Harriet Whitney High School - First Lady Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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ibeokcafion The class of 1957 lovingly dedicates their First Lady to one of Whitney's pioneers, Mrs. Elizabeth VonHoff. ln Rheinland, Germany, lived a large family of thirteen boys and one girl. The only girl in this family was Elizabeth Hoppe, only two of the boys are now living. When Mrs. VonHoff was four a grandmother taught her to knit and crochet. During summer and winter after classes between the ages of six and fourteen, she attended a finishing school. There she studied needle- work for two hours a day. German boys and girls go to school six days a week with four weeks' vacation during the summer. The hours are from eight o'clock in the morning until twelve noon and from one-thirty in the afternoon until four. Saturday school was only opened a half day. Mrs. VonHoff concentrated on handwork, art, nature study, and getting ac- quainted with others. After public and high school, Mrs. VonHoff attended Froebel Seminary and Frederick Wilhelm College in Berlin. Later she served one year as an apprentice in Cologne. Mrs. VonHoff was married in Germany and has a daughter Lieselotte Adelheid Cordier. The Cordiers have a four-year-old, Lisa, to whom Oma is devoted. In November, 1916, the VonHoffs came to Toledo. She taught at the Young Men's Christian Association and Ursuline Academy. Her first job for the Board of Education in 1919 consisted of teaching adult education at Scott, Gunckel, Libbey, and a total of twenty-eight other schools and has taught night school since 1923. For three months in New York she studied drafting, pattern making, and designing, and obtained her vocational de- gree at the University here. Mrs. VonHoff is truly a pioneer, having been with us ever since there was a Whitney. She taught in the old Vocational Building lwhere the library now standsl, Webster, and moved to the present edifice in February 4, 1940. Needle work, traveling, and flowers make up Mrs. VonHoff's hobbies. She prefers living flowers to cut ones. Traveling across the ocean fourteen times always taking a different route, she has enioyed revisiting her mother and homeland. Three years ago in December, taking her first plane trip, she returned to Germany for a final visit with her mother, who has since passed away. Busy teenagers do not see how Mrs. VonHoff, teaching school lday and nightl, can do so many other things. May the graduates of 1957 profit by her example of a good life well spent and may Mrs. VonHoff enioy years of well-earned leisure to pursue her many interests.

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Mcafiona jfaining in cliofo Vocational training in Toledo began in i853 as old Central High School, increased by the Scott Manual Training School in l885. The two became known in T919 as Woodward Technical High School. Nine years later in 1928, the Board of Education designated the building as the Voca- tional High School, to provide training in skilled occupations to boys and girls of Toledo. Then came a day when the boys moved into a building of their own, Irving E. Macomber Vocational High School. ln i938 came news that the old building was sold. The money received from this sale and from Public Works Administration were to be used for a new home. The old building was to be razed, so Webster School was chosen as temporary lodgings. On February 5, l94O, classes began in the Vocational High School for Girls. To choose a name for the new building was difficult. After research students submitted names of women whose achievements merited the honor of naming such a school in their memory. The Board of Education settled on Harriet Whitney, pioneer teacher of Toledo. Our school is much the same as it was when first opened. New shops have been added and some revised. The personnel is basically the same. So as long as there are girls, there will probably be a Whitney.