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

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WALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL CINCINNATI, OHIO Faculty J. REMSEN BISHOP, Ph.D., Prz'mzjtal. ATLEY S. HENSHAW, H. E. NEWMAN, JULIUS FUCHS, EMERSON VENABLE, R. V. WHEELER, CLARA D. KLEMM. ESTELLE BODY. MARGARET E. LAYMAN, BELLE Woons NELLIE PASSEL, JANE S. O'HARA, JOSEPH SURDO, JEANNETTE CIST, A. A. KNOCH, M. D., ALFRED NDNNEZ, PAUL F. WALKER. A. M. CRANE, HELEN SCHRADER. LAURA E. ALDRICH, FRANCES KOHNKV, LOUISE SPILMAN, ALMA S. FICK, ALICE L. BETTS, NORA ETTLINGER. AGNES L. BROWN.

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J. REMSEN BISHOP, Principai Walnut Hills High School.

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Che walnut Bills Digb School 'EeE'WWW -IIE two excellent high schools, which for nearly half a century hf supplied means of advanced see, KN ontlary education to the ambi- tious youth of our city, becoming overcrowded and altogether in- adequate to the cultural demands of greater Cincinnati. had to be supplemented by another institution of their class. The urgent necessity for establishing another high school was felt most pressingly by citizens of that part of the city spreading northward t0 the attractive hill-tops in the townships of CO- lumbia and Millcreek. and taking in the urban localities of Walnut Hills. Mount Auburn, Avon: dale. and Clifton. As early as the year I890 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- dinus and really magnificent new high school building, on a lot two hundred feet square, lo- cated 0n the corner of Burdett and Ashland Ave- G t nues, in the midst of a population eagerly desirous of the best educational advantages. The school ediflce. one Of the most elegant jmblic buildings in the City. admirany designed for the aecmnmodation 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 seventeen light, airy recita- tion rooms, a spacious assembly hall, a fine gym- nasium. a good chemical and physical laboratory, and a biological laboratory. besides a general ofhee. 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. II. Mithoefer. Joseph J. Parker, H. W. Allense and Charles Weidner. Jr. The local committee selected from the Union Board of High Schools to exercise supervisory care over the newlyeorgauized high school con- sisted. at hrst. of H. H. Mithoefer, John Schwaab. R, D. Barney. Drausin VVulsin, and William Mc- Callister. Since the initial organization, changes