Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Foreword INCE the school year 1929-1930 saw the completion of the canalization of the Ohio River, another great step in the progress of Cincinnati, we have selected The Ohio River as the theme for our ANNUAL. Our city came into being because of the Ohio River g its growth was largely dependent on river commerce, and its future progress will always be influenced by the presence of the great waterway. Besides its commercial value, the river lends a picturesque and romantic background to the development of Cincinnati. The Indians who scouted Ohio's hills named it, and their slim canoes were once the only traffic that it knew. Then came the covered wagon through the wilderness, and community life developed on the river banks. Crude mills churned the placid water and ferries made a slow and dangerous crossing between pioneer settlements. More settlers came and the colonies took on the appearance of towns, and there was one called Losantiville. River traffic commenced. Flatboats loaded with grain were poled down the current. The first steamboats toiled upstream 5 negroes, working among the cotton bales, sang their haunting spirituals to the rhythmic splash of paddle- wheel and lazy twang of banjo. The river saw the birth of a new era with the coming of the showboat. All the color and brilliance of the gay nineties was mingled in the melodrama, the ragtime, the irresistible call of adventure and romance on the showboats. To-day the call is in the haunting saxophone blues, the intensified rhythm of jazz. The myriad lights on the pleasure boats are multiplied on the water, and the splendor of the distant stars is subdued by the majestic river. Let us hope that the future, with skyscrapers and industrial projects as its symbols, may not dim, but rather contribute to the picturesque glamour of La Belle Rivieref' ' 3 Xi? Y X-In XWIA x'1'7S-lfxvffxxvj' X-fi Ji' X-,fAXN,,f

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. . . At laslf The Zong'd for dash of waves is heard, and wide Ilis luminous home of waters opens. ARNULIJVS i'Sohrab and Rusium'

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TO ' PRESIDENT HERBERT C. HOOVER, Engineer, who, because of his active interest in the canalization of the Ohio River, sailed to Cincinnati on the river steamer Green- brier to dedicate the Ohio River Memorial Monument on October zz, 1919, We, the Class of IQBO, dedicate our ANNUAL. l x fngj irrfiilrxwrf xr' '74 S