Penn High School - Pennerian Yearbook (Greenville, PA)

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cv'-TY Because they are interested in our Welfare and learning, lVIr. Denniston, M1'. Stewart, and the Board of Education direct our school program. Witlm the help of the teachers, it is possible for this program to be carried out.

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The Union School, later known as the Central School. The old bell which hung in the tower was moved to the West Side School when the 'kelegantn Central build- ing was torn down, and it still summons the boys and girls of Greenville to school. Iivered the address. ln the fall of I9I9, classes were begun in the new high school. Many people felt the new school was entirely too large for the six hundred seventy-two students and eighteen faculty members, and that at no time in the future would it be filled. However, the enrollment increased, new courses were intro- duced, and text books were changed in order to meet the demand for both vocational and classical learning. Upon Mr. Gerberich's retirement in 1932, Mr. R. D. Welch became superintendent and served until 1938 when Mr. A. Bruce Denniston was elected the head of our schools. Now Penn High has an enrollment of over one thousand students and a faculty of thirty-four teach- ers, under the leadership of our principal, Mr. A. R. Stewart. The auditorium no longer seats the entire student bodyg the crowds that attend the basketball games are so large that our gym can 110C accommodate themg class rooms are so crowded that the double rows of seats built in a few years ago must be supple- mented by chairs occupying all available spaceg and activities are so numerous that the doors of Penn High are open not only in the day time but in the evening as well. Even though some things have changed in the passing years, the spirit that is not seen by an out- sider but is felt only in the hearts of those who belong to Penn High has remained the same. This school spirit has grown out of the traditions which have been promoted by the students of Penn High. Commence- ment is one of the oldest and finest of these traditions. At our commencement, on this twenty-fifth anni- versary of the laying of the corner stone, Dr. Linnwood Eisenberg, who spoke at the Hrst commencement in Penn High, is the speaker. And so We graduate to take our places in the worldg and we hope, through our lives, to bring honor to our Alma Mater. B1B1.10GRAPHY: History of Mercer Counzy. Brown, Runk and Company. Miiiiites of the Greenville School Board. Commencement Program for 1934. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Drf A. Bruce Denniston, Miss Marian Gerberich, Dr. P. McCormick, A. L. Iohnson, Mr. Earl Mille1', Miss Eleanor Iackson, Miss Ruth Gruber, and Miss Esther Brydon. ' l Architeet's drawing of Penn High School. At the time of its construction, Penn High was considered the finest school building in western Pennsylvania.

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R. M. GILKEY, H. C. N. P. B. L. COLLINS, ocvzcf of Education Presideni H. IVICCLIMANS, Vice President BATES F. D. ENTERLINE H. D. MCCLURE MORTENSEN P. N. TEARE Treasurer ESTHER BRYDON, Secretary D. H. HENRY, Solicitor SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION A. BRUCE DENNISTON, Superintendent ARTHUR R. STEWART, Principal RUTH GRUBER, Secretary to Siiperiniendenz ELIZABETH WALEFF, Secretary to Principal