Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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FAR baclc in The preceding cenTury, in The humble home oT a soliTary cobbler. There arose The TirsT TainT dreams which were To maTerialize in The greaT Towers oT Hughes High School. Thomas Hughes was a Triend- less unhappy man, who leTT his naTive England To seTTle in CincinnaTi. Here he TerminaTed The span oT an unevenTTul liTe, and wenT To his Tinal resTing place more Than one hundred TwenTy years ago. ln a will wriTTen shorTly beTore his deaTh, he leTT his properTy To be used Tor The educaTion oT poor children. This bequesT has made The name oT Hughes lcnown To Thousands, and The man who was Torlorn and unbeTriended many years ago is now respecTed and cher- ished in The hearTs oT many. The privaTe insTiTuTion oT Woodward College was The TirsT To beneTiT by The esTaTe. The income Trom The properTy was used in The educaTion OT needy pupils. ln I85l, The Hughes Fund and The Woodward Fund were consolidaTed, and The Queen CiTy's TirsT Two public high schools were esTablished under The Union Board oT High Schools. The TirsT class com- mencemenT exercises were held in July, l852, aT Greenwood Hall. An imposing Tour pupils, all Trom Hughes, received diplomas! They had all been sTudenTs oT The CenTral School which was rechrisTened wiTh The name oT The English cobbler. The Tollowing year a building was erecTed aT FiTTh STreeT near Mound, and lvlr. H. H. Barney, The TirsT principal, moved The school To The new lo- caTion. Years passed, and anoTher principal Mr. E. W. Coy, was also To have his school change posiTions. This Time, iT was To a maiesTic Tudor ediTice on The corner oT Clif- Ton Avenue and Mclvlillan STreeT. The new sTrucTure cosT Sl,O00.000 and housed l,5OO pupils. ln T925 iTs size increased wiTh The addiTion oT a new wing, and Thus we Find our Hughes High School oT The presenT day. IT is a Truly magniTicenT realizaTion OT The dreams OT Thomas Hughes, and a mighTy and serviceable monumenT To his memory. l

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lvlR. CHARLES OTTERMANN, Principal WE'RE on our way. lT is oT inTeresT To noTe ThaT we, The Class oT '45 and The Principal, enTered l-Tughes The same SepTem- ber, having now been on our way TogeTher Tor your high school years. ThroughouT This Time, excepTing The Troubled monThs beTore Pearl l-larbor, our naTion has been aT war. Overcoming Tear'Tul inifial handicaps our armed Torces baclced by The earnesT supporT oT The home TronT, have, in The Tar-Tlung areas oT sTriTe, come a long way in The hard paTh leading To vicTory. As These lines are wriTTen, The goal in Europe seems noT re- moTe. ATTer ThaT The conguesT oT The Empire of The Rising Sun. Probably some oT you will be There. Then The peace. IT is my earnesT hope ThaT as The days spenT aT l-lughes have helped somewhaT Tor living in Time oT sTriTe, They have also aroused in you The purpose- Tul desire To be undersTanding and broad- minded ciTizens, as you Thread your way Through The inTricaTe paThways oT The Peace To Come. lvlay iT aTTord pleasure as you pause Tor momenTs, now and Then while on your way, To page Through This picTured sTory oT liTe aT l-lughes. EAM Sincerely,

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