Trafford High School - Reflector Yearbook (Trafford, PA)

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In this year's edition of the Reflector the staff is attempting to explain the school to the community. Sometimes residents in an average American town such as Trafford get the idea that the school is a thing apart. A school is ma-de up of a plant built and maintained by the community, plus the youth of the community who are instructed by teachers from that same or near-by communities. On page nine you will discover tha.t the in- structors of Trafford youth take part in community activities both church and civic to a much greater extent than you would at first suspect. Let us take for example the Supervising Principal of the Trafford Public Schools. Mr. Seville's academic training includes the local schools of Fulton County, Pennsylvania, Shippensburg State Teachers' College, and the University of Pittsburgh. He began his teaching career as high school principal of Wells Township High School in Fulton County. Since then he has been supervising principal a.t Saxton in Bedford County, ward p.rincipal in Du Boise, and supervising principal in Bolivar, Blairsville, and Trafford. He has taught inf summer norma.ls in both Fulton and Bedford Countfies. He is a member and past president of the Westmoreland County Principals' Association. He is president of Section X of the P.S.E.A. in Westmoreland County. U When Mr. Seville came to Trafford in IQ24 there was a three year high school. He reorganized the school system to include a four year high school, rated as first class. This means that a graduate from Trafford may enter any school or college without examination if his grades are in the acceptable quartile for admittance. Mr. Seville was instrumental in organ- izing athletics, particularly football on an inter-school basis. There had been some basketball on an inter-class level previously. So far these activities and this training is about what you would expect of a school man, but your supervising principal has been on the Council of the Lutheran Church in Traffond and elsewhere fofr 26 years. For 38 years he taught a Bible class. During the war he was on the Defense Council anfd the Ration Board. Because of his deep interest in civic affairs he was elected a member of the Pi Gamma Mu, the sooial studies ftraternity at the University of West Virginia. Mr. Seville is a charter Member of Trafford Rotary. At present he is treasurer of the Community Chest. Perhaps you think that these jobs are a bit white collarish . During vacations at different times Mr. Seville has worked for th-e Pennsylvania Railroad in Altoona, the American Locomotive Works in Pittsburgh, and the Brick Yards in Bolivar. Here he was a laborer not an office worker. For two seasons he was Advance Superintendent for the Coit-Alber Chautauqua Company working in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. In this way he had an opportunity of meeting people with other backgrounds and widely divergent interests. I V One of Mr. Seville's greatest pleas-ures is gardening. Perhaps because ffe was born on a farm near McConnellsburg he has never gotten away from the smell of the soil. At the first sign of spring he has to get his tomato plants in so that he can be ready for the earliest possible transplant- ing. By the way, he grows flowers too. Mr. Seville's recorrd of community service could be d-upilicated in many respects by other members of your faculty. We have no moronic molly- coddles as certain comic valentines might leafl you to suspect. Jacinto Benavente once titled a play La Vida es la Losa de los Suenos, but to your faculty, life is no sepulchre of dreams, it is rather an open field for cultivation in which the school is a corner and before it is the community at large. 5

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DEDICATIDN T0 TH If CDMMUN ITV The Amci'ic'ztii VVziy of Life is at Way of thiiikiiig rzltlicr than at XVZIY of liviiig. Many years ago the greatest public simezlkci' of all Rome said that 'Civis Rmiittiiiis sum wus the proudest boast at mzm voulcl utter. Merely being at Roiiiziii Citizen sawn,-cl St. Paul from at rim-iii with tlie lucal ziutlior- ities at jerusalem. ul um an Americaii citizen slioulcl be the proudest utterance of amy one ol' us. Tliis is not by way Oli lmzist oi' iiiorclinzite pride. VVeheix'ebee1i eiitrusteul with the stewelrclsliip of the Finest tliiiiigs this world can oifeit ziml, of ctourse, much i'c'-quirefl of us. Mr. H. E. Seville Supervising Principal

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Reflections The School Administration Faculty Students The Activities Sports GI u bs A TYPICAL SENIOR A typical senior, the kind that Trafford I-Iigh School is proud to have among her graduates. What is she reading? lt probably isn't school Work. lt d.0esn't look like V-Mail eitherg but then, the war is over and V-Mail is a memory. Our typical senior wears wings. Now' don't go looking at her shoulders ---- although she does have a gentle, somewhat angelic appearance ---- they're on her lapel. Whose are they? O, a typical Amer- ican's. We're sure that the long shadow is pointing the way to happiness