Meyersdale Joint High School - Hi Point Yearbook (Meyersdale, PA)

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PROGRESS OF FROM THIS ...... In 1953, when you first passed through the doors of the building pictured above, you were entering a whole new phase of your immature life. For a few har r i ed days, you seemed lost in the hustle and bu stle of the hundreds of students milling around you. However, you soon became accustomed to the noisy study hall, subjects like home e c o no m i c s , shop and physical education, with which you had had no previous experience. You were soon one of many students pouring out of every room when the buzzer sounded to signify the change of classes. If you are one of our rur al students, the mad dash to secure your lu nch from the lunch closet in the basement became routine procedure. These things became a part of you, and suddenly you were no longer an out- sider trying to keep up the pace of the world which surrounded you,but a scholar who fit into your own special niche at MJHS. Perhaps your first impression c a r r ie d from the building pictured in the center was one of a cheer- ing c r owd of sports fans and a victorious basket- ball team. On the other ha.nd, it might have been a band or chorus concert, which are both held annually in the spring, or it might have been a tedious junior band practic e on the stage. II you were not ac- quainted with this building before you entered it as a student in seventh or ninth grade, you were proba- bly first confronted with either the Boys' Shop or the Girls' Home Economics Department. As a sophomore, you reported to one of the home rooms in this building. ...TO

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t 6 1959 Zyozfzf published bythe Tuff MEYERSDALE JQINT HIGH SCHOOL Meyersdale Pennsylvanua suymwu A it o o 1 ' s I Peter Cover, Editor-in-Chief a c i iams, ss' n Ed't

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OUR SCHOCDL r THIS This building was erected in 1936 asa WPA fworks Progress Administrationj project. With the erection of this building came the first basketball games which were played within the walls of our school. For the b i o l o gy and chemistry classes, separate classrooms with special equipment were included. The MJHS band, which was originally organized in 1936, and the mixed chorus now hold regular practices on the stage of the au di to r iu m . This a u d i to r i u m provides a site for many high school dances, P.T.A. programs and assemblies. A physi- cal education program, which MJHS had never been able to participate in previously, was added to the curriculum of the s tude nt s of 1937, who were the first to graduate from this structure. Although you seniors of '59 will not have attended any classes in the school building pictured below, you will be granted the privilege of being the first class to graduate from within its halls. For the benefit of all the students who will have classes in this new, u ltramodern school in years to come, these are some of the modern physical facilities which will be available for their use: four separate s c ie nc e rooms Cphysics, chemistry, biology and general science! which will furnish additional labo- ratory equipment not found in our present high school. In addition to this, there will be a separate auditorium and gymnasium. The auditorium will have permanent seats and will have a seating ca- pacity of 800. In addition to other special depart- ments, there will also be a music room for the use of the band and chorus. As you travel along 1ife's highway a.nd enter the new phase of living with which you are now being faced, we hope that the fond memories of these brick buildings will remain with you. T0 THAT!