Our Alma Mater
PATTERSON CO-OP GONE IN SECONDS...
THE WAY SHE WAS...
(SPECIAL THANKS TO MICHELLE TAYLOR FOR THE MEMORIES)
She's Gone!!!!
(Somebody get Alphie Simms a Brick!!!!)
More Pics -- Thanks to the Class of 1988's Website
Demolition: 18 JUNE 2008
DAYTON — The former Patterson Cooperative High School is scheduled to slip into history today, June 18, as demolition begins on the building...
Works Cited: http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/06/18/ddn061808pattersonweb.html
No Final Tour Info
The final tour of our beloved Patterson is not going to happen. Demolition of the interior of the building is already well underway and conditions are too hazardous to permit public traffic. The [Chief Construction Officer] was working to see if the building could be made temporarily safe, but could not find a feasible way to do so.
There was an open house held a few years ago when the Board closed the school, so perhaps anyone with pictures from that event could add them to the reunion website. Special thanks to Cherise Kidd for this info.
(Special Thanks to Michelle (Lorraine) Noble & Patrick Neal for School Pictures!)
ALMA MATER
Patterson Cooperative High School
Lined against the sky!
Proudly stands our alma mater
as the years roll by-
We will love her, we will hail her,
honor her each day;
We will carry high her banner
CRIMSON and GRAY!
DAYTON DAILY NEWS STORY
Former Patterson Co-op school to be razed, used for parking
City backed out of plan to buy site for $5M; school was brainchild of NCR founder.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
DAYTON — The former Patterson Co-op High School will be torn down in June and the space is expected to be used for parking.
The school, at 118 First St., closed in 2001 at the urging of then-Mayor Mike Turner, who proposed that the city would buy the property for $5 million so that it could be developed or resold to be used as part of RiverScape.
The city signed a deal to buy Patterson but never paid any money and later asked the school district to release it from that obligation.
John Carr, the school district's construction chief, said parking was the preferred short-term use for the site after talks with the city about its future. City spokesman Tom Biedenharn said the hope is to develop the site, but for now parking will help serve that part of downtown.
The building's June demolition will likely follow the razing of Roosevelt High School on West Third Street, which is expected by month's end.
Construction on the Patterson building began in 1952 and was finished in time for the 1954-55 school year, according to historical accounts.
Patterson was the brainchild of a committee of industrialists led by NCR founder John H. Patterson, who approached the school board in 1912 with the idea to combine skilled crafts with secondary education. That led to the Trade Extension in 1913 and that became the Dayton Night School, according to historical accounts. The Dayton Cooperative High School, housed at first in Stivers High School, opened in the fall of 1914.
Carr said there is not a plan right now for a community walk-through for the building, as the district has done with other schools. He said he was approached by alumni about such an event but they never followed up.
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Works Cited:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/05/22/ddn052208patterson.html
CLASSMATE REACTIONS TO THIS STORY
I work for the school district so I can get any information that may be needed regarding what's going to be done with memorabilia, etc. Apparently, a group tried to schedule a final walk-through, but never followed through. If there are enough people interested from our class (or others) I can let our chief construction officer know. Cherisse Kidd - (Contact Cherisse at ckidd@dps.k12.oh.us)
BELOVED PATTERSON HIGH SCHOOL -- SAY IT AIN'T SO! Our beloved Patterson High School is to be torn down in June for a parking lot. They talked about this several years ago, but I was hoping that it would be still standing for our reunion...This would definitely be news for our website. Sad news, of course :( - Angi Foster
...I'm so sad about this because i pass that school every day and it brings back a lot of memories. - Brenda Colston
I think we all need to send an email (I’ll be the first) to Scott Elliott, DDN Education reporter (selliott@DaytonDalyNews.com) to pass on our requests to John Carr, the school districts construction chief to press whoever the decision maker is for a community walk-through, as the district has done with other schools. The City of
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