Olean High School - Congress Yearbook (Olean, NY)

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OLEAN SCHOOLS - A HISTORY The year I882 marked lhe be- g'nning of a rapid growlh or lhe school sysfem due probably lo rhe anllux of people anfo Olean XXI, allracled by fh ol and olher anduslraes sprangang up here al' lhar fame Thar year The fruslees ol The School Dasrracl No I 'larsl' emoloyed a Superaralendenl of Schools and a bualdang program was underlalcen A four room frame school replaced 'ahe for mer School No 2 on Ihe corner ol Wes? Slale and Soulh Elevenlh Slreefs and a Iwo room bualdang SCHOOL 5 desagnafed as School No 4 was erecled al Cheslnuf and Bashop In l886 a brack bualdang was consfrucled fo replace fhe frame school formerly Iocaled al Slafe and Norlh Barry Slreels and was called School No 3 however lhas new edalace burned a few years lafer and +he presenl' School No 3 was bualr an I896 School No 6 was erecled I888 on Ihe corner of Reed and Norah Tenlh If as easy fo lrace fhe expansaon of Olean by lhe correspondang exenl' of als grade school sysrem The year I907 seemed lo anaugurafe anolher bualdang XM program 'rhas lame for fhe ac RW comrnodalaon of the chaldren fhe oullyang porlaons of Olean School No 4 an Easl Olean was sold and a new bualdang was con sequenlly conslrucfed on Ihe cor ner of Kang and Raalroad Avenue AI The same lame a small buald ang was pu? up on School Slreel n Boardmanvalle I serve s School No 5 Praor lo I907 Norlh Olean had maanlaaned a separale school das of lhal year Daslracl No I annexed lhe former and as a resulf Iwo new schools were buall' an lhal seclaon School No 7 was localed on lhe corner of Norlh Unaon and Wesl Foresl whale School No 8 was pul up on Homer Sfreef l909 Daslrac No I was agaan enlarged Io anclude a sechon lyang soulh of lhe Allegheny Raver and The larsl School No 9 was bualf on Soulh Unaon Slreel an fha? year A sale was also purchased on fhe corner of Wesl I-lenley and Soulh Fourlh lo erecl a School N IO The I-lagh School enlarged as rapadly as lhe grade schools I l892 al was found necessary 'Io buald a Wesl wang and an Easf wang was complefed an I896 Thas laller addalaon made passable whal as belaeved lo be lhe larsl' Junaor I-lagh School an lhe coun fry Known for many years School No I lhas was fanally das on anued an I9lO because f lack of room an The Hagh School bualdang Perhaps more amporlanf how ver were The addalaons made +o SCHOOL 7 'rhe curraculum of bolh The Hagh I2 I I e i I . . . ' ' . . in , Q D D . pq ,. we - . ' ' In i . . z h I ' , o a lricl, Dlslricf No. 3. buf In June SCHOOL I0 In ' . . + Q . , . . o. . . as c I' ' o

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OLEAN SCHOOLS A HISTORY o e s a m e Q Y' spoT as The TrrsT Tr a m e sc ool TwenTy nune years e ore T h growTh was o qulck muTaTnon :T was The culrm na lon oT s w evoluhon keep rn pace wrT The growTh T Olean 4TselT SCHOOL 4 Olean had Indeed grown an l85I The populahon was numbered on The larger snde of 900 Th Erne ranlroad had recenTly been compleTed To Olean local manuTacTurnng was esTablushed and The consTrucTuon oT The long awa1Ted Genesee Valley Canal was To be underTalcen The Town was ready Tor :Ts nexT sTep IH educaTnon The Olean Academy The money whlch The AssoclaTuon had seT ouT To ralse was secured wlThouT duTTlculTy Con sTrucTnon was begun and he bunldmg was comple+ed IH I852 aTTer which ProTessor J A Wood ruTT assumed oTTlce a The TrrT runcupal u neuT er nor anyone else presenT aT The open ang oT The new buuldlng had any vnsnon oT whaT TaTe had In sTore Tor The producT oT Their worlc and bunldnng burned To The ground Again The cnTuzens oT Oean banded TogeTher Ths Tame To rebuald Thenr school A Tempo rary bunldnng was nmmedlaTely SCHOOL I nanclal embarrassmenT worlc was noT begun on The permanenT bulldnng unT1l a Tew years laTer The school was comp-leTed In I858 wuTh FayeTTe Royce as prnncnpal consTrucTed buT because oT T The school nTselT was slTuaTed on a prormnence overlooklng The clTy and only a Tew mlnuTes rxde Trom The ranlroad Traclc as an early Academy BulleTun expressed :T Whale The locaTuon rs per haps Tamullar The curriculum was cerTaunly allen To a sTudenT oT Today Such beguiling subgecTs MeTaphysucs EThucs OrThography RheTornc AsTronomy and lnTellecTual ArnThmeTuc were among Those sublecTs pursued by The scholars oT The Academy Smce The lnsTlTuTnon was prnvaTely owned TuxT1on was also paud The sum OT TnTTeen dollars was The cosT oT The enTure Three year course The husTory oT The Olean Pub lnc Schools acTually began ID The year T864 wrTh The esTablushmenT oT Olean Unuon Free School Das T cT No I Four years aTTer he DnsTrlcT was organized :T pur chased The Olean Academy and nn I880 Tunds were voTed To con sTrucT a new bulldnng This was To Torm The cenTral porhon oT The old hugh school whuch was de mo :shed n T935 SCHOOL 2 n Th ' b T . I s n T' lo . Q . h o e . . Y . . : . V f I , ' - - T ,f , Y I I V . S . S S T If p' ' . BT 'h he, r ' . T ,V l W ' l V . T hopes. Three years later The . . . I T T ' 2 ie .. I , . . l ., . as ' - 1 T' . I x T TT . i g A ri - . T I I' I .

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OLEAN SCHOOLS - A HISTORY and Grade schools. In I883 drawing and penmanship began while Music was added in IS89. Induslrial Arls was inlroduced in Ihe grades in I888: free Iexf boolcs for Ihe grades were Iirsl' used in I894y I904 saw Man- ual Training inaugurafed: and Domesfic Science was offered To girls of grade school age in I905. Ari' courses were infroduced info e High School I9O e nexf year a Commercial Deparr men? was added Medical inspec hon however was noi sfarled unh I9I5 Ihe same year Ihal a SCHOOL 8 library was esfablished in 'the High School One year Ialer Physical Educaflon became a parl of Ihe sfudenls daily roufune Wi+h I9I7 came whar could be ap+Iy en+i+Ied Ihe firsf chapfer of 'rhe Olean Schools War HISIOFY As early as I9I4 Ihe sfudenfs had conlribufed Io Ihe Belgian Relief bofh by raising funds and by making bandages now Ihey conhnued Ihe work for The Red Cross Under The guidance of Mr SacIce++ Ihen in his fursl' year as principal lhe sfudenls of 'Ihe High School raised S400 +o buy Liberfy Bonds for 'Ihe High School whxle in I9I8 +he Seniors confrib ufed Ihe receipls from Iheir play amounhng I S622 'Io Ihe Red Cross Following Ihe war Ihe Board of Educahon again underfook a se ries of rennovahons in Ihe school buildings A new addmon was made on School No 4 in I922 and Ihe nexr year Ihe presenf School No 5 building was com pefed I924 Ihe exnsin School No 9 building was erecfed SCHOOL 9 in Seneca I-Ieighls Since Ihe old School No I had been dISCOFlIIl'IUSd a new one was bull? in I925 on Ihe corner of Wes? Sullivan and Norfh Sixfh SIree+s a safe formerly occupied by S+ Marys Academy The Iasf grade school in fhe Olean sysfem was School No II erecfed 'rhree years Iafer on Wesf Slafe Sfreef 'Io facllilale Ihe educafion of Ihe children in fha? area For a number of years Olean had fell Ihe need for a new Hugh School and now 'rhe made quacles and age of +he old build ing made fhe need acu+e There yfi ry ore n congunchon wifh Ie Federal program for Ihe con sfruchon of High and Cenfral Schools fhroughouf fhe country fe exisfing High School was ed I935 and wor wa sf rfed proiecf No 63l8 deshned 'r become Olean High School The million dollar building was complefed an 1936 II' now insures fhe besf educa lional opporfunihes for Ihe 'I Iure cmzens of Olean SCHOOL II I3 fh ' in 8: Ih .I I . O ' I . In , ' I' g I , i ' ' ' I1 ' . J 1,1,,X1'f J ' fx h . . . , V N A 'N V 'A raz in , ' I: s ' I . I , K - V' 'A 6 on . . - ' 3 . O I . . . U-