Nashua High School - Tusitala Yearbook (Nashau, NH)

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DEDICATIO During the one hundred-year span between the establishment of a public high school in Nashua and the publication of this yearbook, an uncounted host of young people have studied here and gone out into the world imbued with memories of their schooldays. To celef brate this centennial, we the editors humbly dedicate our yearbook to all the Nashua High School students who have gone before us. -li 5 -' '-i:'....'- y -I.-5-'L-'1 :EEE -:ig -117 'fir- - fi Om' Tjjl, ' ' Lg li F. N i F O0 M 1. A H Q 4 .. y ' ,F --l Q-1 1- E f-f J li A -: g N if N lil f - . .. gd N i fr J --- ' 1 all Q ' fl X ' Xl 52 Aglxeizy X f i X A 21 we if iaailil' W f u E RJR !laQ2QiEmQx, :Nwyw im mir E4 W3 1 J !!! ' !!!. A 4 KX 555 Eli! io X gfgag E112 qggliila Sgt S: ii! !: .:!5: sea? E589 69' . 9151? A siwiiiissz-::.i:i!laiagfasw ff' Ss . -E X-- E, ---- H -f Aj, . W l GRADUATION ISSUE PAGE SEVEN

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FCDREWCRD In May, 1849, the first high school in our city was established near the present site of the Mount Pleasant School. At that time the town was split in two, the half north of the river being called Nashville and the southern half Nashua. ln 1851, another high school was opened in a building known as the Old Brick on West Pearl Street. Two years later this second high school moved to a larger building on Main Street which is now the rear section of the Colonial Theater. ln 1853, after eleven years of quarrelsome separation, Nashville and Nashua were ref united under a city charter, but it was not until 1869, when the old school districts were abolished, that the two high schools were united in a single central school at the Main Street Building. In 1875 the high school moved into a building on Spring Street, and in 1905 to the building on Temple Street still used as an elementary school. ln 1919, after a spectacular fire had destroyed the old Spring Street building, the high school moved into a fine new building on the same site, the present junior High School. The final move was in 1937 to our present beautiful building on Elm Street. What were they like, these one hundred young people of 1849 who crowded into that first high school, which had accommodations intended for only eighty? The textile mills had been in the community since 1823, the railroad since 1838. The excitement of the California gold rush and manifest destiny was in the air, the tragedy of the Civil War still in the unknown future. They studied a narrow curf riculum and had few athletic or social activities connected with school. With what amazement their ghosts would view our gymnasium and auditorium, or listen to an announcement over our radio system! Yet we suspect that underneath their quaint attire and old-fashioned man' ners they were much like high school students of today in their high spirit, ideals, and capacity for friendship. Not wishing to forget those who attended our school in its inf fancy, we celebrate in this 1949 classbook the centennial of the estab- lishment of the first local public high school. PAGE SIX TUSITALA

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t t HEADMASTER PATRICK I. MORLEY Mr. Morley, whose efficiency helpfulness made each day in the of the students of Nashua High a happier and brighter, will always a secure place in our memories. EDMUND M. KEEFE The sincerity, thouqhtiulness, and the skillful handling of individual problems of the students made up the rare combination of abilities which won for Mr. Keele the respect and admiration of the entire stu- dent body. ACTING HEADMASTER and lives little hold