Wilbur Wright High School

Wilbur Wright High School 2009

Wilbur Wright High School located at 1361 Huffman Ave in east Dayton, Ohio opened its doors as a high school in 1940.

I spent four years, 1956 to 1960, in attendance there. I have many memories connected with that school. Most are reasonably good. I managed to go from year to year without having to redo any. I did get really close to it because of American History. However the teacher managed to convince me to pass it or take it again. Whew! I passed with better than usual grade. Fright does much to give cause to action.

I like to think I was at least an average student, in grades if not in spirit. Being permitted to select the subjects in which to be educated in, I chose what was, to me, the easiest. I was not preparing to attend college so I took the required courses and nothing much more. I took art class, all four years, with Mrs. Pound. In my first year she would have given me an A in ink spilling. Other than that I achieved great grades in her class.

Freshman and sophomore years were years I did nothing special. Did not get involved in any extra school activities. In my junior year I woke up and retro selected some courses that I not should have picked at the beginning of high school. If I had not I may not have had the, reasonable, success in income and supporting a family. Education and what the education consists of is important. The school of hard-knocks can teach much but transfer of information by way of school is much easier and faster. Not that I have been instructed the hard way.

Anyway the school is soon to be demolished and along with it the physical icon the students that graduated from there have memories of. There will be no chance to walk the halls and think of all that took place in the years spent there. To look around and think, it seemed much larger then. To remember the dances, the plays, the detention, all those things that affected life. All those important and not so important events that took place in and around the building. Of course the memories will continue until the last graduate has expired.

There is Diana Schwieterman who is working hard at maintaining a memorabilia room and is having to move it from the WWHS building and locate it elsewhere. Diana is power behind keeping WWHS alive with arranging alumnae trips and events. Working hard at maintaining the memory of the school active. Kudos for Diana.