Oil City High School - Oil Can Yearbook (Oil City, PA)

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As one thinks of such subjects as the cafeteria, the attendance officer, the guidance counselor and the school nurse, he is considering services of things which were originally very different. The cafeteria, for instance, was first operated in a medical room from which students received their food and then ate it in their home rooms. Next, the conception of the attendance or truant officer has changed from the activities of Mr. B.I. Myers, the first such officers, who arrested illegally absent students to those of Mrs. Lorraine Amsdell, the Home and School Visitor, who investigated the social and family problems which became scholastic ones. Mr. Dana Pringle and Miss Mary Ada Smith became the first guidance counselors and school nurse in the Oil City School District. Mr. Pringle’s counselling was limited to the senior high school, while Miss Smith’s nursing activities included visiting homes and schools throughout the district and assisting a doctor. Mrs. Laura Schubert became school nurse from 1923 until 1956. At that time, physical examinations were made each year in each grade, and she was expected to make many home visits as well.

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Principals Inspire Constantly Changing Curriculum Those who searched historical records for this yearbook considered the fact noteworthy that in seventy-one years there have been only four principals of OCHS, indicating that each had a long term. School Principals: 1. Frederick Turnbull. 2. R.C. Thompson. 3. Carl H. Townsend. 4. John O. Kaufman. 5. Cafeteria Workers: Francis Urey. Mrs. Annabellc Perry. Mrs. Lucy Shaner. Mrs. Elizabeth Franklin. Mrs. Mary Mackenzie. 6. School Vurse: Mrs. Laura Schubert. 7. Music Director: Harlon C. Mitchell. 8. Attendance Officer B I. Myers. 9. Guid ance Director: Dana M. Pringle. 14

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1878 - THE Oil City School District It’s Teachers 1891 Teacher — Front Row. Miss Hattie Turner (Mrs. Gayle’s sister—6th grade); Miss Margaret Cadigan; Miss Kate Judge; Miss Hattie Gould (later went to Tionesta); Miss Cynthia Walker; Miss Alice Tisdale. Row 2: Miss Lilly Abbot (Mrs. Joe Robinson); Miss Julia Alder; Miss Margaret Haines (Mrs. Dewey Bolton’s sister); Miss Nellie Allis. Row 3: Miss Margaret Dects (Mrs. Roess); Miss Minnie Gibson; Miss Isidore Smiley; Miss Fannie Love; Miss Mary Bell(Mrs. Grimes). Row 4: Miss Ida Irvin (father — toll keeper on State Street Bridge); Miss Maria Walters; Miss Anna Thomas; Miss Emma Dickey. Row 5: Miss Isabelle Kuhns; Miss Gertrude Boslaigh; Miss Margaret Dickey; Miss Maisie Naylor (father — toll keeper on State Street Bridge; he was later a doctor). Row 6: Mr. Frederick Turnbull; Mr. Charles A. Babcock; Miss Frances Grove. (Not present in picture; Miss Jeffers-high school teacher; Miss Fanny Davis-high school teacher (later a doctor and aunt of Miss Victoria Davis). The first grade class started in 1878. 16