AREA ECHO 1 ' Formerly kwwn as the CUMBERLANDER Published in 33 volumes
CARMICHAELS AREA HIGH SCHOOL OUR HIGH SCHOOL Our high chool had it beginning in 1907 in one room in what is now the Carmichaels Borough School with one teacher, Mi Mantie Strawn. Mis Strawn wa joined by Mr. Edward Rinehart the second year and by Mi Minnie Clutter the third year. lt wa a three-year high chool having it first graduation in 1910. The need for a building and a bigger teaching staff soon became apparent, and the first building for the student of Cumberland Township was built in 1910 near the southern end of Market Street. That building is now known a the Central Building. The new school contained three classrooms, an office, and an auditorium which had a seating capacity of three hundred. A chemi try laboratory wa added in 1919. With increa ed enrollment more classrooms were needed necessitating changing the auditorium into classrooms in 1927. In a short time this building no longer accommodated all the students in the area, and so the idea of a new building was presented to the voters in the 1927 election. They voted an appropriation of $200,000 for a new school. In the summer ground was broken on the old Hathaway Homestead which 2 was to be the site of the new high school and a campu of several acres. Finished in the spring of 1929, it contained twelve cla room , a library, office, science laboratory, and an auditorium which eated 880 students and a gymna ium which seated 800. With added space and new facilities a more varied curriculum became possible. The Industrial Arts Course was started in 1938 and the Home Economics was made available in 1940. Field sports were given a boost with the completion of the athletic field. In 1938 the fence, the retaining wall and the two center ection of bleachers were built. Lights were added in 1940 and the field house in 1941, completing the most outstanding stadium in the area. In 1962 Carmichaels Borough School merged with Cumberland Township School District. Thi union is now called Carmichaels Area School Di trict. The merger was one step toward further consolidation which is being planned by the State Department. This planning causes us to believe that we may expect a greater and more varied school program. Carmichaels Area High is looking forward to sharing the benefits of such planning.
To Mr . Ruth M. Crago, friend and coun elor, we dedicate thi fir t volume of the Area Echo. Mr . Crago received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from California State Teacher College and her Ma ter Degree from the Univer ity of We t Virginia. While at California he was a member of Philo Society and at We t Virginia she belonged to the Chre tomathean ociety and Kappa Delta Phi. Her teaching career began at Cumberland Townhip from 1916 to 1917. Then followed po ition at Monongahela Town hip from 1917 to 1921, at White A h Con olidated School and Eden Valley Con olidated School in orth Dakota from 1921 to 1923, and again at Cumberland Township from 1925 to 1927, at Monongahela Town hip from 1927 to 1932 and again from 1936 to 1948. She returned to Cumberland Town hip in 1948 and remained with u as librarian and guidance coun elor, and along with her library work spon ored the Library Service Club and the Probationary Library Club. 3 This Annual ts dedicated to MRS. RlTTH M. CRAGO Librarian and ervice have been many and varied. In addition to her regular chool ervice , Mr . Crago ponored the fir t 4-H Club in Monongahela Township and the ational Honorary Society al o in Monongahela Town hip. She became a director of the Flenniken Memorial Library at the time of it charter. Our local PTA gave her an honorary life member hip, the fir t in thi county. At one time he served a the Greene County repre entative of the Board of Director for California State Teacher College Alumni A ociation. To what extent her influence i being fdt or will be felt no one will ever know- o many have been influenced and guided by her. May one of her bigge t ati faction be knowing that he ha given her be t and that becau e of her, part of this world i a better place. o you, Mr . Crago, we wi h to expre our incere thanks for your help and your interest in each one of u . May your retirement be all that you want it to be.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CARMICHAELS AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT Seated: Mr. William Connor, treasurer ; Mr. William A. Sica, pre ident; Mr. Glenn Allison , secretary. Standing: Mr. Frank Andria, Mr. George MtJoy. Dr. Roy C. Jack, Mr. Jo eph Dell, Mr. Andrew O'Brochta, Mr. Wayne Long, vice president ; Mr. Ray W. Honsaker. Not pictured: Mr. S. J . Ellenberger and Mr. Jo eph Baker. SCHOOL SECRETARY Mrs. Chauncey Robinson
CO-EDITORS Eugene Rembold Mary Jo DeHaas EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE AREA ECHO The editorial staff of this annual pre ents the premier of The Area Echo. After the merger with Carmichaels Borough, our school district has been named Carmichaels Area School District and our school has been named Carmichaels Area High School. Going along with the changing of names , the students have changed the name of the animal from The Cumberlander to The Area Echo. The staff is proud to have the privilege of producing the first edition of The Area Echo. It has been our purpose to produce an annual of which you can be proud and from which you can recall , both now and in years to come, good work and happy times and know that it was all very much worthwhile. Seated: S. Cumming , K. Donovan, B. Brickett , C. Waine, M. J . DeHaas, E. Rembold, S. Honsaker, M. L. Ander on, D. Rapchak, K. Swift. Standing: Mrs. Baily, adviser, L. Palone, . Lind trom, M. Slevin, T . Sedmak, P. Litwin, R. Begovich , B. Darney, J . Gera, R. Kenni on, R. Opest.
Mr. J. William Kerr Realizing my own inadequacie , I'm quoting noted literary figures to enumerate a few of Mrs. Crago's qualities: Accuracy i the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty .--Simmons Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, -Addison Rare benevolence! the minister of God.-Carlyle The one prudence of life is concentration.-Emerson Without consistency there is no moral strength.-Owen Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart-Burke ~~~c/;r \)~~1<7 l (\~/ ~~~- - /' £ ~fJ Y? MR. J. W. KERR Supervising Principal of Carmichaels Area School District
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