Horace Mann Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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SPRING: THE IJURMITURY l orrnerl.v u lmurfling srlmol for girls railed Hangs mul lffiile. the flnrmilori was Ierzxml ln' Mr. Vun Sun! mul Mr. Cernw furji1'e yeurx in 1917. then lmuglrl Illllflhglll. lls nmsxiiw' rooms are rferorrllen' ,H'flllIifllllQ' in Vielnriun xlylf' will: purls nf Mmfern rrnpping up in ilu' neu' ullerulinnx. Qj.:zg5,.Q'f.A.s .fl 1-1.1 The new sclmol had four pupils. Two were children of Hiehard f f,,,VV Watson Cilder. American poet and editor. and the other two of Dr. .X 1 Cyrus Edson. then President of the lioard of Health of the City of .2 if New York. Its heginning was made possihle hy a 3510.000 cheek from M, K George W. Vanderbilt. The school grew quickly and in two years a high sehool was added. ln If-1911 Horace Mann had outgrown its quarters at 9 University Place. One of the trustees owned a pieee of land in the eountry. near Morningside Heights. lt had a white farm house. chicken, sheep and f-atlle. The grounds were oflered to Miss Grace Dodge for the school. It was debated for a long time whether to move so far out in the suhurhs. ll was a two-hour trolley ear ride from there to the head- quarters of the sehool on Madison Avenue. The risk was finally taken. as Columhia University had also hought some property there. Where the little farmhouse stood is now 120th Street and Broadway. Where the farmers once pastured their tloeks now rises the majestic Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The sehool moved into its 120th Street site in 1001. The huilding 14-

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YE RS WINTER: THE DRIVEWAY The less said about Horace Mzum's snowfalls and ice skating the iN.'llCI'. Oddly enough, the camera caught not only three Seniors on their homewaral trek, but unc of the heaviest snow- storms in recent years. At this point the history of Horace Mann is linked with the Kitchen Carden Association. a training school for girls in domestic duties under Miss Emily Huntington. In their third year they broadened their scope to industrial education and the arts. and in the spring of l886 became the Industrial Education Association. Butler was invited to become President and begin training teach- ers for these subjects. He insisted that he train teachers for all subjects and also for the study of educationg it was called the New York College for the Training of Teachers-today, Teachers Col- lege. The College needed a uclinicf' and Horace Mann. first the Model School, was the result. It had two main objects: ill to afford students in the College an opportunity for observation and practice 121 to demonstrate that manual training can be introduced into schools of primer and gram- mar grades with benefit to the student and without interrupting their progress. The building at 9 University Place has just been vacated by the Union Theological Seminary. Rent was 356.000 a year. 13 4 ? i n -4 I ,F ze st. . if wsgfsg- L ,k .57,5,,ig..f fr- a, -.. awry ,it 1 ,. 1, , - - ..t f . , ' 1' V. -- N V3 1 1 YJ' :,wqq., se if at st fi,

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was a gift of Mrs. E. Everit Macy. The property at 24-6th Street and Riverdale was used as an athletic field. On the grounds there were no other buildings besides two sheds used as locker rooms. one for boys. one for girls. When the new gymnasium was built. one of the dressing rooms was moved from its prominent place to a spot behind the gym where it is used as a tool shed. In 1913 it was decided to separate the girls, and boys, high schools. That same year the main building at 246th Street was started. A girl's division was to be constructed on the other side of the assembly hall. which turned into a gymnasium. when the idea of the girls' school was abandoned. The gym remained at the west end of the building until this year when the modernized auditorium replaced it. When the school divided. Mr. Pretteyman became headmaster of the Boys, School. Mr. Nagle. Mr. Martin. Mr. Van Sant and Mr. Neitz. who retired last year. came up from the Lower School. At the time Horace Mann was the only school in Manhattan which offered the advantages of a high school education. For this reason the late Joseph Pulitzer started competition among grammar school students with the prizes being scholarships to Horace Mann. Dr. Franklin W. Johnston succeeded Mr. Pretteyman at the midyears in l9l9 and was followed by Mr. Tillinghast. Through Mr. Van Sant's efforts. the gymnasium across the field was raisedg the pool was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pforzheimer. A steel grandstand. the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Herman. was raised in honor of their son the late Henry Herman. 1936 began another year of improvements. A new auditorium and stage. one of the best equipped in the country. replaced the old gymnasium. The new library. another gift of Mr. and Mrs. Pforzheimer. was moved to the first floor with a reading room downstairs. The Weiskopf fam- ily added 8l5.000 to equip a new chemistry laboratory over the auditorium. For his tireless work in collecting funds. all credit goes to Mr. Van Sant. 15