Maplewood Richmond Heights High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Maplewood, MO)

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Proud Traditions, Long Established 1907-1957 Our long established traditions of glorious achievement in the class and on the field have developed through fifty golden years. In the next few pages some of this achievement will be highlighted. When the City of St. Louis withdrew from St. Louis County in 1876, pupils in what is now this school district went to school at a one-story building at lVlcCausland and Nlanchester Avenues. The new district, which was to become the School District of Maplewood-Richmond Heights, established its first school in the woods west of Big Bend and Comfort Avenues. Until 1907 high school students had to pay tuition at city schools. At this time the citizens of the district realized that if their communities were to continue to progress their children would need free public education at the high school level. The Board of Education accordingly provided for a high school which opened in 1907 with a freshman class in a one-room frame building on the present Valley School site. The first class was graduated in 1911. By this time the high school was growing rapidly in size and the proud traditions of the Leafs were being established. The first championship football team was produced in 1915. Educational opportunities expanded rapidly. ln 1907 one teacher taught all four subjects offered. ln 1.957 forty-two teachers are teaching some sixty units. Extracurricular activities which did not exist for the class of 1911 grad- ually became an integral part of school life. For example, the first student publication, the MAPLE SHIELD, was published in 1917, the same year the high school moved into the first building of its own. ln 1957 the one thousand plus students are able to participate in such a wide variety of activities that for some students there just aren't enough days in a week. I4