Salem High School - Quaker Yearbook (Salem, OH)

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I EH w ■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ Ull£jg JK BBBBBB ■«■■■■ The city hall above replaced the historical landmark at the right in 1950. The old build- ing, constructed in 1847, served as head- quarters for the Western Anti-Slavery Society. Many times its rafters rang with the impassioned oratory of abolitionists, such as William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Sojourner Truth. Grateful Students Dedicate Annual Not long after the sun rises each day, nearly 1,000 of tomorrow’s citizens cross the threshold of Salem High School—the threshold to education. Seldom does it come to the minds of these students that this, their school, is a result of years of careful planning—plan- ning that goes back to the very beginning of Salem. The early Quaker settlers thought it important to provide education for their children and established schools almost as soon as they founded churches, but these were private schools. To assure an education for all the future citizens of Salem the first public school was built in 1850. Since then three ever more modern high schools have been erected, and true to the traditions of their forefathers, Salem citizens last November voted a bond issue for the erection of a new high school. While the school buildings still exist, the men who built them are gone—men whose ambitions, toil, and dreams were for the coming generations. Their history is written into what our school is today; their efforts will serve those who are still to come. Therefore, in the hope thatitmay show in some measure our appreciation to those who have afforded us ever-improving educational opportunities, that we may work toward the fulfillment of their ideals for us, for Salem, and for our country, we gratefully dedicate this annual to the citizens of Salem, past and present. 8

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Salem High School 1916-1958 : £ ':-r T. - Salem High Remains Steadfast Anxious for their children to have the best educational advantages they could afford, Salem citizens organized the first public high school in 1853 Classes were held in the grade school building on Second St. In 1860 the first public high school was built on Fourth St. It was later con- demned and on the same site in 1896 the present Fourth Street building, then called Salem High, was erected. Again one of Salem's high schools proved inadequate for the swelling popula- tion and in 1916 a new modern building- rose on Garfield Avenue, now North Lincoln. Nearly forty years later crowded conditions again presented problems. In November, 1955, a $2,585,000 bond issue was passed to provide for a larger, more modern school to be built on East Sixth St. Proposed Salem High School 1958 M, H S 7 j jf « - • 4' j 5ajp.. t j t .

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State Street looking west 1956 To Salem Citizens, Past and Present Main Street 1846 The hospitality of the people was proverbial. No one ever ap- pealed in vain for food, in any emergency, whether he were a neighbor or a stranger, and nothing would give greater offense than an offer to pay for the same. The latch-string always hung on the outside, and the stranger or wayfarer always received a generous and hearty welcome. In their friendships they were firm, constant and true.’1 —-Souvenir History of Salem-1906 9 fihhPDiv i.!f!