Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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Y-----THE HIGHLANDER-0-A-----H Staff of The Highlander MARGARET NYSTROM .. LEONARD CALDERWOOD ........ HOWARD PECK ........,..... FLOYD OLIVER EVERETT ROYER MARVIN NYE ...,.A......... MARY MURRISON .,..A...A MARJORIE METZDORF.. HELEN KRUSOR ..........,..., BLANCHE BARBEE ....... HARLEY FIX ..,....,....... BERNICE SIMS .......,.....,. GARFIVELD RICHARD .,.,. SOPHIA SI-IAPIRO .....,.,.. ...,,Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor .Business Manager W,.,..,......,Assistants EDITORS .,...,,....Art Editor ....Dramatic Editor . . . , , .Society Editor .,,......Humor Editor ,...Snapshot Editor ..,..1-lthletic Editor ..t4....Musi'c Editor Sophomore Editor ........Freshman Editor II

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-'-i- --- - --Q---T H E H I G H L A N D E R-ff-+--- ---l--0- The Qld and the New On the evening of April 18, Highland Park and the surrounding communi- ties were saddened by the loss by fire of the grade building, the building in which high school was first held. lt was built in 1887 at the time Highland Park was plotted. Major J. K. Hudson, then owner and editor of the Topeka Daily Capital, plotted Highland Park. Believing Highland Park was going to Hbooml' he bought four farms and laid them out into lots. The school building up to this time was the little stone building across the street from the present site. Mr. Hudson, anxious to have a new building on the best location possible, traded the lot on which the new building was erected for the property across the street, thereby getting the old stone school build- ing which he sold to Mr. Lusco. A six-room building was erected, two of which supplied the needs of the school. However, it was used as a community center. Church, Sunday School, sociables, debates, and lyceums all were held in this building. It was not equipped with modern conveniences as our high school building now is. lt was lighted with coal oil lamps and heated by stoves. Water was supplied by a well which was dug by Richard and Oliver Selover, early settlers of Highland Park. The water was drawn out of this well by a rope and two buckets, to supply the two rooms. The members of the first Board for this new school were: J. K. Hudson. W. S. Curry, and George E. Flanders, The patrons desired to have their school grounds more attractive, so from time to time they had tree plantings, but the romping children trampled them out. Major Hudson received severe criticism for being influential in building such a large school. He was a man of vision and ahead of his time. ln 1911 a two year course of high school work was added. ln 1916 we had outgrown this building, and the high school was moved into the new building and by 1925 the assembly room, in which every class up to this time had graduated, was divided into class rooms, making it necessary to erect an auditorium. The work on the new auditorium began in the fall of 1925. lt was pro- gressing nicely and we hoped to move into it by Christmas, but a strong wind blew half of it down while in construction which delayed the completion of the building, so we could not use it until the first of February, 1926. Page 9