The Allenwood School

 

The Allenwood High School opened in September of 1910,
 "with a large enrollment", according to the Lewisburg Journal.

"The Allenwood school was later graded to include a grammar department, which had a good library by 1898.  In 1909 graduation exercises were held, and a year later a township high school was opened"  -  A Bicentennial History by Charles Snyder

The Allenwood School closed June 1958 and was torn down in 1965.

The red marker along 15 shows the schools former location, along rt 15 in Allenwood.

In 1956 when the Warrior Run Area Joint Schools inspected all of the schools to decide which should remain open and which should be closed, it was decided to close the Allenwood school. 

 Determining factors included its proximity to the busy highway, the condition of he "privies", problems with the foundation, and the heating methods being a fire hazard.

Foundation issues, in 1956 survey

The school was heated by oil space heaters, with the oil storage tanks stored leaning against the wooden building.

There were no indoor facilities - the outhouses were located to the rear of the building with a pump for washing located between the privies and the school.  

The outdoor privies were in poor condition by 1956.

In the 1956 survey, it was also noted that the chalkboards were in rough shape. 

 The lot was not large enough for a baseball diamond, and the only playground equipment were homemade see-saws.

Drinking Water

The survey concluded: "There is nothing about the Allenwood School to recommend its continued use.  The building should be abandoned.”

School Bus leaving the school on the last day

February 1965

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CLASS PHOTOS
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Year ?

Allenwood School:

First row: ?, Lewis Watson, Jean Vognetz, June Vognetz, Jean Muff, ?

Second row: Gloria Bailey, ?, Bob Marshall, Horace McCarty, Jane Pauling, Alice Jones, ?

Third row: ?, Stanley Feaster, ?, ?, Vivian Rhone, ?, 

John Lyle - Principal

Teacher - Katharine Persing

Year ? [1930s?]

Front row: ?, ? Vivian Rhone, Ned Waltman, ?, Grace Moyer, Isabelle Watson, Jean Russell, ?, ?, Elizabeth Bair, Williams, ?, ?, ?, ?,

Second row: ?, ?, Bill Shireman, ?, Bob Ungard, ?, ?,?, ?, Lina Mary Allen, Gladys McCormick, ?, ?

Third [back] row: Emma Staggert, ?, Bill McCormick, ?, Bob Meek, ?, ?, Marion Shoalts, Elva Feaster, Raymond Brown

Back row: Alice Jones,  ?, ?, Mary Moyer, ?, ?, Marguerite Buck, ?, ?, ?, Maurice Rhone

Second Grade Class, 1952-1953

June 1955

Teacher - Miss  Katharine Persing

First & Second Grade Classes

• Front Row: Donna, Bill Marshall, ? ? ? ? Linda Allen, Kitty Lupold, Jean Steininger
• Second Row:Larry Barrett, Terry Strasberg, Danny Masser ? ? ? Natalie Heintzelman, Wanda Staggert  ?
• Third [Back] Row: Wayne Huffman,  Ken Bloomer, ?  Bob Hill ? Anne Dieffenderfer ? ?  Doris McCormick, Terry Reaser, George Anstadt, Carl Bower, Russell Lupold, ?

Grades 5-6, 1956-7

Teacher - Mrs Dieffenderfer 

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Graduates in 1913 were: Marie Keith Brown, Phoebe Hill Fisher, Mary Elizabeth Tate, Ella Mae Deewall, Nellie Gray Fisher, Anna Marion Pauling, Mildred Ione Jamison, Alta Elizabeth Shopbell, Mildred Christmas Fisher, Henrietta Frances McCarthy.

Commencement, 1925

Elizabeth Waring, Elsie Koch, Marion Russell, Florance Yeagle, Helen Dewitt, Grace Ranck, Heilman Schooley, Frances Balliet, Thomas Waring, Raymond Jamison, Plmer Kennedy, Russell Dion, John Weaver

1929

Listing the pupils who had completed the two years of high school at Allenwood

A second two year course at another school would be necessary for the students to attend college.

The graduates were: Georgia Seeley, Frank Allen, Annabel Waring, Jacob Marshall, Martha Farley, and Robert Waring.

Attendance Report in November of  1935

School gets projector, 1949

October 1956

1957

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