Urbana High School - Tower Yearbook (Urbana, OH)

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8 oUR HIGH scHooL HE. ERECTION of Urbana's iirst High School building Was begun in 1873 and finished in 1875. Apparatus and other advantages were added to this structure until it had become one of the finest equipped High School buildings in the state. On Saturday evening, December 12, 1896, we suffered its complete loss by fire. The question of providing accommodations for the many pupils until a new building Was erected was a difficult one. The High School proper accepted the use of the Water Street Academy, together with two recitation rooms at the Urbana University. The present Senior Class, which comprised the higher Grammar grade at that time, employed the Catholic Chapel on Washington avenue and the GermanChurch on West Market street as places for recitation. Q - The present beautiful High School building was completed in the fall of 1897 and occupied immediately after the Christmas vacation. Thus the Senior Class has spent four years of High School life in the present structure, under Principals W. McK. V ance, Roland A. Trees, and S. W. Collett.

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- A M- --mn A-Benin A-Awe-e-saanaaadfkf is 3 i 5 y JUNIOR CLASS HARRY L. HAYDEN, President. HOWARD BECHTOLT, Secretary. MARIE NIILLER, Treasu CLASS Morro g 'C Vestigi a nulla retrorsum. l I 1' t CLASS COLORS CLASS FLOWER I I l Dark Green and White. Pink Carnation. HISTORY H f ODESTYN is the best policy in Writing this short history and description of ourselves. Writing is an art in which We claim no precedence, and We are espe- cially ill-adapted to this egotistical branch of literature. So after many dismal, blundering attempts in Which are included not a few failures, and having carefully and thoroughly 'pursued the most promising trials, which We have as carefully and thoroughly destroyed, We have de- cided that our talent lies in other than literary lines. If We could . Sing our own praises In high sounding phrases,- as can a poet, We might tell in very elegant paragraphs how it came about that We are now to become the flow the Urbana High Schoolg how that, although our nu: is small, our spirit is boundless, how it happened tha have a plurality on both the foot ball and base ball te But We recognize our inability and do not burden you these facts. If we were skilled in literary art We might dyye some victorious Junior Hshinney games. or possibly at length on a few minor virtues, but We will lay asid pen with a consciousness of a duty ill-performed. leave some material for some future historian Whose osity and zeal may lead him to narrate the past if Senior Class of 1903. -Hrsrosrax