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

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Joshua E. Richmond E. R. Adams G. E. Dille N Milton W. Bierbaum

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1925 Orchestra 1930 Orchestra 1930 M-RH Band

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Here are a few highlights in the history of our schools from 1910 to 1925: 1. 1910 - County Court designated the dis- trict as the Maplewood City Schools. 2. 1915 tJulyJ - Mr. Robertson resigned as superintendent and was succeeded by Wil- liam Schlueter. 3. 1916 - Addition of four rooms and gymna- sium was built at East Richmond. Land was purchased on Dale Avenue. First two rooms of Lincoln School tNegroJ were built. A sixty foot lot was purchased adjoining Sut- ton School. A whole block of ground was purchased for the new high school. The first unit of the high school, now Junior High, was constructed. Superintendent Schleutcr was succeeded by Joshua Richmond in Sep- tember. 4. 1921 - a second unit of the high school at Sutton and Lyndover was added. 5. 1923 - the Glenn tract was purchased for Valley playgrounds. - In 1925, the present high school ground on Manchester was purchased. Also a bond issue pro- vided funds for the second unit of Lincoln School, which served Negro children, kindergarten through eighth grade. High School Negro stu- dents attended the Douglas School in Webste Groves until the 1954 Supreme Court decision, at which time the high schools were integrated. The 1928 bond issue was used to start the first unit of the present Senior High School, the sec- ond unit at West Richmond and the third unit at Lincoln. In 1929, a bond issue was used entirely for the second unit of the Senior High School. The 1930 bond issue of 585,000.00 was used to equip the senior high building, to build bleacher seats and field houses, and to build the track. Mr. Joshua E. Richmond, who served as super- intendent during the fifteen years of the most rapid growth of the Maplewood-Ricllnlond Heights District, resigned and was succeeded by G. E. Dille, July 1, 1931. - fb 'VII JS