Bucyrus High School - Bucyrian Yearbook (Bucyrus, OH)

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employed to make the plans. The contract was let to the Bucyrus Machine Works, at $46,900. Excavations for the basement were made in the fall of 1867 and on July 30, 1868, the cornerstone was laid. any additions the building stands today as the designer planned it. But the people, feeling that they had not authorized the Board to build a $75,000 building, refused to meet the de- mands and the Board was forced to seek a friendly legisla- ture who supplied the deficiency. In 1870, in the administration of J, C. Harper, the hrst class graduated, and each year since a class has been prepared for Commencement day. The building is centrally located, and the remnant of what was once a four-acre oak grove furnishes a fitting back- ground to the imposing structure. Constructed of brick and stone, it fulfills well the plans of its designers. Improved methods of heating and ventilation have rendered the early methods somewhat inadequate; present generations find its twenty-one rooms and halls insufficient; laboratory accom- modations are meagre and dangerous; most of the rooms are poorly lighted; and yet the building, collegeelike in its appearance, stands an honor to the community and a monu- ment to the untiring eHorts 0f the early educators of the city. URSUIA MILLS Dedicatory services were held Sept, 28, 1869 and without The expense of equipment necessitated another tax levy of $12,000 A CORNER OF THE LABORATORY

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Colors: Turquoise and Black. President Vice President Secretary Treasurer . Stella V. Barth Walter R. Beall Frederick F. Blicke Orpha A. Coe Cleo J. DeLashmutt Grace D. Dimon William A. Gardner Iilsie R. Gebhardt Mac A. Hammond J. Harrison Henry IVIargaret H. Johnston Swim: 0115155 QUISQUE PRO SE NAVIGAT Class Flower: Carl E. Schuster H. Louise Lindner . Margaret H. Johnston . Harold L. Schieber CLASS ROLL Ralph A. Jolly Lois R. Keller Marie L. Kimerline Rosa I. Kraus H. Louise Lindner Winfield S. Mahlie Mae I. NIcCrory Chester A. Meck Luella Mollenkopf Alice R. Moore Arthur F. Neff S. Ernest Neff The Violet. Roscoe L. Price Stella M. Quaintance Vella E. Quaintance Mac B. Schear'er Harold L. Schieber Carl E. Schuster Paul B. Sears Edwin W. Seeger Marie A. Streib Edna G. Vollrath Wilbur S. VVhite