Sharon High School - Mirror Yearbook (Sharon, PA)

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OFFICE SECRETARIES GRACE AMON MARION GIBBONS Stenographer Stenographer Sharon School of Moclcrxl Business A'B'v Seton Hill College WILNETTA E. MCCORMIC Secretary Sharon College of Commerce 7, l ADELE SARVER REBA MYERS Secretary Shenango Valley Commercial Institute BS., Fredonia Institute Twenty

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FACULTY DAVID Ii. S'I'IiWAR'l' l'l:-ymul llillllflllllifl ILS., Grove City CEIQURGIE C. S'I'OVIfR Typlfl-Q 1. lfonItkz'c'fJirI.q I1 IIS., Indiiina btzitc Iciirlwrs C,oIIt-gc QIIHIIIIIAIIC VVork at University ol' Pittslyurgli IfI.IZ1XI':Ii'I'II SYKIQS .flrz A.II., Allcglicny Cnllt-gc Cir.iiIn.iir of l.Icvn'IainiI School oi Ari II. IAJI5 VI'ACiONI5R lfugluli I A.II., W'c'stlnilisKL'i' ijollt-gc fil'.l1IIIAIl0 XVork University of I'ittsImi'gIi IC BI' Ili HN Stewart Stovvl' Sykes W4igcri1m'i' iso'i i'c PM Row 0 VVc'IIcr 910 VViIIiznnson I XVr:iy I7URO'IAHY WELLIQR 1'b.yxiz'z1l 11'I1'llt,YlfflH'l SIipIiL'i'y Rock Srzltc IIIULICIICFS Collcgc Ciimliizitc Work ut University of Wisconsin and Columbia IRIENIE WILLIAMSON Plane Geometry, Algebra ll and Ill, Trigonometry AB., MA., Ohio State University Om' Surnincr SL-ssion Universitv of Colorado Two Summer Sessions at University of Soutlicrn California I IUOROVIIIY XV. XVRAY Latin 1 AB., Wcstniinstcr College Gralclilailc XVui'Ii :it Univcrsity of I ittsI1ni'gI1 :g 1. ,,,. .L ,Jin I , ffffw. I I-.,.y' R .-r -., Nineteen

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.r , ,si .. , .'. ,:. .1 1. Um ., 1, f, 7 tv..-.' 'fl-. fe : - S IN YEARS TO COME The history of the Sharon High School shows nothing but improvements and develop- ments. Our high school system has passed through three stages of development. The first stage was the building of a nine grade school in 1865, the attendance of which was 353, the second stage was the building of a three year course high school in 1870, and the third stage was the construction of the Old High School in 1905. The first high school com- mencement class was held in 1873 in the old Carver Opera House. The ground for our high school was broken in October, 1922. lt took about a year and a half to finish the building. The new high school was first used in May. I924, on the night of the Senior class play. The school had not been dedicated then and was not dedi cated until some time later. The high school was used a second time on the night of com inencernent, when 133 students were graduated. lt was the fifty-first high school com mencement in Sharon. The high school classes have been growing in size continually. Between 1902 and 1908, there was an increase from 65 to 313 in the high school attendance. In 1910, there were 288 students in the high school, in 1920, there were 540, almost dou that in 1910, in 1924, there were 730, and at the present time, there are about I5OO in o r high school. The members of the school board that were instrumental in the building of our high school are: C. H. Pearson, President, H. K. Becht, Vice President, W. Whitehead, Secre- tary, W. S. Palmer, Treasurer, H. Filer, and Miss Marian Love. Mr. Gamble has been the superintendent of the Sharon schools ever since the high school was built as well as sewing several years before that time also. Mr. Iones has served as the principal of our high school since the school was inaugurated in 1924. The school Solicitor was Mr. P. Whitla. There have been few changes in the teaching staff except a few additions. Mr. Raney and Miss Boyce both retired last year after many years of very fine service to the school and the community. When our high school was first opened, the seventh and eighth grades were included in the enrollment but the seventh and part of the eighth were removed before the end of the first year because of lack of room. ln the high school at that time, besides the classical, scientific and commercial courses, there was a trades department including manual training and drafting for boys and home economics department for girls, including sewing and cooking. However, when the new lunior High was built in 1930, manual training, sewing, and cooking were moved into it. Our high school has developed rapidly. until today we have first rate classical, scientific .ind commercial departments. ln line with this rapid development, we see in the years to come a larger and finer Sharon High School. We see manual training and domestic science, once more in our high school and extended into genuine technical and home economics departments. We see fine machine shops and room after room as samples of interior decorating done by our own students. We see physiology once more taught in our high school and an extended physical culture course where physical faults are corrected, so that our students might go into the world erect and physically correct. Perhaps we can have advanced classes for delving into the study of the problems of family life. The Senior class of today becomes the Sharon High School faculty of tomorrow, striving to bring these things to pass, and to make our high school a place for a broader and a better education. .1-' - 1' ' , if - .t1j.- 55+ ' -Wig. . QS-'H PP? 'H F ' 'vt 'La 7 'QiE212i2'iti, 23557 ' Q 1. nf , 1 ,+ eglf? A ML,-9 bv. K Twenty-one