Harding High School - Quiver Yearbook (Marion, OH)

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COl1l'eI1I'S Acnvmssz Music Dra t Publication Organiz t' CLASSES: Honors Seniors Ju Sophomores ATHLETICS: Football Basketball Other Sports Intramurals COMMUNITY I.IFE: Advertising Snapshots More to co

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foreword First year occupancy in a modern, spacious new building! This is a chal- lenge to anyone, but especially to a group of teenagers occupying a new three-million dollar high school. It is a challenge for many reasons, but one of the big reasons is the newness and difference of the new school contrasted with the Old Harding High. No one will forget the crowded conditions, long noon hours and the disputes between the Herald and Quiver staffs in the dingy corridor by room 17. There were the times when East Hall couldn't hear the announcements and sometimes the boilers would break down to give us an unexpected vacation. Things have been different this year. Students have possessed a desire to keep the building in the same condition as they found it. All 1,054 of us were thrilled September 8, when we entered the building, for the first time as a group, to start the school year 1953-54. The lunchroom was a new experience for many of us, and the Juniors and Seniors were amazed at the space in the halls and classrooms, and each student was given a locker of his own. Curriculum has changed too, and many new courses are being offered to the students. Behind the scenes the picture has changed, too. This year's QUIVER is a radical departure from the last ten years annuals at Harding. The first change your QUIVER staff made helped to make your '54 QUIVER the newest, most modern book Harding High School has seen. We changed our printing process from letterpress to lithography, enabling us to design the new shape Senior panels and mod- ern style page layouts. The black and white cover follows the modern trend. To show the floor plan of the new school the cover features a re- cessed outline ofthe school. Photographic end leaves, showing the school from the air, score another first in Quiver history. A spring supplement has never been used at Harding, so your Quiver staff is trying it this year. Now that you have read about some of the innovations in the '54 Quiver, go ahead, read it, and enioy it to the fullest. lt's your school as the gang in Room 207 has observed it this year, and with the cooperation of you and many of the community, presented it. forward

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Make a model before thou buildest is an old proverb that really expresses the preparation that went into the planning for Marion Harding High School, the most modern, new high school of its size in the state of Ohio. When in 1942 Gerald lrons of the School Housing Commission made a survey of the Marion Schools, the necessity for added facilities became apparent, and the first step was taken forthe fulfillment of dreams that had been in the minds of educators and public spirited citizens for years. Harding was part of a general con- struction plan that included a new iunior high school, the remodeling of two others, and additions to elementary buildings. The purchase of the Indian Mounds made additional space available for this plant that covers some forty acres. We all love a parade when it is for a lofty purpose and a strike that serves to instill good will for a cause. Such demonstrations as you see pictured helped to pass two much needed bond issues. Money so realized, in addition to that which came from the sale of Old Central, the one time high school, was placed on interest. The planning of special sections of the building was accomplished with the patient ef- forts of Mr. A. C. May, then Principal of Harding, and Mr. Cecil Gabler, his able successor, in endless consultation with faculty members who best knew what would make for most effective labs and classroom spaces. Special features include the Health Center, Biology Green House, Foundry and Woodworking in the Industrial Arts, separate laborato- ries for each science department, Homemaking Unit, Machine and Auto Shops, modern Art room, multilevel Music room, radio facilities with WMRN, publications offices, and an electrical kitchen to mention only a few. Ground was broken November 16, 1951 in a public ceremony, the first shovel of dirt being lifted appropriately by Supt. Lester L. Dickey who along with farsighted Board of Education members kept constant check upon construction. It was the source of community pride to watch the rapid building of this modern structure for it was actually com- pleted, after getting under way December 3, 1951, on June 30, 1953. Landscaping men continued to get plenty of suntan as they worked throughout the heat of the summer.