Mount Pleasant High School - Mountie Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, OH)

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The ttme came when men of vtston and forestght reahzed the need for consoltdatton In 1932 school buses came rnto use to provrde transportatton for the rural chlldren Buses brought puplls from Ramsey Dunglen New Town and Harrlsvtlle ln the year 1939, the second addttton was made It conststed of two class rooms on the thtrd floor and two on the second Also two basement rooms and an Industrial Arts Department were added In 1950 a new school wmg was constructed The work was completed and the dedtcatxon was made on March 10 Mr Ray B Roshon the supertn tendent of county schools made the address The addttlon tncluded a lunch room mustc department two dressmg rooms two basement rooms and a fmtshrng room for the shop In 1958 a new addttion was made to our butldtng It was an lndustrtal Arts Department The complete cost of constmctton plumbtng and electrtcal equtpment was S39 364 00 Also a new fteld house was constructed at the football fteld It consrsted of dressrng rooms showers and an equ1pment room Htgh grades tn scholarsh1p tests have always been achteved by Mt Pleasant students due to the work of a staff of excellent teachers Basketball and football teams w1th then defeats and trtumphs have brought many trophtes to Mt Pleasant Hrgh Boys tn Industnal Arts have placed htgh 1n state compett ttons Our Home Economtcs department ts one of the ftnest rn Ohto Part1c1 pants tn muslc contests have consistently received high rattngs But best of all are the loyalty sportsmanshrp prtde and school spurt shown by the boys and gtrls who make up the student body Nancy Barkhurst f 1 . 1 1 1 , . u . . , ' , . n 1 1 n . - 1 1 , . . 1 . 1 . . . ' 1 1 1

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' Scdwz Www Our town was founded rn the year 1803 Soon after tts foundmg educa tronal advantages were tntroduced From 1803 to 1867 a number of schools were started in varxous places around the town To rank hrgh in the realm of educatron has always been our chtef glory We have a wonderful hentage of educattonal and sprrttual development In 1867 Mr Pleasant Hrgh School was constructed on the srte of the pre sent burldrng It was a substantral two story red bnck burldrng consrstrng of four rooms The mam part of the edrftce was 60x30 The back wrng contamed four rooms two 36x30 and two 30x24 The constructron of the new 51100 00 btuldrng was supervrsed by Wrllram Rerd It became known as the Umon School presumably because of the combrnrng of the prrmary and grammar grades The school opened on January 18 1868 J A Whrte was elected prtn crpal of the hrgh school department There rs a curious and rnterestrng story of how hrs electron came about lt was because of the way he put hrs foot down Mr Whrte possessed a quicker and more posttrve step than most men In the fall of 1870 W1ll Whtte hrs brother became assrstant prrncrpal The Whrte brothers were assocrated w1th our school system for many years One of and temperament of the two brothers I A told more than he knew whrle Wtll could not tell half of what he knew The first graduatrng exercrses were rn 1873 Members of the class were Jennre McMasters fMrs E J Robrnsonp Wrlliam Wagner and Lafre Rerd Commencement was held rn the Yearly Meeting House Lrterary programs were held ln the four room red school burldtng One eventng of each week the puptls as well as thetr parents wended thetr way to the schoolhouse There w1th many a flourxsh they delrvered then poems and prose to the delight of all who attended A frrst Grade Charter was grven Mt Pleasant Hrgh School on January 1870 New apparatus and a library were requrred Thts need was met by Mrss Lafre and Miss Alma Rerd who establtshed a lxbrary U1 memory of therr father Willtam Retd In 1916 flames razed the little red schoolhouse to the very foundatron tn sprte of the brave efforts of the townspeople Later rn 1917 a new burld ing replaced the old one As ttmes changed new requtrements exrsted Burldrngs were enlarged to accomodate the ever mcreasrng number of puprls Wrth a progressrve attttude tn mind the fun addrtron to Mt Pleasant l-hgh School was made rn the year 1930 It consrsted of a commercral room and a scrence room on the thtrd floor Two class rooms were added to the second floor An audttorrum was also constructed . . . . ' - their pupils quotes an accurate appraisement of the difference i.n character . ll . . , ' . . . 9 ' ' - .

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BETA CLUB The Mt Pleasant Beta Club IS a chapter of the Nattonal Beta Club whtch ts a non secret leadershtp servrce orgamzatton for htgh school students lt Constrtuuon states The purpose of thxs orgamzatron shall be the prornotron of the tdeals of honesty servrce and leadershrp among htgh school students of Amertca to reward merrtorious achtevement and to encourage and asstst students to conttnue thetr educatton after high school HIY Code of Ethtcs To create matntatn and extend through out the home school and communrty hrgh standards of Chrtstlan Character Hx Y Members Aim The arm of a H1 Y member ts to do the best he can in study speech and sports tn the development of Chrtsttan personality and m servrce to make ltfe most worthwhrle for htmself and hrs assocrates Slogan Clean Speech Clean Sports Clean Scholarshtp and Clean Ltvmg PEP CLUB A club organtzed September 11 1958 promoted the school spmt at every football and basketball game Louts Panebtanco ts the sponsor and advtsor Adamsky Treasurer Ehzabeth Goff LATIN CLUB The Mt Pleasant Latin Club was organtzed ten years ago by a colomal group of students who called themselves Amtci Lattnt Later the club became afftltated wrth the Nattonal Iuntor Classtcal League whtch 15 the high school branch of the Amertcan Classtcal League There are more than a thousand branches of J C L throughout the Untted States Our purpose ts three fold Ftrst our programs arm to develop a broader and deeper understandtng of our classtcal background secondly the club contributes annually in some way to school welfare thrrdly we atm to have a group of congental students who can enjoy varred pleasure together Y TEENS The purpose of the Y Teen club ts very able expressed tn the words of the club song If we can grow as simply as common blades of grass Both tall and stratght as trees grow to the sky Then we can leam to know and under stand ourselves and others What we do and say we the younger generatxon are strtvtng now to butld a better world Peace and unity Freedom and brotherhood these we have set to be our goal Offtcers Presrdent Sue Hussey Vlce Prestdent Mary McAlltster Secretary Sara Thorbum Treasurer Elxzabeth Goff Program Chairman Becky Weeks Song Leader Grace Hysolp Devouonal Chatrman Becky Barkhurst Ptamst Patncra Pyle Inter Club Counctl ors Janet Zeyer Jane Wtlltams Emtly Slezak l ' , - . . , . . S President Louise Wright, Vice President Barbara Kiaski, Secretary Mary Sue