Perry Lower Tyrone High School - Petosean Yearbook (Perryopolis, PA)

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FGREWGRD America looks forward with alert Youth to many important poSfS Democracy is glad for democracy has ever found Youth anxious to evolve and promote new ideas The Vlfar Gods cringe under our banner for the old world of wor must go as the new world of understanding takes its place No other Americans have not failed but their task has been diffi cult Now Youth makes its pledge to pick up the raveling threads and help repair them that free living will go on according to the way of democracy ln building this Petosean of l94Z the Youth of Perry Township l-ligh School expresses its confidence that life is still to be lived abundantly and completely when the crisis of this moment is passed Yes we who are pictured here will grow older our ideas of responsibility will change but let our memories never forget these days when life was young and we reached forward to undertake problems which may have seemed far too involved for our few years of training One day many years from now this Petosean will b opened and history will retell itself in our memory Yes that was the year Remem ber Pearl l-larbor December 7 l94l that fateful Sunday the rationing We did it before we can do it again Today the Petosean Staff and Sponsor Miss l.ouden lay away the scissors and paste close the office door for the task of compiling and assembling this book is done Their only wish is tha we th readers may be made a little happier through the years l9SO IQQQ l97O Yes the years will move along before the real response of appreciat on will fall yet it will come just as sharp and resplendent as the spring which turns our banks of winter ice into slopes of summer green We are Youth we march along forever breaking old traditions worrying our parents getting into troubles we cannot solve yet we pledge our hearts and our ambitions in the crusade for a nobler individual and a free America Earle E Curtis Pwgo 5 . I - . ' . I I I - - I I V I I I ' 3 I I I ' ' ' A ' of tires , . 4 air raid precautions , 4 . defense stamps. . . billions for war 4 . 4 11 - - - - 1 I I . . . .I A I . .,A4, . L t 9 I- l 1 I . I K., I ' , T . I , 5 , 2 I , 4 . I f 2

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The Sensor Class of l942 washes to dedicate nts Issue of the Sennor Annual The Petosean to one who has shown toward our school the land or Interest and appreclatuon that we desire and like the Honorable J Buell Snyder lt takes the knnd of cooperation and frnendllness which he has always shown toward us to make a thing go We have found hum to be one of our school s most loyal and respected suoporters Much reference mater nal concerning the government has found nts wav unto our llbrary as evndence of his thoughtfulness Petosean We honor hum first of all as a cltlzen of our communnty then as a former prlncrpal of our hugh DEDICATION school as the founder of th'e Pennsylvania Muslc and Forensic actuvutues and last but certaunly not least as our Congressman In our United States House of Representatlves Because of these factors Mr Snyder we salute you and call you friend WI lbur Baker P xgc 4 I I A . . . . , - I , , 4 1 V and interest. He has always been a friend of the N 2 . , 2 . . 1 , ' I I ' I II ' ll '

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THE HISTORY OF PERRY TOWNSHIP Perry IS one of the northernmost townshIps of Fayette County and ITS name perpetuates the memory of Commodore OlIver Hazard Perry the hero of the battle of Lake ErIe during the second war Wlfh England Wlth regard to ITS early hIstory Perry TownshIp enjoys the honor of havIng had George WashIngton as one of the TIFST and most extensIve purchasers Of land In her borders he havjng YGCCIV d a warrant for lands IH the lImIts of the townshIp as now constItuted Apnl 3 V169 ThIs however was the mere carryIng Into effect ot a purpose conceIv d long before as IS evIdent from the correspondence between Wa hlngton and CaptaIn WIllIam Crawford datIng from September Zl l767 The correspond nce shows WashIngton to have been a CFITICOI judge of the nature and value of land and hrs determInatIon to acquIre It In thIs reg on IS In a measure to be attrIbuted to hIs attachment to the scenes of hIs early mIlItary expenences and hIs saddenIng dIsaster at Fort NecessIty WashIngton secured lands In Perry l'ownsh.p to the extent of sIxteen hundred acres CaptaIn Crawford OCTIHQ as has agent ID the transactIon besIdes conductIng extensrve negotIatIons for hIm In land In the area ot WashIngton PennsylvanIa IH OhIo and along the lIne of the OhIo Rlver and In VIrgInIa ln l77O WashIngton then a loyal EnglIsh subject made a tour of Inspectlon through thIs regIon to examIne the landed TSTFITOVY of whIch he had come Into possessIon Among the aIms he had In VIEW was the development of the mIllIng Interest by LIl'lllZll'1Q a stream that passed through hIs newly OCQUIFGCJ tract The completlon of the work was Interfered wIth by the outbreak of the RevolutIon but the Idea was never abandoned and the mIll became an accomplIshed realIty by September l776 For many years wIth a brIef InterruptIon just precedjng the vear l79O a mIll was IH operatIon upon the sIte where the one erected under WashIngton s InstructIons orIgInally stood After some attempts to dIspose of hIs landed Interests IH Perry TownshIp he leased them IU l789 for a term of IIVG yea to Colonel lsrael Shreve who at a later tIme acquIred them permanently by purchase The lease was made early In WashIngton s fIrst term as F'resIdent The greater part of the hIstorIc WashIngton property passed from the heIrs of Colonel Shreve INTO the possessIon of lsaac Meason lt was transmItted through successIve hands one of the latest owners beInq John RICE The other portIons of the tract were dIvIded among a number of purchasers and theIr Identxty has In the lapse of years been In a measure effaced The townshIp IS provIded by nature wIth good farmIng lands has excellent sand for glass manufacture and IS underlaId wIth valuable deposIts of coal PerryopolIs IS laId out on the same general plan as WashIngton D C wIth the streets branchIng out lIke the spokes of a wheel and the center of the town as the hub ln poInt of chronology Perry IS one of the later townshIps of Fayette County Its erectIon as a dIstInct polItIcal organIsm dates from l839 when the usual petutron to the court and the report of the commIssIoners on the seventh of June l839 were confIrmed and the townshIp erected accordmg to the lInes of the plot Other pornts of hIstorIcal Interest In Perry Townshup Include the lndIan Rocks on the Kunnear property the old Quaker Church and the lron Furnace back of Layton near Jacobs Creek THIS artucle would not be complete wIthout mentIonIng the fact that PerryopolIs IS located on Route 5l one of the most heavIly traveled hIghways In the state Eleanor Jane Knox Page 6 I I I . , . D , , C I I ' I V D V l . , - S ' e I I ' I . , l I I 1 I 1 1 ' . , , ' I 1 I ' I ' 1 I . , . . . . Q I A YF I :J , . , . , . . , , I I I I ' 'I I I I I I , . , , .