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

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OUR BUILDERS AND SPONSORS To the Wellsboro School Building Association and to the Wellsboro School Board the entire student body wishes to express its sincere and heart-felt gratitude for the splendid facilities now available in our high school. Their zeal, their perseverance, and their undying efforts more than anything else, have made possible the building of our present commodious, modern, and well-equipped edifice of learning. This volume of the Nessmuk has been dedicated to an outstanding member of the Wellsboro School Board, Mr. Francis M. Sheifer, but we wish this editorial to serve as our acknowledgment of indebtedness to all members of both boards. We hope this annual, imperfect though it is, will be the means of showing, in a small way, our appreciation of the interest expended in our behalf, and it is our greatest honor, as editors of the Nessmuk, to name the following men and women who have labored long and faithfully for the extension of educational opportunity for us. The members of the Wellsboro School Building Association: Mr. C. E. BENNETT-Chairman Mr. G. MASON OWLETT-Secretary and Treasurer Mr. T. A. CRICHTON Mr. F. H. ROCKWELL Mr. GEORGE W. WILLIAMS Mr. E. G. CARSON The members of the Wellsboro School Board: -OFFICERS- EDWARD D. EVANS-President FRANCIS M. SHEFFER-Secretary HARRY E. WEBSTER-Treasurer -DIRECTORS- EDWARD D. EVANS FRANCIS M. SHEFFER M. LOUISE MARCH HARRY E. WEBSTER FAY R. FURMAN L. B. C., Jr. APPRECIATION The entire student body of the Wellsboro Junior-Senior High School wishes to express, through the medium of the Nessmuk, its appreciation and greatest thanks for the services of Mr. and Mrs. L. Ernest Tarr, who for years have been esteemed members of our faculty. No laudatory phrase that we might write could do justice to the excel- lent work they have done or to the interest they have taken and the energy they have expended in our behalf. A graduate of Syracuse University, Mrs. Tarr became a member of the faculty in 1924 as an instructor in history. Being well grounded in facts of history and having the power to explain her subject comprehensively, she proved to be a fine teacher and she has served admirably at her post for nine years. Outside of her duties as a teacher she has been an indefatigable worker in the Girls' Hi-Y and has superintended many a fine Junior Prom. We feel that in leaving our school, Mrs. Tarr is vacating a position that will be didicult to ill with one of her ability and outstanding character. Mr. Tarr, a graduate of Rider and Beckley Colleges, became a member of our faculty in 1925 as instructor in commercial subjects. We have found him also to be a fine teacher as well as an untiring worker. During his directorship of the Dramatic Club he has turned out many successful plays by the sweat of his brow and it has been his undying enthusiasm and his perseverance that have kept a great number of high school projects from falling thru. In the later years of his service he became head of the Commercial Department. In whatever place Mr. and Mrs. Tarr may chose to reside hereafter it will be that community's decided gain as their leaving Wellsboro is our decided loss.-L. B. C., Jr. Page Fourteen

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LIBRARY Reading maketh a full man, said Bacon, and so to further the making of the full man our new school has a fme library filled with good literature and under the efiicient direction of Miss Minnie M. Mack, as librarian. During the last few years there has been increasing recognition of the importance and value of the school library, since more and more reference and collateral reading is required in studies, and also since it is during the school age that the reading habit is acquired. Wellsboro High School students may feel justly proud of and thankful for the spendid opportunity their school library affords. Located on the second floor of our new school building, the library is a large and beautiful room, containing six study tables, librarian's desk, paper and magazine files, card index cases, adequate shelf space for 5000 books, and small work room just off the library. It provides a convenient place for meetings and informal discussions by various groups. In a modern, well-equipped library there should be eight to ten volumes per pupil. This would mean that with an enrollment of over 500, Wellsboro High School should have four or five thousand volumes, while at the present time our library num- bers 1233 volumes, some of which are too ancient to be of much value. However we do have the latest periodicals, and the nucleus of a line picture collection. Gifts and ap- propriations to the library will, we trust, soon increase the number and quality of the books. Gifts to the library this first year have been: local newspapers, donated by the respective publishers, pictures, donated by John Y. Roy, books, donated by Mrs. Waldo Miller, Dr. Ray Bowen, Mrs. Porter Shall, Miss Anna Hastings and Mr. Hewstone K. Raymenton, Mr. L. E. Tarr and Miss Mack. The library is open a good share of the day and it offers a haven of rest and solitude where reference work, pursuit of current events, or pleasure reading may be indulged in by the student. We, the members of the school, feel that this library is as fine a piece of equipment as has been installed for the benefit of the student body as a whole.-L. B. C., Jr. '33. OUR GYMNASIUM Class, Atten-SHUN! This and many similar commands ring out daily in our new gymnasium, one of the finest departments in the new school. Combined with the gymnasium is the basketball and volleyball court and part of the stage. It also serves as an excellent dining room. Equipment in the gymnasium includes parallel bars, flying rings, spring board, volleyball and net. When Coach Robert F. Davidson and Coach Belle M. States first came here they found many boys and girls otherwise normal whose chest muscles and biceps were underdeveloped to such an extent that they were unable to do even the simplest exer- cises common to boys and girls of their age. Slowly and surely this condition is being eradicated. It has become evident to boys and girls alike that poise, grace, and phy- sical development are essential to a well-rounded education. The boys' gymnasium classes meet with their instructor, Coach Davidson, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. The girls' gymnasium classes meet on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons with their instructor, Miss Belle States. Throughout the year exhibitions have been given by both sections. A picture from the boys' February exhibit, a notable show of skill in a school wholly unused to gym work, appears on the opposite page. Through the facilities of om' fine gymnasium and the excellent training of both instructors, we may feel sure that the young men and women who graduate will not only be mentally efficient but will also be physically fit so that they may meet firmly the challenges of life. Page Sixteen