Beaumont High School - Caduceus Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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WILBUR N. FULLER

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SITE OF BEAUIVIONT By PETER BRAROE WISH it were possible to name incidents thrilling with historical signiiicance that have occurred on K the site of Beaumont, but in so far as I am enabled to determine, there were no Indian massacres, no battles, nor even noted residences, or other details of like interest to which we can point proudly as hoary traditions of our possession. Never- theless, the school stands on ground suffi- ciently varied in its habitation. Once the plot was a part of the vast Henri Chouteau estate that bordered on the Lindell place to the East. Some Hfty years or more ago the virgin soil was dis- turbed to become a truck farm, a rural manufactory of vegetables for St. Louis. Thereon it continued until the advent of the city's first baseball magnate, Von Der Abe, who established on it a baseball park for the use of his own team. While the place was yet new, another man of enter- prise, Foster, induced the owner to allow him to open a race track and a chute-the- chutes, and to make it a general amusement center in correlation. It must have been a busy, thriving insti- tution, indeed. In the afternoons the ball games were carried on, At night you would perceive bright and shining lights: you would hear a gay uproar and feminine shrieks from the chute-the-chutes, That, I might say, was a steep inclined railway with a large flat boat that rushed down to skim over a pool of water. All of the horse racing happened at night, a novel custom, -The Browns' Baseball Team began at Grand and Dodier, Sportsman's Park in the eighties, It moved to Vandeventer and Natural Bridge in '92 or '93. It played there under the name of the Browns until '99, when it was purchased by Robinson and the name changed to Cardinals. About live years ago the National League abandoned the ground and moved to Sportsman's Park. A real estate company improved the ground to the extent of sewers and a paved street through the center and constructed two houses at the western end. The project was left unfinished when the Board of Education bought it for its present com- mendable purpose. Eleven

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v 7rPi'W.I-11,413 EJ ? - I.. T H E C A D U C E U S MR. WILBUR N. FULLER By VIRGINIA QUICK HOUGH Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ways has a world-wide reputation as a furniture center, it should have a F' 'fr deeper meaning for the pupils of Beaumont High, for it is the birthplace of our principal, Mr. Wilbur N. Fuller. Michigan, too, is noted for the high stand- ard of her public schools, and it is with great pride that Mr. Fuller can say he at- tended them. He was a pupil in the grade school and the Central High School, and graduated from the latter at the age of seventeen years. Still in pursuit of educa- tion, he attended the University of Michi- gan, where he specialized in the natural sciences. While at the University he taught as an assistant-instructor in the Zoological laboratory, ln 1904 he came to St. Louis with the opening of Yeatman High School. Mr. Fuller was connected with Yeat- man throughout its creditable career as a High School from September, 1904, to February 1, 1926, and contributed largely to the school spirit of Yeatman. Mr. Fuller has the quality of leadership, and this trait was soon recognized by those with whom he came into contact. He progressed rapidly to the honorable posi- tions of second-assistant in 1906: first- assistant in 1910: head-assistant in 1911: acting assistant-principal in September, 1918: regular assistant-principal, March 29, 1923: and principal May 8, 1923. While at Yeatman, Mr. Fuller taught various sciences, including physiography and physics. He also coached various ath- letics: tennis, basketball, track, and foot- ball. A large number of the Yeatman Cups that are on display in the cases at Yeat- man were won by teams that he coached He was also sponsor of a number of or- ganizations in addition to that of the senior class. Mr. Fuller has been a repre- sentative for a number of years in the High School League, which he, with the help of another teacher, organized. He was trans- ferred February, 1926, from the principal- ship of Yeatman to the same position in the new Beaumont High School. We have put complete trust in him, for we know that he will make Beaumont respected throughout the city for its high ideals. BEAUMONT HIGH SCHOOL By WILBUR N. FULLER N February the first, the long looked for event took place and the doors of the Beaumont High 'u ' 'l School were thrown open to the young people of the largest high school district in the City of St. Louis. After we had passed the outer doors into its beauti- ful entrance, we paused in wonder, because its magnificence was overwhelming and gave such wonderful promises of what might be in store for us. Soon we were gasping at the size and stateliness of our Auditorium and its stage gymnasium. Our first journey about our new home was a Thirteen