Medina County High Schools - Mecoan Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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History of Seville School Fourteen years of progress have elapsed since Seville High School was granted in 1911 a first grade charter. So steady was the growth of the school that in 1916 the demand for a new building was cheerfully met by the community. The class of 1917 had the peculiar honor which comes from being first in any project, to graduate from the new school. Educational methods, however, have a way of expanding not to be limited by the four walls of a new building. In 1921 Seville put into ef- fect the six year high school plan, that is the organization of the seventh, eighth and ninth grades into a Junior High School, and the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades into a Senior High School. It was one of the first six Ohio schools granted a Junior High School charter, and the first one in Northeastern Ohio. This new organization tended to take care of still increasing numbers in a more orderly way and to act as a less abrupt in- troduction into high school proper. The new building and a first-class organization was the incentive and setting for development in all respects. In 1918 the school had not the sign of a library. Now over one thousand volumes, housed in orderly cases, classified and catalogued according to a standard system, entice pupils from the third to twelfth grade and rouse that friendship with books which no person should be without. Typewriters, a mimeograph, domestic and physical science equipment, cases of various kinds have been added ; classes have given pictures, lock- ers, scales, books, and brick columns in front of the building. It is a mod- ernly equipped building. By an annual school fair, the faculty and students try to show to the public, which maintains the school, what it is doing in all departments. Once a year, at the Medina County Fair, the work of the school, planned and organized by the teachers, but carried out by the pupils, is shown to a larger public, in competition with other schools of the county. For four years, Seville School has taken the major share of rewards and last year captured the “blue ribbon” in every event, in it’s class, a notable accom- plishment. But the public grows tired of instruction, and to amuse it Seville High School provides noteworthy basketball and baseball teams, a Glee Club, which willingly sings when asked and each year puts on a tuneful operetta, an annual Senior class play and from 1918 until this year a lecture course of pleasure and benefit to all. Members of the Seville Village Board of Education Don L. Crawford, President J. B. Good, Clerk William Hosmer Rov Chambers M. J. Cahoon C. D. Wright

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Seville Fred Steagall Oberlin College Lois E. Jacobs U. of Wisconsin Forrest D. Riffey, Supt. 0. S. U. Walter H. Hulse Aurora College Miriam Steiner, Wooster Edgar E. Sears Wooster College Clara E. Fenn 0. S. U.

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Sharon Frances E. Thomson H. E. Kuntz, Supt. Frances Ewing Oberlin Akron University Hiram Florence M. Gingrich Defiance Grace Allison Kent