Salina High School - Trail Yearbook (Salina, KS)

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YESTERDAY S. H. Junior Class 1910 1917 Orchestra at S. H. S. 1910 Football Mustangs 1910 Gills B. B. Team

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Through The Years Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule The village master taught his little school. -Goldsmith's Deserted Village So it was that in the days when Kansas was the frontier, as each small group of settlers grew large enough to call themselves a com- munity, schools were needed and subsequently established. In 1862 the four-year-old village of Salina hired Miss Etta Thacker to teach her children. The school room was in 'he south downstairs room of the home of Mrs. Christina Phillips. which stood on the corner of Santa Fe and Iron, where the Farmers' National Bank is now. There followed a succession of several school teachers and as many school rooms. The first school building was erected in 1868 on the present site of Roosevelt High School. It was a frame stucture, two stories, with a large room and hall downstairs ar d two rooms above. For six years it served well, then the increasing school population made neces- sary a larger building. And so in 1874 was built the old school house known for many long years as Old Central. From 1874 to 1922 it stood-48 years of faithful service to the children of Salina. Old Central was razed in 1922 to make way for Roosevelt ,lun- ior High-and many were the men and women who recalled happy school days when the old structure fell. The building was three stories high, brick, and the contract price was about 3550,000. The six rooms in the first and sec- ond floors were finished and occupied in 1874. In the summer of 1877 the east room on the third floor was finished and in the fall ofthat year the Salina High School opened. T. D. Fitzpatrick came from Topeka to be the super- intendent of city schools, in which capacity he served for eight years. Under Mr. Fitzpat- rick were seven young women teaching. The spring of 1878 was especially eventful- the first graduating exercises of a Salina High School class were held. The members of the class were Miss Maggie Rash and and Mr. Arthur Day. The exercises were held on a ,Iune afternoonrin the Salina Opera House, on the site of the present United Life Building, The stage was entirely to large for the two members of the graduating class and Mr. Fitz- patrick, so every member of the Salina school faculty-seven in number-was invited to sit on the platform. The large room was quite filled-most of Salina turned out to see Mag- gie Rash and Arthur Day graduate. The exercises consisted of an address by each of the graduates, music, a talk by Supt. Fitzpat- rick, and the presentation of diplomas. In 1880 there was only one member of the grad- uating class. She was Mary Campbell, now Mrs. Palmer. For many years the custom persisted for each graduate to give an address in the exercises, as well as for the faculty to sit on the platform with the graduates. In 1880 the Second Ward School, now know as Longfellow, was built. In the next few years Salina grew very rapidly, for in 1887 Oakdale,