Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Superintendent of Schools DR. PAUL A. MILLER Cincinnati Board of Educatio' HARRY M. HOPKlNkPresident ; CALVIN H. CONLIFFE-Vice-President MRS. ALICE P. BRUCKMANN FRANK G. DAVIS MRS. VIRGINIA K. GRIFFIN JAMES W. FARRELLJR . WAYNE F. WILKE : Hughes alumni work in various capacities at the Education Center.

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Jerry St. Clair and Mary Merianos uphold tradition on Cincinnati's 100th Memorial Day, in 1968. Thomas Hughes, who died on December 26, 1924, was J buried in the Twelfth Street burying-ground. Later his body was exhumed and Ie-interred in Spring Grove Cemetery. The monument project7 started in 1865, was directed by Charles H. Stephens, Sidney Omohundro, and H. H. Tatem. After five years of fund-raising by alumni, the monument design was adopted and the monument finally erected in . 1871. l 9

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Hughes High School Memorializes Cohbleris Dream The field of education is often considered to be the most important of all domestic issues. Nowadays, however, there is very little sentimental attention given by individuals to the appropriation of grants meant for the purpose of erect- ing and supporting new schools. There was a time, though, when the generosity and foresight of one humble man pro- vided sufficient capital for the construction of a school build- ing. Thomas Hughes was born in England of Scotch parents. Although little is known of his early life, he later owned a farm of thirty acres located northwest of What is now Liberty and Sycamore Streets. Aside from an early marriage, which ap- parently ended in failure, he lived entirely alone as far as human companionship was concerned. Although he was an excellent horseman and made a good living off his land7 he was a shoemaker by trade. It is ironical that this, the year ending a century of Hughes Annuals, is also the two-hun- He came to America and settled in Cincinnati. 611 ; wins mu; Aqua: or emcumb IDIID IN CINCINNATI, A. D. .1824. 11 dredth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Hughes. The last will and testament of Thomas Hughes, dated three weeks before his death on December 26, 1824, pro- vided that the iiresidue of my land and property aforesaid shall be appropriated and applied to the maintenance and support of a school, or schools, in the city of Cincinnati, for the education of poor destitute children, whose parents or guardians are unable to pay for their schooling: the said property, the management of the funds arising therefrom, and those who are fit subjects to receive the benefits thereof; are to be placed under the control of a Board of Trustees . . . . The land $tto be by them kept and rents used for the purposes aforesaid, or to be sold, land the proceeds fundedfl Because of one manis generosity, Hughes High School stands today, and the Cobblefs Dream of free education has become a reality. I Wes $4