John piersol mccaskey biography of william hill

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It has always been admirably edited, has had high literary flavor, and has given not only important and interesting facts concerning school affairs in Pennsylvania, but the most important facts regarding education in general. Ordinary school work must have careful attention, but not to the exclusion of other good things too often ignored. He thinks, "Teachers cannot be too rich in wealth of this kind, nor toil for it too long or too earnestly.

McCaskey has been offered place in the school department and elsewhere, and has been urged repeatedly to be a candidate for the city and county superintendency, but has always declined these positions, his hands being full of work such as he preferred to be doing. McCaskey was the only school in Lancaster County to make the list.

As the McCaskey Campus continued toward the end of the decade, history was made on a couple of fronts. In 1956 the Department of Journalism of Pennsylvania State University named the Vidette the “best school newspaper” in the state.

When the school first opened, students of color represented 5 percent its population; fifty years later, 45 percent were students of color.

600," he says: "The writer went upon The School Journal as associate editor in 1866, and has put through press each one of the 428 monthly issues since that time. The value of pictures such as these upon the walls of schools and homes it is impossible to estimate. The shirt says simply “I’McCaskey.” What does it mean to be McCaskey?

He comes of a strong ancestry, in which Scotch-Irish predominates, other lines being Douglas of Scotland--his great-great-grandfather being Archibald Douglas, Davis and Piersol of Wales, Wilson of England or Scotland, Eckert and others of Switzerland and Germany. McCaskey was one of the original stockholders of the Inquirer Printing, Company, now the Wickersham Company, and for many years its secretary.

Plots of the large field across the street from the high school were made available to the local citizenry to plant “victory gardens”, a common means of confronting labor shortages and food rationing during the war. but instead, it is the people that come together under one cause—a cause that steers you to make decisions based on your passions and priorities.

During the past three years, as secretary, he has also issued a large volume of proceedings of the State Educational Association and its departments, which has been distributed to the members, the edition for the current year being 2,500 copies. The Pennsylvania School Journal being its official organ, he has given such careful attention to its annual reports of proceedings that, in fullness and accuracy for so many consecutive sessions, they are believed to surpass those of any other like association in the United States.

Christmas was his favorite holiday. The influence of this journal, as the organ of the school officers and teachers of the State, and the medium through which the proceedings of their annual meetings have been made known to the public, can hardly be overestimated. Hundreds have been busy at work here on musical instruments. McCaskey considered his work as editor of the Journal his most important contribution, followed by his compilation of many songbooks which were sold throughout the United States.

Nearly three months later, on May 3, 1938, the official dedication of the school was held.