Rutherford B Hayes High School - Delhi Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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Rutherford B. Hayes High School is being built on Euclid Avenue. October, 1960, was the date of the groundbreaking. There are two floors in the classroom wing to the north and two floors in the band, choir, and home economics wing to the south. The new high school will have about the same number of classrooms as the old building had. Normal expansion is expected with the addition of one or two faculty members. Eight hundred fifty students are expected in the new building next year. The maximum enrollment can be twelve hundred. The new deadline for completion is December 15, 1961. The new high school is named for the 19th President of the United States. Delaware feels a special attachment to President Hayes since it is his birthplace. He was Governor of Ohio three times, 1868-72 and 1876-77, and then was elected President of the United States, 1877-81. He had a strong sense of duty and outstanding moral character. Pupils who attend the new school may be very proud of the man whose name their school bears. Wherever we are we shall always remember our alma mater: Oh, we love the Black-eyed Susan, Tho humble flower it be, Q And we'll often make allusion 9' xo To the flower whose charms we seeg For fond mem'ries it will kindle, 'K' Nor honor shall it lack, Q' For it stands as nature's symbol 'O Of The Orange and the Black.

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, P The 66Ex0dus To Hayes Hugh School April of 1930 was the month of the ground-breaking of the Frank B, Willis High School. The cost of the new building was S315,000. Dedication was held on October 16, 1932. Classes moved into the new building during Christmas vacation of the same year. Including the old building, Willis had 43 classrooms. The first graduating class, in 1932,had 100 seniorsg the last class, in 1961, will have 128. Our school was named for Senator Frank B,Willis who was an outstanding political figure during the 1920's. He was Governor of Ohio from 1914-1920. Then he was elected to Congress where he served as Senator from 1920 until 1928, the year of his death. Willis will always be remembered by those who attended it.

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ur Visitor From A rica This year our school was very fortunate to have as a student Miss Mary Okari from Kisii, Kenya, Africa. Mary was brought to the United States with the help of the African-American Student Foundation through the arrangements of the United States Congress and the government of Africa. After Mary was recommended to Mr. Graham, he filled out the immigration forms and she was flown to New York. The school program of Kenya is ten years long. Mary took a course in the Women's Community Development Training Centre which enabled her to teach for a short time in Kenya. She came to the United States in order to go to college since East Africa has only one good college. After taking two years of high school, Mary plans to attend college in the United States and then return to Africa to teach more advanced courses. Mary finds that the schools of Kenya and America are quite similar. However, one major difference is that the students do nottake notes while the teacher lectures. Instead, lectures are given and on the following day questions are asked and notes are taken. Discipline is very strict in African schools, and the pupils are punished for very small offenses. Therefore, the Kenya Schools are more orderly than ours. The pupils must stand when they talk or when a teacher enters or leaves a room. Instead of having tests every week, the students in Kenya are tested at the end of each term. The Kenya pupils attend school for three months, go home for a short stay, and then come back for three more months. . The people of the United States are much more hospitable than Mary had expected. She finds the climate here quite different from the climate in Africa. Mary finds most American foods unusual but enjoyable. Let us hope that Mary's visit will continue to be both enjoyable and profitable.