Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Y x FRANK M. HARBACH 1, Q. , 1 Q, ...- i if Y 1 Lacking Backward A small notice in a Milwaukee evening newspaper on August 20, 1914, told the public of the new high school to be opened to them in the Bay View district. The school, the paper said, is the answer to the demands of Bay View residents for a school within walking distance of their homes. Only one hundred and fifty students and seven teachers answered the bell at Bay View High School that first school day in Sep- tember of 1914, but two years later the barracks had grown from one small building to a large rambling bungalow . New students came, more teachers were coming. The high school was growing! By 1917 the school had reached its capacity. In the city school- board meetings, Mr. Frank Harbach and Mr. R. B. Charlton, Bay

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View residents, spoke for a new school. Mr. Harbach, secretary of the board, advocated a large new building. Mr. Charlton approved the measure. Together they saw the debate through, the school board finally consenting to the build- ing of a large million dollar school. The build- ing was to be erected on the hill overlooking the barracks, and construction was to start at once. The architectural plans for the new Bay View High School building were drawn up by Van Ryn and De Gelleke, architects. After a careful sur- vey of the landscape, work on the building was started when, on September 18, 1917, Mr. Fritsche turned the first shovelful of dirt for the new school. Within a few months the work had been started in earnest. Then, with the country in the grip of the War, building operations diminished lr., rx ii' 5. 2' E Wy. . . i- 7L.ffi A fl 'T' ' 1 ,. T in . 1 ' Q 1 fl A .T lg 51112 ,.-T 't.iEg'lr-433 11 E mf .g.nf.1.4.157.f.fmgfflf '-'-' A-L 'i ' 564.212 522 -e!e- ,laugh - .nl 'l1WSf4lNL7' . pl' 1 PHY of 745 W' 5 1 af- Y549J-...ily my V Nlllru- 1 L . I 1 I ,f - .. . 4 .fy A. M. za . .f+ 13,v f:'3i'32 ,,,,, -'H .... LQ3?l3'?'f 1 't eg ' . -...e gsm . - Aww . '.,., 1 1' , ' ,. . ft .M . .. ifvlgfcim ,ii EARLY CONSTRUCTION E LE VATOR TAKING SHAPE