Harbor High School - Mariner Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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As a compass guides the mariner on the sea, so a school guides the student within its walls. When a school marks fifty years of such guidance, some recognition should be paid to that school. For this reason, we. the class of 1961. dedicate the 1961 Harbor Mariner Yearbook to Harbor High School, on its fiftieth anniversary of service to the community. The ground for the present Harbor High School building was broken early in 1911. The architect for the build- ing was Mr. Geralomin, and Mr, Nixon headed the contracting firm. The construction of the building was com- pleted in the summer of 1912, and the first classes took their places on September 8. 1912. Harbor High School was formally dedicated on October 11, 1912. On the opening day of Harbor's first session, 11 members of the faculty and 134 students were present, The first superintendent of their Harbor High School building was W. E. Wenner. and the first principal was P. C. Bunn. Some of the courses offered in the first curriculum included Physiology, Reading and Oral Expression, and Business Correction and Spelling. Through the years. Harbor High School has had several farsighted administrators at its helm. After Superin- tendent Wenner's death in 1948. R. S. Lanham became superintendent, and has held that position for the past twelve years. The principals following Mr. Bunn were F. S. Moffett, J. H. Booth. H. A. Vollborn, J. A. Fawcett, and our present principal. R. M. Meehan. The curriculum also has changed. Physiology has become a part of the biology program. Reading and Oral Expression and Business Correction and Spelling have been absorbed into our English programs.

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THE CLASS OF 1961 SALUTES HARBOIPS FIFTY YEARS Harbor has grown greatly in the fifty years of its existence in the present high school building. The first class graduated in June of 1912, since the auditorium and gymnasium were ready at that time. This first graduating class numbered '23 persons. This year the class of 1961 in June will graduate 89 persons. The original faculty of 11 has become one which now numbers 38. The tremendous growth of the school population has ncccssitatcd the expansion of school facilities, In 1912, the students used 21 Classrooms and one gymnasium. In 1954. the home economics department was moved from room 4 into its present location in the old Print Shop. Its former mom was converted into a biology laboratory. The Fawcett Gymnasium was built in 1953, and the Print Shop was moved into the old gymnasium. In 1959, the Topky Memorial Lihraty was completed and dedicated. and the, Harbor Public Library moved from its former three rooms in the high school building into the new library, The former library was changed into a conference room and an enlarged biology dcpartment. The most recent addi- tion to Harbor High is the language laboratory, used by all of the language classes. It features individual microphones and earphones, a tape recorder. and a phonograph. Thus the students presently attending Harbor High School use 31 classrooms plus a gymnasium about twice the size, of the original gym. A school of this size is certainly important in leadership to its students and to the community, Since the Ashtabula Harbor Exempted Village School District has now become consolidated with the Ashtahnla City School System and the Saybrook Local School System, and because after this year Harbor High School will no longer be a separate unit, we of the class of 1961 feel that it is appropriate to dedicate this last yearbook of Harbor High School to that school, which has guided so well our class and those classes that came before us. Thus, we salute Harbor High School as it celebrates fifty years of leadership, guidance, and service.