Woodward High School - Saga Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Toledo High School in the 60's QA canal runs in the foregroundb N that year H8845 the University building was opened as the Scott Manual Training School, the fourth to be established in the country. It had the distinction of being one of the iirst, if not the first, public school in America to introduce a course in Domestic Science. In the forty-four years following its establishment, the high school's enrollment swelled to twelve hundred yearly. Previous to 1895 the high school had offered but a three year course of study. In that year a four year course was inaugurated. On March 10, 1895, the building was destroyed by fireg andgalthough when the old school had been built it

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The H cstory of Woodward Technical High School do N 1853 the first high school in Toledo was established, on a site between Madi- son and Adams and Michigan and Tenth streets, at that time the remote out- skirts of the town. ln 1857 the Toledo High School was opened in the building, and a class of three members graduated. The teaching staff consisted of a princi- pal and two assistants, and the enrollment is estimated at seventy-five. QThe following is taken from the Bulletin of the University of Arts and Trades of Toledo.J , In the year 1872, Jessup XV. Scott, one of the honored pioneers of the Mau- mee Valley, selected a body of trustees, who formed themselves into a body cor- porate to carry into effect a desire on his part to establish a 'University of Arts and Trades., f'On Qctober 21, 1872, he conveyed by deed to the University of Arts and Trades 160 acres of land in Adams Township, adjacent to the city line, estimated in value at S80,000, in trust for promotion of education 'in arts and trades and related sciences' HThe plan for the conduct of the institution, as set forth in the deed of trust, was as follows: 'To establish an institution for the promotion of knowledge in the arts and trades and the related sciences by means of lectures and oral instruction, of models and representative works of art, of cabinets of minerals, and of whatsoever else may serve as facilities for a high culture in their respective occupations, in addition to what are furnished by the public schools of the city. Also to furnish instruction in the use of phonographic characters, and to aid their introduction in more gen- eral use, by writing and printing. And also to encourage health-giving, invigo- rating recreationf V 'iln 1873 the University fund was increased by the generous gift of 315,000 from Wlilliam H. Raymond, a member of the first body interested in this form of education. This gift greatly endeavoring to establish the school organization contemplated by the Scott bequest. of trustees, and the man assisted those who were After the death of Jessup XV. Scott on January 22, 1874, his widow, Susan XV. Scott, and their three sons, Wlilliam H., Frank J., and Maurice A. Scott, made a joint conveyance to the trustees of the University of Arts and Trades of real prop- erty in the city of Toledo estimated in value at 550,000 On January 14, 1875, the trustees of the University of Arts and Trades ar- ranged to- open a school of design in Raymond Hall, two hours during the evening of each week. The trustees, unable to carry out the purposes of the donors, decided to tender the entire University property to the city of Toledo. This tender was made in January of 1884. Pag 8111718

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Toledo High School in the 80's had been thought too large, the new school, opened in 1898, was consider- ably larger. It contained sixty-one rooms, one of which was an auditorium covering more space than the entire old building. Until 1913 this building served as Toledo's only high school except that for a few years'the first two years of high school work were given at East Side Central. NIn September of 1913 some of the pupils were transferred to Scott, and' a year later the remaining pupils went to Waite. 1 In january of 1912 there was started a, school then known as the Elementary Industrial School, which was destinedrto grow into the present Woodward High Schoolg On thefopen- . , yy, V, 1