Walnut Hills High School - Remembrancer Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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HE two excellent high schools which for nearly half a century supplied means of advanced secondary edu- cation to the ambitious youth of our city, becoming overcrowded and altogether inadequate to the cultural demands of greater Cincitiuati, had to be supplemented by another institution of their class. The urgent necessity for establishing another high school was felt most pressingty by citizens of that part of the city spreading north- ward to the attractive hill-tops in the townships of Columbia and Millcreek, and taking in the urban localities of Walnut Hills, Mount Auburn, Avondale, and Clifton. As early as the year 1890 active members of the Board of Education and of the Union Board of High Schools were practically considering proposals which led to the erection of a commo- dious and really magnificent new high school building, 01! alot two hundred feet square, located on the corner of Burdett and Ashland Avenues, ,53: IT; IH '1 31 h 1.. in the midst of a population eagerly desirous of the best educational advantages. The school edifice, one of the most elegant public buildings in the city, admirably designed for the accommodation of a large school, was completed in the autumn of 1895, at a cost of $120,503, the lot costing an additional $24,000. The house contains sixteen light, airy recitation rooms, a spacious assembly hall, a tine gymnas- ium, and a good chemical and physical labora- tory, besides a general ofhcc, a small library room, and various lavatories. The committee having in charge the construc- tion of this noble building, was composed of the following gentlemen: Jacob E. Cormany, H. H. Mithoefer, Joseph J. Parker, Ht W. Alleus, and Charles Weiduer, Jr. The local committee selected from the 'L'nion Board of High Schools to exercise supervisory care over the newly-orgauized high school con- sisted, at hrst, of H, H. Mithoefer, John Schwaab. R. D. Barney. Drausin VVutsin. and XVilliam Mc-

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WWW mm J53: 2937 Wniw JULIUS F,UCHs EMERSON VENABLE, RACHEL V WHEELER CLARA D. KLEMM EULAI IE ARTOIS MARG. L.AYMAN, BELLE WOODS ELEANOR PASSEI JANE S. O- HARA Q : Wlfg a Faculty a ?EADW g J; REMSEN BISHOP, Printlfal. A. S. HENSHA,W HELEN SCHRADER, H. E. NEWMAN LAURA E. ALDRICH, FRANCES KOHNKY. NORA ETTLINGER, LOUISE SPILMAN, ALMA S. FICK. ALICE L. BETTS, ARTHUR KNOCH, ALFRED NONNEZ, PAUL F. WALKER, JEANNETTE CIST, JOSEPH SURDO. anmWW m:

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Callister. Since the initial organization, changes have, from time to time, been made in the com- position of the committee, by the retirement of some members and the appointment of others, so that the body at present consists of Hon. Jacob Schroder, Chairman; John Schwaab, William J. Klein, Robert W. Stewart, and R. D. Barney. The Walnut Hills High School was opened in September, 1895, with a corps of twenty teachers and an attendance of 684 pupils. On Friday, October 11, the building was formally dedicated. The Superintendent and the several school omcers upon whom devolved the delicate and complicated function of overseeing the affairs of the great school their energy had created were equal to the responsibility. The organization and equipment of the school were completed with more rapidity than was expected, so that. within a very few weeks from the start, everything was in running order, and a zealous esprit du corps already manifested itself among the pupils. Necessarily the success of the school must de- pend upon the vigilance and fidelity of the teaching body. Six of the teachers were transferred from the older high schools: two from Hughes, Mr. Bishop and Mr. Venable; four from Woodward, Mr. A. S. Henshaw. Miss Rachel V. Wheeler, Mrs. C. D. Klemm, and Miss Eulaiie Artois. Other ex- perienced instructors were selected from various schools in which they had won reputation, or were chosen on account of high attainments in college. Mr. H. E. Newman, teacher of chemis- try and physics, had been instructor in the Uni- versity. ML Julius Fuchs was placed in Charge O 19 of the German teaching. Mr. Arthur Knoch was called to direct the athletic training of the pupils and to have charge of the gymnasium. Without specifying the grades to which they were assigned, or the particular branches by them taught, we here record the rest of the names of those who formed the teaching corps in the First two years of the history of the school. These are: Miss Mary E. Magurk, Miss Henri- etta Reuschel, Miss Helen Shrader, Miss Belle Woods, Miss Margaret E. Layman. Miss Agatha Hope Rice, Miss Jane S. OiHara, Miss Eleanor Passel, Miss Esther H. Hagen, Miss Mamie B. Walker, and Miss Alma Diserens, The special department of drawing was conducted by Miss Frances Kohnky. and the musical directorship 0f the schonl was intrusted to Mr. Joseph Surdo. Since the organization of the faculty, in 1895, several changes have been made: Miss Hagen and Miss Walker both resigned in 1897, and in January of the same year Miss Laura E. Aldrich was appointed teacher of elocution in the new school. In the following year, 1898, Miss Alice L. Betts, Miss Louise Spilman, and Miss Alma S. Fiek were added to the teaching force, and in 1899 Mme. Eleanor Peltier was appointed teacher of French. She resigned in 1900, and M. Nonnez was called to fill her place. Miss Diserens withdrew in 1899, and Miss Frances Kohnky was transferred to Hughes. Dr. W. H. Venable resigned in 1900, and his 5011, Emerson Venable, was appointed to succeed him as teacher of literature. Miss Magurk has gone to VVood- ward School and Miss Rice to Hughes, from Which Miss Frances Kohnky and Miss Nora Ettlinger have been transferred to Walnut Hills.