Woodward High School - Treasures Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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The Wooctward High Schoot of today is the outgrowth of a glorious history. it is an old institution anti its development through the years has hccn marked by tour distinct architectural changes. The first VVoodwarct inuiiding. completed in Octoher, 1831, was a modest two-story brick edifice with two rooms on each oor. it was very plain and unpretentious without any particular archiloctm'ai design it hact a heirry which contained a he , now one or our priceless treasures horn the past. The honor of ringing this he is reserved for the oldest graduate present at the Founders Day program each year. in 1841i ten years tater, a third story was added. in which were laboratories and class rooms. An attic room was used hy the hays for their dehating society. For the first time. girls were admitted to the school, amt they occupied a separate room. For fourteen years this huiicting stoodF-a monument to education. Then, in 1835. a new huitding south amt west of the old school was hegun, This new school was the first to he huiit under the auspices of the Unicn Board or High Schools. The new Woodward was as heautirut and artistic in design as the old had heen plain. The GM huiiding was ordered demolished when thc now was completed and was torn down during the Christmas holidays at l835. The new building had four entrances. spacious halls, and eight rooms. The north and south hails on the second cor were used as a iihrary and iahoratnry respec- tivety. On the third noor was the Assnmhiy Plait Some time later a thrccislory. onc-room deep addition was huiit 0n the south, making fifteen rooms in addition to the halls About I800, a gymnasium in the tnrm Of a separate huiittinp; was added. For more than fifty years this heautifui huiitting 0r l833 cont'numi its servit'e nhd usefulness. Then came another Woodwartt-utha VVDodward we know nmi love. it was thv hLLitdinp: 0i IQIO. much greater than any other. The cnrnmr stone was lnid in Nnvvmhcr. l908. and President-etect Wiiiiam Howard Taft. '74. was the principal speaker on that memorable occasion. On the twentyiinurlh 0t Octohcr. IOIO. this building was solemnly dedicated to it's sacred mission. Exorcism wore hehl and an uA VVootiward program was written amt prosvnlmt hy graduates anal Sluttents. For thirtystive years this huitding has stooti, a new VVoodwarct in form. hut still the OH VVoodward in tradition. TIIC onty pllySiCEII change of recent years 1105 139811 the removal or WOOCIXVEIIII'S hcautiiui iron renco. During the early years of the present war. when the need for iron was very great. VVoodward donated its fence to the war effort. This was done willingly hut sorrowl'uiiynaa ncccssary sacrifice. VVC, the graduating ciass of nineteen huncirect nnct Forty-rive. tmow and love the VVOuctwartl 0t loctay, VVC havc been the recipients or an she had to otter. VVe are grateful that it has heen our good fortune to secure a part of our education in a school so steeped in sacred tradition. Niay we ever he worthy of our beloved ahna matcr. Pugo Seven i v

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