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members. The year also saw its peak budgetto date,

$1174.

awarded PTA scholarships of $150 each. By March of 1963, a group from PTA planned to attend the April 3rd Board of Education meeting to arouse some action toward Brunswick's new high school. PTA officers during the last year in the 1928built high school on Fourth A venue were Mrs. Zoe Kline, president; Mrs. Bertha Haller, vice president; Mrs. Todd Blessley, recording secretary; Mrs. Emma Axline, corresponding secretary; and Mrs. Connie Grams, treasurer. The patrons of PTA in the "new high school," which opened in September 1965 were led by Nelson Strathern, president; Mrs. Margie Sell, vice president; Mrs. Joanna Proudfoot, recording secretary; Mrs. Alton Putnam, corresponding secretary; and Mrs. Charles Smith, treasurer. As the new school was well supplied, well built, and well supported, the PTA continued to function but without the prior school supporters' urgency.

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One of the earliest projects of the PTA was to request renovation of the high school during the summer and to remedy a textbook shortage. The first meeting after summer vacation welcomed School Superintendent Eugene Pruitt; local School Board member Claude Lutman discussed the Board's failure to carry through the renovation plans. Next month, November, the County Commissioners were present to explain why they could do nothing for Brunswick for another year! The PTA favored a course in driver education for BHS, but the upcoming State Legislature failed to pass the bill for this innovation. Money-raising efforts varied from having luncheons to a SO-cent fund drive to selling fire extinguishers. Board member Mr. Joseph Rhoderick, in speaking on the PTA's role in raising funds for school purchases, cited the SO-cent per pupil allowance for supplies to eliminate magazine drives and other fund-raising activities. It was the Board's responsibility to provide anything needed for the building proper or ground, he emphasized. By 1955-56 PTA efforts resulted in surfacing the back road to school, and the PTA landscaped the school grounds. Attempts to require school buses to discharge students at the rear of the high school were unsuccessful because of the lack of a perfect bus turnaround without the vehicle having to back up. This year, a folding cot/ sick bed was purchased for emergency use at school. By 1956-57, Brunswick was finally being mentioned as needing a school, thanks to Mr. Richard Bowers, of the advisory committee, according to Principal Fred Brown. Under the next principal, Mr.Jack Kussmaul, the school heard that the Board of Education approved the acquisition of a site for a new Brunswick High School. The year 1961-62 saw a Band Booster Club formed. David Carey and James Short were each

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BHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Brunswick High School Alumni Association was organized in 1915 by members of that and previous years' classes at a meeting in the basement of the Kaplon Building. After the meeting the group joined for a banquet at Levi Lucas' restaurant (where today is the Potomac Pub, but for years was Darr's,) at 5 East Potomac Street. After the meal they returned to Kaplons for a dance. Except for 1943, 1944, and 1945, there was an annual meeting and election. The Alumni Association dedicated the monument at the bridge entrance on Potomac Street to Frances New and Donald Darr, two who worked extensively for the association. This anniversary year of Brunswick, the association plans to seal a time capsule to be opened on Brunswick's 200th anniversary. W-MMM

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