Ramsay High School - Mounty Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, PA)

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I On the city's eastern border Stands the school we love. Hearts aglow and voices raising Send her praise above. Hail to thee, our dear old high school, Faithful will we beg Long we'll love thee, Ramsay High School, And be true to thee. MR. Koimucnr Cortie and Eddie, custodians of our building, whose busy hands make Ramsay a pleasant, com- fortable place in which to spend our school days. ll MR. DULLINCIIER

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rls, l reas., YCS. THE MEN BEHIND THE SCENES Bomm OF EDUCATION . . . an integral part of the administration is a group of seven men known as the School Board . . . who control school affairs and pass upon matters of policy . . . regularly meet the first Monday of each month to administer the business affairs of the district . . . conscious of the important part they play in developing the citizens of tomorrow . . . vitally interested in providing a well-rounded school life . . . elect school employees . . . levy a school tax rate . . . since 1929, when Ramsay High School was erected, they have been able, through careful plan- ning, to provide for the annual payments on the building without increasing taxation . . . keep a constant vigilance over expenditures . . . are held accountable for school disbursements . . . approve and pay hills . . . buy books, supplies, and necessary equipment . . . are obligated to oversee the maintenance of the buildings . . . appropriate considerable sums of money each year for redecora- tion and for modernization of the heating and lighting facilities . . . manage to keep school taxes at a minimum in the face of rising costs and heavy expenses . . . in the last few years added a nurse and a teacher of Industrial Arts to the professional staff of the district to improve the school program . . . in co-operation with different business men's organizations, they have installed a dental clinic in the Third Ward School Building . . . elected for a term of six years by the good judgment of the townspeople . . . admired for their untiring efforts and efficiency. 10 l,cft to Rig, t -lohn C. lf ihtr tn Supt., l'illWIl1 Swink, XV. S tr erhiscr, Soc Shupc, DI. K uv renee lfox ts l,nthcr bl. Grimm blames A. lo ll

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Tardy or absent? The Hayes have it Can she balance il lever? an v A R VJ 15 ' I 1 A Au .ef , I VI ., Q A X fr ' V fav., 'vy' 5 ' l s Q on 3 gf t .1 VIRGINIA BERGIA HARRIET BURG5 BLANCI-IE GALLEY DONALD GIBBONEY lg 'lg' .JYJ1 K Twenty capable teachers . . . all specialists in their fields . . . doIniI1ie who from 8:45 to 4:00 mold our character, fashion our thoughts, enhance our knowledge . . . classes begin . . . we sit fascinated or perhaps unmoved by their person- alities and teaching techniques . . . MZIIIIO, amas, amatf' chant enthusiastic Latinists in Mrs. Bergia's classes . . . even ablative absolutes and Caesar's wars prove interesting under her com- petent supervision .... Are coInpositioIIs your Waterloo? . . . they wouldn't be if you were in Miss Burge's class . . . a well-informed, soft- spoken teacher whose students actually anticipate oral English day eagerly .... You may stay but your laugh must gof' quotes Mr. Burrell, the famed disciplinarian and instructor of history and English . . . even so, we appreciate a room con- ducive to study .... What's a good book?', is obligingly answered by Miss Conbeer, the guardian of the library, wlIo can miraculously find any student just the book he wants . . . she does as much in the classroom for Shakespeare as Helen 12