Woodward High School - Saga Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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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

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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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cr'-Jw' i'E '?'i A View of Toledo High School After the Fire ing day about seventy-live boys en- rolled, and there were two teachers. At first only two rooms were used, one in the attic, now Room 71, and the present pattern shop. At the be- ginning some difficulty was experi- enced in securing the right type of teacher for the academic work, but Superintendent Guitteau Hnally se- cured Mr. Harold E. Williams, at whose advent things began to move. During the school year 1912-1913 no ad- ditions were made, neither in the teach- ing staff nor in the number of rooms, but in the fall of 1913 four new teachers were added to take care of the increase in enrollment. It should be remembered that these boys were all in the grades and