Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Graduating in 1910 from Mineral Springs Road School #27



Photo:  Original School #27 at Corner of Mineral Spring Road and Triangle Street, 1908
https://www.facebook.com/pg/vintagebuffalony/photos/?tab=album&album_id=512570795487713
From the collection of Janice Jezewski - Dale Rossi.



My grandfather, Herbert Charles Doll (1894-1985),  graduated from the ninth grade of the Mineral Spring Road School (Buffalo, New York School #27) in 1910.  The Graduation Exercises were held in the auditorium of the YMCA on West Mohawk Street in Buffalo.  Programs were distributed and I am lucky enough to have inherited a copy.

I have transcribed the text from the program (see below) so others may learn a bit more about their ancestor's education.  Please contact me at kate at katej dot net,  if you have further information regarding the school or photographs of students from this era.

According to School Days of Yesterday - Buffalo Public School History (by G. Morton Weed, published by the Buffalo Board of Education in 2000, page 49), Buffalo School #27 began as the Hillery Park Academy, a one-room schoolhouse on Cazenovia Street in 1857.  The area was wooded farmland at the time.
 
In 1863, another property on Cazenovia Street was purchased and some proposals favored building a new foundation under it to use as a schoolhouse.
  The Superintendent recommended tearing it down making use of the salvaged materials to construct a new one.  The school was built as the Superintendent suggested in 1864.  A new steam heated school was built on Mineral Springs Road which opened in 1896 (see 
http://digital.buffalolib.org/document/1774 for photos). 

A
 replacement for the 1896 building was constructed on Pawnee Parkway in 1963 in the same neighborhood with an addition to it built in 1970.  School 27 was an annex to School 70 for over 10 years until shortly after the new school on Pawnee Parkway opened.


Graduation Exercises

CLASS OF 1910
Mineral Springs Road School
No. 27

CENTRAL Y. M. C. A. Auditorium
45 W. MOHAWK ST.

Thursday, June 23, 1910

G. SUTTON PRINTER, 208 SENECA STREET

* * * * *
PROGRAM

1  Class Song –“June,”                                                   Girls of Class
2  Recitation -- “The Dumb Wife,”                               Jessie E. Watson
3  Piano Solo,                                                                  Wm. M. O’Connor
4  Class Song – “Guard the Flag,”                                 Boy of Class
5  Duet – “Heart’s Secrets,”                                           Piano, Mabel E. Roth
                                                                                          Violin, Clarence E. Coleman
6  Piano Solo – “Ripples of Alabama,”                         Edna F. Smith
7  Recitation – “The Experience of Mr. Ward,”           Howard A. White
8  Piano Solo – “Love’s Awakening,”                          Stanley C. Stacy
9  Vocal Solo --  “Anchored,”                                       Guy R. Bryan
10 Reading of Class Prophecies,                                   Helen H. Vincent
                                                                                          Jessie E. Watson
                                                                                          Howard A. White
11 Address of Graduates,                                               Mr. C. N. Millard
12 Presentation of Diplomas,                                         By the Principal
13 Closing Song,                                                             Class

* * * * *
Class of 1910
Graduates who completed Ninth Grade A:

Charles F. Ast
Dorothy A. Antrim
Arthur Baker
George M. Baltz
Ethel C. Bender
Ella Berner
Ferdinand F. Borrell
Marie Boyle
Kathryn Brainard
Guy R. Bryan
Florence M. Brennison
Herbert A. Carter
Gertrude M. Clark
Clarence E. Coleman
Raymond E. Coreoran
Cyril Anthony Cullen
Catherine E. Cummins
Herbert C. Doll
Percy J. Eggenweliler
Lillian C. Fahey
Louis Luella Grady
Floyd C. Hartman
Leonard Heimerle
Chester A. Hofner
Gladys Marie Impey
William A. H. Jaeger
Charles F. Keller
Elleanor O. Keller
Clara M. Kieffer
Florence M. Kirchmeyer
Edward J. Knorl
Walter H. Koester
Nellie Mae Lake
Maude Lavayea
J. Francis Magorien
Elizabeth A. Mallion
Vincent D. McCarthy
Leo P. McConnell
John Rainy Murphy
John A. Navagh
William M. O’Connor
Ethel M. O’Dea
Marion Emily Phillips
Ruth D. Platt
Elmer R. Porter
Helen M. Radtke
Paul E. Radtke
Elsie Reuling
Mabel E. Roth
Florence M. Rose
Lorene M. Rose
Lorene Schuler
Francis J. Schlehr
Ethel M. Schutrum
Ida Sengbush
Willmetta O. Smallback
Gertrude F. Scanlon
Elisie C. Smith
Stanley Consider Stacy
Andrew M. Stitt
Areta E. Stitt
Julia C. Swanson
Frank Fred Thompson
Julia Ellen Tinnney
Helen M. Vincent
Jessie E. Watson
Milton C. J. Westphal
Norman F. Wesp
Helen F. Weyand
Merritt D. White
Elsie S. White
Raymond W. Wilson
Alice E. Wolcott

* * * * *
CLASS OF 1910
Graduates who completed Ninth Grade B:

Esther L. Bagley
Nellie M. Beale
Sadie M. Burns
Elmer C. Carlson
William Henry Colgrove
Marion G. Crooker
Mildred E. Eggenweiler
Lura Viola Fisher
Gertrude E. Fritz
Chauncey R. Gilday
Beatrice A. Harris
Ellen M. Higgins
Lorne Impey
Elmer C. Klapp
Andrew L. Knox
Percy Kuster
Roland H. Metz
Olive G. Moriarty
Beatrice E. Murray
Martha G. Myrick
William V. A. Nolan
Matilda A. Paterson
Martin A. Rieman
Carl L. Rollins
Florence Marie Scheutkeker
Charles P. Smith
Edna Frances Smith
Mary Pauline Stevens
Mary E. T. Sturges
Herbert Edward Waters
Howard A. White
Carlton O. Wolcott

CLASS OFFICERS.
Merritt D. White, President;   John Rainy Murphy, Secretary;  Chester A. Hofner, Vice-President;  Mabel E. Roth, Treasurer:  Helen M. Vincent, Jessie E. Watson, Howard A. White, prophets;  Ethel C. Bender, Musician.

MEDAL PUPILS.
Eighth Grade, Edward W. Wunch; Seventh Grade, Joseph F. Kennedy.

HONORABLE MENTION.
Eighth Grade, Eleanor R. Saunders; Seventh Grade, Carrie Wood.

* * * * *

Photo:  YMCA on West Mohawk Street in Buffalo, New York designed by Green & Wicks (c1908, Library of Congress Collection, Detroit Publishing)