Salina High School - Trail Yearbook (Salina, KS)

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Safina High IX 78 to I 953 Dean Porter of the American Legion Post presents W. W. Waring, Director of Secondary Education, a flag at the dedication ofthe new Salina Senior High School on October 28, 1952, In this year of 1953, the 75th graduating class of Salina High is looking back with honor to the two pupils who, in 1878 began our long list of graduates. We have traveled a long road from the horse and buggy day to the day of the souped up hot rod, so have we forgotten the old nickelodeon in favor of the present sound movies and television, and from pot bellied stoves and coal buckets to air-conditioning and gas heat. The first high school in Salina of 1878 held in the Old Central building seems a far cry from the new up-to-date modernistic Salina Senior High School of 1953. ln 1877 the people of the small town of Salina, Kansas, decided they were tired of being ignorant so they formed the first high school which was held on the third floor of the Old Central building, located where The Barn now stands between Lincoln and Roosevelt. On June 14, 1878 a proud boy and girl stood nervously before a group of parents, friends, and well-wishers who had come to the Old Salina Opera house to see the first graduates of the newly founded Salina High School. Upon the stage were clergymen, principals, teachers and two nervous pupils