Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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The Big Red Schoolhouse stonds for youth. Although dignified by the Gothic orchi- tecture ond mellowed by the sun, wind ond roin of the Queen City, Hughes never grows old in spirit. Youth brings to high school their most recent fcids ond their current tolk. They come for educotion. 'Ihey leove with the imprint of thot educoi- tion ond something more. lvloybe thot something con be colled the ideo of o free society. Perhops o port of it connot be put into words. Moybe it con be colled friendship ond understonding blended with fond memories. ln it moy linger ci picture of severol students such os Billie Brill ond Don Buchmon, ot left, tolking to- gether beneoth the frieze of cincient Athens, or Ellen Olmsted pousing in the front holl. Big things ond little things, big people ond little people ore o port of the interesting life ot the Big Red Schoolhouse.

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The Class of 1946 is happy To share in welcoming To Hughes as Principal Mr. E. W. Kizer 9

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CincinnciTi wois sTill ci young ciTy WiTh Troces of The TronTier evidenT in iTs dusTy sTreeTs ond roughly cloud inhobiTcinTs. IT wcis doubTlessly ci sTronge ploce To ci poor immigronT cobbler, Thomos Hughes. lTs lndions ond ConesTogo wogons were o Tor cry from The sighTs of his noiTive nineTeenTh cenTury Englcind. The spon of his unevenTTul life wos concluded here more Thcin l2O yeors oigo. When Thomos Hughes died he leTT his enTire esToTe To be used for edu- coTion in hisodopTed ciTy. From These begin- nings rose our high school. In i852 The TirsT closs groduoTed from Hughes. IT consisTed of exocTly Tour sTudenTs. i852 found money Trom The will being used To erecT o new building on FiTTh STreeT neor Mound. This wos supplonTed in l9lO by our presenT CliTTon poloce. AT The Time iT cosT iEl,OO0,000 ond held l5OO pupils. VViTh The oiddiTion of o new wing in i925 iT vvos broughT up To iTs presenT size. ThoT, in shorT, is how our Big Red Schoolhouse come To be.