Photo of the Reynolds Junior-Senior High School
Beginnings
The Reynolds Area Joint Schools included the school districts of Delaware Township, Fredonia Borough, Pymatuning Township, and West Salem Township. By action of the .school boards in these districts, Articles of Agreement were formally adopted on July 1 2, I 956. This agreement was the result of many meetings and long hours of thought, discussion, and study. The site for the new Reynolds Area High School was donated by the Greenville Business Men's Association, Trustees Reynolds Development. On February 21, 1956, the firm of Hunter, Heiges, and Gross was selected as architects to draw up plans and specifications for the new secondary school.
The State Public School Budding Authority accepted bids for this project which were opened February 26, 1959 and the contracts were awarded for the construction of Reynolds Area High School on March 18, with actual construction beginning in April of 1959.
A formal ceremony was held  September 9, 1959 for laying the cornerstone.
A complete operation of all public schools in the Reynolds Area was assumed by the Reynolds Area Joint School Board on July 4, 1960. September 7, 1960 was the first day of school for the 1960-61 school term, and marked the opening of the new Reynolds Area Junior-Senior High School. The pupils who entered the school came with various backgrounds. Pupils from Fredonia Borough and Delaware Township had attended the elementary schools in grades 1 through 6; and the Fredonia-Delaware Junior-Senior High School in grades 7 through 12. In Pymatuning Township, the elementary school included grades 1 through 8 with and most high school students in grades 9 through 12 attending Farrell Schools. Pupils in West Salem Township attended grades 1 through 8 at either the West Salem Consolidated School or the St. Paul Home School while pupils in grades 9 through 12 for the most part attended either Pymatuning Joint School at Jamestown or Greenville Schools.
The opening of Reynolds Area Junior-Senior High School closed the one room buildings in Delaware Township that had been operated on a graded basis and converted the Fredonia-Delaware Junior-Senior School to an elementary budding. The present arrangement provides the Fredonia-Delaware building at Fredonia, Pymatuning Elementary School at Transfer, West Salem Consolidated School at Maysville and St. Paul Home School for elementary grades 1 through 6. Secondary pupils in the Reynolds Area, grades 7 through 12, attend the new
Reynolds Area Junior-Senior High School.
REYNOLDS AREA BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS BY DISTRICT
DELAWARE TOWNSHIP
H. B. Mean Sr., President / Ralph H. Gamble, Secretary / Orval L. Gilson, Robert H. LaSalle
Marvin E. Weikal / Mrs. Kathryn Gehres / Fred E. Lawyer
PYMATUNING TOWNSHIP
Gustav R. Wall, President / R. C. Heile, Secretary / Vincent R. Seidle / David J. Woods
Louis Homer / Wade H. Frampton / Richard J. Ferguson / Clarence W. Hunt
FREDONIA BORO
Owen D. Boyer, President / John B. Mohney Secretary / Clyde D. Jewell / Mrs. Donna Jamison
Mrs. Nora Crocker / Homer L. Harpst / Homer Pettit
WEST SALEM TOWNSHIP
D. E. Gruver, President / Arthur R. Zuschlag, Secretary / Fred L. Riley / Ben T. Slagle
Alva W. Molton / George E. Cowan* / Clifford A. Irvine / James L. Preston / Carl E. Royal
School's First Administration & Teaching Staff
Supervising Principal Mr. Welch was one of three assistant County Superintendents for Mercer County. Once it was decided that there was going to be a new school combining the districts above the Mercer County Superintendent assigned Mr. Welch to work with the leaders in getting things organized. Once the group was at a point that they were ready to hire a supervising principal they hired Mr. Welch as they were very pleased with their dealing with him.
Principal Mr. Bost from Jamestown was hired a the first principal.

Teachers
C. Leroy Armour, LaVine Baird, Joyce Berry, Ralph Bouch, Pauline Boyer, Mary Brown
Lydia Caskey, Allen Collins, Barbara DeNicola, Richard Ebbert, Martha Ellenberger
Theodore Ferrara, Reed Franz, Andrew Gall, Charles Garrett, Dama Gladd, Carol Heider
Jean Heissenbuttel, Treva Hillman, Thomas Jefferies, Ronald Krieder, Evelyn Leisher
Joseph Magargee, Joanne Marini, Donald McCoy, Henrietta McCurdy, Patricia McDougall
Charlotte Mercer, Nancy Nordstrom, Paul Nye, Donna Preston, Robert Seiple, 
Richard Sherwood, James Smith, Sarah Steffey, Eleanor Sunderlin, Donald Thomas             Harry Wasser, Norma Wilcox
Note: Starting with the first school year the school board put on a big picnic for the staff before the school year at Camp Kiondashawa, a local boy scout camp, where they ate and played games. This continued well into the sixties.
School Name
On September 23, 1943 the Shenango Personnel Replacement Depot, a World War II Army camp was renamed to Camp Reynolds after Major General  John F Reynolds, a Pennsylvania native who was Northern Civil War hero who was killed on July 1, 1884 the first day of the battle of Gettysburg. The camp was abandoned after the end of World War II and the area was developed into a residential/industrial area that was still called Camp Reynolds into the 1960's. With the plans to form a new school it was decided to name the school Reynolds in honor of the afore mentioned General Reynolds whom Camp Reynolds had been renamed.
School Colors & Nickname
The school's colors and nickname were decided by a committee of students in the school's first year. The colors selected were blue and gray and the nickname picked was the Raiders which followed the civil war theme.
School Official Symbol

It wasn't until the second year that an official school symbol was decided on. Students were encouraged to submit drawings what the school symbol should look like. The drawings ranged from a Pirate, a Pirate ship, an Indian with a tomahawk to civil war soldiers. Those drawings were given to Mr. Thomas, the Art teacher, and he and some of the art students cleaned up the drawings and presented them to the committee that would decide what the official school symbol would be. The symbol the committee adopted was an attacking northern civil war raider with a bayonet who was yelling. Mr. Thomas then was given the task of creating this soldier using the school's colors blue and gray. He made the soldier  predominately blue as General Reynolds was a northern general. This symbol became the mascot of the new school.
Homecoming Queen
Reynolds had their first Homecoming Court & Queen in 1963, the third year of the year. The first homecoming court consisted of the following: Bonnie Miller, Becky Taylor, Shirley Smith, Terri Fisher, and Shirley Jones. The voting ended up in a tie between Becky Taylor and Shirley Smith. To determine the the winner a coin was flipped and Shirley Smith won the flip and became Reynolds's first Homecoming Queen.
School Alma Mater
Somewhere in the middle sixties a group of students were discussing about other schools having an Alma Mater and that Reynolds didn't have one. So Nancy Larson, a member of the Reynolds band and group went to Mr. Jefferies the Band teacher and asked about him creating one. He told them that if they would wrote the words he would put the music to it. So the group came back with the words that would be Reynolds' Alma Mater and Mr.Jefferies put music to it. Below is the Reynolds Alma Mater.
Reynolds High School Alma Mater
Hail to Thee, O Alma Mater, Guardian of our way.
We thy loyal sons and daughters, Proudly seeing Today.
Blue and Gray we honor you with loyalty and praise.
Always we will sing to Thee, Thy standard we will raise.
 

REYNOLDS HISTORY NOTES
Reynolds Area Joint
School District
Comprised of the following:
Delaware - Pymatuning &
West Salem Townships &
Fredonia Borough
Articles of Agreement
Adopted on July 12, 1956
Land Donated By
Reynolds Development
Board of Trustees
Architects
Hunter, Heiges, & Gross
Sharon, PA
Contractors
Associated Contractors
Conneaut Lake, PA
Cost
$2,050,000
Financed By
State School Building Authority.
Construction
Started April 1959
Cornerstone Ceremony
September 9, 1959
First day of School
September 7, 1960
Honor Society Formed
In the 1962-63 School Year
First Homecoming Queen
1963 Football Season
Band Gets Uniforms
1963 School Year