Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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4 .e.h..---.vi-V.,.-.e--- ggeeeewm 9 9 ewe. MM am 993 16 The Cincinnati Hughes High School. which noneresident pupils should be allowed to attend, upon the paying of an annual tuition of $40. By a resolution passed July 18, 1864, such annual tuition was increased to $50. Bya subse- quent resolution it was increased to $60, which is the tuition at the present time. By the contract of consolidation the Woodward College and High School was to furnish the Woodward High School lot with the building thereon, and the annual income of the Woodward Fund, valued at about $4,500 ; the Board of Trustees of the Hughes Fund was to furnish the Hughes High School 'lot, and $15,000 cash, and their annual income of about $2,000; and all other items were to be furnished by the Common School Board. And it was made the duty of said Board to erect suitable buildings on each of said lots, either of which would accommodate five hundred schol- ' are, within a. specified time thereafter. In the event of the Com- mon School Board annulling such contract, by refusing, 0r: neg- lecting, to comply with the same, then the Trustees of the Wood- ward College and High School shall pay for the building erected ton their lot, in four equal annual payments, such an amount as may be agreed upon by three disinterested men; and the Trustees of the Hughes Fund shall pay the cost of the building erected on their lot,0ve1' and above the $15,000 by them furnished. The Union Board of High Schools is now composed of the following named gentlemen: S. S. DAVIS, President. J OHN W. DALE, Vice President. W. F. HURLBUT, Secretary. WWWWew-eemmwwvmwg $99 wmwwmmwwwme

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P wgOhChMGQmEhewg$Kg?yFewe4+mmeD$gOgcg The Cincinnati Hughes High School. .75 THE CINCINNATI HUGHES HIGH SCHOOL. N the 19th day of May, 1851, the 8B0an of Trustees and Visitors of the Common Schools, the FcTrusteee of the Wood- ward College and High School, and the ttBoard of Trustees of the Hughes Fundf entered into a triplicate contract for the establishment of the nCincinnati Woodward High School? and the tiCineinnati Hughes High School, as they now exist, which was duly comirmed by the City Council. KDisneyls Laws and Ordinances of Cincinnati, pages 780-7981 Such contract was based upon an act of the Legislature, passed February 11, 1845, whereby the Common Schools of Cincinnati, with the concur- rence of the City Council, shall be empowered to establish such ttother grades of schools than those already established as may to them seem necessary and expedient; and, for the furtherance of' the above-named object, are also empowered, by and with the con- sent of the City Council, to contract with any person or persons, whether in their individual, or corporate, or fiduciary capacity, or with any institutions in relation to any funds that may be at the disposal of such person or persons, 01' such institutions, for the education of' all such children as are entitled to the benefit of common school fund instruction in the city? These schools were placed under the control of the ttUnion Board of High Schools, now composed 'of six members elected by the Common School Board, five members from the Woodward Board, and two elected by the Hughes Board from their numberein all thirteen members. Such schools were to be opened to all white youth who might apply, and Who were residents of the city. July 21, 1862, a res- olution was adopted by the Union Board, and duly approved, by wwewgmgzqh$xe.aimoiz H- Qxivww F 91-79? .4wgraleew

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660 The Cincinnati Hughes High School. 17; 9 T :9 m l Delegates from Board of Education. HENRY MACK. ABNER L. FRAZER. FRANCIS FERRY. WILLIAM KUHN. JABEZ M. WATERS. Dr. W. I. WOLFLEY. Delegates from Woodward Board. WILLIAM GOODMAN. A. T. GOSHORN. S. S. DAVIS. JOHN W. DALE. ALPHONso TAFT. Delegates from Hughes Board. CHARLES H; STEPHENS. H. H. TATEM. x+Qi C;Q