Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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The liTTle red schoolhouse holds iTs place in The aTTecTions of This naTion Through The memory of greaT men and women who were Trained Tor useful, honorable lives wiThin iTs humble walls. There was no magic charm involved, however, in This simpliciTy. You have been prepared Tor a more complex world by a modern school. IT you live up To your opporTuni- Ties, TuTure generaTions of Americans will be graTeTul, Too, Tor your big red schoolhouse. A. J. Havlovic Mr. ArThur J. Havlovic is The AssisTanT Principal aT Hughes. THEY CUUNSEL STUDENTS WISELY The male populaTion of Hughes geTs iTs advice and guidance Tram Mr. ArThur Havelovic, fondly known as Gus WiTh Mr. Clyde Hall, he spends parT OT each morning admiTTing boys who have been absenT from school. Mr. Gus is The able sponsor of The Hughes Club which celebraTed iTs TwenTy-TiTTh anniversary This year. Several years ago he was succeeded as music direcTor of Hughes by lvlr. John lvlolnar, buT he sTill has his love Tor music and his skill. AnoTher person who is imporTanT abouT Hughes is Uncle Harry CalverT, our school Treasurer. He is oTTen seen dashing from his oTTice To The bank, or cauTiously opening The school safe To deposiT our pennies. Wh 'WFT lk W . ,, 5 b .W . 1 . , . .. .W i2

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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.

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.gf Miss Florence Wog- ner is The helpful odviser To freshmon girls oT Hughes. ' fAfuff4.L,. , 'g u Vlffuwff WAV Deor Seniors of TQ46: We fondly hope ThoT your Big Red Schoolhouse hos given you The urge Tovvord beTTer living ThoT The LiTTle Red Schoolhouse, of The posT, gove To counTless Americons, in The doys when Americo vvos younger. Sincerely, Elmo R. Robinson Helping The seniors To decide which poTh To follovv ofTer leoving The Big Red Schoolhouse ore Miss Busch ond Miss Fink, odvisers for senior girls, ond Mr. MoThis, odviser for senior boys. By finding onsvvers To The myriod guesTion ond problems ThoT presenT Themselves To senior girls ond boys groduoTing from high school, These odvisers offen help deTermine issues viTol To sTudenTs. AT someTime during his senior yeor, eoch senior hos o conference vviTh his respecTive odviser oibouf his plons for The coming yeor. He is counseled on The choice of on college opproprioTe To The field he inTends To mouke his life work. Since some sTudenTs ore vviThouT definiTe gools, The odvisers Try To direcT Them furTher in The field in which They hove been mosf successful in high school. Mrs. Elmo R. Robinson is The Deon of Girls oT Hughes. -fx I3