West Pittston High School - Caravan Yearbook (West Pittston, PA)

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THE OLD ACADEM Y HIGH SCHOOL THROUGH THE YEARS West Pittston Public Schools have grown steadily and successfully from a modest beglnnxng in a town which in 1852 contained but three houses and in 1878 fthe year of the first high school Commencementl but 3 000 lnhabltants The present admirable system had its mceptlon in 1859 twenty five years after the Free Schools Law was enacted The first board elected that year con slsted of Theodore Strong president fwho retained that office until 18645 O H Dounce secretary E A Clark treasurer Imlah Drake Amos Stroh and Simon Rltter Secretary Dounce who reslgned at the second meetlng was succeeded by G M Rlchart Soon after the organlzatlon of the board Mr J A Wisner offered to sell a private school and the lot on which it stood for S1 200 This propertv was located on Vme Street now called Race Street Despite the protests of many citizens who considered the price too hlgh the purchase was made and William Jeffords was elected the first teacher As llttle by little the population of the town grew ln April 1861 the number of school rooms was mcreased to three and two women teachers were added to the force at a salary of S20 a month The prmclpal Augustus Loomis recelved S32 50 a month In 1870 the board erected a two story frame building on the Vme Street plot Two years later the school term was extended to ten months A movement that had a great influence on the future of the school district was lnaugurated IH April 1873 It seems that in 1868 a number of West Pitts ton gentlemen establlshed a rather pretentious academy on a large area that I