Iowa Park High School - Hawk Yearbook (Iowa Park, TX)

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THE ACADEMIC BUILDING contains classrooms for both junior and senior high schools, a library, an auditorium, a gymnasium, and the administrative offices. Our campus contains five important buildings. THE HOME ECONOMICS COTTAGE is a roomy frame structure which contains classrooms and laboratories for teaching the homemaking arts. THE BAND AND SHOP BUILDING contains a large practice room for the band as well as storage space for uniforms and instruments. The right half of the building is devoted to the teaching of vocational ag- riculture. It contains one classroom and a much larger room full of equipment for instruction in farm main- tenance. When the new band hall is finished, this building will be used exclusively for agriculture classes. 6

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THE CAMPUS The 1948 HAWKS' NEST recorded the organization of a drum corps to add color to the football games which had been resumed following the end of World War II. The high school had no band. Cheerleaders and majorettes were elected to add effectiveness to the pep squad. Another new group on the cam- pus was the choral club. Mrs. O.R. Owens continued to serve as faculty- sponsor for the HAWKS' NEST which was edited in 1948 by Joan Whistler. Jan Bedford was business manager Dwain Lofland, artist on the annual staff, created a pert little cartoon char- acter, christened Henry Hawk . Hen- ry appeared on the cover of the 1948 annual and also on all of the division pages. A reproduction of the manu- script copy of the school song was the frontispiece.

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A NEW GYMNASIUM IS CONSTRUCTED Following approval of a bond issue last year, construction of a gymnasium cost- ing $139,000 began in the fall of 1956. A relatively new building process, known as lift type construction, has been used. In this type of precast structures , the walls and beams are poured of concrete on the floor and then lifted into place. This new method of erecting a concrete building is structurally stronger than old methods. It has also eliminated the use of posts, so that the spectator's view of the court is unobstructed. WORK BEGAN on the new gym on October 10, 1956. Here Homer Seay (foreman), W. O. Billington (contractor), Principal James Elms, and Supt. Keith Swim watch as excavation begins for the 15-foot deep solid concrete, steel-rein- forced piers. GREAT SLABS of solid, reinforced concrete, originally poured on the floor, are being lifted into place on January 8, 1957, by a huge crane to form the walls of the gymnasium. The newest structures are the gymnasium, THE DECK FOR THE ROOF is in place on the north side of the structure on March 12. Beams made to drop over the center section, like a keystone, can be seen on the ground inside the building. 7