Barnesville High School - Senrab Yearbook (Barnesville, OH)

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s x WE THE SENRAB STAFF OF I953 WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS YEAR BOOK OF 1953 TO MR JACK BERRYHILL Have you seen the man wnth the broad smule gonng around school? Yes I mean Mr Berryhull There us nothung qunte so mc as to be the receuver of thus smule Mr Berryhnll who Barney soon come to know as Mr B has been chemistry aeronautlcs mathematucs geography drlver tramnng and band The band has greatly prospered durnng hrs 20 years here Thus year Mr B really took hus lufe In his own hands and taught the students of B H S how to drive Congratulatnons to you Mr B for you have won the admuratnon of the students and wall long Inve un theur memory 3 1 .M X teaching at B. H. S. since 1933. During these 20 years Mr. B has taught: 0 0

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xx ' Q RX .-1' ,f .- A.,--' Q--,-..-nl-Iii.-1-0' Barney delved into the past history of our Alma Mater and came up with these unusual facts about B. H. S. The high school was organized in 1874 by Joseph M. Yarnell. Classes were held in the Union Building where the iunior high now stands. Then in 1879, classes were switched to the second and third f1oors of a new central building. At this time a high school course lasted only three years- the first graduating class having only five members. But soon it became so crowded that classes were held on the third floor of the Bradfield Bulid- ing. In the fall of 1906, it was possible to move into the new high school building, the present home of the Red and Green. Thus the school was expanded to cover an entire block. Even now the construction of a new gym is expanding the school capacities. Our school song was written by W. C. Jordan-once himself a principal of B. H. S. The title of the tune is Bring Home the Wagon. While looking through the old Senrab, Barney found the past of the school bell. Here we quote what the Baltimore American had to say about it in 1879: The bell was made in Baltimore at the celebrated McShane Bell foundry and was sent by this company to the Paris exposition in 1878 to compete with the bells of foreign manufacture, and has the distinction of being the first Ameri- can-made bell of its kind to be sent abroad for that purpose. It received the highest award and was rung daily by the French guards at the closing hours of the exposition. It may, therefore, be regarded as one of the best bells in the world. Upon its return to America in 1879, it was shipped to Barnes- ville to be placed upon a very large public school building. 4