Waggener High School - RingBrothersHistory.com

The Voice of St. Matthews, August 15, 1957:$2,344,000 worth of new school buildings will open this Fallcompared to 1,650 last year. The staff will include 71 teachers, two deans, an assistant principal, and principal John Trapp.That’s an. increase of two teachers over last year.The pressure is being taken off Eastern by the expansion of Waggener. Formerly a junior high with grades six to nine,Waggener will, add the 10th grade this year, the 11th next year, and the 12th the following year.***Waggener’s size will be almost doubled when it opens next month. Twenty—seven classrooms are being added, giving theschool 57 altogether.The staff will include 55 teachers, two deans, an assistant principal, and principal John Lowe. Last year, the school hadonly 33 teachers.Enrollment is expected to be 1,440 as compared with 852 last year. this sudden jump is mostly the result of adding the extragrade and shifting seventh and eighth grade pupils from Greathouse and St. Matthews Elementary Schools.Mr. Ramsey said that Waggener will be even bigger in the future. Expansions are planned to take care of the senior gradesbeing added next year and the year after.***Wilder Elementary will have 21 classrooms. It is being built for 630 pupils but will have an enrollment of only about 552the first year.The starting staff will include 20 teachers and principal Roy Cobb, former principal at South Park Elementary.***Shryock will have 19 class-rooms, and a staff of 17 teachers, plus principal Leo Colyer, former principal of MelbourneHeights.Estimated capacity is 570 pupils. First year enrollment is expected to be about 500.***Principal John Lowe announced that Waggener would be adding 11 new courses to take care of the 10th grade. These are:Spanish II, Home Economics II, Shop II, General Art II. 10th grade English, Journalism, Bio1ogy, Plane Geometry, AlgebraII, French II, and Latin II.***Trinity High’s addition will include 12 classrooms, a typing room, a mechanical drawing room, a chemistry and physicslab, a cafeteria, kitchen and snack bar, a chapel and several offices.Father Alfred Steinhauser, principal, said that the school will have 31 teachers this year as compared with 24 last year. Healso expects enrollment to go up to 750 this year, an increase of 160 over last year.The only new subjects being added are Speech, Business Law, and Mechanical Drawing, he said.The school will open at 9 a.m. Sept. 3 with only freshmen reporting. They will get their books and home - room assignments,and other administrative details will be ironed out.On Sept. 4, the sophomores will report. The next day will be reserved for the juniors, and the next for the seniors.***He announced that Trinity had lost the following teachers:Father John Hanrahan (Latin I and Business English), Father Robert Huber (Algebra), James Spalding (biology and Americanhistory), and Tom Sheehan (sen-ior and sophomore English).New teachers will be Father Vince Dentinger, (Business Math and Religion), Father William Gorman (Problems in AmericanDemocracy and assistant football coach), Father Anthony Heitzman (Latin and Algebra), Father Richard Hollenkamp(Latin and Algebra), Father Robert Osborne (Plane Geometry and Religion), Father C. J. Wagner (Junior and FreshmanEnglish), Jim Eberenz (senior and freshman English), Herbert Erhart. Jr., (Chemistry and American History), Dave Kelly,(Physical education, Health and Civics, and assistant basketball and baseball coach), Carl McDonald (Biology, and GeneralScience) and Bud O’Neill (fresh-man English and Civics).***Headmaster Daniel. M. O’Neill said the Catholic Country Day School should be ready to go by the opening date, Sept. 9.The school will have 10 class-rooms and 10 teachers, besides the headmaster himself, who will teach Latin.(No budget figures were released on the Catholic schools which are private).St. Matthews School are big businessAlso, the old Monohan home is being completely remodeled and converted into three classrooms and several administrativeoffices. The new building will have seven classrooms, a kitchen, an all-purpose room, and a chapel.An enrollment of 100 boys is expected in grades one through nine. Each year a grade will be added until there are 12.Teachers will be: Mrs. Rosanna Bassett, first grade; Miss Mary P. Kassenbrock, second grade; Mrs. Marjary G. Mitchell,third grade; Miss Delores Schimpler, fourth grade; Mrs. Gertrude M. O’Neill, fifth grade and director of the lower school;Harry A, Ropke, Jr., Sixth grade and athletics; and Kenneth R. Combs, athletic director; Eugene A. Steilberg, math, scienceand athletics; Francis A. Stultz, history and athletics; Thomas P. Sheeran, English and athletics.