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In the lower picture the school is pictured in 1920. The picture at left shows the old schoool in the right background with the addition in front. The old school was eventually torn down. In its place now stands the larger part of the present High School. |
Mansfield High School Faculty |
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1931 to 1933 |
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1936 to 1937 |
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1913
Back: ?, Nettie Shepard, ?, ? Front: ? , Longstreet, Jones, Roff |
1926 Yearbook Photo - Faculty
Back: Grove, Knapp, Burnham, Horton, Bailey Front: Miller, Longstreet, Roff, Stepler |
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1927 Faculty - Yearbook Photo
Back: Bailey, Burnham, Miller, Horton Front: Paluso, Roff, Longstreet, Grove, Stepler |
1928 Faculty - Yearbook Photo
Back: Paluso, Bates, Bailey, Ackley, Horton, Grove Front" Miller, Longstreet, Stepler |
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1930 Faculty - Yearbook Photo
Back: Bates, Gleckler, Miller, ?, ?, Horton, Bailey, W. Webster Front: Ackley, Stepler |
Willard E. Ackley, B.S., Principal, Math.
College: Mansfield State Teachers College
Warren L. Miller, B.S., Vice Principal, Athletic Coach, Senior Class Advisor.
Leo J. Bailey, B.S., Director of Vocational Agriculture.
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Education: Mansfield High School; Mansfield State Normal School; Mansfield State Teachers College.
Experience: Two years, Tioga High School; Mansfield High School, 1927______.
Mrs. Clark, Supervisor Home Economics, Sophomore Advisor.
Education: Indiana State Teachers College.
Experience: One year, Pennhurst, Pa., 1921; Four years Wellsboro High
School, 1922-26.
Ada M. Horton, R.P., Latin, Librarian.
Education: Alfred University, Mansfield State Teachers College, Shippensburg
State Normal School.
Experience: Principal, Leetonia: Principal, South Vineland; Assistant
Principal, Mt. Jewett; Present position, 1923_____.
Gertrude A Smiley, A.B., French, English IV, Dramatic Club Advisor, Junior
Class Advisor, Faculty Advisor of “Senior Hi-Light”.
Education: Towanda Public School, Pennsylvania State College.
Experience: Kingston Township High School, 1928-29; Mansfield Senior High
School,1929_____.
Helen M. Stepler, A.B., World History, American History, Problems of
Democracy, Senior Class Advisor, Girls’ Basketball Team Chaperon.
Education: Chambersburg High School; Wilson College, 1925; Shippensburg
State Teachers College, summer Session, 1928.
Experience: Mansfield Senior High School, 1925_____.
Wayne Webster, Algebra, Biology, Sophomore Class Advisor.
Education: Mansfield State Teachers College,
Experience: Four years teacher of one room rural school, six years principal
of Springville High School, present position, 1929____.
Marion Gleckler, B.L. I., Secretary.
Education: Mansfield State Teachers College; Emerson College; Boston
University; University of Pittsburgh; Post-graduate, Mansfield State Teachers
College.
Experience: Two years at South Fork; one year at Pittsburgh; Present
position, 1929_____.
1941 Faculty - Yearbook Photo
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Ackley 1931 |
| BATES, Elizabeth - Mrs. Elizabeth B. Smith, 73, of Lansdowne,
formerly of Mansfield, died Sunday, Sept. 12, 1976, at her home. She was the
widow of Reed E. Smith. Mrs. Smith was born at Mansfield on Jan. 21, 1903, a
daughter of John Philip and Sadie Long Bates. She was a member of the
Presbyterian Church, Lansdowne. A graduate of the former Mansfield Normal
School, she had taught in the Mansfield and Tioga areas for several years.
Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Sarah B. Randal of Liberty, NY. Graveside services
will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, September 19, in Prospect Cemetery, Mansfield. The
Rev. William F. Emery 3rd, pastor of First Presbyterian Church will officiate.
There will be no visitation. - The Wellsboro Gazette [Wellsboro, PA], 15
September 1976
Mansfield High School 1921 Mansfield State Normal School 1923 Mansfield High School Faculty 1927- ? |
Mansfield Advertiser, August 1954
Philip Brennan Hired as Member of Faculty
Philip Brennan, son of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brennan, of Lawrenceville, has been
hired as a member of the mathematics department of the new Williamson
Junior-Senior High School which is to be opened September 7 at 9:00 a.m. Mr.
Brennan was born in 1929 at Lawrenceville; graduated from the High School here
in 1947; graduated from Mansfield State Teachers College in 1951. July, 1951, he
entered the United States Coast Guard; enlistment for three years. October,
1951, departed USCG receiving center, Cape May, NJ; October, 1951, reported USCG
base, Buffalo, NY; April, 1952, reported USCG training station, Groton, Conn.,
for 24 weeks training in radioman school; October 2, 1952, radio Station,
Cleveland, Ohio; March 2, 1953, reported aboard US Coast Guard Cutter Mable,
Ogdensburg, NY; July 10, 1954, released from active duty. He is not married and
will make his home with his parents.
BURNHAM, Frederick D.
Frederick D. Burnham, age 69, of Mansfield, died Monday, Feb. 5, 1968 at
the Divine Providence Hospital, Williamsport, following an extended illness.
Funeral will be at the Shaw and Robena Funeral Home, Mansfield, Thursday at 1
p.m. Rev. Harry A. Sagar will officiate. Burial will be in Prospect
Cemetery, Mansfield. Survived by wife, Mrs. Lillian Cummings Burnham;
daughter Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hoffman; son Frederick D. Burnham, Jr., both of
Mansfield; three grandchildren, Kurt, Sandra and Julie Hoffman, all of
Mansfield. He was a veteran of World War I; American Legion; Methodist
Church, Mansfield; belong to Mansfield Lodge I.O.O.F. No. 526; member of Canton
Encampment No. 319, Tyco No. 10; member of Friendship Lodge No. 247. He
was the tax assessor of Mansfield Borough. Mr. Burnham graduated from
Mansfield State College in 1921 and from Syracuse University in 1925. He
taught at the Mansfield High School before becoming an employee at the Mansfield
Post Office from which he retired several years ago. Old Fellows Committal
was held Wednesday evening at 7:30 and a Masonic Committal at 8:00.
GLECKLER - Miss Marion Esther Gleckler, 79, a resident of Sycamore Manor, formerly of St. James St., Mansfield, died at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 5, 1981, in Williamsport Hospital, where she had been admitted March 30. She was born Nov. 1, 1901, at Nauvoo, the daughter of Grant and Edith Middaugh Gleckler. She was a teacher for many years at Mansfield High School. Miss Gleckler was a member of Mansfield Presbyterian Church. She was a charter member of the Utopian Literary Club, Mansfield, and a member of the Mansfield Garden Club. She was a past member of Pi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma and the Pennsylvania State Education Assn. And National Education Assn. There are no immediate survivors. The funeral was held Wednesday at the Kuhl Funeral Home, Mansfield. Burial was in Salem-St. Paul Cemetery, Liberty. - Wellsboro Gazette, April 8, 1981
HORTON - Miss Ada May Horton, 91, of E. Main St., Mansfield, Pa. Died February 15, 1957 after an extended illness. She was a former teacher in Mansfield schools for many years and also taught in Tioga and Potter County Schools. She was a member of the Mansfield Presbyterian Church. She is survived by a brother, Capt. Fred Horton with the US Navy at Virginia Beach, Va.; nephew, Bayard(?) Gambell and Miss Eleanor Gambell, both of Vineland, NJ. Services were held in Prospect Cemetery on Sunday, February 17th at 2 p.m. with the Rev. John R. Hays officiating. - Wellsboro Agitator, 7 March 1957
| William R. Longstreet
First Principal County Superintendent of Schools 19 MAR 1858 - 13 MAY 1935 Oakwood Cemetery, Mansfield Wellsboro Agitator, May 15, 1935 W.R. Longstreet died Monday Former County Supt. of Schools had Long and Useful Career LONGSTREET - Prof. William R. Longstreet, well known throughout the Northern Tier as an educator died early Monday, May 13, at his home in Mansfield, aged 76 years. He was a graduate of the Mansfield Normal, and served 14 years as principal of its training school. In 1898 he was elected County Superintendent of Schools to fill an unexpired term and served four terms, becoming principal of the Mansfield-Richmond High school in 1912. He retired in 1929. As county School Superintendent he was active in school centralization and consolidation, a step he initiated on the belief that children in rural communities were entitled to advantages on a par with those offered in larger schools. |
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WARREN L. MILLER
Retired Mansfield High School principal Warren L. Miller, age 83, died on Sunday, Nov. 7, 1982, at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital in Wellsboro. He was born Sept. 16, 1899 on a farm in Sullivan Township, the son of Charles and Helen Kelly Miller. Mr. Miller graduated from Mansfield Normal School in 1919 and received his bachelor's degree in education in 1928 from Mansfield State Teachers College. He received his masters degree from Bucknell University in 1937. Mr. Miller, of 78 St. James St., had taught, coached, and supervised at Mansfield High School for 41 years. He was principal of that school from 1930-1934 and supervising principal until his retirement in 1964. During his tenure, Mr. Miller coached every sport at the school, including football, baseball, basketball, track, and soccer. Two years after Mr. Miller retired, when a new elementary school in Mansfield was completed, the school board voted to name it after him. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Mansfield, member of the Kiwanis Club of Mansfield, member and past master of Friendship Lodge #247 Mansfield, member of the Mansfield American Legion. He was one of the original organizers of the Corey Creek Golf Club, was one of the original members of the Northern Tier Broadcasting Council, active for many years in Boy Scouting, and was the recipient of the Silver Beaver Award. He received an honorary membership in the Future Farmers of America in 1961. He is survived by his wife, Mildred (Menge) Miller; two daughters, Mrs. Paul (Eleanor) Reed, Gloversville, NY, and Mrs. Edward (Jo Ann) Lemos of Dover, NH; two sons, Robert G. of Mainesburg, and C. Richard of Harrisburg; one brother, Paul, of Kane; 13 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1 pm at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Benjamin Nevin, his pastor, officiating. Burial at State Road Cemetery, Mainesburg. Donations may be made in his memory to the charity of your choice. Arrangements in charge of the Kuhl Funeral Home at Mansfield. |
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ROFF, Bertha - Mrs. Bertha Mae Rockwell, age 93, of 5 West Main
Street, Hummelstown, Pa., died Tuesday, April 26, 1983 at the Alpine Retirement
Center at Hershey. She was born at Seeley Creek in Tioga county on May 2, 1890,
the daughter of the late Edmond and Mary Claggett Roff. She was a graduate of
Bucknell University and was a retired librarian at Mansfield State College. She
was a member of the First Methodist Church at Hershey; was the widow of Burt A.
Rockwell who preceded her in death in 1969. Surviving are two stepdaughters,
Louise, wife of Thomas Harris of Mansfield, and Allene, wife of Emil Foster of
Hershey, and a stepson, Joseph M. Rockwell, also of Hershey. Services and
interment will be held at the convenience of the family in the Prospect Cemetery
at Mansfield. Arrangements by the Trefz Funeral Home, Hummelstown. - Wellsboro
Gazette, 4 May 1983
Graduated Mansfield State Normal School 1909
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| Helen Stepler joined the Mansfield faculty
before 1926. She taught generations of Mansfield students in her history classes
into the 1960s. Following her marriage she was known as Helen Strait.
STEPLER –MRS. HELEN S. STRAIT age 68 of Mansfield, Pa. Friday, March 26, 1971 at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital, Wellsboro. Friends are invited to call at the Shaw & Robena Funeral Home, Mansfield, Saturday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral in the First Baptist Church of Mansfield, Sunday at 2 p.m., the Rev. Benjamin E. Nevin. Burial Oakwood Cemetery. Survived by husband, Harold Strait; mother, Mrs. Mary B.Stepler of Washington, N.J.; brother, Howard R. Stepler of Waynesboro, Pa., niece, Mrs. Jeanne Z. Benoit of Ocean City, N.J.; two nephews, Stuart A.Zimmerman Jr. of Columbia, Mo., Howard R. Stepler, Jr. of Frederick, Md. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Helen S. Strait Scholarship Fund in care of Mrs. Eben Brace, Mansfield or the Memorial Fund at the First Baptist Church of Mansfield. –Elmira Star Gazette |
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Gladys BROWN Young -
 BROWN - GLADYS BROWN YOUNG, 73
years of age, of 50 North Hill Terrace, Mansfield, died today, Mar. 26, 1986, at
the Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre. She was born Nov. 25, 1912, in Owego, NY, the
daughter of Leon and Clara Wheeler Brown. Mrs. Young was a member of the New
Covenant Church, Mansfield. She taught science classes in the Mansfield High
School and former Mansfield State College, retiring in 1978. She is
survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Jeffrey and Sharon Young, Chapel Hill,
NC; a daughter and son-in-law, Sandra and Bernard Hahnke, Blue Point, NY; 7
grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Friends may call at the Scureman
Funeral Home, 130 S. Main St., Mansfield, Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 pm. Funeral
services will be held Friday at 11 am at her church with the Rev. David Bauman
officiating. Burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Mansfield. The family will provide
flowers. Those wishing to make donations may do so to the Mansfield Foundation
Gladys B. Young Scholarship Fund, c/o Mansfield University. |
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