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

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VW: S J QT wt- , fl 'Tl '92 f 'll ll ,M C ' I H il gaf ll T H E. C A D U C E U S transportation involved the doubtful pleasure of escorting the neighbor's daugh- ter to the seat of learning. Sometimes this pleasure was more than doubtful. Just think how much better a Ford would have been! As a boy, Mr. Huntington had another responsibility. He was expected to act as mailman, since there was no rural delivery at that time. For this service he received pay but once. A poverty-stricken young woman gave him five cents and two letters. She asked him to buy the stamps for the letters and mail them. Yes, she let him keep the change. In June, l898, he graduated from the Baldwinsville Academy. He was the presi- dent and valedictorian of his class. He received a Blue Seal Diploma from the Re- gents' Department of New York State. This was the first honor of its kind given to a graduate of the academy. ln the spring of l898 he took a com- petitive examination and won a scholar- ship to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He attended this University for four years, working his way through. He tried for a place on the first crew, but made the second. He was attending Cornell when the Varsity made at Poughkeepsie the world's record, still unbroken, for a four-mile race. He was elected a mem- ber of the Sigma Xi Society, an honorary scientific fraternity. He graduated from Cornell in 1902. ln the fall of the same year he began teaching at Ardmore, Pennsylvania, in the Lower Merian High School. After two years, he was awarded a graduate scholar- ship from the University of Pennsylvania, but resigned in order to come to St. Louis to teach in Central High School, where Eighteen he stayed until l9l7. In September of that year, he was made the assistant- principal of the Ben Blewett Junior High School. A year later he went to New York City, where he taught in the Lincoln School of Teachers' College for one year. From there he went to the Silver Bay School for Boys, where he remained for two years. During this time he spent the summers in Teachers' College of Columbia University in New York, and he received the degree of M. A. in the summer of 1921. The following fall he came back to St. Louis and taught for nearly two years: served as assistant-principal in Cleveland High School. In 1926, as we all know, he was transferred with us to the new Beaumont High School. Mr. Huntington has taught in Harris Teachers' College both in extension work and in summer sessions. Mr. Huntington is married and has three sons and a little daughter. The two older boys, Donald and Wendell, have graduated from Cleveland High School, and now both are students at Cornell Uni- versity. Donald is a Junior and Wendell is a Sophomore. Albert Jr. is a student at Webster Groves High School. Mr. Huntington belongs to many so- cieties, some of which are as follows: The Missouri State Teachers' Association, the Mathematical Association of America, the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, the Mathematics Club of St. Louis, the Na- tional Education Association, the Asso- ciation of Secondary School Principals, and the National Society for the Study of Education.

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H .1-35 4.1 ' L' , . M Q .h I fa- pl, J ,X ,. A mg - ' .V :TT H' ' il .Q z a L Y S QA ? a ff A ' . il -5 wmv, H v ANL -s G X 1.k,,S., ,n l V l l l T Htl T H E C A D U C E U S A KNIGHT OF BEAUMONT By JOHN LANGTON Ther was a worthy man. a manly man. Of him I now will tel yow al I can. His stature was. I gesse. of evene lengthe. He was a thikke knarre and greet of strengthe. Full big of bones: and eke his shuldres brood Without a doubt could bar a heavy load. But for to tellen yow of his array. In this respect he was discreet, not gay. Avoiding niceity and wantounesse, His fetis clothes hadde been sometyme in presse. And now to telle yow of his visage, lt disclosed a curteys hind corage. His heed was qray as is a Marche cloude. In it was much of which he might be proude. A brow expansive hadde he overhanging His eyen depeg a latent glow ther shining. A pleasaunt mouthe and verray firm withalle. And no unmeasured word from it did falle. Few peers he hadde from York to old London. And known by alas Mister Huntington. MR. ALBERT H. HUNTINGTON By HELEN TIEFENBRUNN whom do these remarks .remind MQ514 you 1- You must succeed in your JQQQQ, studies in order to succeed in the i 'h worldf' This reminds me of a story: There was a city cousin visiting us in the country, etc., etc.? Yes, you've guessed it. The person of whom I speak is Mr. Albert H. Huntington, our assistant- principal. Although you have learned a few things about Mr, Huntington's life through the stories that he has told to us in the audi- torium, I am sure that you want to know more. Our assistant-principal was born on a farm in Baldwinsville, New York, on Sep- tember 24, 1879, and there he grew up. He began his education in a country district school, where he remained until he went to Baldwinsville Academy, As the school was a distance from his home. he had to drive a horse five and one-half miles each way. Connected with these daily drives was a young lady. It hap- pened that her father, who was a neighbor, furnished the horse half of the time, while Mr. Huntington's father furnished it the other half. This partnership means of Seven teen

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If 1 -- -A If 5 A , 'P,k 'u - E22 lElj,,1g ' A ff 'irf gyg ffrwgswfgfw w w w fs 1 an : ll X lwlmwdxc '?4'!4zg's4d'5 l l T 1 ? IQ T H E C A D U C E U S THE I-IIGI-I SCHOOL SEVENTY YEARS AGO AND NOW By W. J. S. BRYAN, Assistant Superintendent M5K5nley Higl190Schoo1 was . opene anuary, 4, and the Yeatman High School the follow- ' 'W ing September. The registration at the Central for the second quarter of 1903 and 1904 was 25953 the registra- tion for the second quarter of 1904-1905 in the Central, the McKinley and the Yeat- man High Schools was 3070, distributed as follows: Central 1695, McKinley 822, Yeatman 553, a growth of 475 pupils. In the second quarter of 1905-1906, the reg- istration in the three high schools was 3337: in Central 1546, in McKinley 1017, in Yeatman 774, altogether a growth of 267, The growth was con- stant and by 1921, in spite of changes of boundary necessitated by increased num- bers, the registration of the Yeatman had reached 1542. For some years, it had been cvident that a new high school must be built to relieve the overcrowding which prevented pupils living north and west of the Yeatman from attending that school, although within walking distance of it. On January 17, 1922, a recommenda- tion was made by the Joint, Committee on Instruction and Finance that a new senior high school be erected for the relief of the Yeatman High School, on a parcel of ground bounded on the north by Natural Bridge Avenue, on the east by Prairie Avenue, on the south by the alley south of Lexington Avenue, and on the west by Vandeventer Avenue. lt was further recommended that the Commissioner of School Buildings be di- rected to prepare preliminary sketch plans and specifications for this building and to submit them to the Board at the earliest opportunity. Both these recommendations were adopted, On June 13, 1922, the purchase of the site known as Cardinal Park from the St, Louis National Baseball Club for 3212000.00 was reported to the Board by the Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. Chas. P. Mason. On July ll, 1922, the preliminary drawings and description for a Senior High School were presented by R. M. Milligan, Commissioner of School Build- ings, and he was authorized and instructed to prepare the necessary contract, drawings, and specifications and to solicit bids, under the rules of the Board, for the construction of the building. The site purchased is 10,6 acres in extent, has a frontage of 635'5M on Natural Bridge Avenue and a depth on Prairie Avenue of 672'0 . The northwest corner of the block, having a frontage of 225' on Vandeventer Avenue and 63' on Natural Bridge Avenue, is the property of the United Railways Company and is used as a terminus loop. The building as planned has a frontage of 378' and an extreme depth of 327'. lt is three stories high and the first floor is 12' above the grade of Natural Bridge Avenue. There are three entrances on the first floor and six on the ground floor. The main entrance is on the central axis of the building. The cubical content of the building is 5,000,000 cubic feet. There are four double stairways from the ground floor to the third floor, and Nineteen