Hutchinson Leader - Lost Hutchinson: H.L. Merrill School - Comments

New High

tobybryan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:35:36 -0500

New High School:

Bigger:
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Tom Linder's note brought

jaccola — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:05:13 -0500

Tom Linder's note brought back memories. I was a member of the class of '62, the first class to graduate from the "new" high school, so I had lots of classes in the Merrill building. I especially remember the creaky floors and the hallway on second floor that connected the east and west ends of the building. It was the only hallway between the two ends of the building so it was crowded between classes. There were two connected classrooms on the third floor and the gym on the first floor. It struck me one day that the "new" high school is 46 years old, nearly as old as the Merrill building was when I started high school.

Julia Hagen Accola

The last ones in the Merrill

txgopher — Sat, 05 May 2007 17:47:15 -0500

The last ones in the Merrill building.

I loved this article on the Merrill building. As a member and class president of the class of 1961, the last class to gradulate from the Merrill School I have a lot of great memories of our school. It was my school, the Merrill and the "attachments," from K - 12. The old library and the principal's office on the second floor, with Pearl Sealy running the place. The creaky old wooden floors, the windows you could walk out from Mr. Barsness's room, the very odd little gym we had many gym classes in. The grounds on the south and west side of the Merrill, with all the trees, was a luxury new schools don't have in these days.

Tom Linder
Class of 1961

H.L. Merrill School was

Matt McMillan — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:39:30 -0500

H.L. Merrill School was built as the high school on Second Ave. S.W. Its neighbors, the Bell Tower and Pendergast schools, were in North Park also, but around the corner on Glen Street.

Park Elementary was built in 1937 as an "addition" to the Merrill School, and to replace the Tower and Pendergast schools, which were torn down at the time because they lacked the space necessary for Hutchinson's students.

Lost Hutchinson: H.L. Merrill School

webmaster — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:53:19 -0500

This three-story brick school stood in North Park from 1913 to 1975. It was named after H.L. Merrill, Hutchinson’s longtime superintendent.