Seneca High School - Arrow Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Cinema 1 81 2, Bardstown Road, Louisville incorporated and plans to build a canal around the falls were made and fulfilled. The canal was opened to navi- gation in 1830. After that step the city turned its atten- tion to becoming a big industrial center. In 1840, the Louisville Lighting Company illuminated the city with gas lamps. The crime rate dropped overnight and new industries were immediately attracted to the area. On July 9, 1850, President Zachary Taylor died in n antique gas lamp in a modern setting. Stauffer's Motel, Broadway t Second Street. . . continued . . Washington, DC. The General known as old Rough and Ready was buried in Louisville in the Zachary Taylor Memorial Cemetery on Brownsboro Road. He is the man credited with ending the Indian Yvars, but I don,t hold that against him. After all I've been a Kentuckian so long that it wouldn't be patriotic of me to do so. It makes me swell with pride to think that one of the Presidents of these United States is near. The Law Department of the University of Louisville From the top of a tall monument Zachary Taylor's statue majestically views part of the land he made safe for Americans. 7

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Loneson1e's Legend visualize the panic in the Book Store if Dad decided to pay us our allowances in rawhide? In 1789, the first brick house was built in Louisville, and in 1801, the first newspaper, The Farmer's Li- brary , made its appearance. Believe me, it couldn't be compared with the Sentinel that my tribe puts out now- adays. However, in 1830, George D. Prentice came here from New England and established the Louisville This memorial was erected at Hodgensville, Kentucky to com- memorate Lincoln's birthplace. Journal which flourished until 1868 when it was merged with Henry Watterson's Courier. Under the virulent edi- torial pen of Marsh Henryi' this newspaper gained in stature pen of Marsh Henryi' this newspaper gained in of the most outstanding daily publications in the coun- try. That mammoth four lane concrete highway to the north of my fortress was named The Watterson Express- At Sixth and Broadway this modem building houses Louisville's largest newspapers The Courier Journal and The Louisville Times as well as the studios of WHAS television and Radio WHAS. way in honor of the same man. Imagine this! At the turn of the century in 1800, Louisville counted a total population of eight hundred persons. That was 62 fewer than my Bedskin tribe num- bered when Seneca first opened its doors in 1957. How- ever, those few were progressive. In 1308, the year before that great man Abraham Lincoln was born in our state, the people of Louisville erected the first the- atre in the city. It couldn't be compared to our neigh- boring Cineme 1 Xa 2 but it did indicate that the citi- zens were interested in the Fine Arts. Those same folks were just as excited over the steamboat, Orleans, which was the first to ply the waters of the Ohio to our city. We still enjoy the sternwheelers, and we Redskins have the breakfast following the annual Senior Prom on the Belle of Louisville which is beautifully pictured on the end-sheets of this volume of our yearbook, ARROW '67. Before we leave the river 1 should tell you that in 1825 the Louisville and Portland Canal Company was 6 The Watterson Expressway snakes its east-west pathway across Jefferson County.

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Lonesome's Legend The Belle of Louisville has become a symbol of old-fashioned, through the locks of the Portland Canal. was organized in 1349, nine years after the founding of the Louisville Medical Institute, which later became the University of Louisville. It is recorded as the oldest municipal university in the nation. The present Jeffer- son County Courthouse was begun in 1839 and was opened twenty years later. It is limestone in the Greek Jefferson County Courthouse Louisville, Kentucky Southern hospitality, a rich tradition to preserve. Here the Belle passe Revival style with Doric portico, and was designed by the same Gideon Shryock for whom a Jefferson County elementary school on Brown's Lane is named. Thereis that magic word, SCHOOL! I really dig those six letters and somehow l feel that you will under- stand why it means so much to me. If you had once been a poor, ignorant, little Indian like me, living off in the backwoods with nobody but Hairless to keep you company, maybe you would have a better idea of how wonderful life can be when that precious tool called an education becomes yours. ln the last few years l've learned a lot about the development of education in the United States. ln Co- lonial times great emphasis was placed on a strictly classical educational program. The Latin Grammar School which prepared boys for entrance into Harvard University was the essence of a superior curriculum. ln New England every Puritan town of more than fifty families was required to provide a public-paid teacher of reading and writing for its children. Towns of a hundred families also had to have a high school. ln the middle colonies the parochial school developed because more religious faiths were present. Public tax supported schools were opposed. The Southern colonies considered education a privilege accorded only to the wealthy, who could attend privately endowed schools or engage private tutors. The Academy was founded by 1750, and Social Studies were added to secondary education. In 1794- Kentucky's first public school was opened by John Fil- son at Lexington. Taxation to support schools became lawful and by 1905 there were fifty-five accredited high schools in Kentucky. Compared to the number of schools that are accredited today, we can understand why it has been said that western man has made great progress in