Penn High School - Pennerian Yearbook (Greenville, PA)

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The Board of School Directors . . . MR. ROBERT M. GILKEY, President MR. IAMES I-I. MCCLIMANS, Vice President MR. NORMAN P. MORTENSEN MR. FREDERICK D. ENTERLINE DR. W. ALLAN GHOST MR. BARNEY B. PERIFANO MR. IOI-IN B. STOEBER MR. BERNARD L. COLLINS, Treasurer MRS. BETTY COLEMAN, Secretary The members of the School Board, who provide modern school needs for Penn High, always have the interests of the students at heart. They furnish countless devices that help make our school a more educational and more enjoyable one. lust recently they purchased a large plot of ground in the East End of Greenville on which they constructed a modern field house and a playing field equipped with night lighting. Their foresight in seeing Greenvilleys needs is parallel to that of another school board, many years ago, who laid the plans for Penn High as it is today. The school, exactly as they planned it, was completed in 1919. Below is the architecfs drawing of the then-proposed building.

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and Principal ARTHUR R. STEWART B. S., Grove City College M. A., Columbia University To the Class of 1949, Greetings: Your are children of the depression era. Many of your parents lost their positions and property. They had to depend on the government for existence. The New Deal blossomed forth with its Blue Eagle and multitude of lettered bureaus. You were too small to comprehend all of this. When you were in the second or third grade, the depression era was succeeded by war. Wages and prices jumped to unheard of heights. There was work for father, mother, and all the family who were old enough to labor. Maiiy of you were left at home to your own devices. The Great War had closed just before you entered high school. You saw the men return from the armed services. We are now living in the post-war period. The cycle of inflation has continued to rise. History is repeating itself just as it did after World War I. How long will it be until this bubble bursts? A new president has been inaugurated. He has promised higher taxes and a panacea for all our economic ills. Our standard of living is the highest in the world. We have greater luxuries than King Solomon in all his glory ever dreamed of. Seventy per cent of the class who began in 1945 is to be graduated into this kind of a world. What has hap- pened to the other thirty per cent? Have you appreciated this opportunity of an education, which unlike money, cannot be taken from you? Our nation needs clear-thinking, industrious, Christian men and women. We trust that you of the class of 1949 will take your place in our community, to help make our nation a better place in which to live. A. R. STEWART

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In the Offices . . . DR. A. BRUCE DENNISTON, Superintendent of Schools MR. ARTHUR R. STEWART, Principal of High School V MISS CAROLYN TRAVAGLINI, S ecre tary to Superintendent MRS. BETTY COLEMAN, Secretary to School District MRS. DOROTHY MCCLURE, S ecre tary to Principal RUSSELL L. V. MORGAN B.S. in Ed., Slippery Rock State Teachers College Ed. M., University of Pittsburgh Helping students get the most from school and guiding them in the choice of their future vocations is Mr. Morga1i's chief work. Much of his time is given to testing both seniors and underclassmen to find their interests and abilities. His office is Hlled with college catalogs and circulars from various places which help many students plan their collegiate courses and choose their life vocations.