Fairhaven High School - Huttlestonian Yearbook (Fairhaven, MA)

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100th An niversary Issue rairhaven High S choo

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The original Fairhaven High School was opened, for its first term, on January 26, 1852, the date for opening which had been decided at a meeting of the school committee on November 1, 1851. The school was located on the site where the Huttleston Apartments now stand, and the building, which originally was used as a Methodist church, was refitted and adapted to school purposes at a cost of $4,500. M. L. Montague was named the first principal of the school, at a salary of $80 a month; his two assistants were Miss Angeline B. King and Miss Hannah A. Bryant. J Entrance requirements, as stated by the school committee, were “a good knowledge of arithmetic through simple interest, English, grammar in parsing, geography sufficient to be familiar with maps, reading, and spelling.” Fairhaven’s great benefactor, Henry Huttleston Rogers, was a member O 7 J O 7 of the original class. O

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[J Eciication The Class of 1952 dedicates this issue of the HUTTLESTONIAN on the 100th anniversary of the founding of Fairhaven High School, to the memory of Fairhaven’s great benefactor, HENRY HUTTLESTON ROGERS, whose philanthropic spirit and warm interest in young people made possible the magnificent building which is our alma mater.