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PHOENICIAN THE ST 4EE Editor-in-chief Frank L. Bracken I ssistnn Edit nr Jack Zurrom Associate Editors Literary Athletics Sara Elizabeth Dodson Elsie Minchau Naomi Berney Charles Kunkle Hazel Delozier (Aass Margretta Keafcr Louise Dunkle Art John Robson Eenora Shaw Organizations Photographic Louise Geist Albert Bailey Henrietta Suto Dramatics Business Managers Ellen Kuhn Eleanor Fienberg Don Adams Joke Eliza Waters .Malcolm Read George Whitten Freda Keafcr Typists Agnes Sobditch Ethel Vickroy Miriam Hunter
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THE HISTORY of the WESTMONT-UPPER YODER HIGH SCHOOL The Westmont-L pper Yoder High School, one of the finest educational build- ings of its size in the state, has had a very interesting history. Before the year 1916 boys and girls living in Westmont attended the Johnstown High School. But in 1916 the Johnstown City School Board notified the Westmont Borough School District that the great number of students in the school made it impossible to provide for any more students from the Hilltop district. As a result, our Borough School Board consulted Dr. M. S. Bentz, Superintendent of the Cambria County Schools, who thought it advisable for the Westmont Borough to unite with the Upper-Yoder District in constructing a high school that would meet their students’ needs. According to the minutes of the Westmont-Upper Yoder School Board, April 30, 1917, recorded by Mr. Francis B. Hamilton, acting secretary for the board, the joint board proceeded to organize. Mr. Stackhouse was unanimously elected as president, Mr. Joseph Shreve as secretary, and Mr. Ephraim Hershberger was chosen treasurer. At the next meeting the joint board selected Mr. Walter R. Myton, as architect, to prepare the plans and specifications for a new high school building. The following Building Committee was annointed at this meeting: Mr. Stackhouse, Mr. Myton, and Mr. Cooper. The board then decided to erect a building consisting of eighteen rooms, a library, which was also to be used as an auditorium, and a model home-making department in the basement to conform with the requirements of the County Board of Education for Vocational High Schools. After various sites for
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