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

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7 welt c Our School Seal QV 'Q'-IST 'fktl g .. M 'filxamsvfvxg The Oley Townshlp Consohdated School 1S one of the comparanvely few schools whlch have the1r own d1st1nct1ve school seal The school seal IS an achlevement of the combrnecl efforts of a number of persons each of whom contrrbuted somethmg essentxal to 1ts creatlon Among these are Mr Cllnton Schllhng a Sh1ll1I'lQlOl'l art1st who d1d the actual drawrnq Prof Sharadm former head of the art department Kutztown State Teachers College Mr Scholl who was the archltect for the present con solldated school bu1ld1ng Mr Newton GGISS present County Superlntendent of Schools and former teacher rn the schools of Oley Townshlp and Mr F H Stauffer our supervlslng pr1nc1pal Every umt and motrf rn the seals des1gn 1S symbohc of some aspect of th1s commumty Many relrcs have been found to prove the early exrstence PM lllilllslllwllll

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rounded educatron 1n the atomrc age The educatronal system ln the Oley Townsh1p Consohdated School ts departmentahzed 1nto four d1st1nct but well mtegrated branches elementary mtermedxate jumor h1gh school and senxor hlgh school After a student has successfully completed h1s traxnmg of twelve years he IS well prepared to take h1s place m SOCISYY well prepared to con tnbute h1s share to h1s own and the publxc welfare Reahzrng that formal textbook educatlon IS only a part of the task requrred to develop a ch1ld 1nto a well rounded personalxty those responstble for our educatxon have provrded us w1th a wrde range of extracurrxcular act1v1t1es An extenswe program of mtramural and xntermural athletrcs burlds strong bodxes for the sound m1nds and trams the partrcrpants m the prmclples o' sportsmanshlp and tau play Our excellent band and orchestra as well as choral smgrng acquamt us w1th the beaut1es of musxc All of us have the opportumty to 1o1n clubs of our chorce these clubs 1n most xnstances correlate w1th classroom sublects and enable us to further our especxal xnterests Partres and dances QIVS us experxence rn the soclal amemtres whrch experrence 1S essentlal rn the development of the complete mdxvrdual It IS m th1s way that the Oley Townshrp Consohdated School accepts those who Enter to learn and through the medlum of twelve years concerted and mtegrated trammg, prepares them that they may Leave to serve Eleven - 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 ' 1 , A - 1 , . 1 1 11 .11 - 1 . . . 11 11

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of many Indrans rn lh1S area the lndran 1S represented on the seal Hrs hqure 1S balanced by that of a ploneer rn the typrcal Dan1el Boone dress Danlel Boone was born rn th1s area Most of the early settlers were of German and French extractron the shreld follows the German herald1c custom of three part d1v1s1on and the fleur de 11s IS representatwe of the Huquenot settlers The lamp of knowledge IS symbohc of the communxty s early lnterest 1I'1 educatron Agrrculture ranks as the chref lndustry of the area 1t 1S recogmzed by the 1nclus1on of a sheaf of wheat on the sh1eld The sun and 1ts rays were borrowed from the coats of arms of some of the orrqmal settlrng fam1l1es The lau.el wreath IS symbohc of honor and achrevement wh1le the motto In God we trust pays trrbute to the abundance of deep seated rehgrous fa1ths held by the p1oneer famrlres Of fxne desrgn the school seal IS a p1ctor1a1 chron1c1e of Oley Townsh1p 1lS people 1lS hrstory and 1lS act1v1t1es It IS truly representatrve of our com muruty and of our school Q95 lx, Thzztcvft I . . . . . : . : ' ' - I - -I 1 I I :. . . , , ,, . .. . I - . . I I l - ,. ,,, s' L. fig'