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

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I IMI I I I I''I'3'f?551I13I'E'EE ?I5'E EfI I I I I I I I'I The school has grown steadily, and is considered one of the best high schools of its size in the state. ln 1889, V. W. Way left a sum of money from which the interest, amounting to SI,200, is taken every four years to help put one of the high school students through college. The senior class takes a test over all the studies they have taken in their high school career. The three students hav- ing the highest grades draw for this scholarship. The high school has two literary societies, the Athenian and Phi Sigma. There is much friendly rivalry between the two societies. Every spring they hold an inter-society contest consisting of an oration, reading, essay, and a debate. Perrysburg High School is the only school in this section which belongs to the National Honorary Society. It also belongs to the North Central -...........-..- - -..-.....-..-..-.....................-..-..-..-..-..-..-.....-....... --.Q IQLL..-

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-..-.. .--- ..-.....-..-..-......-..-..-..-......-..I.-i..i.6...l:i...... .-..-.....-............ - ....... P 1335! QB U3 G-.c u..- - .Z - -., -M Ross at the site of the present school house in Perrysburg. There were only four grades and no definite length of school term. ln l849, A. D. Wright founded a high school in Perrysburg. The first building was described as a large, spacious, brick edifice, 60x90 feet. The faculty consisted of A. D. Wright, superintendent and principal of the high school, E.. Olvey, principal of the grammar schoolg Miss Helen Peck, prin- cipal of the secondary schoolg Miss Mary Jones, principal of the primary school, Mrs. C. Wright, teacher of drawing and paintingg and Mrs. T. Robertson, teacher of pianoforte. At that time the high school curricula included: algebra, geometry, sur- veying, orthography, elocution, rhetoric, mental philosophy, botany, astron- omy, chemistry, Zoology, physiology, mineralogy, natural philosophy, univer- sal history, moral philosophy, Latin, Greek, bookkeeping, science of govern- ment, composition, and declamation. A sufficient course to prepare students for college. The school house, built in 1849, was enlarged in 1868 and destroyed by fire in lS94. The present building was erected in l895. ln I9I5, man- ual training and domestic science were introduced. When the school was enlarged in 1917, these studies were intensified. The manual training equip- ment was donated by W. W. Knight, and the appliances for domestic science were given by Miss Sally Libbey. The high school library, installed in l920- Zl, was principally the gift of Col. George Creenhaugh. Mr. W. S. Wal- bridge gave a Hag staff and colors to the school. In IB49, the high school had fifty students. ln l9l6, it had only forty- nine. ln l92l, it increased to one hundred forty-two, of which fifty-six were from the country. They were brought in from six different routes by two busses. Now there are four busses bringing in sixty-seven country students. The present high school enrollment is two hundred twelve. - - 'T2F?15iL-'::':i H :iMi -M'

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