St Marys Area High School - Bells Yearbook (St Marys, PA)

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'Q' -iii - 'QW gt, v xl, 4,2 4QQly DEDICATION To Mr D .T Driscoll first Prmclpal of the St Marys, Pa High School, and at present senior member of the legal firm of Driscoll, Gregory and Coppolo, we the senior class of 1951 dedicate this, our yearbook Mr Driscoll who was born in North Lawrence, N Y March 27 1871 and who was educated at the Lawrencevllle Academy and State Normal and Train mg School, came to St Marys in 1890 to teach in the Benzinger Township School He became the Principal of the St Marys High School in 1893 the year of its first graduating class and served in that posltlon for four years Havlng studied law privately, he was admitted to the Elk County Bar on April 2 1898, and on the same day enlisted for service in the Spanish American War He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in Co H , 16th Pennsylvania Infantry Regi ment under General Mites in Puerto Rico In World War I Mr Driscoll was Chairman of the Elk County Chapter of the American Red Cross Mr Driscoll rendered civic service at the local level by serving as Chief Burgess of St Marys in the years 1903 1906 servlng for thirty seven years on the St Marys School Board and acting as president for twenty flve of those years being one of the orgamzers and serving as an officer of the St Marys Baseball Association and helping to organize the St Marys Community Chest On the national level, he served as the Umted States Attorney for the ber of the 74th Congress 20th District of Pennsylvania On March 30th 1937 he was appointed by Governor Earl as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Ut1l1ty Commission but he resigned in March 1940, to accept an appomtment by the U S Court of the Southern District of New York as one of the two trustees for the bankrupt Associated Gas and Electric Company in which capacity he served till August 1946 In dedicating our yearbook to Mr Driscoll, it is our hope that his long and illustrious career may light for us the way of civic effort and responslbnlity and at the same time be a goal toward which we may strive rr-ft :Q V 2- 'QPWQI 7 gl. l X... K Qian 2 V 7 f ' A V 8 G 3 0 1 . W v 6 Q. E E 5 E Z4 Q E 0 F . . 1 . , . . . ' .i I . U H . ' y . . . U K4 . ' , ' A . ., , lt K4 . ..'. . . r - Q4 K4 . . A I 1 .U . l ' l fl U , i n B . y . . . . . U K4 ' . .. h . 'I ' 1 ' . l- lt E4 ' ' - R G I . ' . . . . ' . . B Q l ' . ' 5 . - . I G 5 ' . . , f . ' . ' . - A 5, 'S y . . H L4 Western District of Pennsylvania in 1920-19213 and in 1935-1937, he was a mem- 0 E . , . . . . , . . , H I u . . 5 . l , . E U 1 . . . . . H H . f . 0 , , H U . . . i H E If E ' KY E E1 L1 Z4 K4 K4 71:13 0 if . 1 he 4 Q . 'arlbafffhliiiliiiliibibblLEEEAWEEEEEE

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