Franklin High School - Key Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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ETHEL PLACE BUTTERFIELD January 9, 'I884 February 28, 'I94O A FRIEND OF FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL Ethel Place was a born teacher. I-Ier father and mother were teachers, too, and she later married a teacher, our own beloved Roy L. Butterfield. She loved young people and found her hap- piness in home and school. Graduated from Cortland Normal School at the age of eighteen, she taught for four years in the public schools of Ithaca and even after her marriage, acted as a supply teacher occasionally in emergencies. Mrs. ButterfieId's interest in schools continued as she followed the careers of her sons as pupils and her husband as principal. She was present on that September day, nearly ten years ago, . At 14 years, 4, member of the Class of when the doors of franlclin I-Iigh School swung open to admit 1398 at Groton High School, her fav- its first classes. I'Ier older sons, Roger and Lyman, had already CHIC SUb12CfSi L-Nm and Gf22If' gone on to college, but the youngest, Alfred, belonged to Franlc- in. She Icnew of all that happened here, became personally acquainted with many student officers and lead- ers, delighted in Franlclin Day activities, Key teas, senior plays and banquets, graduation programs, and the teachers social activities. Any honor or recognition shown a Franlclin person gave her joy. A musician herself, she sang often in oratorios at Cornell University as a young woman, and her fine alto voise was heard in church choirs wherever she lived. Naturally the Franklin Choir was a great source of pri e to er. It is a privilege to pay tribute in the 1940 KEY to Mrs. Roy L. Butterfield and to record her name as one of the first and best friends of Franlclin I-Iigh School. 8

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A r ji 74 +5 41, vs J 5 stages A Ca K Q The Benjamin Franlclin High School is thoroughly American, even to the site upon which it stands. For what is more American than the old-fashioned circus? And Norton Street, corner of Hudson, was once famous as the circus stamping ground of Rochester. Big and small, learned and unlearned, serious and care free, they all came to Norton Street to feed the elephants and to see the man on the Flying trapeze. Then, lest the idea perish, though not from con- scious design, our Key for January, 1938, toolt the circus as its theme and came out resplendent with big top and all. And surely we can't forget the James M. Cole Indoor Circus that only last fall per- formed on the big gymnasium floor. Barnum and ,a .n Ebay A JY , lkawgfk A ever before, Norton Street is vibrant with American life. But, to begin our history, the need of a North- east High School was recognized by the Board of Education as early as the year 1915. ln 1916 the first portion of the campus was purchased, 15-3f10 acres for 510,000 ln 1921 the school was aslced for, at which time the cost was estimated at 51,- 500,000. ln Qctober, 1925, there was made a survey of school needs in this section, as a result of which two years later, December, 1927, the sum of 52,300,000 was authorized for the construction of the building. Bailey have folded their tents, it is true, but they ,fills 4 haven't moved away. gf: if l A ' D ,D yilxlf 4 ,V ff' , X 1 ' ' 905993 lui' i j 4 W., X 9 3 4 yy 2 will Z if . l l ffl? f f gli i ii, f ,3 v , ty E ww V f eau! QI , f A if 7 , , f ,, -in V igang l 1 . rj 'ff , Yuf' 2 .. W vin- S 4 There is something about the bigness, the busy- ZJWX, - H . . ff6hnMavr-1w'f'- ness, the vitality, and the general appeal of the H 9 7 circus that is attuned to the American idea of taclcling big things in the joyous spirit of adventure and of opportunity for all. We hope that this is true of Franlclin. The place is a big one-one of the largest and best equipped in the country. Young Americans of many national groups, some of them not long here, worlc and study and play together. The Almanac, sent to prospective students during the summer before the opening of the first school year, declared that the school would be of the cosmopolitan type. We still lilce the word cos- mopolitanf' Sturdy old American traditions con- nected with Benjamin Franlclin and colonial days have been sought out and perpetuated in the name of our student council, the Junto, and in the names of all school publications-the Almanac, the Key, and the Courant. Franlclin is the meeting place of the old and the new, the near and the far. More than A mile of corridorsl Mr. Sabin finds the solution. The first shovelful of earth was lifted on March 28, 1928. From that time the worlc went vigorously forward until the grand opening on Tuseday, Sep- tember 2, 1930. We were impressively lcnown as The Benjamin Franlclin Junior-Senior High School, with the regular junior-senior program, and carrying grades eight through twelve. The final cost, includ- ing site and equipment, was S2,922,821.10. Re- cently a considerable addition was made to the size of the athletic field, the campus now includes twenty-six acres. The building was planned originally for an en- rollment of 2,500, but before school began it was plain that more than this number would appear. Six