Pictured above is the Sandusky High School orchestra
in 1903. The students are seated on the north steps of the old high school, which later became Adams Junior High School. Another
picture of the same group was taken with the musicians standing.
Notes on
the back of the picture have identified the students:
Though the notes say that the year was 1904, the
pictures were most likely taken in 1903, since the names of several of the
members of the orchestra appeared in the 1903 Sandusky High School commencement
program. Andrew Prout and Ralph
Scherz both went on to become prominent doctors. Two of the students in the
1903 orchestra went into the field of education. Miss Bess Lawrence taught in
the Sandusky City Schools for over thirty years, retiring in 1944. Edwin Williams
became a professor of languages at the University of Nevada and the University
of Redlands in California.
