West High School - Occident Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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They guide us Dr. H. H. Reighley lOur LaTe Principall ln The midsf of life we are in deaTh was broughf home To The WesT High sTudenT body Monday morning, Feb. 26, when The news was flashed from sTudenT To sTudenT and Teacher To Teacher Thaf Dr. H. H. Reighley, school principal, had passed away. Dr. Reighley's career aT Wesf Senior High was phenomenal. Nofed for his adminisTraTive abiliTy chiefly, Dr. Reighley's work in organizing The school sysTem marked him as a school man of no mean abiliTy. He worked hard To perfecT a well co-ordinafed program for sfudenfs and Teachers. STudenTs who were in The doghousef' so To speak, always received a fair and iusT hearing when called inTo conference wiTh Dr. Reighley. As one problem sTudenT expressed iT: Dr. Reighley laid The law down: l knew he was righT and he meanT business. To The greaT maiorify of sTudenTs, Dr. Reighley's counsel and sympaTheTic under- sfanding of Their problems helped Them over many a Thorny paTh. Under his TuTelage have passed Thousands of boys and girls who have become useful and successful cifizens. Dr. Reighley sfood for every good and consfrucfive inferesf. His inifiafive and aggressiveness in behalf of school work was manifesf in The Hillfop communify, The ciTy, sfafe and nafion. Working offen under handicaps and adverse circumsfances, Dr. Reighley's sTrengTh of characfer, supplemenfed by his broad schooling, enabled him To solve many difficulf problems. Wesf High School can ill afford To lose such leadership. The spirif and indomiT- able courage and faifh of Dr. Reighley will ever be engraved upon The hearfs of every Wesf sTudenT. His influence and work will always be an inTegral parT of The school which he loved. His arduous labors in behalf of Wesf High School will also be evidenced in The years To follow. WesT High is a beTTer place because of his leadership. l8l

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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

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hrough our hundredth year L. K. Replogle lAssis+an+ Superinfendenf of Schoolsl we Www af euwuf dale :JL Iffze ecfacaiian of ih qauifa --fbia-gleaned To ihe Graduaies of Wesr Senior l-ligh School: ln 1845 Jrhe public school sysrem of 'rhe cily of Columbus was eslrablished. lr is appropriaie 'ro nole while celebraiing This anniversary, Thai Two years larer, in IS47, Columbus opened her firslr l-ligh School. Dr. Asa Lord laugh? ii one-hall day and his wife Jrhe ofher half. English, rnaihemaiics, Lafin, and Greek were iaughf. The educarional program of +he Columbus public schools has advanced sieaolily since Thar +ime. I congraiulaie you who are gradualing This year upon +he honor oi compleiing your worlc in Jrhis cenlennial period. L. K. REPLOGLE. 'Qgicducczifian had faa. 642 aijeai of cfnafmciwz, --Jleadml' .Spencw Blanche M. Kern lAcl'ing Principall