West High School - Occident Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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OUR LEADERS Asa D. Lord FirsT SuperinTendenT oT Columbus Schools Asa Dearborn Lord lJune I7, I8I6-March 7, l875l, TirsT superinTendenT oT Colum- bus public schools, educaTional leader, was born aT Madrid, N. Y. T-lis TaTher, Asa Lord, died when The boy was Two years old, and his early educaTion was direcTed by his moTher, LucreTia lllearbornj Lord, a woman oT rnarlced inTelligence and an ex- perienced Teacher. ATTer aTTending The disTricT school he became a Teacher aT The age oT sevenTeen. l-lis TurTher proTessional preparaTion he acquired while pursuing a course oT sTudy in The academy aT PoTsdam, N. Y. ln IS37 he TaughT a privaTe school aT Willoughby, Ohio, and enTered The sophomore class oT WesTern Reserve College in IS38. The Tollowing year he was chosen as head oT The WesTern Reserve Teachers' Seminary in The neighboring village OT KirTland, a posiTion which he held Tor eighT years. On July Zi, l842, he married ElizabeTh W. Russell, who, herselT, had a remarlcable career, TirsT, in helping her husband in his worlc Tor The blind and, aTTer his deaTh, as superinTendenT aT BaTavia, in his place, and as assisTanT dean aT Oberlin College. While sTill principal oT The seminary he aTTended lecTures in The medical de- parTmenT oT The neighboring Willoughby UniversiTy. Though he obTained a diploma in I846, he never enTered upon regular pracTice. AT abouT The same Time, inTluenced largely, iT seems, by Henry Barnard, who visiTed Ohio in I843 and again in IS46, he engaged in a varieTy oT educaTional acTiviTies. ln i845 he gave insTrucTion in whaT is usually considered The TirsT Teachers' insTiTuTe held in Ohio, Though he had, in I843, organized and conducTed a similar insTiTuTion aT KirTland. During I846 he began The publicaTion oT The Ohio School Journal, which he conTinued To publish unTil IS49, when iT was combined wiTh The School Friend. In I847 he was appoinTed superinTendenT of schools aT Columbus, Ohio, an oTTice creaTed largely Through The inTluence oT Henry Barnard and The TirsT oT iTs kind in The Middle WesT. In The process oT classiTying The pupils he was led To organize The TirsT public high school in Columbus and one oT The TirsT in The sTaTe. While conTinuing To publish The Ohio! School Journal, he also published The Public School AdvocaTe, primarily in The inTeresT oT good undersTanding beTween The school lConTinued on Page IO5l T61 T i

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of 100 qeau ago diff!!! Acidic difucfiai Edifor in Chief ...,. .... Associafe Edifor. . . . . . . . Ari' Designers. . . Feafures .... Acfivi-Hes ..... Snapshois ,... Spor+s .... Club Edifor ..... S+aFF Typis+s ..,. Senior Direcfory ..., . . . Proof Readers. . Joan Beh Lorraine Frank Tom Calhoon Duane Abram Pai' Donahue Jean McKee Phyllis Adair Phyllis McClain Lee Diensi' Bob FeH'e Rodney Thomas Joan Sfeen Phyllis Howard Jean Sayre Pai' Hughes . Lois Crum Fred Findeis Sam Gibson Bill Davis Left to Right-First row: L. Frank, D. Abram, J. Behg second row: J. Steen. P. Donahue L Crum, J. Sayre, P. Howard, J. McKee, third row: P. Hughes, G. Cornell, D. Grassbaugh, R Thomas, P. McClain, P. Adair, fourth row: S. Gibson, L. Dienst, B. Fette, F. Findeis, R. Davx

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B! l lril l': George E. Roudebush Our presenT superinTendenT To The GraduaTes oT WesT Senior l-ligh School: During This year Columbus will observe an anniversary oT greaT signiTicance in The educaTional hisTory oT This ciTy. On February 3, 1845, one cenTury ago, The STaTe l.egislaTure passed a special law creaTing The Board oT EducaTion and esTablishing The public school sysTem oT The ciTy oT Columbus. One husdred years ago There were only Three or Tour school cenTers in operaTion and buT one school building which belonged To The ciTy. There were someThing less Than 800 pupils enrolled and less Than 500 in aTTendance. Today The ciTy owns 78 school cenTers aTTended by more Than 43,000 pupils. BeTween These Two exTremes is a cenTury OT conTinuous progress. A I congraTulaTe The graduaTes oT WesT Senior l-ligh School on having The honor of being a parT oT The TirsT graduaTing class oT The Columbus Public Schools in This CenTennial year. AlThough we reach This CenTennial in The midsT oT world chaos, I hope ThaT you will ioin oTher ciTizens oT Columbus in greeTing This year wiTh apprecia- Tion and ThaT you will look To The second cenTury wiTh conTidence and greaT hope. t k i G. E. Roudebush. We Tind, upon peering inTo The mosT imporTanT chapTers in his liTe, ThaT Mr. George Roudebush, superinTendenT oT Columbus Public schools, led a quieT, buT am- biTious, absorbing childhood and young manhood, which meriTed him a greaT success in his Tieldy his magneTic personaliTy has made him popular and well-liked by all sTudenTs. AT The early age oT six he TroTTed OPT To a one-room counTry school-house To Talce his place wiTh The Three oTher TirsT grade sTudenTs in The school, where The enTire en- rollmenT neTTed Tweny-Tive pupils. Upon compleTing The elemenTary grades he enTered a cenTralized school in his sTaTe and graduaTed wiTh high honors. T-le is also a graduaTe oT Ohio STaTe UniversiTy and Columbia UniversiTy in New Yorlf. lConTinued on Page I33l Ui