Berkeley Springs High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Berkeley Springs, WV)

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OUR SCHOOL OF YESTERDAY In 1878 a new four-room school building was completed in Berkeley Springs. It was first occupied in the Fall of that year with C. A. Waynant as principal and was known as “Mount Wesley Academy”. Just twelve years later, in 1890, the first class was graduated under the direction of C. J. C. Bennett, principal. In 1892 two more rooms were added to the building and it served the community for both the Grades and the High School until 1916. Conditions then became such that more room was so badly needed that construction was started on a new high school building. Since the new building was occupied, the old “Mount Wesley Academy” has been known as “Mount Wesley Graded School.” The facts that school was first held in “Mount Wesley” in 1 878. and.that the first class was graduated in 1 890 make this one of the oldest High Schools in the State of West Virginia. Page four

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 Dedication To our Parents, the best friends and companions that the boys and girls of Bath District High School have ever known: those faithful ones who have un- falteringly stood by us through all the years of the past: who have proved again and again that they considered no burden too onerous and no sacrifice too dear, if thereby they might give to their loved ones an opportunity to lay the foundation of a noble manhood and a blessed womanhood! To those Parents of ours, who have rejoiced with us in all our successes, and sympathized with us in our failures, and urged us to go forward when we, overcome by discouragements, would have given up in despair; who still believed in us and inspired us to renewed effort; when we had almost lost faith in ourselves. To these our Fathers and Mothers, this volume of the Warm Spring Echoes is sacredly dedicated. 3 - Page three

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OUR SCHOOL OF TODAY Bath District High School w In 1916 a bond issue was passed by the people of Bath District for the small sum of $20,000, to be used in constructing a new high school building. A similar issue was voted down in 1912. The High School was then conducted for one year in the opera house while the new building was under construction. In the fall of 1918 school was again started in the old building but in a few weeks was moved to the still unfinished building which was occupied under the name of Bath District High School. Classes and the work of construction went on together for some months after that time, some of the high school boys lending a hand now and then to the task of excavating the basement and other unfinished work. In the spring of 1921 the present quarters of Bath District High School, were finally completed and equipped at a cost of about $35,000. which was $15,000 more than the bond issue raised for the project. Page live