Hamburg High School - Echoes Yearbook (Hamburg, NY)

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Our Schooln From the time of the first town meeting, April 5, 1814, when it was voted 'ito divide the town into school districts, to appoint a committee to in- spect schools, school masters and other matters within their jurisdiction to the present, Hamburg has jealously guarded the educational interests of her children. At the first school meeting long before the idea of educating the children at the public expense had become generally accepted, it was voted that every patron be obliged to bring one-fourth of a cord of wood, ready to burn, to the school, or be taxed twenty-five cents, and that the public be further assessed to the amount of seventy-five cents for school purposes. The first school was built near the site of the present Catholic church, but in l849 another school was erected. This building can still be seen back of Emerling's shoe store on Main Street. ln 1868 another structure was erected at a cost of Sl4,000. The Hamburg Union Free School was or- ganized in l868 with C. W. Richards as principal, Miss Olive North and Miss Hattie Dalrymple as assistants. Hamburg High School was organized in l897, since which time its growth has been phenomenal when compared with the more steady growth of the village. This is accounted for by the in- creased interest in education, especially in the surrounding country. ln IS97 the academic department numbered eighty-one pupils and three teachersg today the total registration in the last four grades of school has reached two hundred twelve, and occupies the full time of eight teachers in addition to part of the time of several special teachers. The present building addition erected in l909 will very soon be inadequate for the needs of the school, and when the need of increased facilities has been presented to the people of Ham- burg, the response is sure to reflect the same intense zeal which has character- ized their attitude toward education in the past. ln athletics, the history of Hamburg High School is replete with many glorious victories, as the case of engraved silver cups in the library attests. While her name has been sustained by many record breaking teams in all branches of sport in the past, it is in basketball that her fame has most nearly reached its zenith To win, if possible, by all honorable means, but above all to play the game on the square, has ever been her aim. I-lamburg's war record is too well known to need rehearsingg while many of her people knew Germany as their fatherland, their loyalty to the land of their adoption was never in question. Exceeding their quotas in every drive for war funds, liberty bonds, Red Cross, thrift stamps, or camp welfare: whatever the campaign, the name of the village and the town of Hamburg was synonomous with devotion to the cause. Throughout these trying times the school nobly performed her part. Her record stands at the front of the schools of the county in sales of thrift stamps, in supporting more French war orphans than any other school in the county, in working in war gardens, or hiring out to the farmers as farm cadets, the girls contributing their services to the Red Cross, and lastly fmark this, for it is our crowning gloryl, sending forth her gallant sons to face the fiery ordeal of battle for the cause of the country we all love. It is a high privilege and a deserving honor to close this brief history of Hamburg High School with a loving tribute to those two sterling sons, who so nobly performed their duty over there and will never return-Herbert Shero and Alfred H. Stokes, Their names will remain forever enshrined in our hearts. May God Almighty bless them in proportion as we cherish their memories. ..4...

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SCI1i0I' Year Book PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OFS1920 Hamburg High School Hamburg, Y. 7.373 'N '3 l AAL 1 , H HAMBURG Eilfifi'CL L

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