Westlake High School - Panorama Yearbook (Westlake, OH)

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DOVER HIGH SCHOOL four

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II1 PpF I'9 FI' CTF DOVER HIGH SCHOOL WESTLAKE, OHIO 1948

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gclwol Hisfoful After the settlement of Dover Village, children received the little education that they did secure from their parents. However, as the pio- neers ofthe Western Reserve held education in high esteem, they were eager to provide a better means of education for their children. Thus, a few years after the first settler arrived in Dover, a log school house was built. All the children in Dover who wanted an education had to walk to this school. After the population of Dover increased, when it was found desirable to divide Dover into more than one school district, sub-districts were created. These sub-districts were served by one room schools in which one teacher taught all eight grades. ln these schools students did not pass from one grade to another but from one textbook to another. When a student had completed all of the required textbooks satisfactorily he was passed from the 8th grade. ln 1845 a Dover citizen established an academy to provide for ad- vanced education for the young people of the community. The academy was located where the high school now stands. This academy proved popular and it sometimes had as many as sixty pupils at a time, however it had to be abandoned in l862 as it could not compete with the public high school which had been built a few years before. ln l932 Dover abandoned the sub-district system and formed a centralized school. A new high school was then built and the old one was turned into a grade school. The portable was built in l925 to supplement the high school whose walls were beginning to bulge with increased attendance. The last addition to the high school, the present study hall and library, was built in l927. Now in l948 another grade school is going to be built to relieve the rapid growth of this community. Thus, the village of Westlake, formerly known as Dover continues to grow and the school system grows right along with it. tive