Woodward High School - Treasures Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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I! A 15 . :3 u 5' ??slguiizgaa Woodward High Schoolw-llur Alma Mater

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Each year as June approaches and graduation tiays hecome a fact rather than a dream. Seniors begin to have nostalgic thoughts about the school that has grown so dear to them, Up to now their thoughts were always on the day when they would graduate. This seemed the glad day. always considereci in the light of heing the hcginning of something rather than the ending. iViany times the members of the Class of '48 were told that the days spent in high school were the most joyous and carefree days or their iives. They scoffed at the generation which proclaimed this idea. hut deep within their hearts they realized the truth containett in these worrtsi and came to appreciate the. fact that although graduation marked the beginning of a new life. it also marked the sac! ending of a happy period in their iives. And so as representatives oi, the Senior Class of nineteen hundred and forty-eight. we have given some thought in the nhovermentiuned ideas ind have decided to do something to perpetuate the faces. places. and events associated with our high school c'areer. How better to do this than to make a Memory Book, Herein can he brought together pictures of our administrators and our teachers, our classmates and our school friends, pictures or our organizations, journalistic, musical. and social. These can he accompanied by hits of informa- tion, serious and otherwise. which will hecome priceless in future clays when we have neetl or calling to mind the time when we were young and gay. This will help to t'arry us over the rough spots in our journey through lite, into this Niemory Book let us lvurther incorporate the school diary of one or our classmates. She has agreed to our using it but with no names mentioned. This will give us a word picture of our senior year. Then let us wander through VVoodwnrd's hails, from hmchroom to shops. pictorially recording classrooms and shops. Iihrary and lunchro'om, study ha and gymnasium, office and hookmom, fountains, lockers. and favorite meet ing places. Faces, places. and events-tthe panorama of our Senior year. VVe, in the name or the Class of '48, present this Wiemnry Book. a hook which will serve in years to come as a magic carpet to carry us back to our school days and to help us relive all those memories which we Cherish now and wiji cherish even more in later years.

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Every year on CIass Day, I. the Woodward BeII.' announce to the worId that another group or Wooct- ward Students is going out to Iace, t0 hattIe, and to conquer the prohIems which it will meet in its contacts with the worIcI. At this time I can out joyoust. IiIIecI t0 the bursting point with pricIe. And why shouldn't I he proud? Look at the memories I have. One hundred and seventeen years at wonderIuI memories. WIy memories OI Woodward begin in 1831 when I was pIacecI above the Iirst school huiIding and given the privilege or caIIing Cincinnatis young men in to ImowIedge. For each OI my pIeasant years since that time I have silently thanked the man who ma e such a IiIegiossthe for me. The man who entrusted to me this honorable responsibility was William Woodward, the founder 01: Woodward High School. It was VViIIiam VVoodward who liberated the youth or Cincinnati from the bonds OI ignorance and opened to them the doors to Iearning and culture. He showed his great Ioresight in providing, tor the youth he loved, not merer a place oI sports. and pleasure. hut an institution which would serve as a hothouse in whirh the youth IquIII mature, IIeveIop. and prepare for the responsihiIities or life and titizenship ,-. a school. The Iirst Woodward schooI was a pIain two-slory brick huitding. much like an ordinary house. hut hav- ing a smaII heIIry in which I was encasecI. For ten years I remained in this position: then. in 1841, I was titted from the roof temporarily while a third Hoor was added. With this new structural addition there aIso came the addition of girls to the student body. Knowing how happy the extension of education to young ladies through his schoot wouId have made WiIIiam Woodward. I welcomed the girl students gladly and thought that: now Woodward and I had progressed as far as possihte. I remember how surprised I was when t was again re- moved from my station in 1855. This time I saw Woodward completely torn down and repIaced by a stater ,Iouristory Gothic structure. The designers had made no provision Ior me on the exterior of the new building. so I was placed inside. nearer to the youth of whom I had hecome so Iond. The last great change came in 1010 when a modern Ivive-story Woodward .-v the Woodward 0r todaywwas constructed. Yes. the Woodward ImiItIing has been ever- Changing hut tho WoochartI ideals and standartts have rcmained unchanged I-he Woodward spirit stiII prevails, that spirit OI study and work. of service and song. of unselh'shness and sacriIice. of cIevotion and cIuty, of appreciation and gratitude OI sympathy and kindhearted- ness of acquaintance ancI IriencIship. of IJrotherIy Iove and equality among men, of high ideaIs and lofty amhi- tions, of onaIty to home and to nation, of ultimate faith and caIm repose. That is why I can he so confident in announcing the entrance. at more Woodward graduates into the world. i Imow that the lame and accom- plishments of this years graduates will return to live on with me in VVoothartI s sncled halls anng with the fame aIIII arcmnplishmenls or a former VVoochaI-d graduatrs.