Oley Valley High School - Olean Yearbook (Oley, PA)

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Ezght 4, 'TDI 1,55 Next the Morav1an school was rnstxtuted 1n 1742 Erected on a srxteen acre plot 1t was a combmauon church and school The fust floor conta1ned four rooms each wxth 1ts own hreplace the second floor was drvrded 1nto two separate halls One of these halls was used for publ1c worsh1p wh1le the other was ut1l1zed for school purposes On the thlrd floor there were lodgtng fac111t1es for some of the students In years to come so many parents were anx1ous that lhell' ch1ldren should learn to read and Wflle that the church was no longer able to provtde for them As a result nerghbormg settlers often formed an organrzed body wh1ch mam tamed a school on the farm whlch had the best roads To some extent these were pr1vate schools each pupll 1n attendance pa1d a sum of from f1Ve to ten cents a day to the teacher The settlers soon rea11zed that a better system of schools was deslrable a system affordmg broader more concerted educatmon Thxs reahzatmon led to the Publ1c School System and the erectron of one room schools Wllh floor drmenslons of about thxrty by twenty f1Ve feet The teacher was sltuated 1n , 3 Q' ., if ' 4 ' ii ,' . f.'t,, -kg s!-A 3 M 'I :2s-+-- l FEE 3 6 ti F . ' -wzwef. :nr lg 7,3 ,, '.g':x,g, ff 5, '31-.- , ne.mfa.4 -een-QM fr - r y 1 ' -ff ,,, V - gr -f , . , . I I - 1 . I - I I , .

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Ten Education In Qley Township Today frw,,,.,.-'- -. :w2 A newly macadamed road leads to the present center of educatxon 1n Oley Townsh1p to all of us 1t 15 known as our school The Oley Townsh1p Consol1dated School IS located on a spac1ous campus made up of playground areas and athletmc helds 1t 15 beaut1f1ed by welltrlmmed lawns trees and shrubbery One of 1ts most attract1ve campus features 1S 1ts own prrvate forest of several thousand evergreen trees The bu1ld1ng 1tself IS a trne example of school archrtecture from 1ts place on the h1ll 1t commands a str1k1ng v1ew of the lovely valley from whlch 1lS student body IS drawn Our school occupres an 1mportant place not only 1n the l1ves of 1ts students 1t IS also the center for most of the communlty act1v1t1es part1c1pated 1n by the general pUbl1C Dances publlc meet1ngs commumty parttes and s1m1lar act1v1t1es are held ln the school wh1ch IS an xntegral part of both the educatlon and general communlty l1fe of the people of Oley Townshrp The motto of our school IS Enter to learn leave to serve and w1th1n 1ts walls opportumty knocks for those who seek knowledge For one hundred and e1ghty days out of each year several hundred ch1ldren avall themselves of that knowledge Accredmted teachers w1th the ard of the fmest textbooks and laboratory facxlxtxes lmpress upon these chxldren the 1mportance of a well I I I - - t - U-. -,,-,,.. , . f 1 f ,mf Q , ,,.,,..--f I 7: 'af 1 - . - - 11 11 . 1 . 1 ' 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 - 11 . .11 - - - 1 1 . 1 I -