Southern Fulton High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Warfordsburg, PA)

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OCTOBER 15, 1979 I'm telling you that's the way it is. Our cooks at Open House serving all the cookies and punch. 7

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OPEN HOUSE Ray Lee is an expen when it comes to my class 6

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PTSO Dorothy Hixon — President. Beth Bo d. Karen Fowler. Bertha Deneen. Janet Mills, Debbie Keller. Jane Bowman. Carol Hendershol — Corresponding Secretary. Doreen Deneen — Student Represen- tative. Allccnc Hoopengardner — 1st Vice-President. Betty Lou Fischer — Secretary. Not pictured: Mar- jorie McGuire — 2nd Vice-President. Doris Stable. Catherine Durst — Membership Secretary, Annie Hepburn — Treasurer. The Balance Beam was purchased for the Southern Fulton School District by the community. Help was given by the Warfordsburg Lions Club, the War-Ne- Do Club, the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, the Pen-Mar Jay-Cees, the Warfordsburg Elementary Faculty Ad- ministration, and the PTSO. YEAR S ACTIVITIES OF SOUTHERN FULTON PTSO WERE: Santa's Workshop Sponsored Ensemble and French Club St. Patrick's Dance for High School Public meeting for new school discussion Kindergarten Easter-egg hunt Egg-decorating contest for elementary students Gymnastic program for community Spaghetti dinner for public End-of-school faculty luncheon OUR HIGH SCHOOL THE WAY IT WAS — THE WAY IT IS Though no official record is available, there is evidence that schools existed in parts of the present school area prior to the adoption of the statewide school systems in 1834. One of the earliest of these school was along the southern border and is thought by some to have been located in what is now part of Maryland. This school existed about 1770. In Belfast Township, this included Licking Creek, a German school was taught about 1790. In 1792, an English school was opened. These schools were located along the base of Sideling Hill Mountain along the old turnpike which was built from 1817 to 1825. During this period children were taught by travelers, mostly foreigners, who tramped the road. The first school in what is now Union Township was es- tablished in 1844. A second school was established in 1852. Later in 1877 there is record that Union Township had four one-room schools for the education of children. Northern Brush Creek Township opened two schools in 1837 and 1838. Some years later, two more schools were added but one of these which was located in the northern end of the district was discontinued. Southern Brush Creek which remained a part of Bethel until 1864 had two schools in 1837. Thompson Township was separated from Bethel in 1849. In 1874, there were six one-room schools. For a good many years prior to 1874, this district had maintained six schools. At one time students from our district attended high school in Han- cock and Flintstone, Maryland. In 1926, the Board of Education of Bethel Township decided to establish a high school in their township. In the fall of 1927,