Finding Aid for the Tredyffrin and Easttown Township School System

Printed Matter, 1892 -forward
(new items added when received)

This collection consists of printed matter such as graduation programs, yearbooks, diplomas, report cards, and special events programs. 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. The Tredyffrin Public Library has copies of the yearbooks and The Eastfrin. 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.

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

Unidentified Easttown program, annotated 1908.

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

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.

Berwyn Grammar School, report card of Lizzie Nuzum, 1893-94. (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. She is likely the donor of these items.)

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

Easttown High School commencement programs, 1905, 1906.

Tredyffrin Township Public Schools - combined grammar and high school commencement programs, 1892, 1894, 1904 (tickets only), 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, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1944, 1945, 1946.

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

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

Tredyffrin-Easttown High School yearbooks, 1929, 1932 (many autographs), 1933, 1934, 1941 (many autographs), 1942, 1943, 1944, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955

Tredyffrin-Easttown Junior High School yearbook, 1971

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

Tredyffrin-Easttown High School diplomas, various years (stored oversize)

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Conestoga High School Yearbook, “The Pioneer.”1957

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

Tredyffrin-Easttown High School, class reunion memorabilia, various years. (Separate box)

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

Cheryl Leibold