East Night High School - Rostrum Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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S far as we have been able to determine, Cincinnati has the distinction of being the first city in the United States to establish free public evening schools. Our records show that the hrst evening school was organized in our city in the fall of 1840. The completion this year of one hundred years of educational service to the citizens of Cincinnati who have de- sired to continue their education in evening schools is an event of which our city may well be proud. During these one hundred years, educational opportunities have been afforded to many thou- sands of men and women that would otherwise not have been available to them. Advantage has been taken of these opportuni- ties by many of our foreign-bom citizens, by workers whose voca- tions have demanded additional knowledge and training, and by others whose ambition it was to complete an elementary and a high school education. These schools have been of inestimable value to these groups of our people. These schools have grown and expanded to meet the changing needs of our citizens. The First schools, with an enrollment of 100 pupils, provided only the means to continue an elementary education. The present schools, with an enrollment of over 10,000 pupils, offer opportunities to complete both the elementary and the high schools, training to prepare the foreignrborn for citizen- ship, and to help him adjust to his new environment; training to satisfy avocational or leisure time interests; and vocational train- ing to meet the needs of workers in professional, business and in- dustrial pursuits. CLAUDE V. COURTER J Superintendent of Schools L'LY, 1940

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