Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

Page 17 text:

OUR HUGHES QCTOBER 16, 1908, the corner stone of the new Hughes High School Building was laid by Albert D. Shockley, President of the Union Board of High Schools. Since the formal dedication exercises in December, 1910, Cincinnati has fully appreciated its perfection. Though built for 1600 pupils, Hughes in 1916-17 has 2098 enrolled. Hence We have our wandering teachers with desks in the Auditorium, and we have the decorative fringe of D Grade boys around its walls at Assembly. Ten courses of study are offered, from the Academic to the Agricultural Co-opera- tive. All are well attended, and completely equipped. We even boast a good- sized greenhouse and a wireless transmitting and receiving set. The powers that be systematize everything. Take the lunch rooms for example. The two together seat only 700 pupils, so 1300 pupils buying luncheon daily make necessary two recess periods. The business amounts to some 330,000 a year, everything selling at cost price with a small margin for running expenses. Two hundred pounds of meat and six bushels of potatoes each day, two barrels of flour and two hundred loaves of bread each week, satisfy our healthy appetites! Twenty-two Senior boys act as servers, and other A Graders keep in order the bread lines in the corridors. Our student organizations would sound appalling in number, were there not more than two thousand of us. Perhaps we attempt too much for the good of our lessons. But our work shows spirit. In this spirit we issue a monthly magazine, involving an expenditure of more than 251600. In this spirit we support this Annual, as big an undertaking as Old Hughes. In this spirit all departments and organizations united in producing such an Operetta as The Saucy Hollandaisef' which netted more than 261000. The language and departmental clubs, the musical organizations, the literary, art, and athletic associations are all represented in these pages. Latin, Mathematics and English, are not slighted, but we shall look back to the organizations also, after iifty years-and remember our Hughes with pride. At present the Student Help Fund is aiding three pupils to continue their education. This grows out of little gifts from various sources. One boy serving in the lunch room donates his lunch money to the Fund. Just before mid-year the Honor League and the Hughes Club added fifty dollars through a candy sale. Similarly, the Outside Employment Committee of teachers brings together the positions and the students who need employment after school and on Saturdays. Pupils thus employed, during one year earned 510,200 lPage elevenl

Page 16 text:

HUGHES HIGH SCHOOL

Page 18 text:

Even D Graders were excited, March 27, when the First Regiment of the O. N. G. was called out, for thirteen Hughes boys, Members of Co. I, responded. Since then President Wilson's historic speech has caused Congress to declare that a state of War exists between the United States and Germany. Before this is published We may be active in the world war, and Hughes may have given up many of her boys for the protection of the country. But nothing will ever cause the thrill Within our hearts like the going of those first thirteen. If War comes, Hughes will send her full share of soldiers and of nurses. Whether War comes or not, our Hughes, as she has done for more than half a century, will continue to send forth boys and girls prepared to take their places as Worthy citizens of the United States and of the World. MARY ELIZABETH RITCHEY, '17, EDMUND D. LYON Principal of Hughes lPage twelvej