Roger Bacon High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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well know. Oh yes, lest I forget, every dark cloud has a silver lining, and the more painful the experience, the greater the joy in passing through it successfullyie provided, of course, you really do weather it. That master-piece of architecture that meets your gaze on the foregoing page is the building in which we shall begin our second scholastic year. Many a-time and oft during the past year, have we sighed to be in our new building; yet anticipation heightens the joy and pleasure of realization The new Roger Bacon High School building will be an unique specimen of exquisite Lombardy architecture. The Franciscan coat of arms supported by the all-emhracing Franciscan shihboleth ttln Sunctity and Learningti surmounts the arched main entrance. The open spaces seen between the windows of the second and third floor will hear the symbols of Language, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Music, Arithmetic, Geo- metry, Astronomy, on one side, and the symbols of the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope. and Charity, and the four cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance, 011 the other side. The Franciscan slogan ttIn Sanctity and Learning epitomizes and concen- trates these symbols of virtue and erudition. On each side of the main entrance Will he the main stairway leading up to the first floor. The chemistry and physical laboratories with adjacent lecture rooms are on the ground floor, as are several other classrooms. Toward the rear, the ground floor becomes the basement where the lockers and showers are located. Here also are the fan room, boiler room, kitchen, and storerooms. A large cafeteria takes up the rest of the ground floor and is easily accessible from the four entrances and convenient to the kitchen. 0n the first floor from the main lobby. access is had to the admin- istration rooms. Corridors branch off leading to the classrooms at the left and right. Directly in front of the main lobby will be the combination gymnasium and auditorium which will be the largest in the Catholic high school group. This room will be about ninety feet square and will have a seating capacity of a thousand for athletic events. The second Floor. i,e., the third floor front and the second fioor rears will have a lecture hall, with study halls at each end, arranged to permit being thrown into one large room. The classrooms are also arranged so as to permit their being made larger 01' smaller as occasion demands. The corridors are lined on either side with lockers for the students. Toilets and storage rooms are located 011 each floor to the rear. The entire building, with its thirty-twu rooms, will be fire-proof throughout, having undergone inspection by the State Board and National Fire Protection Association and been approved. The exterior Will have. a granite base with stone facingon the. ground floor and pressed brick with stone trimming 0n the second and third floors, and will be crowned with a stone cornice all around the building. Aside from requirements made by the State, the design has been governed by its adaption to educational needs! to safety, healthfulness, expansiveness, t0 flexibility, to convenience, to durability, to athletic iitness and economy. UNUs EX PBAECEPTORIBUS. Pays Simtemt

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WW -.- h E; 743 Afaiktwigk h -- i E5? .- .-... QAWE-$-EEH- M9. 77 , 7 7 7 , HE first chapter of the history of Roger Bacon High School has been writlcn. Its record reveals the proverbial diiiiculty of every heginning. Our first your was spent nut in the splendid building on the opposite page, but in temporary quarters, including the north wing of St. Clement School, a roar building 011 the 531110 promises, and a woathm-hculcn mansion 0n the site of the new building. The incnnvonionco of tho tmnpm'ary quarters was augmented by the fact that the Freshman department vzls situated about two squares from the Senior depart- ment. Having prepared and equipped the available class-mom spacv, WC postponed all other necessary arrangements until registration day. which was set for Monday, September 17. 305 sludonts registered. Then the tthoad-scratchingii hogan. Several factors served to intensify the ditticultios. Our tompoun'y quarters. were limited in space. Thc ticxihlo, elective programs of study, prescribed for the archdioccsan high schools gave us litllc lllargin in tho arrangcmcnt 0f the huur-plan. The sopuiatiuu 01' the junior and senior departments made it necessary to retain certain teachers exclusively for each department. as little time was allowed between classes. The division into classes of the heavy Freshmen enrollment presented a perplexing situation. Furthermore. a number of students had already taken some 01' the branches of study specified by 0111' pl'og'ams of study. Novortheloes, by some logordonmin manipu- lation, we finally succeeded in bringing 0111p and arrangement out of this perplexing chaos. 0n the day following registration the student body filed into St. Clomcnt Church, where a Solemn High Mass Iittinglv inaugurated the Iii'st scholastic year of Roger Bacon High School. The Very Reverend Urban Freundt, 0.F.M., Friar Provincial 0f the Cincinnati vainco, x'zls colclrant. He was assisted by Reverend Edgar Casey, 0. F. M., as arch-pricst. Reverend Emil Bruin, O. F.M.. aw. deacon, Reverend Fcrdh inand Nil'maimx 0, F. M., as sllh-deacon, and Friar Rogcr. O.F.M., as master of ceremonicst The Friar PriestsS Choir, members 01' the high school faculty, chanted lhc devotional and inspiring ttMass of the Angels. Our first scholastic year has afforded ll's' much invaluable experience. T0 the casual observer of high sclmnl lifc, who gem tho boys arrive in the morning and leave in the evening, day in and day out, it might appear that mice the high school has been started, the rest of the Way is ttiasy sailing. The observer doean know the half of it, Yes, the day may commence with a bright and cheerful outlook; the wheels greased and running smoothly; but then somethings; unusual happens, a high school problem bobs up and often must be settled immediately. A solution there is and must hot hut often ynuill rack vour train with many a pain to find it. Anyhow, problems make high school life interesting, and thatis some consolation, as the students of mathematics I' r! y :1 F'i f f r'rhn

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