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

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152 ar Uma Jfcime The earliest classes to be graduated from Tiffin High School, those from 1859 to 1868, held their com- mencement programs in the high-school room on the third floor of Monroe Street School. At that time the women teachers received 330 a month salary, while the salary of the men was 3535, and the superintendent received 35100. The Monroe building continued to be the seat of secondary learning until 1893 when the Columbian High School building was completed at a cost of 375,000 The school name was selected because of the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago that year. General W. H. Gibson was the orator of the day when the cornerstone was laid. Tiffin at that time had 10,801 inhabitants. Commencement exercises were held in National Hall from 1869 to 1907, when they were transferred to the Grand Theater. After the erection of junior High School in 1924, programs of the graduating classes were held in that auditorium, with a seating capacity of 1200. An addition to the Columbian building was completed in 1933. The Columbian auditorium, with a seat- ing capacity of 650, is the scene of present commencement activities. The alumni roster of Tiffin High School has 4,610 names. V 5

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fffcfucml Jawa A tiny, red-brick cottage on the edge of a broad, wooded ravine at Milan, Ohio, has taken its place among the historic shrines which commemorate great Americans. It is the 100-year-old birthplace of Thomas Alva Edison, the Ohio genius who invented the electric light, the phonograph, the moving and talking picture, and many other marvels we take for granted today. Thirty acres of adjacent ravine, through which runs the Huron River, have been purchased by Mrs. Edison and will in time become a memorial park to her husband, who died in 1931 at the age of 84, The land is pastoral and quiet today, but 100 years ago it rang with pounding and sawing, for Milan then was the second largest grain port in the world, with six shipyards and sixteen grain warehouses along a canal teeming with trade. Imports and exports totaled more than 351,500,000 a year. Here the boy Edison lived the hrst seven years of his life, before his family mov-ed to Port Huron, Michi- gan. Through the century, the old home, occupied by relatives, underwent many changes. Eighteeen months ago Mrs. Edison commissioned an old friend of the family to restore the birthplace. Soon the only modern traces will be the electric lights and the oil furnace. -'L 4

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7 his-ann return Clllillrarg Record I ,..,.,.... ,.....,...... L ight for All Record II.: ..,.. Birth of the Incandescent Lamp R'ecord III .....,......,.., Edisonis Favorite Invention Record IV ,........... ,.... 5 ,.... 1 di' ' 'nmetz Record V .....,...........,......, Edisonis First Laboratory Record VI .,.....,.... ,..........,. O ptimism 1847 1868 1875 1876 1877 1879 7 iii.-51311 Gllpfnnnlngg February 11-Born at Milan, Ohio, son of Samuel and Nancy Elliott Edison. Patented first invention, the electrical vote re- corder. November 22-Discovered electrical phenomenon which he called etheric force, later recognized as due to electric waves in free space, is founda- tion of wireless. April-Moved to laboratory at Menlo Park, his first laboratory for organized research. August 1 2-flnvented phonograph. Invented first practical incandescent electric lamp. Invention perfected October 21, 1879, when lamp maintained incandescence for forty hours. 1891 1896 1896 1914 1928 1931 Applied for patent on motion-picture camera. Experimented with X-ray. Developed fluoroscope, dedicated to public domain. May 16+Applied for patent on first fluorescent electric lamp. Patented miner's electric safety lantern. October 20-Presented with Congressional Medal of Honor. October 18-Died at Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. I., at the age of 84, survived by his wife Mina Miller Edison, four sons, and two daughters.