Ann Arbor High School - Omega Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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fcx kixf? WW N X RYKJQX . av! N ,ditty 5 Q . Il C .ann di n: i Ms 1 M IQ l' N'1XS,, . 11 ,pf r-4 K ii 2' g , ,,....,1--1- 1 A HISTORY OF THE ANN ARBOR HIGH SCHOOL On October 5 1856 Ann Arbor Htgh School opened its doors to a little group of eleven young men and women In June 1956 the high school will graduate 410 seniors Much has happened between these two widely separated events The school was located on South State Street the site of the building which has gust been vacated The land was purchased from one Elllah W Morgan for 52 O00 and consisted of one and three quarters acres in the elevated and beautiful part of the city which had been used for pasture land and an occasional circus. The school has not always been known as the Ann Arbor High School but was called at first the Union School and later the Union High School, It was de- signed by its originators as a preparatory school for the University of Michigan. The building, constructed of brick and stone at a cost of S32,000, was intended to accommodate 200 students, but within ten years twice that number were in attendance. Consequently in 1871 an addition which doubled the original size was erected. This building burned in 1904, and in T906 it was replaced by the present structure on South State Street. Since that time three major changes have been made in the building: the modernization of the gymnasium and the extensive re-building of the audi- torium in 1936, and the large modern addition in 1939. When the building was vacated in March of this year, .5 'F ,,,g:-'-- Ann tive!- there were 1460 students in attendance The first courses offered by the school were pre paratory to college one of them entitled Mental and Moral Philosophy did not prove popular and was soon dropped In 1877 commercial courses were added Since then work In music Industrial arts home eco nomlcs physical education vocational training machine shop painting and decorating cooperative occupa tional training and driver education has been added as the growing needs of the community dictated. Now in 1956 the Ann Arbor High School can truthfully boast of one of the most inclusive and up-to-date curriculums in the state. The power and prestige which the high school e - ioys in state academic circles-and indeed throughout the nation-are due in large measure to a series of out- standing principals and a corps of teachers with su- perior abilities and attainments. The first principal was Theophilus Capen Abbott, who resigned in 1858 to become a professor of English at Michigan Agricultural College fnow Michigan State Universityig in 1863 he was made president of the college. Judge Claudius Buchanan Grant, who was principal from 1860 to 1862, established a long record in educational, legal, and military life, he became a regent of the Univer- sity and a iustice of the Supreme Court of Michigan, and when the Civil War broke out he was commissioned a colonel. i C T A . . X 5 -ffzp. ,. - X 1 .-t -. ' W X' ' 4' 1 'L-Apt.: 1 1' x 5 X I tx 'jig gi If .1 ki V .i 5 3 - i, r -E, A X f K h af 1 ' li ' ' . , -l l' Ll, , W i .- , '.N 41,-, . Li: ? c I . C it , v :ff 1 N' t is . it J M , H if li ii' 15,0 fl ' 'L iii ui ' V ii h - ,gee-nfs.. K ,xx Qi ' 1 ' 1 1 g . 4 eu. ' --.X r 1 li IIA I . X, rr i ' c I wks' - I . , l 'f l it K I X' ' 1 ' ':i 6 1 dl in N ' A llifi f l if 1 4' ' A - X -- - xi. it . w ei: Af. .. 1 ' 7 an c , tg sl . - 1 ll 1 5 1.5 I ', ,El . Q OWEN , ,Q . ca' 5 l 0 ,l ,- la l if' izfjrmff .' I 'if' 5 i - i +G . i 1 -- ' if 4 ' i' :-, i 2 fm s T it 4 . It . 'J Q Dc, , I Y 1 L.. I I 4 . - .f X 'gm 5 iv - my - ll ' e N- 1 ' S i , . g. 1.1, , . 7 'f s ali 'vtrf' ' 'ii n

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A NEW N T U R Y O F P R

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Among the several outstandung pruncupals who have served the Ann Arbor Hugh School sunce then there are three who deserve specual mentuon One of them us Judson G Pattengull aftectuonately known as Pat He was pruncupal from 1877 to 1908 a peruod of thurty one years Several mauor extra currucular actuvutues had theur unceptuon under Mr Pattengulls leadershup the Omega the hugh school yearbook was f1rst publushed un 1884 and the f1rst football team dates back to 1885 At thus tume there were few other hugh school teams un the state and the squad spent most of uts tume as sparrung partner for the Unuversuty teams The second pruncupal who made a notable contru butuon was Lewus L Forsythe servung from 1917 to 1946 a peruad of twenty nune years Mr Forsythe started hus career as pruncupal at the begunnung of one world war and ended ut at the conclusuon of another Perhaps no statement personuf1es hum better than a quotatuon whuch appeared un the Student Handbook under the captuon The Spurut and Aums of the Ann Arbor Hugh School Ann Arbor Hugh School stull retauns the substantual characterustucs for whuch ut has always been noted It us progressuve but safely so ut unsusts on hugh standards of scholarshup and conduct but thus us done un the convuctuon that such qualutues 'lu ses. J..-.,.f3s, 'C -M'-A fvnsidl um... -gat' 1 were never more needed than today Indeed the same quotatuon mught well apply to the present pruncupal Nucholas Schreuber who wuth hus forward lookung progressuve leadershup yet seeks to mauntaun the hughest standards of scholarshup and conduct Mr Schreuber assumed hus dutues as pruncupal after the returement of Mr Forsythe un 1946 Durung hus ten year uncumbency he has been faced wuth the problem of uncreasungly crowded classes the multuple dutues connected wuth the buuldung of a new school and the staggerung task of movung from one buuldung to another Pruncupals cannot be effectuve un a vacuum how ever and wuthout the support of a loyal body f teachers theur efforts could not have produced the great unstututuon whuch we have today There were only eught teachers uncludung Pruncupal Abbott on the staff when the Unuon School opened un 1856 uncudentally the assustant pruncupal a woman was called a pre ceptress at that tume Today there are seventy nune on the faculty of the Ann Arbor Hugh School Through out the years th s constantly growung body of teachers comung from far and near have caught the spurut of the school and each un hus own way has added to uts greatness 3.93 .all ,-643.43 ...s -' a.1-ig 'M u5 E'5':f 'f,'fe 'fit --if-D -'-Q M-wht: