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

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THE FACULTY MR. OSCAR BELLES—jovial—humorous. Brilliant mathematician. Clever photographer. Well liked principal and math instructor. Graduate of Harvard. MISS ANNA MARY RAAB—right hand man to Mr. Belles. Performs her many duties with the smoothness of Houdini. All around good sport. MISS MAE FINKELSON—very quiet and very efficient. Mr. Ackley's shadow. Helps to make our office run like clockwork. CAN WE REALIZE? Can we realize that education is not an automatic, spraying-on process? With a good building and excellent teachers, the battle is only begun. Here is youth, not contacting industry in the home as in olden days, but tapped off from the community and pooled here. Can we teachers leaven the mass, or will they conspire to stagnate? Our greatest help is the fervent belief of the community in education. In these sober times only the more responsible are hired and returns are so modest that home-made fun a cultivation of our own intellectual resources—is necessary. Youth is active. The school is not a factory with teachers as workmen, but a community workshop with teachers as foremen. If parents weaken in the least—if they insinuate doubts, or allow dawdling—the morals of the chief educator—the pupil himself—are broken. We must convince ourselves first, and apply the gentle but unyieldingly persistent pressure that is alone effective with growing things. —OSCAR BELLES

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WESTMONT BOARD OF EDUCATION E. ARTHUR JAMES MRS. HARRY HAGER MRS. DAVID C. BOAG J. C. ECKEL FREEMAN F. FULLERTON WILLARD E. ACKLEY, Supervising Principal UPPER-YODER BOARD OF EDUCATION JAMES B. HERSHBERGER LUTHER E. LEHMAN CHARLES W. TILLEY LEWIS I. MILLER ARTHUR RUMMEL

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MISS CANAN MR. HORNER MR. SIEGEL MR. ENGH MISS KANTNER MR. TOMB MISS ESENWEIN MISS LANDIS MISS J. WILLIAMS MISS E. GREER MISS McGANN MISS R. WILLIAMS MISS M. GREER MR. McILNAY MISS WITT MISS GOODWIN MR. OTT MISS WYMAN