South Park High School - Dial Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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914, dllnbwapari On a day brulluantly lughted wuth sunshune thurty sux years ago thou U ETIITDU sands of spectators gathered to wutness the Iayung of the cornerstone of the new South Park Hugh School That was a day fraught wuth meanung for the communuty for ut marked the turnung pount of years of effort on the part of the cutuzens of South Buffalo The date was june lst 1914 As early as November 1911 the sponsors of the new hugh school had made theur unfluence felt un the Councul Chamber where on the twenty second of that month a resolutuon was passed to buy the land on whuch the hugh school now stands From that day forward through constructuve efforts necessary to the erectuon of a new publuc school busuness progressed untul March 17th 1914 saw the breakung of ground for the new edufuce and june 1st the Iayung of the cornerstone Thus was undeed a proputuous day lt meant an opportunuty for parents un the communuty to offer theur chuldren a hugh school educatuon and untellectual growth ut meant a more closely knut communuty lufe cultuvatuon of those splendud qualutues of loyalty cuvuc prude and rughteous ambutuon a fnner apprecuatuon of all that con trubutes to cultural growth Doctor Robert Bapst was appounted pruncupal of the new hugh school by the uncumbent dents already embarked on theur hugh school career on the openung day September 7th 1915 temporary quarters were opened nn 1914 on the thurd floor of old School 35 un Swan Street where a lught aury study room and sux recutatuon rooms housed the charter students In the fol lowung September thus student body fulled wuth prude and eager wuth excutement resumed theur studues un the new buuldung umposung un uts structure and beautuful un uts appountments suut ably named South Park Hugh School The buuldung was formally deducated on December 16 1915 The exercuses were attended by over two thousand enthusuastuc cutuzens whose unterest was well rewarded The audutoruum where the people gathered enveloped wuth an aura of newness was beautuful un uts classuc sum plucuty The frueze that adorns uts entrance us an exact repluca of that of the Erechtheum at Athens That evenung Doctor Bapst wel comed the guests and hus remarks were fol lowed by an address by Adelbert Moot Re gent of the Unuversuty of the State of New York Now South Park Hugh School was truly launched on uts career of servuce and faculty and student umbued wuth rughteous prude so necessary to success worked turelessly t brung every new enterpruse to uts fruutuon On the Sunday followung the deducatuon a serues of organ recutals was begun to con 9 ra , Q 05 ..., A, ' I -WI . . - 1 - Superintendent of Education, Dr. Henry P, Emerson. So that there would be a number of stu- . ' o -

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IOANNE DOWNING Swnmmnng ELIZABETH C DUGAN M Ed Mathemat cs EDITH ELDRIGE BS In Bus d Business RUTH M FRASER MA Buslness MARCELLA P GODFREY Socual Science SOPHIA C HOFMANN B S In Phys Ed Physical Education ALBERT C HUETTER MA Physucal Educatlon and Health MYRTICE T IOBE BA Scnence MARGARET I IONES B LS Llbrarlan MARY D KINSELLA MA Engllsh MILDRED A KOCH Mus Supervlsor Music Chorus and Vouce Homemalung EMILIE L LUBELSKA BA Englnsh MARIE H MCEVOY M Ed Socual Scuence CORNELIA M METZ MA Foreugn Language and Socaal Studaes NORMAN E METZ MA Instrumental Music RAYMOND E MICHAEL BS Science RONALD H MOODY BS Physucal Educatzon and Healtl- CATHERINE R NAGEL BA Englush and Foreugn Language ALFREDI NAISH BA Scnence M BURNHAM NEHIN M Buslness CATHERINE G O BRIEN M A Socnal Studues IOHN K ODAY BS CERTRUDE C O DONNELL B A Foreugn Language and Englush MARY R O MARA BA English CATHERINE F PERRY MA Englush F KEATING QUIRK Comprehensuve General Shop and General Prnntmg and Bookblndlng MARIORIE M RAPS BS In Com Ed Busnness IESSIE M REED MA Homemaknng HELEN A REMINGTON MA Homemakmg MARY C ROCHE M ED Socual Scuence EDWIN F RUNDELL MA Guldance Counsellor KENNETH W SCHREIBER BS Physlcal Educatlon IOSEPH R SCHUMAKER Physlcal Education and Health FLORENCE D SMITH MA Business and Foreign Language Busnness M WILLIAM SWEENEY PHG Swimming FRANCIS M SWEET BA Forelgn Languages MARION R TAYLOR MA Mathematlcs STELLA M TIFFANY MA Forengn Languages LAURA M TRAPERTH BA Englush and Foreign Language DWIGHT H WARREN BS In Business IANE S WHITE MA Guudance Counsellor MARIE M PHERRIN RN Clnnnc MARIE A HAMMERSMITH Cafeteria Manager ELIZABETH A FLYNN Stenographer FLORENCE A TOOM EY Scnence and Mechanical Drawing Stenographer Leawe of Absence I l V I , , . . ' . v1oLA B. LENSEN, MA. GRACE M. STEPHENSON, M. ED. . , . , ' ED. . A , . Ed, I L 3 W

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11,flcffwAp,acL PUBLIC SCHOOL 55 tunue on the furst and thurd Sunday of every month untul May These were funanced by the school and open to the publuc Among the artusts who presented these musucals was Wulluam I Gomph the organust and our own Wulluam Walsh an accomplushed vuolunust accompanued hum Another unnovatuon was the sulent drama the movues presented to the students every Thursday afternoon and the adult members of the communuty un the evenung Among the fulms shown were luluus Caesar Treasure Island Ruchard the Thurd Davud Copperfueld and others of educatuonal Dr Bapst value South Park soon became known as acenter of classucal learnung lt was unevutable that a man of Dr Bapst s calubre should take prude un nurturung those studues whuch were dear to hus heart All other departments of learnung flourushed and kept pace however wuth the language department Mathematucs scuence busuness subjects hustory were seruously pursued The domestuc arts were encouraged the fune arts cultuvated and as years passed the pruntung shop under the able durectuon of Albert C Ernst was second to none un the Buffalo schools A furm beluever un the adage a sound mund un a sound body Dr Bapst encouraged physucal educatuon and under the wuse guudance of Rae Hunman that department produced some of the best hugh school athletes un Buffalo A unuque feature of South Park was uts musucal apprecuatuon course The students were pruvuleged to hear the works of our greatest composers explauned and presented somewhat after the style of Walter Damrosch And so the chuldren of South Park at a most umpressuonable age were told about Mendelssohn ad Chopun Luszt and Beethoven Mozart and Shubert the operas of Rossunu and Verdu Wagner and Donuzettu and others and the best known and best loved aruas from these operas South Park grew and prospered The student body uncreased untul the halls were so thronged wuth chuldren that ut was necessary to open annexes furst at school 67 un l932 then at 72 and 69 ln 1837 Publuc School 7 was opened as a regular annex to South Park to remaun as long as the regustratuon demanded ut The furst graduatuon class un l9l6 numbered nune graduates The classes grew produguously untul un l'-939 sux hundred and fufty seven graduates receuved theur hugh school duplomas Durung uts thurty fuve years the school has met all the vucus sutudes of fortune wuth fortutude lt has wutnessed two world catastrophes now aptly l nown as World War I and World War ll ln the furst World War young men of the faculty and student body answered the call to the colors Those who remauned at home dus played unruvalled patruotusm pushung the Luberty Loan druves solucut ung for the Red Cross the gurls sewung and knuttung feverushly for the boys over there ln World War ll the same hugh type of en thusuasm was duverted to bond druves scrap druves and every type of war effort fostered un the schools The monument on the lawn at the southeast corner of the buuldung pays sulent trubute to one hundred and twenty three gallant South Parkers who gave the last 10 1 g 1-1 I X . . lf. 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , . , . . . . . . - 1 1 . 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 - 1 . . . . .1 . . 1, . , . 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 Y 1 , . 1 , . . 1 1 1 ' 1 1 .1