Upper Darby High School - Oak Yearbook (Upper Darby, PA)

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The School Board members as pictured at the left are—Sitting: Dr. J. Vernon Ellson; Mr. Van' Leer I. Bond; Dr. George G. Dilworth. President; Mr. John H. Frazier, Vice-President; Mr. John H Tyson, Superintendent of Schools; Mr. George W. Hoehler, Acting Assistant to the Superintendent; Dr. Edgar B. Cale; Mrs. Rhoda S. Seeburger: Mrs. Bertha Wert. Standing: N. Horace Berman. Esq.: Mr. R. Winfield Baile, Solicitor; Mr. John C. Parry; Mr. John J. Schiedel, Secretary; Mr. Stewart B. Harkness. Treasurer. . . . Without You Principal f the Upper Darby High School. Dr James E. Nancarrow, since his arrival in 194.'. has been a valuable note in the stalF of Upper Darby Sen ol administrators. Active in school and com- munity life, he has been both a friend and servant of the township. The community has enjoyed his active participation as president of the Rotary Club and board member of the Delaware County Y M C A. and a member of the Board of Directors of the Delaware County Tuberculosis Society. He is also a member of the Headmasters Association and was recently appointed a member of the College Entrance Examination Board. Dr. Nancarrow is. in addition, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Branch of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Despite his heavy civic and educational responsibilities. Dr. Nancarrow's interest in student athletics, publications, and government is an eager and enthusiastic one.

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Education — uppermost in the minds of the School Board members—is one of the outstanding features of Upper Darby Township and is one of the chief reasons for the amazing progress of a rapidly growing community. The School Board, responsible for selecting Upper Darby's faculty and providing new buildings and facilities for the ever growing school population, has done a superior job. We students thank the school board for their foresight in giving us teachers who will be understanding and develop within us latent potentialities. We students also thank the board members for the fine new academic wing and gymnasium, recently added to our high school. The elementary school children and their parents also feel as we do. The new Hillcrest school and its addition have been a great boon to their everyday lives. It Wouldn’t Be the Same . . . Superintendent of Schools. Mr. John H Tyson, has for a decade planned facilities for Upper Darby's increasing scho 1 population. The work has not been easy Mr. Tyson carried his hopes and dreams with him through the waning years of the Second World War and through the Korean War until finally, within the past few years, an addition to the high school has been added: the Primos School, the Hillcrest School and an addition have been built: and with the help of the SOO.OOO-dollar Bond Issue, a new fifteen-room elementary school will be constructed in the Westbrook Park area. A new junior high school is also forecast for the future. Mr. Tyson has not lacked experience for this enormous job of planning. He has been active in administrative positions for thirty-four years. Prior to his appointment as superintendent, he was prin- cipal of the Upper Darby Senior High School.

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and Ends . . Administration Sitting: Edna M. Danchowcr. B.S.. M.S.; James E. Nancarrow, B.S., M.A., D.Ed. Standing: Charles W. Holmes, B.A.. M.A.; Stanley F. Twocs, B.S. M.A.; Ralph M. Andersen, B.D., B.S., M S. English Sitting: Frances J. Gamble, B.A., M S ; Frances E. Weimer, B.A.. M.A.; Edith Gaukrodger, B.A.. M.A.. Chairman; Margaret N. Ycrkes. B.A.; Anne M. Slick. B.A. Standing: Carl M. Hamsher, B.A., M A : Maisie G. Weil. B.S Ralph G. McConnell, B.A., M A ; Helen M. Mowry, B.A., MS.; Paul K. Noel, B.A., M.A.; Ivon E. Culver, B.S., B.A., D.Ed.; Frieda E. Reed. B.A . M.A : Murray C. Miller. B.A. Foreign Languages Sitting: Agnes B. Grunlxrrg. P.S.T.. B.S . M.A.; Carl L. Clugs ton. S.N.S.. B.A : Alice M. Good- man, B.S.. M.Ed. Standing: Charlotte S. Chris- man, B.A . M.A : M. Ruth Bassett, B.S., MS.; E. Lucile Noble, B.A., M.A.; Mary A. Taylor, B.A.. M.A.. Chairman. je 14