Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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Tl'lERA'ZZLEO'TlDENTl1 'I Il The new structure, together with the old, was destroyed by fire, Septem- ber 21, 1918. April 1, 1919, :l6125,000 in bonds was voted for the erection of a new lniildingr. This building is now under process of erection in the Sixth Congressional District in Kansas, and there will be none better in the State, although there are some larger. The new building will be mueh larger than the old one with splendid library, gymnasium, laboratory and audit-orium facilities and with the newest and most up-to-date equipment that can be had on the market. The new building will have a capacity of practically 500, with a seating capacity in the auditorium of 800. - Q While the loss of the old building has made it necessary for us to .occupy other buildings and thus interrupt the work of the last two years to some extent, yet we are glad to know that the boys and girls who attend the High School in subsequent years will have the best facilities that can be provided for their physieal and intelleetual welfare. New times demand new condi- tions and the new building will take care of Beloit and Mitchell County better than the old one.

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THE RAZZLE O' TIDENTIJ ll . Il Historq of Beloit High School g 'FN . 'l' 4 o'clock, May 5th, 1879, the Board of Education of the city of 'QQ Beloit, Kansas, held its first meeting at the school house, then a C' 73 little brick building located on the site of the present high school 693' f building. I Q5 7,4351 NV. H. Burke, 1V1n. Grew, A. Patton, A. T. Rodgers, NV. H. Mitchell, Dr. Eakens, members of the Board of Education elected Prof. D. H. Thomas principal and superintendent of the school at a salary of -one hundred dollars a month not to exceed a period of over nine months. Olive A. Veach was elected as his assistant at a salary of not over thirty-five dollars a. month. On September 15, 1879, school opened with an enrollment of seventy students, thirty boys and forty girls. The school year was divided into three terms of three months each. A tuition fee of 364 a term was charged each Student and the following subjects were offered, viz: Thalhemer's History, General, Thalhemcr's History of England, Thal- hen1er's History, Ancient, Thalhemer's History, Med. 85 Mod., Thalhemer's History, East Monarchiesg Tha,lhemer's Hist-ory, Rome, Thalhen1er's Histo1'y, Greece, Morton's Elements of Natural Philosophy: Steele's Physiology, Steele is Physics, Guyot's Physical Geography, Ray ls Revised Higher Aritlie- metic, Harvey 's Revised Grammar. The first graduating exercises were held in the Opera House, Saturday evening, June 1, 1883, with Emma Long and Mabel Barnes as graduates. Mr. S. Hutchinson, Superintendent. In 1884 bonds amounting to 520,000 were voted, and the money derived from them was used in erecting what was for so many years known as the Central Building and what is now the major part of the present High School buildng. The building was completed and ready for occupancy at the beginning of the fall term in 1885. There were ten large accommodation rooms and two large halls. ' The citizens of Beloit on February 24, 1914, voted 325,000 bonds for the erection of a. large addition to the Beloit High School building, which had been too small for the accommodation ot' the students for a number of vears. The new addition was completed and ready for school at the beginning bf the second semester, 1915.

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METHODIST CHURCH Our Step Alma Meters M K HEN on that fatal day, September 21, of 1918, we saw our beloved is ? 3 High School consumed by fire, and turned away feeling homeless S., and forelorn, only to be taken under the protecting wing of the ,fx 27 52 Methodist Church, we felt like wandering orphans who had at f last found a haven of rest. .lt, together with the Parish House and Christian Science Church, were rapidly fitted out with school parapher- nalia and soon we were back in the harness, trying to forget our sorrow and to enjoy the pleasures of the remainder -of the term of '19, Back we came to these friends in the September of '19, feeling secure and happy, only to be ousted from our main home, the Methodist. Church, on J'a,nua.ry 27, 1920, by the same formidable and familiar enemy, another fire. Again we were shelterless and forced t-0 seek new friends, which We soon found in the United Brethren, Christian and Presbyterian churches. The unhealthy condition of the Christian Church basement required another change and proved to us that there was still another waiting t.he opportunity to befriend us, in the form of the Baptist Church. We -only stayed a short time in the Presbyterian church because the distance was too far to go. NVhile these changes caused us some inconvenience, nevertheless, we profited by them for they gave us more recreation and out-door fun. lt also showed that We could overcome the work of the Fates and, too, we realized and appreciated more fully what we had lost. Thinking of- the misfortunes we have encountered and the obstacles we have overcome, aided by others, we realized how kind and generous are the friends who gave us the use of thir churches, without a moment's hesitation. And we trust that our action and our ca1'e of these buildings that we have occupied will, in a measure, show our benefactors our deep gratitude and appreciation -of what they have so readily given us. These buildings rank next to B. H. S. in our hearts, and will be classed by us as our Step Alma-Ma.ters fo1'ever. 3523752352 .HX 1