Finding Aid for the Tredyffrin and Easttown Township School System

Printed Matter, 1892 - forward
This finding aid may be lsighly out of date as new items are added to the collection upon receipt.

This collection consists of printed matter such as graduation programs, yearbooks, diplomas, report cards, newsletters, special events programs, and artifacts. There are also copies of The Eastfrin, a student magazine. The townships of Tredyffrin and Easttown combined their high schools in 1908. The two school systems were consolidated in 1953. The T-E School District’s large collection of historic printed matter is currently in storage, and not catalogued. Both the TEHS and the Tredyffrin Public Library have a partial set of the yearbooks and a complete run of The Eastfrin. A complete run of the high school yearbooks is in the Conestoga High School Library.

In the TEHS Research Files, under Schools, there are many clippings, reports, flyers, and miscellaneous items. Also see the History Quarterly article “Secondary Education in Tredyffrin-Easttown: The Tredyffrin Easttown High School, first Joint High School in Pennsylvania,” by Mildred F. Fisher, Vol. 8, No. 4, (October, 1955); and T-E High School memorabilia in the George Francis Moran Collection.

Material documenting the T-E School District, and after 1955, the Conestoga Senior High School, encompasses the following categories:

Printed Matter – graduation programs, programs for special events, and report cards

Publications – Newsletters, magazines, including The Eastfrin, and T-E School District Bulletin (6 issues, 1915-16), and other school publications.

Diplomas – stored flat in the oversize drawers (various years; stored oversize)

Yearbooks – T-E Junior High, T-E Senior High, and Conestoga High

Artifacts – felt jacket patches and letters, clothing, medals.

Class Reunions – programs, lists of attendees

BINDER - graduation

Easttown High School commencement programs, 1905, 1906.

Easttown Grammar School commencement programs, 1909, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916.

Tredyffrin Township Public Schools - combined grammar and high school commencement programs, 1892, 1894, 1904 tickets, 1905, 1906, 1908.

Tredyffrin Grammar School commencement programs, 1909, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916.

Tredyffrin-Easttown High School commencement programs, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1944, 1945, 1946.

Easttown Public Schools - combined grammar and high school commencement programs, 1900, (and Class Day Exercises, 1900), 1902, 1904.

Unidentified Easttown program, annotated 1908.

BINDER: printed programs, other than graduations

Berwyn Grammar School, report card of Lizzie Nuzum, 1893-94. [N. B. a Sarah B. Nuzum, died 1986 at age 96, authored several articles in the History Quarterly. A 1976 article on her is in the Biographical research file.]

Reward of Merit for Studiousness, card presented to Joseph Burns, undated [ca. 1890-1910?].

Program for Tredyffrin-Easttown High School, Class Day Frivolities, 1909.

Program for 25th Anniversary of Professor R. S. Macnamee’s Services in the Public Schools of Chester County, 1913.

Easttown Grammar School – Report cards of Elizabeth Rumrill, 1911-16, with short prize-winning essay for 1916. (Also see two photographs of an Easttown Grammar class SCH22 and 23).

Tredyffrin-Easttown High School, report cards of Elizabeth Rumrill, 1916-17, 1917-18, 1919-20.

Ceremonies at the Dedication of the New School Buildings Located at Strafford and Paoli, 1927.

Program from the play “Billy’ performed by Tredyffrin – Easttown High School, May 1-3, 1930. Gift of the Radnor High School Alumni association.

Short History of the Tredyffrin-Easttown Joint High School, prepared by S. Paul Teamer (1890-1940), undated, ca. 1934.

Program for Choral and Orchestral Concert, Tredyffrin–Easttown High School, 1938.

Program for Music Concert by students of T-E Junior and Senior High Schools, March 13, 1941.

Program for the Dedication of the Service Honor Roll, 1945.

Program for the Dedication of the Hobson C. Wagner Memorial Auditorium [and] Presentation of the Baldwin Memorial Organ, Sept. 25, 1955.

Program for Girl Crazy, performed by the Teachers of the Paoli Area and Tredyffrin–Easttown Schools, 1959.

In 2022 twenty programs for concerts of music, 1964-71, were donated by Sally Nelson Kuhns.

BOXES: The Eastfrin

The Eastfrin, a small magazine produced by students at Tredyffrin-Easttown High School. Issues survive for the years 1922 to 1934. These magazines contain fiction, poems, enrollment statistics, reminiscences, sports news and scores, photographs of groups, humor, miscellaneous notes, and a good deal of advertising. Format, frequency, and numbering vary, and there are probably many missing issues. There are several duplicate copies. (2 boxes)

BOX: Newsletters, and magazines, T-E School District Bulletin, and occasional publications.

Tredyffrin Educational Bulletin, 2 issues for spring 1915; title changed to The Tredyffrin-Easttown School Bulletin, 4 issues for the 1915-16 school year.

Conestoga Senior High School, Grand Opening booklet, 1955 (over 40 photographs).

Welcome to Conestoga Senior High School, booklet, 1955 (over 30 photographs)

Hi-Lites, the newsletter of the T-E Junior High School, issues of: Jan. 6, 1967; May 4, 1967; Dec. 23, 1964.

Conestoga Spoke, magazine of the Conestoga High School, issues of: Dec. 22, 1966; Oct. 9, 1967; Nov. 13, 1967; Jan. 12, 1968; March 3, 1968; Feb. 27, 1969; Nov. 20, 1969.

Paoli School “A Memento [of] Our Elementary Years,” 1965, with many photographs, faculty and staff profiles, list of students, with addresses and “favorite activities.”

Conestoga High School, Volume of Prose and Poetry, 1975

Adventures of the Mind: A Guide to Good Reading by the English and Reading Teachers, 1978.

Tredyffrin-Easttown Intermediate School, Student Handbook, 1989-1990.

Tredyffrin-Easttown School District, Academic Year Calendars (with photographs of students, teachers, and activities), 1985-86, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2005-06, 2006-07.

BOXES: Yearbooks

Tredyffrin-Easttown Junior High School yearbook, “The Echo” and an insert titled “Emmies and Best Songs 9-1 & 9-2,” 1971.

Tredyffrin-Easttown High School yearbooks, “Garnet and Gray,”1929, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955. Note: several issues contain numerous autographs and written messages.

Conestoga High School Yearbook, “The Pioneer.” 1957.

BOX: Class Reunions - programs, lists of attendees, various years

Also see T-E school memorabilia in the George Francis Moran Collection.

Cheryl Leibold Jan. 2023

HCS updated 5/9/2023