Wellsboro Area High School - Nessmuk Yearbook (Wellsboro, PA)

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f GLASS SONG WORDS BY FNSIG BY , GERTRUDE WILSON RITA xNowLToN ll Q' f -' A -.. ,7 W QI g IQIJE- III I, aI IIA, I I II as IU' f 'A ' ' W' 'W I THE CLH35 OF INE-TEEN THIR-TY TWO NGW SING3 IT SOVG UF PRAISE' I 4 - I nal ' '11 I JI Lain ..... 1 .I ln--l.nr,.:'., A, l I I, T I- rl'-I I1 ' I I r l I' I rx ' 1 :'- lf JV IJ T I lf. I ' 6' J l 1 - THE om 'vs Lows -- so ron-wana o AT LAST H T o R is 71' ,-, du, - 1 J vfP1I 1 f J-- lf ' ' Il-5, 35 -can-I :J flulnllllll I. l I -I I Il I l'IJlSr1f,I1Tj ' 'J ' I -I I I' I - I - l , - I, IJ I I J I 1 KU' , 3 111.11 F' 'H A J l f ' OUR I-IIGH L mrs A E P - mc.. oH, ow Quan-LY THEY NE 55- I Yimlili lg -IPCGIIIIHIF-P1-IAF'-ITj'l I Ill? - I-' ' lfjgY lr'CKl1lQY'lrIr1FIr'IrI-I'l'I ,I lu I l I IZ l l I r.l I I 'I I I If 2 I - il I I I-S 'H' .HHLJ Ig Q3 bo V I I . lfnil' - mv I . ED, FOR WE HAD NEV-ER E.V EN DREHNEDTHATT EY WOULD G 50 F ST, Y Q-Cl-16 I 1- I Il li lllllgltx lr!-1AllAr1ll!1'1Sl'1 4 lllflu I A, ,, , W-, l' 71-I -, HI11Il-IFIS X ' l fl I l ,lf,l' , I The seniors now are ready I To start for heights of fameg But, dear old Wellsboro High School, We'll ne'er forget thy name. I II A What paths to glory we may find ,II , U ' No mortal man can tell, ' But to our friends at high school 11-1-,7 We now must say farewell. waxy' F. if - if X37 I .J X gf' -- ' - Z If f, I , fl KW C, -1 5: 1 Page Twelve I

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' I THE NESSMUK THE OLD ORDER CHAN GETH Our first settlers had what was then termed a liberal education. Naturally they took an interest in schools for their children, and for this reason classes were held in the Quaker Meeting House soon after it was erected by Benjamin Morris. In this small structure the educational system of Wellsboro had its beginning. Charted in March 1817 by the Legislature, the Academy was built at a cost of one thousand five hundred dollars for all material and workmanship. It was of wood, forty- eight feet long and twenty-two feet' wide. On the ground floor were two large rooms and a hall eight feet wide. On the second floor were two small rooms and one large room. In 1834 Pennsylvania approved the Common School Law. It was then necessary to erect a common, or as we now term it, a public school. In 1835 such a school was opened in a log building. Gradually this school expanded as the population increased, and new buildings were added until in 1873 there was a total attendance of five hundred and thirty pupils. This increase showed that enlarged facilities were imperative, and that the only relief would be by the erection of a large additional building. As early as 1860, with a foresight which has always marked the plans of all Wells- boro enterprises, the school district had purchased property upon which they antici- pated the construction of a building. In 1873, meetings were held in the Court House, papers were loud in their appeal, and public opinion was awakened, all toward a school building which would satisfy the demand made by the large and increasing number of pupils. The school board purchased a new lot and erected upon it an edifice for that day large, substantial, and imposing. This cost, with furnishings, thirty-three thousand fave hundred dollars. After its dedication in 1875 the enrollment increased and was noticeably augmented each year until about five years ago when the building became inadequate for the large numbers which were enrolled therein. If for no other reason it would have to be abandoned now because the school population has outgrown it. At the time the school was constructed it was nearly out of proportions to the size of the group it housed, despite the fact that high school activities were confined to the third floor while grade instruction occupied the first two floors. This is proof of the foresight of our ancestors. They looked ahead and foresaw the increasing number of students enrolled each year and planned accordingly, and their prophecy has come true, passing beyond even their flight of immagination, for now there is not room in the building for the high school students alone. The school board under, whose administration the building was constructed was: President, John W. Bailey: Treasurer, William Bacheg Secretary, James Bosardg and the following members: Jerome B. Potter, Hugh Young, Chester Robinson, Jerome B. Niles, and the principal at the time, P. M. Edick. To these men must go much credit for the work which they accomplished for such a noble and honorable enterprise. This building has served its purpose. Stately even in old age, impressive because of the fact that it is an institution of learning, revered by all of its alumni and wor- shipped by all who have entered its portals as students, it will forever hold a hallowed lace in the memories of those who have felt its influence. his understood now that the building is to be torn down soon and the under- are looking forward eagerly to the new building which is to take the place 111777 ' as had in the community. Thus The Old Order Changethf'-Q. L. W. '32. 9 U! X f?'- VN iff? ' Nxggxl. , if v 3 f -.g -- fg agree-. . at ,Q ESR- QQ9.e2 Page Fourteen