Seneca High School - Arrow Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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the last fifty years. In Jefferson County when Mr. Orville Stivers became Superintendent of Schools in 1910 there were ninety-six one and two room schools, grades one through eight scattered throughout the county. By consolidating these the one room school was practically eliminated and forty-five schools resulted. By 19-149 a system of county high schools had emerged which would make it no longer necessary for county pupils to attend the Louis- ville high schools. Since the coming of Mr. Richard Van Hoose to the superintendency still greater strides have been made. When school opened in September 1966 there were fifty-three elementary schools, forty of which have been built since Mr. Van Hoose took over, and a total of fifteen high schools thirteen of which have been built in the same time span. That is a record breaking as well as back-breaking job to have accomplished since 1950. The curriculum changes instituted in this same era have made the Jefferson County schools second to none in the state, too. If 1 hadn't been around here so long, going to so many football and basketball games played at all of these high schools, I would be hard to convince of this fact, but my beady little eyes have seen every one of them, and it,s TRUE! Follow me as I lead the next cheer for those far-sighted men who realized the need for building these schools. 1 tell you this in all seriousness, Redskins. Every morning when we rise to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America my headfeather lit- erally stands on end and 1 have to suppress an almost irrepressible desire to leap on the roof of the loading dock, give a terrific war whoop, and yell, All for Sen- eca, stand up and hollerfi Mr. Al Capp, my first real friend, wouldn't recognize me as the same Little Joe or Lonesome Polecat that he used to know down in Dog- patch and I can just hear Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae 7 saying, Coll-e-e-e, lookey thar! '-- 4, 1 P 1 .. Q 31, x i In if i fills ,gi 4 A X - s ag, ,4 ' it . 'i 5 . 1 j. iz - L' fi 4 ' 1 - , .asw f011H1xf 1' cl f .' A454 -Kg .-'y..:j - ,4 ,Q

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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

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Lonesome's Legend 541 aj: .. . .. Senecafs football stadium as it appeared in 1959. l've learned that lookey tharv isn't good English, but that's the way lfelt when I first saw Seneca. It seemed so big when I first arrived here in November 1958. I was told that thirty-four new classrooms had just been added to the original thirty-one rooms that were dedicated February 25, 1958, and that almost fif- teen hundred students were enrolled instead of the orig- inal 862 young Redskins of 1957. However they were still running true to form, rushing through the wide hallways to beat the bell to their classrooms, worrying about homework and exams, and making good grades. I also learned that the school had opened under the name of Goldsmith Junior High School and on Nov. 14, 1957 had selected the name Seneca by 414 votes over Goldsmith 155, Cumberland 93, Watterson 65, Glen- dale 35, Beargrass 14, the colors red and gold were Seneca's 1959'Redskin football squad. ,Az yt K X fx Kg favored over others, and finally a little later the student body had chosen to be called Redskins rather than War- riors, Braves, or Indians. This had happened before I came to assume the duties of chief and mascot. Did I ever feel exalted in spirit! To know that with all the handsome Indians available for the job, they had chosen ME-pot-bellied, beak-nosed, back-woodsy ME!! They even painted pic- tures of me on the walls and wore me on sweatshirts and pep buttons! Whoops-s s-sl!! I decided right then or Dick Simpson and Steve Banes compiled this Lonesome using photos of Seneca teachers, and the floor inlay of Lonesome was a gift from the Seniors 1965. 72 L 2 59 , . ,fag f ,lay- , L 25. fs 3541 2 -5014 ,W 335934 f www