Whitehall High School - Whitehall Yearbook (Whitehall, PA)

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The enture student body durung the 19041905 term Hustory of Whutehall ONCE UPON A TIME way back un 1902 the cutuzens of Whutehall Townshup took steps to provude a modern educatuonal system for theur chuldren They selected Cementon as the furst locatuon for theur school but two years later un 1904 moved ut to uts present locatuon un Hokendauqua On Thanks guvung Day wuth a prayer un theur hearts the towns folk deducated theur new school men Preston Breunug Wulluam 1-leulman and Joseph Kane who admunustered to students hugh school courses of only two years un length In 1905 Whute hall Townshup Hugh School proudly graduated ts turst class ot twenty one In those days the classroom was detunutely a man s world The lads outnumbered the lasses 6 to 1 the class of 1905 havung eughteen boys and three gurls By 1908 hugh school was a three year aftaur and un 1921 Whutehall emerged as we know ut today a furst class hugh school requurung four years to com pete Sprung 1924 found the school beung enlarged wuth an addutuon ot a modern buuldung A class of thurty nune students was turst graduated from the new Whutehall un 1926 Fulled to capacuty un May 1948 a new addu tuon was begun Upon uts completuon the new school We have grown by leaps and bounds untul today our school consusts ot twenty classrooms a gym cateterua seatung three hundred persons metal wood and prunt snaps an audutoruum seatung almost seven hundred persons and a home economucs cottage consustung ot a kitchen a luvung room sewung quart ers laundry and two recutatuon rooms We guve our thanks to the tar sughted cutuzens and educators who laud the toundatuon for Whutehall Junuor Sensor Hugh School way back un 1902 O I - . I . - . . . - . . . . . I I I I I D I I . - ' 1 . . . - ,, ,, . . At that time the faculty was composed ot those was converted into a Junior-Senior high school. . - I ' I 1 1 1 1 1 D l 1 1 h 1 - 6

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'25, 'Ni Z ?5ihef,za First addmon To The Hugh School was bull? In T924 To The for lefT IT The home acqurred IH 1940 for Q home economics cottage UPON THE MIRROR OF TIME have fallen The sands of TTTTy ,ears As The pages of Thus book are Turned The sands are swepT away and Times maglc murror reveals These Tleehng reTlecTuons casT upon The raver YESTERYEAR A humble counTry school house born TnTo The 1nfanT TwenTneTh cenTury her Tnrsf commencemem exerclses as TwenTy one sTudenTs are graduaTed sTandTng Through a world war expandlng wTTh Amerlca during The roaring Twer les survuvzng The Terrible depresslon of The Thurne To graduaTe her sons rnTo The early warTorn orhes growmg larger ID a buuld ng boom aT The close of a second world conTlTcT rushlng Torwarc anTo The hTT1es wnTh a dream of peace only To have TT shaTTered by Korean Aggresslon sen :ng r r sons once rnoe ToT e baTT'e Tue' o .1 Torelan s soon re olc Ing as an arrnlshce sends Therr 'Tome aT IosT she beglns planning a beTTer scnool wnh whnch To educaTe The children of Tomorrow and now grad uanng her TTfTueTh class TT-TS TT-TE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED ND FTFTY FOUR VVhsTehall as we have come To know and love her was a dream of Those TnrsT TwenTy one graduaTes lmagune bezng broughT To school by bus when The horseless carnage was sTxll a dreaml Our bulldlngs and Their endless maze of halls and class rooms would amaze Them A glance aT Todays school books would Tull Their eyes wlTh dellghT BeTween The covers of our books are The sxx Rs Readrn Rmn and RlThmaTTc and Thelr younger couslns Reason Responslbulny and RlghTs Thus caTeTeraa of ours IS a marvel v hen compared To hear cusrom oT eahng uncw on Tue schools sTeps Any hunT oT sTu enT goverrmem ould T Q re olu back Tn Those days when class room rule was care Tully maTnTalned by hlckory sT k and dunce cap ur TccTball aarres uh e Ta I Thelr colo Tcl T lmrn ngs y cne readers sndapy n and hlgh g mace s woud dra on sighs CT envy Te fl ol board fvacld Tex r ave given Thelr suap T Tc such non ense TC rn y col lan T cr soclal e e cause X.? '-L+