Baltimore City College - Green Bag Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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One City College is a notable type, both in tradition and achievement.” The Hon. Howard W. Jackson, Mayor of Balti- more: “Baltimore City College is one of the many beacon lights of culture in the United States today. It is a symbol of the tremendous educational growth of Baltimore.” Mr. Hungerford, speaking for the Alumni Asso- ciation, described City College thus: “It gave the city a haven of intelligence and leadership that throughout the years has meant much. No won- der the specifications for the new building called for a structure to house the crown of the educa- tional system of Baltimore. No wonder the Balti- more City College with its courses of learning is a gift of love from the city to her sons. Let Alumni, Faculty, and students rejoice in the past of our beloved school, but more important, let us see that the achievements of the past are but stepping stones for the future, and that the institution may render more glorious service.” In a personal interview, Mr. Hungerford said that the Alumni of City have used the Centenary Celebration as a stepping stone to higher achieve- ments. Great and lovely and efficient as the new building is, there is still room for improvement. First, of all, the Alumni are endeavoring to add Junior College courses to the present high school curricula and, later on, full college work. They also hope to build additional wings to the building and add other structure needed to complete the City College quadrangle; this is the vision of the Alumni and the architects, Buckler and Fenhagen. The Alumni are also building up the Scholarship fund, which already has more than $10,000. Among the notable scholarships given to date are the $5,000 Torsch scholarship fund, granted by Edward L. Torsch °68, the oldest living alumnus of the City College, in gratitude for the fact that “City College kept him from drowning in a sea of ignorance’; the Morton Katz Scholarship; and the Vernon Lynch Scholarship. The Peabody Prizes lead the long list of annual prizes and medals. The next objective of the Alumni is an electric organ, which, so Hungerford says, “will make music available not only to City College, but to the city as a whole.” Finally, the Alumni hope to persuade the School Board to build a City College stadium. This is the story of Baltimore City College throughout a hundred years. To preserve the rec- ords of the first hundred years of City College, books, records, and all other information have been placed in the Maryland Historical Society Hundredth Anniversary Library, the Peabody Institute, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the Congressional Library. The life of a hundred years of the country’s third oldest high school is etched in the hearts of all citizens beneath the great tower of learning of “Our Castle on the Hill.” List of Activities During the Celebration (Centennial Week, October 16 to 21) . History of the City College . Display of art at the college . Assembly, Tuesday, October 17, 9:00 A. M. . Pageant, Wednesday evening, October 18, and Thursday evening, October 1g—One Hundred Years of College Life Portrayed . Main anniversary night, Friday evening, Octo- ber 20, the Lyric ». Athletic Carnival, Saturday noon, October 21, the Stadium. . Football Game, Saturday, October 21, 2:30 P.M. . Alumni Dinner, Saturday evening, October 21. . Fund to be created by the Alumni for pre- senting suitable awards to students showing special ability Central Centennial Committee Judge Morris A. Soper ’90, Chairman; Forrest Bramble, president and representative of the School Board; Dr. Philip H. Edwards ’98, Prin- cipals, Henry 1. Yost. 15; Vice Pancipal: Paul, B: Stevens, Oscar L. Helm ’28, Norman F. Burnett, Howard A. Sweeten, George H. Pouder, Jr. ’13, James C. Leonhart, Samuel J. Fisher ’05, Lucius R. White, Jr. ’05, Sidney L. Nyburg ’oo. H. Paul Rome, Walter E. Myers, Sr. ’o4 Dr. David E. Weglein ’94, Dr. J. ‘Carey Taylor 15, Judge Eli Frank, Stuart S. Janney, Frederick J. Singley ’97, Judge George A. Solter, F. Fulton Bramble ’17, Douglas H. Rose ’80, Philip B. Pearl- man ’o8, J. Kemp Bartlett, Walter L. Clark ’g9, Reuben Oppenheimer ’r4. Simon E. Sobeloff, Charles P. McCormick ’15, Dr. George A. Stewart, Sr. 04, William G. Ewald 22, Arthur E. Hungerford ’03, Robert Howell ’08, William Schmeisser ’99, Paul R. Kach ’17, Clark S. Hobbs ’o7, Herbert L. Grymes ’10, Frank C. Marino ’12, Z. Stanford Rothschild ’12, J. Purdon Wright ’o5, Duane R. Rice ’o8.

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One Hundredth Anniversary J. Ernest WIMMER James C, LEONHART So thane TEP os VORLANTS neath Norris Harris The Staff of the shastoy the principal speaker, discussed the evolution of American secondary education and its place in a democracy. Judge Morris A. Soper ’90, Chairman of the Central Centennial Committee, presided. Among the many notables who addressed the rally were Mayor Howard W. Jackson and Dr. John L. Haney, president of Central High School of Philadelphia, second oldest high school in the United States. Albert F. Reed, acting headmaster of the English High School of Boston, first school of its kind in the United States, was unable to attend. Helping to round out the activities of Centen- nial Week, the Baltimore City College football team on Saturday afternoon, October 21, 1939, defeated Southern High School by a score of 33-0. Other attractions at the game were a Maryland Interscholastic mile-run won by City and an old- fashioned tug-of-war won by Southern. Serving as an appropriate conclusion to a week of intensive celebration, 400 alumni attended a banquet at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in the even- ing following the football game. Principal speakers for the occasion were Senator Louis Schwellenbach from the State of Washington; Dr. G. Warfield Hobbs ’96, prominent City College alumnus; and Mr. Arthur E. Hungerford ’03, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Alumni. Clark S. Hobbs ’o7, associate editor of The Evening Sun, was toastmaster. The largest representation of any class was a group of fifty men from the class of 1914. The oldest alumnus in attendance was Jud- son Hunt of the class of 1871. The writer here quotes excerpts from the speeches of three prominent men of Baltimore, given in commendation of City’s accomplishments. Dr. P. H. Edwards, Principal of City College: “Studies, classroom exercises and discussions, stud- ent government, departmental and recreational clubs, publications, dramatics, literary societies, competitive athletics, all contribute to make citizen- ship a habit in the present environment. Here, a boy is known by what he himself is, and by what he can do. By that standard alone can be held the respect and admiration of his fellows and teachers. Along these lines, I deem, lie the great- est opportunities and contributions of the cosmo- politan public high school, of which the present a ee eee a

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