Scott High School - Highlander Yearbook (North Braddock, PA)

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Edward McDonough Anna Trasky By means of pictures v e turn back the pages of time, seeing some of the highlights of the last phases of North Braddock High School and the beginning of education in North Braddock and the evolution of Scott High School. We are proud of our school and its tradition. Thy name shall ever loved and honored be. The Old Look 16

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' • ► Teachers are the hostesses of the thresholds; the Custodians of the old areas; the missionaries to the new. ♦ ' - —A. L. CRABB DR. E. J. SCHLACHTER School Physician DR. H. E. GILKEY ? School Dentist ELSIE SPRUTE School Nurse MRS. BLANCHE SCHLERETH ETHEL BENNETT Attendance Officer Attendance Officer AGNES LAUGHREY Attendance Officer MARY McNALLY HENRY ERNST BERNARD WELSH School Clerk Supt. of Maintenance Custodian 15

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y ) J v Edgeworth School for Qirls . t V. . The Wallace Mansion was constructed in 1804 on historic ground known as “Biaddocks Field.” On this spot was fought on July 9, 1755 the Battle of the Monongahela where General Edward Braddock and his British troops met a disastrous defeat at the hands of the French and Indians. y , s - • . In 1826, as a guest of the nation and Judge Wallace, the Marquis de Lafayette stayed overnight at this famous landmark on his tour of our country. • ■ • Miss May Oliver leased the Wallace homestead in 1830 for a period of ten years for the establishment of a boarding school for girls. This was to be the first school of its type west of the Allegheny Mountains. The school was known as the “Edgeworth Ladies Seminary,” named in honor of Miss Maria Edgeworth, famed British novelist and an ardent advocate for education for women. The following advertisement was placed in a Pittsburgh paper by Miss Oliver. “Braddock Field, near Pittsburgh, will recommence its engagements the first Monday of November next. The increased approbation given to this institution cannot fail to produce a corresponding zeal and energy and a desire to secure to good opinions of many. Many additions have made for its convenience and well doing of its pupils, Edgeworth Seminary has been now of several years standing, and experience enables it to offer an increase than deminition of means to give satisfaction. To study, coercive means are not employed, reference is made to the heart as well as the head, and to the study of every branch, and the proportion of time given to it will be subservient and tributory to useful and moral and religion improvement. Sabbath day and engagements must not be interrupted unnecessarily. Pupils living at a distance who desire to make Braddock Field their home during the vacation are invited to do so and no additional charge is made. Edgeworth Ladies Boarding School, November 1831, first terms—tuition in English branches— reading, writing, arithmetic, grammer, composition, geography, astronomy, with the use of globes, natural philosophy, chemistry, history; also plain and ornamental needle work. Per annum $130. Tuition in music $40; drawing; crayon, pencil, or water colors $25, in oil painting $40, French $20.” . M. OLIVER. The Wallace Mansion was razed in 1927 and on its site was erected Alexander M. Scott High School. We pay tribute to the “Edgeworth Ladies Seminary” as the first school in North Braddock. 17