting hope that good w ill will some day exist among all nations. In these times of strife among nations, we must attempt to analyze the way in which we conduct our lives. In this book, we will try to present to you, the people in other countries, the different phases of high school life in a small citv located in the U. S. A. We will have you meet the people who run our school and the people who attend it. In this way, we hope to acquaint you with a typical American high school system. Our high school stands on the main street of the small industrial city of Mechanic- ville, New ork. This city has a population of approximately 8,000 and occupies a land area of one square mile. In ir are located the West Virginia Pulp Paper Mill, which employs 1,229 people, and various other industries which are smaller. The smaller con- cerns manufacture such articles as clothing, thread, and bricks. Mechanicville is also a great railroad center as a result of the junction of the Delaware Hudson R.R. and the Boston Maine R.R. Of all the people in Mechanicville, these two railroads combined employ approximately 10'» of them. Mechanicville is situated on the banks of the Hudson River, an ideal location for industry. Buses which run to all neighboring cities serve the community. A super-highway which will run through Mechanicville has been planned and will be completed in ten years. The state barge canal, in existence from 1883 to 1916, was located on the exact site of the new super-highway. 1 his letter will continue throughout the book in the form of writeups and running headlines of people and events. Our aim is that this will s rve as an explanation for the pictures which accompany them. [6]

Page 12 text:

. . These are the men who guide our school . . . Our board of education consists of a group of seven men elected by the voters of the city for a term of two years. These men consider and pass laws and regulations for the mutual welfare of the public schools of MeehanieviHe. President of the board, Mr. Harry C. Iden, an engineer at the West Virginia Pulp Paper Mill, Mr. Daniel Carr, feed and grain dealer, Mr. George Pickett, Assistant Direc- tor of the New York State Bureau of Purchases, and Father Serafino Aurigemma, Pastor of the Church of the Assump- tion, look over plans for the additions to the rear of the high school. Mr. Melvin C. Livingston, superintendent of Mechanicville Public Schools for 'eleven years, has painstakingly supervised our public school system. Looking over contracts arc Mr. George N. Hoover, Jr., Assistant Resident Manager at the West Virginia Pulp Sc Paper Mill, Mr. Joseph Zurlo, retail merchant, clerk Mr. Melvin C. Livingston, and Mr. Harry Tordoff, mason. Our principal, F. Wayland Bailey, has been head of our high school for 23 years. He very diligently, with his firm but lenient administra- tion of the student body and faculty, leads the pupils through four ardous years.