West High School - Panther Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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L4 fat: 0 fzijfeaf ifg-elmo! Mr. George A, EaTon was appoinTed principal in IQOO. ln Ten years The enrollmenT had grown Trom 50 sTudenTs To 562. The one general course had expanded inTo Tour: classical, scienTiTic, English, and com- mercial. ShorTly aTTer school began, in The Tall oT l9Ol, a Tire swepT Through The building, desTroying walls and apparaTus. The caTasTrophe leTT The Board oi EducaTion in a sorry plighT, buT Governor Heber Wells and The STaTe Land Board oTTered Them The Tree use oT The old Union Building and lvlain Building, which had been used as The Universiiy oi UTah up To ThaT Tall, l.aTer, The ciTy boughT This properTy. The old Unive-rsiTy science building, now The Junior High, was used as The DesereT Museum. A caTeTeria was in The basemenT oT The Union Building, which was Then occupied by a grade school. ln l9l2 iT became necessary To have anoTher high school, so whaT is now The BryanT Junior High School was used Tor baTh elemenTary and high school classes. ln SepTember IQT4, The beauTTul new High School EasT was ready Tor occupancy, wiTh Mr. W. G, McCoy as principal. EasT High school soon became The new name. Mr. G. N. Gillilan was principal oT WesT High Trom This Time unril i9l7, when Mr. Keeler was appoinTed. WesT conlinued To grow so rapidly ThaT The cry liWe wanT a new buildingfi broughT resulTs. To The class oT l9l9 much crediT is due. WiTh Their class meeTings and parades, The inTeresT and generosiTy oT The ciTizens were aroused. Bonds were TloaTed, and in The Tall oT V922 The presenT lvlain building was Tinished aT a cosT oi fB785,0l0.00. During iTs consTrucTion, classes were held in porlables on The campus. The TooTball Tield ran easT and wesT. ln IQO4 The EaTon gym was builT, and in I9l I The Technical Building was compleTed. During The TiTTy years oT lvlr. Keelerls Teaching in SalT Lalce CiTy, he has seen The high school grow Trom TorTy-eighT pupils To I l,838. lnsTead ol one high school, SalT Lalce now boasTs eleven iunior and senior high schools, and insTead oT The Ten original graduaTes, in l939 There were T927 high school graduaTes. WesT High is The sevenlh school in which Mr. Keeler has been prinf cipal .... NineTeenTh Ward, Lincoln High, WebsTer High, UinTah, WesT Junior lnow Horace Mann Highl, and BryanT High. Mr. fx, G. Hagen, now principal oT Irving Junior High School, will be lvlr, Keelers successor in T940 4I.

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amz? 05 CMJM ,474 CSCAWZ On July l9Th, I89O, lvlayor George W. ScoTT, acTing as presidenT ex-oTTicio, organized The TirsT Board oT EducaTion, which consisTed oT The Tollowing members: Hyrum Johnson, William Nelson, George W. Snow, T. C. ArmsTrong, Jr., John N. Pike, P. L. Williams, L. U. ColbaTh, Charles E. MiTchener, George D. Pyper, and William J. Newman lTaTher of E. G. Newman, WesT High FaculTy member.l George D. Pyper, well-known manager OT The old SalT Lake TheaTer, is The only surviving member of The TirsT SalT Lake CiTy Board oT Educa- Tion. Prior To ThaT Time he served The ciTy as police clerk Tor Ten years. and as police judge Tor Tive. This meeTing was held in The CiTy Hall, which now houses The SalT Lake CiTy Fire DeparTmenT. The purpose oT The organizaTion was To Take over The L. D. S. EcclesiasTical Ward Schools and esTablish a Public School SysTem Tor SalT Lake CiTy. The TirsT WesT High School opened in Sep- Tember I8'-70, in The old FourTeenTh Ward building, which was laTer named The FremonT School. AT ThaT Time There was also a small class oT pupils on The EasT side, in The basemenT oT The Scandinavian LuTheran Church, on FourTh EasT and Second SouTh STreeTs. ATTer Two monThs oT work, however, The ciTy Tound iT could noT mainTain Two High Schools, so The ToTal of TiTTy sTu- denTs were combined in The FremonT School. Mr. E. M. Collins was appoinTed principal. BeTore This Time, The ciTy schools had been organized inTo TwenTy- Two wards .... The only requiremenT was The paymenT oT a TuiTion Tee oT Trom eighT To Twelve dollars per year. This arrangemenT daTed back To l849, when, Two years aTTer The pioneers had enTered The valley, nineTeen wards had been organized. ln l89l, The SalT Lake High school was oTTicially organized wiTh nineTy-one pupils enrolled. Mr. Malone was The appoinTed principal. The TirsT high school graduaTion was held June 9, l893, aT The SalT Lake TheaTer, where six girls and Tour boys received diplomas. This number represenTed only Three sTudenTs ouT oT every Thousand oT The populaTion. IT has now increased over Twelve hundred percenT. The FremonT became Too small Tor The sTudenTs, so They moved To The ClayTon Building. The TirsT Tloor oT This building was occupied by a wax works exhibiTion. The enrollmenT oT The school increased so rapidly ThaT even The ClayTon Building could noT accommodaTe Them in I897. The school was moved To The PierponT STreeT Building, which is now The UTah NaTional Guard Armory. Mr. A. O. Clark was appoinTed principal. The TwenTy-Two classrooms accommodaTed everyone, buT The noise Trom The near-by boiler TacTory caused a greaT deal oT annoyance.

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