Central High School - Blue and White / Pnalka Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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LESBO ES AND] WHT E THE CENTENNIAL NUMBER Bw ! ia I70 E Ce ae Bin] LS2e ms cae tl) eee Nan | pats 3 Ee ty iii nl te a mi, a Li Hi es U : a | x i, i] i) Il B | | century in Springfield’s High School education. The little building of 1828, pictured above, is the parent of the Springfield High Schools of 1928. Housing some three score pupils and with a single instructor, it satisfied the needs of a less complex day, and was even regarded as something of an extravagance. The work which it undertook is now being conducted in three well equipped, crowded build- ings any one of which could house the parent institution in its assembly hall. oy HE accompanying pictures only partially represent the developments of a Central High School is the direct linial descendant of the Springfield High School of 1828, and was, indeed, simply the High School when the present building was erected in 1897. With the increasing complexity of American life and with a rapidly increasing High School population came the need of a more diversified training. The Technical High School, built in 1905, ministered to the needs of a particular group while the Commercial High School, which originated as a separate department in this building, was given its new home in 1915. Central today, in the one hundredth year of its existence, continues the work of general cultural training and college preparation once regarded as the only necessary and proper function of the High School. baal a