Marietta High School - Olympian Yearbook (Marietta, GA)

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Continuous growth in enrollment, in improved facilities, in accomplish- ments of its graduates has been the fiftv year record of Marietta ' s schools. With 111 on the high school roll in 1909. and 142 in 1922. the enrollment steadily climbed to about 42 5 in 1942. When Bell began to build B-29s to bomb Japan, this number jumped in 1945 to CitO. an all-time high. In 19 wliich then had an industrial arts ualh ' added. 4. the high school moved into the MAIN ' BUIL.DING (belowl rooms but is now a 19-room structure. A commercial, a home economics, and a music department were grad- Plans to inaugurate the 12-vear svstem will give the graduates of the Marietta High School (wiiieh is accredited bv both the Georgia and the Southern Accrediting Commissions) a still better foundation for college, and for a successful place in the world of tomorrow. James V. Carmichael My greeting to the Alma Mater would be to keep up the fine tradi- tions and the high standards of schol- arship which ha e prevailed there. writes James V. (Jimmie) Carmichael (above), manager of Bell Aircraft Cor- poration ' s Georgia dix ' ision, the larg- est airplane faetor ' under one roof in the world. A graduate of the Class of 1929. Jimmie ' s rise to such a position in the field of aviation, is a challenge to the seniors of ' 45. Niles Trammrll Main Building of Marietta Hish School. Alice M. Birncv, who founded the Parent-Teacher Association in Mari- etta, and to whom the beautiful memorial park in front of the Main Building, with its marble from the 48 states, is dedicated; Miss Louise Schilling an d Fred P. Manget. missionaries to China; Ryburn Clay, Chairman of the Highway Department for the State of Georgia; Cliff Sauls, noted Atlanta spceialist-tlicse names and countless others, symbolize the world-wide scope of thousands who ha ' e been identified with edu- cation in Nhirietta for the past fifty years. Niles Tranimell (left) president of the National Broadcasting Company, who is a former Marietta student, says: In sending my greetings to those now in Marietta High School readying themselves to cope with the problems of the great, exciting complex— and troubled— adult world. I would call their attention to electronics and television, which will afford endless opportunities for interesting, useful, and profitable careers to hundreds of thousands of young people in your age group.

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HISTORY Fifh ' •ears ago, in the school term of i894- ' 95, co-ediieation in Marietta began in two upstairs rooms of the ■ATER [AN street school (right) hich now houses a grammar school of 720 pupils. Co-education, termed by Dr. S. V. Sanford, a doubtful experiment a half- eentur ' ago but today a blessing in that such a system is far more efficient, prex ' cnts waste and duplication of ef- fort, and removes the artificial barrier between the sexes, was an outerowth of three earlier schools; the Marietta Military ' Academy (Georgia Military Institute), « ' hich was erected on the O. B. Keeler O. B. Keeler, world famous sports writer, now author of the column O.O. ' s in the Atlanta Journal, and one of the thousands of M. H. S. alumni, wrote the Olympian staff recently: Ah, me— and to remember that I, smallest and youngest of the Class of 1898, [five members— smallest class in M. H. S. history] was the first to whom Steadman Vincent Sanford, now Chan- cellor of the University of Georgia, e er handed a diploma! And after nearly 47 years, we ' re all living and out of jail! Greetings to my one and only Alma Mater? I couldn ' t say anything half ood enough for what is in my heart. So I ' ll quote: Age cannot wither, now custom stale Her infinite variety ... ■ . Waterman Street School present site of the Marietta Golf Club in 1851, but destroyed by Sherman in 1864, the Marietta Male Academy, located near the present Keith Grammar School, and the Harwood Sem- inary for young ladies, now the home of Moultrie Sessions on Kennesaw Avenue. In 1912, the HAYNES STREET SCHOOL (below) was built, and the high school, which had in 1910 begun the present four-vcar course, mox ' cd into this building to stay until 1924. Keith Grammar School

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DEDICATION To those men who b)- their leadership ha c made Marietta High School «hat it is today, to the superintendents and members of the Board of Edueation from 1895 to 1945, we humbly dedicate this book. A message from Dr. S. V. Sanford father of Marietta High School ; Greetings: Immediately after I recei ed mv diploma, Mr. Thomas A. Murray, a gentleman in the audience, informed me that he had been named principal of the Marietta Male Academy and that he ould like to have me associated with him to teach Latin, Greek, and mathematics. I as ONcrcome with surprise and requested him to gi e me a week to determine the channel of my life. I accepted his offer and I ha c ne er had cause to regret that I ha c devoted mv life to educa- tion, both on the secondar ' and the college level, and that I began my career in Marietta. At the end of three months Mr. Murray, through illness, resigned, and I was named to succeed him, much against my wishes on ac- count of my youth. Two years later, the Marietta Male Academy, of which I was head, and Harwood Female Seminary, of which Mr. J. S. Stewart (one of the great educators of Georgia) was head, passed out of existence, through our influence; and there came into being to take their place a more democratic form of education— the public school system . . . [and with it, coeducation!. Dear indeed to me are all the people in Marietta, particularly From 1921 until 1941, Mr. C. A. Keith scr cd capably as superin- tendent of schools, succeeding Professor W. T. Dumas, who had taken the position on the resignation of Dr. J. S. Stewart, first superintendent. Col. John H. Boston, for 12 years a president of the Board of Education, and under whose leadership the present high school building was erected, is typical of a long roster of Board members who have unselfishly given their time to the boys and girls of Marietta. S. V. Sanford Chancellor of University of Georgia the boys who attended the old Marietta Male Academy and later the boys and girls who attended the Marietta public schools. I married Grace A ' leClatehcy, and our four children were born in Marietta. No hap- pier days ha c we ever had than those spent in Marietta. With appreciation for this opportunity to give greetings to the fine bo ' S and girls in the public schools today and to those boys and girls of an earlier generation •ho are toda}- men and -women rendering a service to make Georga ]mt it should be, I am Sincerely yours, S. V. ' Sanford Colonel John Boston