Norwalk High School - Signal Yearbook (Norwalk, OH)

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Time for Teachers M rf? and Those Taught M Pm. Since the beginning of public education in Norwalk, the high school has been housed in four different build- ings. After the passage of the Akron School Law in 1847, citizens of Norwalk voted in April, 1850, to adopt the Union School System. At that time classes were held in a building known as the Institute, built in 1838 and occupying the same site as the present high school. The old Central building was constructed in 1884 and served as a high school until 1938. In 1919 a brick building was constructed. It was known then as Norwalk Community High School and is now infor- mally called the Cole building. In 1938 the Central building was torn down and construction of the present high school was begun. Two pieces of walnut from the Central building and current issues of Experiment News and Rellector-Her- ald, together with directories listing various civic or- ,9 -s ?.Sa'53, fc -3, 3 ganizations, were placed in the new building's corner- 51 -f A stone. bak. 2' Four Buildingr House School Smce Start

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One of the earliest descriptions of Norwalk High School is that recorded in the Norwalk Experiment News in 1896, the year when Principal James Cole came to teach. From the 200-odd pupils and the four faculty members of that year, the school has grown to the present 950 students and 41 faculty members. The high school occupied three rooms and a laboratory on the third floor of the Central building. Miss Ellecta Miller CMrs. Ruhl- koetterj taught physics and chemistry in the laboratory which also served as a classroom. Mrs. Ida Baker, history and English teacher, and Miss Susan Benedict, mathematics teacher, divided the freshmen and sopho- mores between them. 1 L is . 21 , ,f 1 fx fx 1 if 'Q' y fo- 'E' , t 1115551143 'f Hi 19 School as 200 Pupils' in 1896 fgssrfir Mr. Cole taught Greek and Latin and had charge of upperclass- new men. Thirty pupils were graduated that year. 0 . 'Wm Miss Benedict, a direct descendant of Platt Benedict, later joined A 5 the teaching staff of Smith College and was head of the mathematics . ,Q f N department there. Mr. Cole taught here from 1896 to 1938. Q' Q 1 Oi 'Eff I - fQx':1L2 F' . wg. X, , l ly' 6. W' Us W gl. avi ' 5 W 9 VE 0 f , , . 4 'ii N Y :xii In 6 First Graduate Takes Part In Laying Cornerstone MRS. OLIVER P. DUNBAR fSarah Wilkinsonj read The Declaration of Independence in the ceremony for laying the Central building corner- stone on July 4, 1883. Placed in the cornerstone were a cancelled S500 school bond and an autograph of President Rutherford B. Hayes who attended school in the Institute build- ing.