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HUGHES HIGH SCHOOL WAY back in 1847, the 'Center School , as Hughes was then called, was opened in the basement of the Lutheran Church, corner of Walnut and Eighth Streets, with H. H. Barney as principal. In 1848, the school moved to Longworth Street, near Race, and occupied rented buildings. In 1852, the first Hughes High School building, on Fifth Street, opposite Mound, was finished, and the pupils joyously entered therein, with Cyrus Knowlton as their principal. It was then regarded as a splendid structure, but its purely Norman style was marred afterward by building an annex across its entire front. Race Street was the dividing line between Woodward and Hughes. In September 1910, the present magnificent building was opened on Clifton Heights. In 1852 the first graduation from Hughes took place at Greenwood Hall, then the largest Auditorium in Cincinnati. H. H. Barney, Cyrus Knowlton, J. L. Thorton, E. W. Coy, E. D. Lyon and C. M. Merry have been the suc- cessive principals of Old Hughesf I entered the rented rooms on Longworth Street, in 1851, and sat as a pupil in Cyrus Knowltonls room for four years- graduating in 1855, being eighteen years of age. And, oh my! what heaps of wisdom I thought I possessed! But now, eighty-two years of age, I feel like Sir Isaac Newton when he declared, HI am only picking up a few bright shells, along the shore of a great unexplored ocean before me. Thousands among our best Citizens have: had HOld Hughes as their Alma Mater. We may all be proud of the grand uplifting influence of our dear HOld School . In the rented Longworth Street rooms, the graduating class brought their lunches in baskets, or in tin buckets. We had no Home Economics department, and n0 auditorium or lunch rooms! The girls ate royally in the school rooms, and the boys used the cellars as a banquet hall! In after years, one of these boys became president of the Cincinnati Board of Education; one became president of a great continental railway; and one became principal of a large intermediate school which sends from 100 to 150 graduates to HOld Hughes, every year. And now, may I Wish that in future years, useful and happy lives may be the fortune of all the graduates of 1919. GEORGE F. SANDS. 19 l
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