Newark High School - Reveille Yearbook (Newark, OH)

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Eight The REVEILLE ANNUAL for Nineteen Hundred and Forty-nine is respectfully dedicated to all past and present citizens of Newark who have supported education in this city and to all schoolmen who with vision have helped to make the Newark public-school system what it is today.

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pointed to rent rooms for the use of schools organized on the graded plan reported the fo owing which was accepted: School house rear of the First Presbyte- rian church, at one hundred dollars a year, room in the basement of the Methodist church, on Fourth strcct, at four dollars a monghg Locmhin thcf bascgmclpt of the Epilsl- copa c urc , at our o ars a mont g school room in rear of the Welsh church, Ext iihree dpcllars a montlp, hciiise ovylned by oe Arno , corner o Fi ti an Main greets, gt one and Hue-half dollars a month, ouse o Israe Di e, on East Main street, at three dollars per month, two rooms in front of the Franklin house, east side of public square, at five dollars a month, room offA. Ja iinith, in Apollp building, :H twenty- ive o ars a year, a so two sma buildings formerly used as school houses, one on Wzgnut street, and the other in East Newar '. The committee also reported that the furni- ture and stoves necessary to furnish the rooms would probably cost one hundred and fifty dollars. On September 18, 1849, the Board of Edu- cation adopted a complete course of studies. Primary school embracing four years, secondary school embracing four years, and high school embracing four years. The course of studies for the primary and sec- ondary grades embraced all the common branches and natural history the last year of the secondary course, making this the preparatory year for admission into high school. The high school course included English grammar, composition, vocal music, rhetoric, botany, United States history, mental philosophy, logic, bookkeeping, higher arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trig- onometry, chemistry, geology, Greek, and Latin. The following was taken from the first an- nual report of the Board of Education to the council for the years 1848-1849, dated Febru- ary 19, 1850. The number of scholars enrolled during winter quarter was three hundred and ninety-five males and three hundred and twenty-five females .... The number en- rolled during the summer quarter was two hundred and twenty-five males and two hundred and seventy-five females .... They fthe Boardj are of the opinion that the interest of the schools require that a central-house be first erected for the ac- commodation of the secondary and high school on Church street, at a cost of twelve thousand dollars. This building was to be ready for occupancy at the opening of school in the fall of 1851. In 1854, the capacity of the Central building not being sufficient for the accommodation of the pupils then enrolled, a third story was added. Thus from these simple beginnings the Newark school system over the ast one- hundred years has grown to include twelve grade schools, four junior high schools, one senior high school, a gymnasium, an industrial education building, and two athletic fields, with a total enrollment of 5,008. It has become a system which olfers to its students a large variety of op ortunities in ever possible field of study at Ere public-school fevel. But the Newark school system must not stop here: it must make as great advancement during the next one-hundred years as it has since 1848- 1849, and with the same coo eration and un- selfish spirit as manifested between citizens and schoolmen between 1849 and 1949, such advancement will be possible. Seven

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HETIHES 1 JOHN WILLIAM SVVANK After thirty-one years of faithful service in the Newark high school, John William Swank, affectionately known by students and friends as Pop,v retires at the end of the current school year. - , Mr. Swank was a native of Muskingum County. He taught there for a time and attended Muskingum College during summer months. He later enrolled in Scio College, which merged with Mt. Union, and graduated in 1909 with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He also did graduate work at the same insti- tution. He served for live years as superintendent of Bowerston, Ohio, schools. He then became district supervisor of schools at Sugar Creek, Ohio, for two years. From this position he moved to the principalship of N ewcomerstown High School, a position he held for two years. In August of I9l8, Mr. Swank and his family moved to Newark where he began his long teaching career the following month. Not only did he instruct students in mathematics but also in botany, economics, and sociology. In ad- dition to his teaching assignments, Mr. Swank was adviser to the Athenians, a boys, honor society, he acted as faculty manager of athletics for twenty years, and he served as secretary-treasurer of the Central Ohio League for fifteen years. To many, Newark High School will not seem quite the same without the friendly personality of Pop being present. Nevertheless, students and faculty alike wish for him the best that life can give as he settles back in anticipation of years full of enjoyment and relaxation. A .47 Y. Nine l.l..i.l.4