Dunkirk High School - Ivy Tower Yearbook (Dunkirk, NY)

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ADMINISTR TIO A llghthouse lxke a star In the nlght remlnds one of Carl Schurtz s quotation on :deals Ideals are luke stars you will not succeed In touchlng them wlth your hands But luke the seafaring man on the desert of waters you choose them as your guudes and following them you will reach your destmy When Dunklrk harbor was fnrst vnsrted by whnte men IS dlffrcult to determlne but as Lake Erne was known by nts name to the Jesults as early as l64l there can be little doubt of the beautnful bay having been observed at an early date According to the Hnstory of Dunkrrk by Obed Edson the farst vessel that came Into Dunkirk harbor after the vlllage was settled was brought In by Samuel Perry In l8l0 The furst lnghthouse was buult ln the l82O s wnth the woods being cleared oy 'ef Pease an the employ of Walter Smith The present lighthouse was erected ln l875 lts lught was Imported from France at a cost of S10 O00 The above unformatlon was obtanned from the Second Edltron of The Grape Belt July l4 l896 Souvenir Harbor Number 1 1 1 ,, . ' . . . . . , . 1 1 . - 11 1 1 . ,, . . ,, . . 1 . . . . , . . - , X: .. . , . . . . . . ,, ,, 1 H A u 1 1 -

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HIGHLIGHTS OF DUNKIRK HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAM What happened in 1858? Cyrus W. Field spliced Europe and America with the Atlantic cable in Augustg Bernadette made a shrine at Lourdes famous in Februaryg Lincoln and Douglas carried on forensically during the summerg Minnesota was admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state in Mayg and Oliver Wendell Holmes published The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Here in Dunkirk, Number One School was a year old and housed the first graduating class of the newly incorporated Dunkirk Free School District. Twenty years later plans were executed to erect the first structure on the present campus. This five acre plot was obtained by the district through the influence of Mr. Walter Smith, one of Dunkirk's enterprising citizens. The new red, brick building known as the Dunkirk Academy was opened in l88l. The beautiful trees on the campus were planted in l890. In l896, the Academy was enlarged by an addition several times the original size. Ten years later another addition provided space for the Junior High School. The present new building was erected in 1925. l956 saw the dedication of the new Field House at the athletic field in memory of Charles Aey, a former coach at Dunkirk High School. During the summer of l957 a teachers' parking lot was built on the south side of the campus near Sixth Street. The tower in winter New parking lot

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