Perrysburg High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (Perrysburg, OH)

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PERRYSBURG HIGH SCHOOL 7 Historical Perrysburg, an historical town of northwestern Ohio, was laid out in 1816 by the government, near the scene of many battles. She prides her- self in her educational career, Before the war of 1812, settlers maintained a private school at Miami, later a private school near Fort Meigs. The first graded school of the valley was organized at Miami by Frances Hollenbeck, former Perrysburg citizen. Perrysburg came a close second when in 1846 J. W. Ross oganized grade schools here. Howe's History of Ohio states, First system of classification of pupils was at Cincinnati 1836-40. Portsmouth, Dayton, Columbus, Mau- mee, Perrysburg and Zanesville soon by special acts of legislature or- ganized graded schools. In each place provision was made for two or four grades. Only at Cincinnati was a definite course of study such as exists today adopted before 1850. Not until 1845-50 were high schools opened in Cincinnati and Columbus. Among the first, and probably the first high school of the state, was Maumee. In 1849 Professor A. D, Wright founded the high school of Perrys- burg, Pamphlets describe, a new and spacious brick edifice two stories high, 60 x 90 feet. The staff included A. D. Wright, superintendent and principal of high school, E. Olney CAnn Arborl, principal of grammar schoolg Miss Helen Peck, principal of secondary schoolg Miss Mary Jones, principal of primary schoolg Mrs. C. J. Wright, teacher of drawing and painting, Mrs. T. Robertson, teacher of piano forte, The school year covered 44 weeks, The course of high school study included,f algebra, geometry, surveying, orthography, elocution, rhetoric, ,mental-philosophy, chemistry, ast1'onomy, botany, Zoology mineralogy, physiology, natural philosophy, universal history, bookkeeping, science of governments, moral philosophy, composition and declamation, Latin and Greek, sufiicient for admission to college. The first school was enlarged in 1868 and destroyed by tire 1894. The present building was erected 1895. About 1915 under the superintendency of Professor Cole, manual training and domestic science were introduced. When the high school annex was built 1917, these latter studies were im- proved upon. The school is greatly indebted to Miss Libbey for the equip- ment for Domestic Science, and to Mr. W. W. Knight for the manual train- ing tools. Iln 1917 Mr. W. S. Walbridge presented the school with Hag staff and colors. For our High School Library, recently installed in this year 1920-21, we are indebted to a series of gifts, brought about by our friend and patron, Col. George Greenhalgh, In 1849 the pupils of the high school numbered fifty, twenty-three from out of town. In 1916 when Professor Nietz came to us, forty-nine were enrolled. Under Professor J. A. Nietz's splendid administration the high school has increased to 142. School motor busses, following six different routes bring 56 high school pupils from the country. It was