St Petersburg Richland High School - Cardinal Yearbook (St Petersburg, PA)

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HISTORY OF THE ST. PETERSBURG-RICHLAND TCJWNSHIP SCHOGL By Susan Lemmon Faculty. parents and friends, tonight I would like to tell you a little bit about the his- tory of our school. In 1929 at the November election the people of the town, St. Petersburg, made a third attempt to pass a bond issue between St. Petersburg borough and Richland township. This attempt was successful. Richland Township's bond was 317.500 and St. Petersburg Borough's 39,000 The bonds were to be paid off over a period of twenty years. Of course, these bonds were paid. The contracts were given out immediately: a general contract. 350.000, plumbing and heating, approximately 317.0002 and an electric contract, 2132.987 Then everyone got busy for there really was going to be a new school. We needed money and more money! The methods of raising this money were many and varied. There were public entertainments given, one of which featured the Red Arrow quartet and Rowsy Rosewell. Teas, card parties. the sale of post cards, and the raffling off of an Austin automobile realized the sum of 956,000 which was used in order to furnish the building. Approximately 320,000 was given by subscription and through the influence of Dr. Harrison Wellman the State Board of Education gave 311,000 for our project. The bal- ance of the debt, according to agreement, was to be paid by St. Petersburg Borough. This was taken care of by a bond issue of 34,000 in November, 1938. The varied ceremonies of erecting a school were instituted. Ground was broken on April 30, 1930 by Paul Wellman, Dr. Harrison Wellman's son, who was then a second grader. Less than a month later, on May 25. the corner stone was laid by Mr. G. T. Watson, president of the township board then, and F. A. Foust, president of the borough board. The school opened the first week of October, 1930. The next event concerning our school was the dedication, which was held on November 7, 1930, attended by 700 people. The members of the school board in 1930 were: for the borough, F. A. Foust, G. E. Ashbaugh, O. D. Ritts. R. V. Freeman. H. M. Wellman: for the township: G. L. Watson, J. D. Stull. L. S. P. Heeter, H. C. Collner, and A. B. Russell. Up until this year not only the high school and grade school pupils from the township and borough attended our school, but also all of the high school pupils from Foxburg at- tended here. This year most of the Foxburg pupils attended Keystone High School: but some preferred to continue coming to this school, and as a result, we have three of these Foxburg people graduating with us tonight. The fiftieth year for a graduating class to be given its diplomas in St. Petersburg was 1946. Of course, not all of those classes attended the new building. Thirty-five classes took leave from the old building. Up to the year of '46 only 15 classes had received their parting treasures from the new school. Tonight, we, the class of '57 are the 27th and last class that will ever be graduated from this building. With the forming of the new Allegheny-Clarion Valley Joint School System this build- ing will become an elementary center to serve the children, grades 1-6, of the area without regard to district lines. The St. Petersburg-Richland Jointure was officially de-activated June 30, 1957. Commencement Address By Susan Lemmon

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St. Petersburg-Richland School Board Last Official Board Donald Lynch President William Barleff Vice President William Morgan Treasurer 'W-Q' James Miller Paul Ashbaugh V ' vrr , ,Q f X :AA nm f-6 I ,gf 1 .,g J .A 31 ' ' ff --ww ,, Harris Dreibelbis 5 g yf . 1 QBQNI - Homer l-leeter Glenn Kesler Robert Mmiren Secretary Mrs. Madeline Inglmg