Muskegon High School - Said and Done Yearbook (Muskegon, MI)

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IVIUSKEGON HIGH SCHOOL 1875 - 1975 The year 1975 has been named the official Centennial year for is evidence that there was one graduate in 1872, the first of one r exercises was held in 1875, with Nellie Cameron and Stella Sawye relatives and friends, and listening to the spell-binding address of a By this time the old Union School had been outgrown and was b the same location, on Webster Avenue between Third and Fourth were held in the new Central School, and the old Union School become the home of Lyman G. Mason and later the Mercy Hospital pupils and three teachers. Three rooms at the left of the main en high school, the rest of the building providing administrative of town library of 1,200 books was housed in this school, and ther school and community meetings. of Education tot They kept the sc the fine reputation and Frederick A. N Muskegon was fortunate to have a Board a training possible for the youth of the area. developments in education, and made possible among the Board members were C. H. Hackley special teacher of penmanship, to be followed by special teacher business course was added in 1886, and a training school for teache ln 1890 disaster struck in the form of a fire which completely d on April 15, 1891, Mr. Hackley offered to buy the bond issue whi schools, one on the old site, and a high school on jefferson at W paid off, the money would become part of the endowment fun offer was gratefully accepted, the buildings were erected and the in September 1893. About this time there was a new development in education, pupils who wanted training in industrial skills rather than the tradi Mr. Hackley offered to build and equip a manual training scho maintenance as long as he lived, plus an endowment of S100,000. such schools in the United States, and the first in the State of Mich and was a great success. In 1900 Mr. Hackley offered to build architect's original plans. lt is difficult for us to realize the tremendous impact this gift m at a time when there was a sharp decline in the lumber business in to train for skilled work in the new factories which were just gett highlights of the spring term was the Manual Open House, held citizens filed through the building admiring the achievements o foundry, printing, pattern-making, etc., and of the girls in domestic 2 Mi tl' f e h S es ch as d ne a ni iskegon High School. Although there iundred consecutive commencement elivering their orations to assembled rofessor Henry A. Ford. l ing replaced by the Central School at treets. In September of 1875 classes vas moved up on jefferson Street to At this time the high school had 102 ance were set aside for the use of the ces and elementary classrooms. The was a third floor assembly room for e S X lly dedicated to providing the finest ools abreast of the newest and best Muskegon schools enjoyed. Foremost ms. As early as 1876 Muskegon had a of music and art. A commercial and s established in 1890. i r troyed the Central School. However, would make it possible to build two hington Avenue. As the bonds were for the Hackley Public Library. The w high school was opened for classes n answer to the need to provide for onal classical subject matter. ln 1892 l and provide 55,000 a year for its his was one of the earliest and best of igan. It was opened for classes in 1897 the two wings that had been in the ia Muskegon, it opened up opportunities g started. For many years one of the or two days each june. Hundreds of the boys in wood-working, drafting, science and art. de on the whole community. Coming in f f

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Hackley Manual Training School and MHMTS Faculty joseph D. Bicknell, Director HMTS K H i , . . 4!,,,-.iz af-131 ,.. 62.4, . g t S- 1. gli.. .111 h 1 in 1 -f lf 'ref Hi A, 1 , jj VA in . . I X7 . ji A 1 f- i r 1 X 55' ' s Domestic Science - 1897 D