Westmont Hilltop Senior High School - Phoenician Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION The Administration Building formed the nucleus ol the “Century of Progress”. It was the guiding hand which con- trolled and directed all activi- ties. From it radiated the ac- tion and spirit which served to keep the Exposition an ani- mate and moving unit.

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1834 1914 WESTMONT- UPPER YODER HIGH SCHOOL A CENTURY COEDUCATION 1934 IN PENNSYLVANIA Eighteen hundred thirty-four—In Pennsylvania . . . 1000 school districts . . . 2596 teachers . . . 4000 schools . . . 150,000 pupils . . . fifty-four priv- ate academies. Nineteen hundred thirty-four—2585 districts . . . 62,000 teachers . . . 2,000 buildings . . . 2,000,000 pupils . . . 1200 high schools. TWO DECADES OF EDUCATION 1934 IN WESTMONT-UPPER YODER HIGH SCHOOL Nineteen hundred fourteen—high school pupils from Westmont were tu- ition pupils at Johnstown Central High . . 1916— -union of Upper Yoder and Westmont school districts to build our high school . . . 1917—two jitneys twenty blushing girls . . . twenty s'udious youths . . . first high school class in Stutzman building . . . first basketball team organized . . . 1918— issued first volume of The Red and Gray . 1919—new high school build- ing initiated . . . library started . . luniors donated set of Mark Twain s works . . . 1920—Indoor circus . . . Initial Fun Night . . . Big Tent in the library . . . 1921—first class of twenty-three members graduated . first Phoenician: twenty-eight literarv pages, thirteen of advertising . . . 1922- first trip to Washington . . . National Honor Society introduced . • 1923- school modernized by auditorium and gymnasium . . . 1924— Dave O Lough- lin won Boys' Tennis Championship of the United States . . . .irst iootbah team 1925—seventeen teachers, two hundred and fifteen pupils . . ten in orchestra—with the help of Mr. Belles . . . 1926—school banking estab- lished first basketball team for girls . . . 1927- first school in Johnstown to be admitted to the Middle States Association of Colleqes and Secondary Schools . . . 1928—County Scholarship won by Sylvia Klatzkin . 1929— literary magazine of school changed to newspaper in form . . twenty-four in Home Economics . . . 1930—won County Debate Contest Constitu- tion of Student Council revised . . . 1931—Boys' Basketball team gained Trophy of St. Francis College . . . Frank Bracken won Cambria County Scholarship Award . . . 1932—celebrated the George Washington Bi-centen- nial at the dedication of the Price Memorial Athletic Field . . . William Kint- ner won county extemporaneous speaking contest . . . 1933—orchestra wit i forty-seven members entered into State contest at Sunbury . . 1934—-twen- ty teachers . . . three hundred ninety-four pupils . . . sixty-seven in Home Economics . . . retaining wall and bleachers built . . . band organized . . . detention hall revived . . . picturesque pageant produced . . showed pro- gressive steps in history of Johnstown . . . first class to be graduated in caps and gowns.