Binghamton North High School - Wampum Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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front lawns two new trees were planted. This year of 1942 finds new fences about our football field and tennis courts. Bicycles have been moved out of the building and the former bicycle space has been converted into an additional school room. Prac- tice rooms have been added to the in- strumental music room by taking a section of the teachers' cafeteria. The football stadium has had its face lifted with new topsoil and seeding. During its first five years North High has survived its infancy. Now neither young nor old it faces the diiiiculties of growing up . Not only has North's building grown in size but its scope of activi- ties has broadened, too. During North's first year of existence only one play was produced, The Sap Runs High. Since then North has given Seventeen, a delightful com- edy, Captain Applejackf' a comedy adventure romance: Pot Boiler, Paste Pearls, Confession, and It Sometimes Happens. Only last year the Little Theatre Guild gave Grow- ing Pains, Dawn, Unseen and 14. This year they reached a new high by presenting George Washing- ton Slept Here and several other fine productions. This year, evidence of the growth of our music department can be seen, too. Throughout the last five years Mr. Ray Hartley's songsters have given The Pied Piper of Hamlin, Sweethearts, The Merry Widow, and The Pirates of Penzance, be- sides its participation in the Spring Revue. Instrumental musicians have done their jobs well and have become an essential part of North's life. This year they gave several concerts and have added much to their reputation. Band uniforms have been secured so that North's band compares favorably with any musicians in the section. In the athletic field North has risen, too. In the beginning, 1938, our traditional rival beat us over- whelmingly at football. The next year our defeat was not great. Grad- ually we have grown in power and the CContinued on page 915 ag , ,Ad Above: In the winter time. Top: En- trance pylon. Center: Main entrance. Bot- tom: West walk. 7

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orth i 19 ompletef ftb Year 5, is I E I E I, l This year North High celebrated two different birthdays-the fifth birthday of its student body and also the fifth birthday of the building. In the case of North this is odd, for actually, the student body existed six months before the school. In Sep- tember 1937 the students were divid- ed and sent to East Junior and the Old State Armory. Then in January 1938 the doors of North were flung open to 1500 girls and boys from all districts of the city. Youths, laughing, gay and cheer- ful, poured in to occupy over thirty- three classrooms and numerous other rooms, shops and laboratories. The next year more improvements were going on. Our back yard was in the process of being changed into courts, running track, football fields, and parking spaces. A sizeable hill was slowly being moved to make this possible and the newspapers were still telling of the unfortunate inci- dent of our rain-soaked building. Nineteen hundred and forty brought the usual run of improve- ments and yet we heard about North's rain, but saw little of it. In 1941 our field was completed, giving North the best athletic facili- ties in this section. There was a splendid dedication and our school became ever larger outside. Inside, the cafeteria was painted and in the Left: Architect's vision of North. Below: First homes of North High. 1937. Old State Armory and East Junior High School. 2-

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4 THE FIRST THE SECOND THE THIRD THE FOURTH The Four Freedoms The President's Message to the 77th Congress ii it A' January 6 1941 In the future days, which We seek to make secure, We look forward to a World founded upon four essential human freedoms. is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the World. Instruction, Classes ,.,... is freedom of every person to Worship God in his own Way-everywhere in the World. Activities, Clubs M ,....... .,.......... . , is freedom from Want-Which translated into World terms, means economic understandings Which Will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the World. Athletics, Teams ,,,,....,..,,,....,.,,.., .,...,...,,... is freedom from fear -Which translated into World terms, means a World-Wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation Will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-anywhere. Schoo1Life,Advertising. .. ,. ,..., 10