Triadelphia High School - Triadelphian Yearbook (Wheeling, WV)

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1934 THE TRIADELPHIAN 1934 Under the new county unit plan, West Virginia schools have just immerged from the chrysalis stage in their development, and still dazed and uncertain and somewhat alarmed with the big new world confronting them. This new school system has been inaugurated by our State Legislators in an effort to give better equality of educational opportunities to all pupils within the state. All small independent school districts or units have been merged into larger administrative or county units. These county units are under the supervision and control of county Super- intendents, their assistant Superintendents and boards of education, consisting of Hve members each. Where there were formerly four hundred school boards. there are now only fifty-Jive. Our uncertainty has been largely due to financial difficulties arising from taz limitation amendments on the part of the Legislators, and tax delinquencies on the part of the taxpayers. School budgets have been reduced. With lesls money than in other years, the schools have had to care for more children. The abolition of child labor in industry by the N. R. A. accounts for this in- creased enrollment all over the country. House Bill Num-ber 278, passed by the Legislature this February providing for the state to pay basic teacher's salaries for eight months, m'ade it possible for the schools to continue for their full terms. Slowly we will take courage and try our delicate new wings. We will soar away and find our places in this new world of larger responsibilities. And here the comparison ends. We will not live the transient life of the delicate insect. We will endure and go on down through the years, continuing to be the corner stone of the nation , training boys and girls for happy, efficient lives. 13 HflrWbHHHbGb4?b6bFbflb14lr+flff'b14b14Q

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1934 THE TRIADELPI-IIAN 1934 J. P. Mtllenry, Assistant Su erintendent: Zach S rin er. Count' Su erintendent: S. S, Jacob P P R l P Assistant Superintendent The New School System During this time of change and uncertainty, we, the schools. have not been exempted from feeling modern conditions. Our West Virginia school system has undergone a complete metamorphosis. We can. in fact. compare ourselves with those amazing little creatures of the insect world-the locust. the dragon fly, the grasshopper, or any ofthe countless others who cast their skins and mQoy a wbnth, Yes Hwy do mUoy dwh Uandonnadons ahhough M Grst they are weak and spent. unable to fly because their wings are damp and unformed: but slowly they gather strength. Their crumpled wings straighten and gleam in the sun. and at last they soar away, glad in their freedom and beauty. 12 Qlvtflwflb9lsPlvt'b1'lvf'lvl'l:t5l'1'lr1'l:+'l:15l2'rflvt4b1ll: fllvflbtlbfflzff

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1934 THE TRIADELPHIAN 1934 Board of Education TOM B. FOULK President of the Board W P M. I.. TUSTIN Cl-IAS. E. SEABRIGHT R. T. MCCOY C. C. PARSONS 14 Cbfbdbvbibibfb f'bFbffbf'b1'b+'b15b++WI79bFbvwbvbv