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

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J. REMSEN BISHOP, Principal Walnut Hills High Schuol.

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11k JL ,M v :ielm ,41?$ ghdhi 1'55 The Walnut Hills R High 501100168363 HE two excellent high schools, which for nearly half a century supplied means of advanced secondary educa- tion to the ambitious youth of our city, becoming overcrowded and altogether inadequate to the cultural demands of greater Cincinnati, had to be supple- mented by another institution of their class. The urgent necessity fer estalr lishing another high school was felt most pressingly by citizens of that part of the city spreading northward to the attractive hill-tops in the townships of Columbia and Millcreek. and taking in the urban localities of XVainut Hills, Mount Auburn, Avondale, and Clifton. As early as the year 1890 active mem- bers of the Board of Education and of the Union Board of High Schools were practically considering proposals which led to the erection of a commodious and really magnifi- cent new high school building, on a lot two hundred feet square, located on the comer of Q 15' Burdett and Ashland Avenues, in the midst of a population eagerly desirous of the best educa- tional advantages. The school edifice. one of the most elegant public buildings in the City, admirably designed for the accommodation of a large school1 was completed 111 the autumn of 1895 at a cost of $120,503. the lot costing 1111 additional $21000. The house contains seventeen light, airy recita- tion rooms, a spacious assembly hall, a line gym- nasium, a good chemical and physical laboratory, and a biological laboratory, besides a general ofhce, a library, 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, H. W. Allens, and Charles Weidner, Jr. The local committee selected from the Union Board of High Schools to exercise supervisory care over the newly-organized high school con- sisted, at hrst, of H. H. Mithoefer, John Schwaab, R. D, Barney, Drausin thlsin, and XVilliam MC-