Archbold High School - Blue Streak Yearbook (Archbold, OH)

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young men and women to Hitch their wagons to a Star or urge them to build Bricks with- out Straw or some of the other fondly remembered, pet Commencement topics of the day. Cllrogrramme GREETING SONG Prayer. Salutatory Essay- Isaac Carey. Vacation, rec.---Edith Spoerle. School Master's Guests, rec.---Caleb Hauser Good Bye, rec.---Bertha Lauber. SONG--'lNT. SCHOOL QUARTETFE Poor Nancy, rec.---Edna Vernier. What Mary Said, rec.---Mary LeCoque. Springtime Flowers,---Int. Class Exercise. jack's Lament, rec.---Flora Dimlre. SONG---GRAMMAR SCHOOL May Day, rec.---Edith Griffith Little Big Man, rec-Louis Winzeler. Old Woman's Complaint, rec.---Blanche Gotshall. Lips That Touch Liquor, rec.---Carrie Siegel. Miss jones and the Burglar, rec.---Mary Kraemer. Prescription for Spring Fever, rec.-Willie Shibler. SONG---HIGH SCHOOL Little Children, rec.- Mabel Omweg Why Boys Must Whistle, rec.---Albert Manthey. Our Heroine, rec.---Tracy Manthey. Speech, rec.'--Arthur Quilet. The Laven, rec.---Jessie Rupp. SONG---SECOND PRIMARY SCHOOL Young America, rec.---jute Biglow. PROGRAMME, Continued MUSIC BY ARCHBOLD BAND Poorhouse Nan, rec.---Barbra Nofzinger Working Men, exercise,---12 boys, 2nd Primary SONG---FIRST PRIMARY SCHOOL We are Happy, rec.--Tilly Dimke The Wind and the Moon, rec.---Lottie Heupel Tommy's Prayer, rec.-f-Anna Druhot Difficulties of Acquiring an Educution, essay, -Ella Winzeler Class Exercise,---Znd Primary School Darling Little Girl, rec. Celia Flory Monuments, essay,-Sarah Levy Holidays, dialogue- lst Primary school Bridget's Troubles, rec.-Martha Neiwoll The Enjoyments of School Life-Bertha Whitehorne Being Useful, rec.-Libbie Yeager Nasby, rec.-Emma Barber Little Speaker, rec.-Clarence Murbach Will,-Minnie McDaniel Wooden Doll, rec.-Louise Buhrer Primrose on the Rock, rec.-Martha Buhrer Speech -Edwin Lauber SONG---INT. SCHOOL Green Mountain Justice, rec.-Tryphena Flory Springtime, class exercise,-Int. School Valedictory, essay Chas. Diehlman SONG---GOOD BYE Don't, rec.---Ida Levy, Our Vacation, rec.---Henry Walter. That was 50 years ago. We, the Class of 1941, wish to join with you in recalling some of the outstanding events of this 50 years of history and celebrate this, the golden anniversary of your graduation. We have not been able to find out just when the first school was established in Arch- bold. In 183940 Samuel B. Darby taught a school one-half mile west of Burlington. This was the first school in German Township. These early, one-roomed, rural schools, were built at a cost of S175-200 each. They had log roofs, sides and frames. Oiled paper substi- tuted for glass in the windows. Teachers taught for approximately S1 per day and their du- ties were janitorial as well as educational. We have the minutes of the Board of Education from 1875 on and from these records we have learned the details of many events since that time. The first meeting of the Board is recorded as having chosen J. C. Whitehorne as Clerk and John Haumesser as President of the Board. They also directed Mr. Whitehorne to make a four-day trip to Toledo, Adrian and Hudson in search of a new teacher. This same Board selected the text books to be used in the school, among which was Thomas W. I-Iarvey's Series of English Grammar. There was a complete set of Rules and Regulations adopted by the Board in this same year. No account of this period would be complete without a recount of some of these Regulations and so we include the choicest ones with original capitalization. RULES RESPECTING PUPILS No. 4. Pupils shall not throw any missils upon the Schoolfgrounds, or in any manner injure School's or Schoolhouses' property. Offenders will be suspended until all Damages are settled. No. 5. Pupils are not to communicate without permission, not to remain in the hall

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' f ra'--A ARCHBOLD SCHOOL 1889 PROF. ELIAS WYSE, SUPERINTENDENT IIISTORX' OF A..H.S. Come back with us, the Class of 1941, to that first Archbold High School graduation in September 1891. The schoolhouse is a two-story, white, frame structure with four rooms. A board walk leads up to the building from the street and divides to lead around either side of the building and ends at the doors of two small frame buildings in the rear. The walk di- vides the playground in half, one side for the girls and the other for the boys. A ball has just escaped from the boys over to the girls' side of the walk. Some sweet young thing has just grabbed it and has run for dear life for the farthest corner of the yard, a boy in swift pursuit. That was the famous outdoor sport in those days. The building houses the primary room for the first, second and third grades, taught by Miss Flo Gates, the second room for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, taught by Miss May Blake, the grammar room for the seventh and eighth grades, taught by Laura Dorshimer and the high room, presided over by Supt. Prof. A. L. Biglow and his assistant, Miss Ida White- horne. There are 251 students in the building, 25 of them in the high room. There are three years of high school and the following subjects are taught: rhetoric, government, bookkeep. ing, literature, geometry, algebra, physics, physical geography, english, general history, Ameri- can history, philosophy and Ray's higher arithmetic. In physical geography class we learn that climatic conditions are changing rapidly and that within 100 years the southern states will be classed in the Frigid Zone. The boys have the job of keeping the wood box filled and just now two boys are coming in with their arms piled high with sticks to replenish the almost empty box. There are five students in the senior class, namely: Charles Diehlman, Isaac Carey, Ella Winzeler, Sarah Levy and Bertha Whitehome. They have finished their year of school. It is evening. The town band has gathered in front of the building and the procession is on its way down to the Opera House. There a full house is waiting them, for this is a new thing and everyone is curious about what is going to happen. Each of the graduates has an essay to present to the public. These essays direct the

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at any time, not to use profane language, not to bring to the Schoolhouse books forign to the purpose of Study. No. 6. Pupils are to cultivate Propriety in deportmentg to keep their Desks cleang Clean their feet Carefully before entering the house, to refrain from chewing tobacco or gum, or spitting on the fioor. ' No. 7. Pupils are not to stay about the Schoolgrounds after School is dismissed, nor to stop on their Road going home, not to jump or hang on Sleighs or Wagons and to refrain from all disorderly Conduct. RULES AND REGULATIONS RESPECTING TEACHERS No. 1. All Teachers must be at the Schoolhouse and have their rooms warmed up by 8:30 A. M. and 1 O'clock P. M. That there was some difficulty in enforcing these rules is indicated by the fact that one teacher had to appear in Board Meeting to be reprimanded for arriving late on Monday morn- ing. In one instance twenty students, several of our leading citizens today, were expelled for having the itch. In 1876 a joint session of Board and Teachers was held to discuss the conduct of students, and pupils were reported as attending school without text books. The Board resolved that parents shall be instructed that they are required to fumish the same. The Board also resolved that everything possible should be done to improve the conduct of the students, and that the Board is to visit the school at least once a month. February 14, 1887, Prof. Newell resigned and Elias Wyse was chosen to take his place as principal of the school. It was during the career of Mr. Wyse, january 15, 1890, that Geo. Whitehorne, then President of the Board, suggested that the Clerk write and obtain all the information possible from the State Commissioner of Schools for the establishment of Town- ship High School. The members present at that meeting were: Watson Hawley, J. F. Dimke- Dan Siegel, L. D. Gotshall and Geo. Whitehorne. J. F. Yeager was absent. To the best of our knowledge a three year high school was duly established in the fall of 1889 and the first class graduated in 1891. In February 1890 the Board purchased and caused to be erected on the schoolhouse a staff for the flag to be floated. Whether this was the first attempt to display the flag over the building is not known. The increase in the amount of school work led to the demand for more room than the old frame building provided and on April 24, 1891, Chairman G. W. Hartman called a special session of the Board to consider the plans and specifications for the erection of a new school building. Lots were purchased to enlarge the school grounds and finally permission was received from the State Legislature for a new building. In May a 516,000 bond issue was voted by the Board. The old building had to be moved and so was not fit for school. The Methodist Church came to the rescue and leased their building to the school to house the primary grades. The lease was S100 for about three months. An elaborate con- tract was written up for a lease in which it was specified that school was to be dismissed for all funerals in the Church. The village Council joined the Board of Education in support of the new school, but there was plen- ty of opposition. When the build- ing was finally started they argued over which way it should face. It was not until the T. SL I. came that 1891 BUILDING NOW GRADE SCHOOL