Hastings High School - Saxon Yearbook (Hastings, MI)

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Historical In November, 1872, school opened in the new building, with “Mr. Samuel Dickie, now President of Albion College, as first superinten- dent. Under his direction the school was first regularly graded. There were three teachers in the High School department, who taught Geom- etry, Algebra, Trigonometry, German, Latin, Greek, Chemistry and Astronomy. At first only two rooms on each floor of the new building were used, and for a number of years the janitor lived in the building. In these early days, and until 190.3, the Board of Education con- sisted of twelve members. This first graduating class of ’77 contained five members and the exercises were held in the old Union Hall. Since then there have been twenty-eight graduating classes. With the growth of the town the “new building became filled to overflowing, and two small one-room ward school houses were built. In the earlv part of the “nineties a commodious seven-room building was erected on the square with the main or “High School” edifice, at a cost of $n,oog In 1904 the little district school type of the Second ward building was replaced by a nice two-room structure, and this spring our Board of Education voted to build a First ward building similar to that of the Second ward, at a cost not to exceed $4,500. The growth of our school system has not been strikingly different from that of the average town. From the foundations, well laid by our “educational pioneers,’’ there has grown steadily under the watchful care of the able men who have supervised it. of the teachers who have served it well, and of the community which has been sensitive to its needs, an institution of which we believe we are justly proud. This product of the devotion of over a half century, today stands high among the schools of the state and influences mightily our little city and community. Our Superintendents. Samuel Dickie.....................1873—1877 Hutson B. Colman..................1877—1878 Irving N. Mitchell................1878—1880 Clark B. Flail....................1880—1884 Charles H. Cole...................1884—1887 J. W. Roberts.....................1887—1890 Wellington D. Sterling............1890—1895 Berto A. Holden...................1895—1898 John E. Mealley...................1898—1900 N. H. Hayden......................1900—1902 Charles F. Field..................1902—1904 Addison W. Chamberlin.............1904— f agt twiht

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