Van Wert High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Van Wert, OH)

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DEDICATION E! jha 1937 GRADUATING CLASS of Van Wert High School will long he remembered as the class that graduated in the first year of the new Stadium Era. Its great value to the school, as Well as to the community, makes it only natural that we, the Class of 1937, dedicate this Nineteenth volume of THE EXCALIBUR to those persons who, hecause of their fine puhlic-spir- itedness, are responsible in a large measure for our having the Stadium, namely the Citizens, Committee: S. S. Beard, C. A. Berger, H. A. Egress, G. E. Leslie, and R. G. Morgan. 3

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I. Al Y Q FOREWORD E! wb THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1937, publish this nineteenth volume of THE EXCALIBUR with the sincere hope that it will be of great value to you in recalling your High School career. ln a short time we will all go our separate ways but with the aid of this book we hope to recall four of the most pleasant years of our life when we were together in Van Wert High School. We hope that the pages of this hook will afford many pleasant hours in the years to come.

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THE EXCALIBUR D MIL IS Tue NEW STADIUM of which Van Wert is so proud. The actual work on this stadium began on January 2, 1936. The construction was in charge of T. K. Priddy. The lalmor was furnished by the W. P. A. There was an average of eighty men Working every day for a year. The stadium contains huge quantities of material. It has 120,000 feet of lumber, 6 tons of nails, and 30 tons of reinforcing steel. The 31,800 cubic yards of concrete are composed of 10,800 sacks ol' cement. 2,700 tons of stone and 75,000 gallons of water. It has a seating capacity of 3,312, and you can get an equally good View from any of the seats.