Columbian High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Tiffin, OH)

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15114 The high school was estab- lished as a department of the schools in 1854 in the two-story brick schoolhouse near the corner of Market and Monroe Streets. In 1856 the Union building was erected on Monroe Street and included rooms for the high school. Soon 21 need was felt for a larger and separate building. In 1893 the present Columbian build- ing was erected. This served its purpose efhciently until 1932 when an annex was added. This includes a gym- nasium, an auditorium, a workshop, laboratories, and several class rooms. X . N 7' i. ' Sis 1 ik A , :Ls em ex, , .we . , ,,.

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Greetings frnm the Igrinripal nf Elmrnig-fine Hearn Agn Mr. Harry H. Frazier mix f0f'IIIC17'IJ' lbe prizlripizl of Tiffin Cnllzmbituz. Ile rurzfed well from 1900 lo 1927. He zzvrr pl'07IIfIIN1l in lerzdefzfbip and organized fbe Brian L1IL'l'iIf'-'j' Sn- riely trbitb uwr Ihr' fivzrf exlnr-rl:rrirultzr 0f'gzI7IfZ:llf0?l lo be formed for bigb-.rrbonl rllldezzlr, Belnu' if rr 1914 pirlure of Mr. Frazier u'ilb' bit lzzenirge lu lbe 1939 iwziorr, Two months after the Class of 1914 was graduated, Europe was plunged into a holocaust whose embers still smoulder. It was the worlds worst commencement present to forty-eight innocent boys and girls, and they have been paying the price ever since. Now, at middle age, they are elected to bear their shares of the burden of that war, even if haply they are not called upon to engage in a yet more terrible one. The Class of '14 stands at the middle of the twenty-seven years of my service in Columbian High School. There were thirteen classes before them, and thirteen classes after them, whose diplomas 1 signed. My first thirteen classes had 428 members, and the last thirteen had 1225. Witlt the mid-class of '14, the total is 1701 graduates. I knew all of them, and as I read the class roll now, there are few faces I cannot recall. Every succeeding class seemed to me the best class I had ever had. If this were really true, then the last ones must have come very close to the superlative degree. It would be unfair to hundreds of others to single out a few individuals by name and let so many others go unmentioned. Yet every class contained a few individuals whose impress upon the memory of their principal was more lasting than others. The Class of '14 contained three boys of whom I have always been proud. One is a West Point man, one an Annapolis man, and one a professor in Co- lumbia University. I was still teaching two classes a day, and when this class were juniors, I taught them general history, solid geometry, and advanced algebra. The Columbia professor was the best history student I ever had, and at the end of the year I knew that he knew more history than his teacher. I am not sure whether he knew that or not. I remember every girl in the class, but I con- fess that the most interesting one, in that day of long skirts, was one who spent only two years in Colum- bian. She had grown up on a Western ranch, and could ride broncos and shoot straight. And she did not hesitate to tell us effete Easterners what she thought of us. I think her junior and senior years at Columbian were like prison to her, and my heart H. H- FRAZIIIR went out to her in pity. Girls at eighteen are in their most charming age, and all the classes had a goodly number of line girls. But as I read the roll of '14 it seems to me it had more than its share. I wish I dared name a half dozen of the class whose charm still lingers in my memory. My own daughter was sixteen then, and she accused me of being hard boiled with all the girls. It was just my protective armor. Graduation from high school imposes one handicap: in later years everybody knows your age within a year. The members of the Class of '14 are now all about forty-three years of age. They are now in the prime of their powers. It seems to me, as I study the class roll, that they have made a very considerable contribution to their generation. They should continue to grow and increase their contribution for another quarter of a century. To those of the class who may feel that their lives have been obscure, I would quote Gray's 'mes' Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear, Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. My best wishes to the class whom this annual honors. -HARRY I-I. FRAZIER

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Alllhfhfgjrafg Inn Above are the faculty members of 1914. From this group two members, Mrs. Williams and Miss Dutt, are still resi- dents of Tiffin. Mr. Graeper is living in Rochester, N. Y., Mr. Frazier is in Florida, and Mr. Krout is temporarily resid- ing in California. Miss Kitt is teaching in Massillon, Mrs. Baldwin is in Fremont, and Miss Mosier is now Mrs. Platt residing in Barberton, Ohio. a