Buena Vista High School - Vista Visions Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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School Opening On Tuesday, September 8, 1959, School Superintendent Mr. Joseph G. Barr welcomed the student body and faculty to the new high school and officially opened the first school year. School Dedication On Sunday, November 8, 1959. the Buena Vista High School was officially dedicated. Pictured is Mr. James Tuck who is accepting the keys of the building on behalf of the teachers. Mr. Nonnan Lentner per- formed a similar office for the School Boardg Mr. Fred Rindhage, for the parents: Miss Kathy Princing, for the students. Dr. Charles Anspach, of Central Michigan University delivered the dedicatory address - This High School--A Pledge to The Future .

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Fay Gallagher, a student from Mr. Faupel 's Fifth Grade Class at Ricker, is shown receiving a prize from Marcia Cameron, the editor, for naming this year's annual in a school wide con- test. Her winning entry was, of course, VISTA VISIONS. A VISTA, meaning viewg VISIONS, meaning prophecy - put them together as VISTA VISIONS, or a view of the future. In truth, the educational facilities of a community reflect the future growth and welfare of that community. The Buena Vista 89 District is a forward looking community always alert to the needs of the future and exemplifying the. theme of this book, PROGRESS IN EDUCATION, in the way it provides for these needs. We soon will have a new elementary school on South Towerline Road. This school will be for kindergar- ten through grade six pupils who live east of the By-Pass and south of the railroad tracks between Janes and Holland. This new school, which does not have a name as yet, will have only one very short corridor by the office. The large multi-purpose room, which will be in the center of the school with entrances at each corner, will also serve as the passage from one room to another. When finished, the school will have over 225 pupils to enroll but will be able to handle over 300. This school will be the first one in Saginaw County which will be heated by electricity. Like all our other schools, hot lunch will be served although most of the children who attend will walk to school because they will live quite close. The boys and girls who will go to this school are now attending a crowded Ricker School or are in the kindergarten at Star School. By next fall our Henry A. Doerr School should be larger to handle the increased number of boys and girls who live near-by. The west wing of the school will be expanded to include the equal of five more classrooms It is expected that grades three and four will be in the new part. Besides the classrooms, two additional toilet rooms will be constructed.. By the use of folding doors, the new part can be made into two very large rooms which may be used to teach all of one grade at one ti.me fsuch as for a movie, etc.J. It is hoped that building the new school and adding to the Henry A. Doerr School will allow us to have more teaching space at our other schools. 3