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

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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

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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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A QT' f - l f, X ciuytolwuif MN iCCi?f' l gf ' W U' ' , J, fi-'sf 3 i V' i f r, . HH it IQ X.-'gi T H E C A D U C E U S besides these double stairways, there are two single stairways from the ground floor to the first floor. ' The auditorium has a seating capacity of 2250. Back of the proscenium arch, the stage extends forty feet, having an area of 4O'x80', while in front of the arch, it extends fifteen feet, having an area of l5'x6O'. A steel curtain may be lowered just back of the proscenium arch separating the auditorium from the stage gymnasium. This stage gymnasium is connected by doors with two other gymnasia. These two gymnasia are fully equipped with lad- ders, rings, swinging poles, stall bars and other apparatus, while the stage gymna- sium is equipped with stall bars, and goals for basketball. There is a swimming pool 24'x6O' with dressing rooms and showers for girls and boys, The lockers are located in the corridors and connect with the ventilation system. They are fiush with the wall surface. The library is on the second floor and connects with rooms on either side by means of a door. The music room is on the third floor and has a seating capacity of 300 pupils. The administration suite consists of five connecting offices: the Principal's Office, the Dean's Office, the Doctor's Office, the Assistant Principal's Office, and the large general office with work room and vault for storage of valuable papers. There are forty-five class rooms having a capacity of 45 pupils each, thirty re- citing, Hfteen studying. There are nine science laboratories: one for Botany, con- necting with a conservatory into which it opens: one for Physiology, two for Gen- eral Science, two for Physics, one for Chemistry, one for Physiography, one for Geography, and adjacent to each of these laboratories is a demonstration room. There are three rooms for art drawing Twenty with store rooms adjacent and three me- chanical-drawing rooms with store rooms and a blue-print room adjacent. The Domestic Science group comprises a cooking room and pantry, a housekeep- ing suite consisting of kitchen, pantry, din- ing room, living room and bathroom, two sewing rooms with fitting room adjacent. each furnished with sixteen double tables provided with an electric sewing machine and an electric iron, and one of them sup- plied also wth equipment for laundry work-stationary tubs, ironing boards and electric irons, electric washing machine, drying apparatus and electric mangle. The lunch room is large enough to accommodate fifteen hundred persons at once. It is located on the ground fioor and is arranged for double service. For the Manual Training department, six ample shops are provided, each having a capacity of thirty pupils: one Joinery Shop 97'x29', one Pattern Making and Turning Shop, 74'x29', one Molding Shop 97'x29', one Forge Shop 97'x29', one Machine Shop 97'x54', one Auto- mechanics Shop 84'x29'. The Commercial department consists of three bookkeeping rooms and three type- writing rooms. Teachers' retiring rooms are provided on each floor. In the fourth floor or tower, there are Eve rooms. one of them designed for band and orchestra practice. Back of the school building is a field 245' wide x 699' long, intended for foot- ball, baseball, and track and field athletics, and on either side a space of 327'xl28' for other outdoor sports, such as tennis and hockey. On November 14, l922, it was recom- mended that the new high school to be erected on what was known as the Car- dinal Field be named the Beaumont High School. This recommendation was laid