Amherst Steele High School - Amherstonian Yearbook (Amherst, OH)

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Camden qgmgmqggg 1 l i. rig 5 4 1 its lr' if 'I l 1 Sw Ev li The first school building in Camden Township was made of logs and erected in 1833. Is was used for all community activities as well as for IV ' school purposes. Miss Laura Allen was the first teacher, receiving 75 ,, cents a week for her service. l, Following this three frame buildings were erected and later six brick gl buildings, which made up the educational facilities of the township, from l the building standpoint, until the present structure was completed. This ,lf 4 building was dedicated in the fall of 1924, though it was used during the '75 later part of the 1923-24 school year. It has every convenience of the 1 best rural schools of the state, being equipped with manual training and If domestic science departments, a combination auditorium and gym and an approved library. One hundred and eighty students from all parts of the township find their way to this building each morning by foot, automobile, 5 school wagon or bus. Including the music department there are 8 teachers. l 5 With this group of students properly classified and the faculty made up - of teachers who have specialized along certain lines, it has been possible not only to raise the general standard of the school but to take first school prize at the county fair and to hold the county championship in basketball for two years. , This building belongs to the people of the community and is used by ii them for all community purposes. l Belden gli ..-T ,, li The Belden School Building is located in Grafton Township at the ii 1 center. It is a modern two-story brick structure and is up-to-date in every ,, particular. On the main floor are the classrooms of the grades-large, l airy and well lighted. The rooms on the second floor are used for junior l and senior high school work. The combination auditorium and gymnasium l is one of the best in the county. With its large fioor and high ceiling it makes an ideal room for basketball and other indoor sports. It has a li stage large enough to accommodate any ordinary school play or operetta. li The sub-basement contains the dressing rooms and showers, toilets, g boiler rooms and in addition laboratories for domestic science and manual training. There is also a physics and chemistry laboratory, library, rest U room and office. In addition to being modern in construction, the building E' is modern in all its appointments. The building was first occupied in the fall of 1923, just 70 years after the establishment of the first select school in the village in 1853. P llm ll c.. .1 3 g o.. . 'll-la:s2.g..Qg: Thirteen

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