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

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This money made it possible to improve the Junior High School by building a new shop and completely remodeling the library, and also to provide gas heat in all schools which did not at that time have it. Upon retirement as superintendent on July 1, 1960, E. R. Adams was succeeded by Milton E. Bierbaum. On February 21, 1963, voters approved a bond issue of S1,l00,000.00. This money was used for the following purposes: 1. To build a Junior High Cafeteria. 2. To build a completely new school to replace the old Sutton School. 3. To make a number of major changes at the Sen- ior High School, which included the following: A. To build a girl's gymnasium and music department north of the auditorium. B. To build a lobby to the boy's gymnasium. C. To completely remodel the dressing rooms which serve the boy's gymnasium. D. To remodel and buy new equipment for the Industrial Arts Department. E. To remodel and buy new equipment for the cafeteria. F. To remodel and install new equipment for the department of business education. Then in January of 1968, a bond issue of S640,000.00 was approved and the money used for the building of a new library, art room, administrative offices, and three additional classrooms over the area used for parking west of the music department. The building is at two levels, leaving the ground level free for parking. The area previously used by the adminis- trative offices is now remodeled and is the senior high offices and the cotmseling offices. The rooms previ- ously used for the counseling offices along with the old teacher's lounge was remodeled and provides a modern teacher's lounge. The space previously used for the library was remodeled and is made into three new classrooms, one of which is now the resource center. In the fall of 1968 Mr. Bierbaum told the board of education of his intention to retire as superintendent within two years. The board accepted his resignatio effective June 30, 1970. Mr. Clinton E. Crites was elected superintendent t replace Mr. Bierbaum. 1VIr. Crites came to the distric in 1963, after having served as teacher and principal i the Hazelwood School District. He served as principal of Valley School for three years and then of Wes Richmond School for four years before his promotion to the superintendency. In 1975 Mr. Crites resigned to work for the state department of education in Jeffer- son City. He was replaced by our clu'rent superintend- ent Dr. Robert M. Hixson who had served as an assist- ant to Mr. Crites for several years and was employed by the Riverview Gardens School District before that. We can look back and see that our high school has grown from one room in 1907 to a large building of folu' stories in 1976. The first graduating class was composed of seven students, whereas the graduating class of 1976 numbers arotmd 165. The staff of 1911 had only eleven teachers. The enrollment that year was 74 students. This year we have over 900 pupils and over 50 instructors and administrators. We have a course offering of over 150 different subjects to choose from. We have a satisfactory ratio of students to teachers 120 to lj which enables the students to derive the most ben- efit from their classroom periods. Om' school is proud of our contributions to leadership and achievement in all walks of life. In sports several of our boys have made All-American as a result of their records on their high school football and basketball teams. Is there any- one who doesn't remember Paul and Mark Christman? The pictures on pages 4-16 were taken from old edi- tions of the Mapleleaves Yearbook. Pages 10 and 11 were taken directly from the 1957 Mapleleaves year- book which celebrated the school's 50th anniversary with pictures and articles concerning the proud achievements and long established traditions at M-RH. The histoijy of our school from pages 4-14 was taken from an old essay found in the filing cabinet of llflr. Charles C Brown after his retirement in 1972. Charlie Brown passed away in July of 1976.

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5,5 In 1941, G. E. Dille resigned and was suc- ceeded by E. R. Adams as Superintendent. Four years later the voters approved a S625,000.00 bond issue to build the auditorium addition to the Senior High School, and the auditorium addition to the West Richmond School, but this work was not actually done until 1948-50. In 1951 the name of the district was changed from the School Dis- trict of Maplewood to the School District of W A 5 IJPQQL, A .' Maplewood-Richmond Heights. The voters approved a bond issue of Sl,800,000.00 in 1953 to build the new Valley School, an addition to East Richmond, an addi- tion to Lincoln, and to do some work at the Junior High School. The board of education added some money to the building fund since then by selling the old Valley property and the old Lincoln prop- erty.

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