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

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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 John Schwaab, Chairman; Jacob Schroeder, William J. Klein, L. J. Dauner, and Dr. Robert W. Stewart. The Walnut Hills High School was opened in September, 1895, with a corps of twenty teach- ers and an attendance of 684 pupils. On Friday, October 11, the building was formally dedicated. The Superintendent and the several school officers 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, 5'0 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 hdelity 0f 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 Eulalie Artois. Other experienced instructors were selected from varii ous 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. Mr. Julius Fuchs was placed in Charge 11 0f 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 as- signed, 01- 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 Henrietta Reuschel, Miss Helen Shrader, Miss Belle Woods, Miss Margaret E. Layman, Miss Agatha Hope Rice, Miss Jane S. OtHara, Miss Eleanor Passel, Miss Esther H. Hagen, Miss Mamie E. Walker, and Miss Alma Diserens. The Special department of drawing was conducted by Miss Frances Kohnky, and the musical directorship 0f the school 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 1H97, and in January of the same year Miss Laura E. Aldrich was appointel teacher of elocution in the new school. In the following year, 1898, Miss Alice L. Bette, Miss Louise Spilman, and Miss Alma. S. Fick 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 Diser- ens withdrew in 1899, and Miss Frances Kohnky was transferred to Hughes. Dr. W. H. Venable resigned in 1900, and his son, Emerson Venable, was appointed to succeed him as teacher of litera- ture, Miss Magurk has gone to Woodward School and Miss Rice to Hughes, from which MiSS Frances Kohnky and Miss Nora Ettlinger have

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wmwwmm The Walnut Hills High Jchool wwww HE twn excellent high schools. which for nearly half a century supplied means of advanced secondary education to the ambi- tiuus youth of our city, becoming overcrowded and altogether inadequate m the cultural demands of greater Cincinnati, had to be supplemented by another institution of their class. necessity for establishing another high school The urgent was felt most pressingly by citizens of that part of the city spreading northward to the attractive hiII-tops in the tnwnships of Columbia anrl Milli creek. aml taking in the urban localities 0f Vial- nnt Hills, Mnunt Auburn. Mondale. and Clifton. As early as the your IHSIH active members of the Board of Iitlucation 21nd of the Union Board uf High Schools were practically considering proposals which led to the erection of a commo- dious and really magnificent new high school building. on a lot two hundred feet square, 107 catcd on the corner of Burdett antl Ashland Ave- nues. in the midst nf a population eagerly de- sirous 0f the best educational advantages. 0 10 The schnnt edifice. one of the most elegant public buildings in the city, admirably designed for the acconmmdation of a large school. was unupletctl in the Autumn of 1HHIL at a cost of $1'2Hjnlii, the lot costing an additional $21,th0. The house contains seventeen light, airy recita- tion rooms. a spacious assembly hall. a fme gym- nasium. a good chemical and physical laboratory, and a biological laboratory. besides a general office. 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. Mithnefcr. Joseph J Parker, H. XV. Allens, and Charles H'vithwr, Jr. The local committee selected from the Union Board of High Schools to exercise supervisory care over the nexx-lyeorganized high school con- sisted, at first, of H. H. Mithnefer. John Schwaab, R. D. Barney, Drausin Wulsin, and William Mc- Callistcr. Since the initial organization, changes

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been transferred to Walnut Hills. Miss Henrietta Reusehel has been transferred to the Woodward colony. Since lEiHl the department of drawing has been under the able direction of Miss Jeanette Fist. In 190?, Mr. Paul Francis XYalkcr was appointed instructor of Spanish; Mr. M. Crane, and Miss Agnes Brown were added to the teaching corps in February, 15'023. Miss Enlalie Artois resigned and Miss Estelle Bode was appointed to take her place in September, lEiUIi. Before the September term of this year Opened Mr. J. Rcmsen Bishop resigned as prin- cipal of lValnut Hills to become the principal of a Detroit High School. Mr. William Taylor Harris, n'hu was the principal ut' the XVi'amln-unl Colony, was appointed to take his. place, Mr. Nel- 51m .L X'l'alkcr was- also added In the faculty. x IX. The steadily increasing attendance of the school has necessitated the establishment of a colony department, which has its present quarters in the Twenty-second District School Building, on XYalnut Hills. colony acconmioclate one hundred and sixty first- year pupils. whose classvwork is supervised by four instructors. Miss Xurzi Ettlinger. Miss Agnes Brown. Mia: King and Miss Johnson. The inn rooms occupied by the The entire high-school faculty, including special teachers, now numbers eleven men and Sixteen n'mncn. 'thm is it that said: discipline must result in a selfegoverning being ?' 'l 'Rcmembcr that 30111- It is the aim of the school meter to forget this injunction of perhaps the greatest thinker in the O l domain of education. Dependence upon the will Of others to force us to decision or action is VlClOLlS in its essence. The high school of to-day ought to be well enough established to put aside Shams of all kintls-to call to itself the hearty support of parents and school authorities. It should be strong enough to pursue its progress towaw the only good worth reaching, self-gov- ernment and selfeactivity, although one in ten of its pupils should thereby be declared, temporarily or pcrnmnenthg poor material for citizenship. This school stands for the freedom of the teacher and for absolute fidelity as the justification of that freedom. Conscience. and not force, will be here the ultimate appeal, :15 soon as circumstances will permit so radical a change from local tradi- In the meantime, progress is to be made in this direction as rapidly as possible. l' The need of having the feelings on the side of action has long been rucugnized as imperative,' says one of our well-known school men. This school aims tn recognize this imperative need, with no Shirk- tion. ing of temporary inconveniences caused by this recognition. Lufty aim, thoroughness of daily mark, hunur and truth in all things, are the watchwords nr our progress. We shall thus win to our support all who have good ethical impulses and give full exercise to these qualities. Many who are ethically weak we shall, through exercise, strengthen. No one will leave this school without an increased respect for right doing and high thinking. We shall teach love of learning, as well as learning. and shall hope to see the future of our work. not in school records, but in noble lives.