Lockport High School - Forum Yearbook (Lockport, NY)

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CENTENNIAL OBJECTIVE Its object is to show the public, here and elsewhere, that L. U. S. is an excellent high school, that its history records facts of which every Lockportian should be proudg that it has a corps of teachers who would do credit to any institu- tion in the landg a Board of Education whose highest ideal is to see ours one of the foremost schools in the countryg that the citizens at large are deeply interested and desirous of having it leadg lastly, that the students are very appreciative of the above, that they not only love to advance intellec- tually under careful training, but to improve morally by the good example and enviable character of the teachersg that they are amassing knowledge for the future, which will enable them to begin life as noble men and women, and take their respective places in society. And whether they lead or be led, whether successful or not, in whatever position of life they are placed, they can look back, and lay nothing to the teachings of L. U. S. save what was advantageous and conducive to the highest standards of excellence. -CFrom The Junonalisf' I8974Lockport's first school az-znualj

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Scene Scene Scene Scene Scene ROLOGUE I - NAMING THE VILLAGE Mr. Haines proposed the name of Locksborough, Dr. Isaac W. Smith proposing Lock Port. The latter adopted, the village had a name, though a stranger would have needed a guide to find it. 'Lock Port Hotel, by E. Brown,' stood about forty rods west of Transit Street, near Main, and, being the headquarters of the canal contractors, was for a short time the head and center of the newborn village. fFrom Illustrated History of Niagara Co. - 1878.1 II - THE FIRST SCHOOL The first school was taught within the limits of what is now the city of Lockport in 1821. The pioneer settlers in the vicinity, feeling the need of a school, made use of the Friends' Meeting House for a schoolroom until other accomodations could be obtained. The first teacher was Miss Pamelia Aldrich. III - OPENING THE CANAL At Lockport - the spot where the waters were to meet when the last blow was struck, and where the utility of an immense chain of locks was for the first time to be tested, the Celebration was in all respects such as to do honor to the work itself, and patriotic feelings of the people. It is here that nature had interposed her strongest barrier to the enterprise and the strength of man. But the massive granite of the 'Mountain Ridge' was compelled to yield. The rocks have crumbled to pieces and been swept away, and the waters of the Erie flow tranquilly in their place. fFrom Memoirs .... Celebration of the Completion of the N. Y. Canals - 1825.1 IV - A DISTRICT SCHOOL - 1830's The entire stock of apparatus consisted of a half-dozen well-seasoned switches and a substantial ruler, and no opportunity was neglected to make use of these appliances for the general advancement of the causes of education and good manners. In those days the question was not, 'Has the teacher a good education?' but, 'Is he stout? Has he good conduct? ' fFrom Illustrated History of Niagara Co. - 1878.1 V - THE FIRST BOARD OF EDUCATION In 1846 Sullivan Caverno originated the plan of this Union School system. He framed the act to be passed by the legislature. The trustees of the Union district were constituted a corporation by the name of 'Board of Education for the Village of Lockportf Immediately after organizing and adopting the by-laws, the Board of Education purchased a lot, centrally located, for the Union School-house, and commenced to build the large and com- modious house now thereon. CFrom Illustrated History of Niagara Co. - 1878.1