William Allen High School - Comus Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Palestra The Palestra is the home of the boys' physical education classes, indoor athletic activities, and social events of the school. Most informal dances, pep rallies, and physical education programs are staged here. The Palestra is the training ground for many of Allentown's great athletes. Here, capacity crowds have for years supported Allentown High teams their cheers singing out encouragement to our young athletes. The basement holds a regulation swim- ming pool, bleachers, and locker facilities. The record board tells an enviable story of AHS swimmers. Both girls and boys alternately share this pool in regular swim classes.

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Linden Street Wing The Linden Street Annex, located next to the Little Palestra, is the newest and most up-to-date building on the campus. The basement holds the welding shop, the hrst Hoor the machine shop, the third Hoot the electrical shop, and the top Hoor, the drawing rooms. The band and choir rooms have also been transferred to the new building. Remaining space is taken up by the wrestling gym and boys, locker TOOIN. Vocational Annex Allentown High School's vocational annex is located opposite the Palestra. The automobile shop is located on the first lloorg the carpentry and plumbing shops on the second floor. An academic student visiting these spacious shops might con- sider all the noise and confusion very dis- tracting, however, to the vocational-tech- nical student, it is an orderly and neces- sary part of learning automobile repair, building, and construction trades. Brick and Auto Body Shop To the rear of the Main Building we enter a long one story brick building that houses at one end a Brick Shop and at the other an Auto Body Repair and Paint Shop. The unusual thing is that this building was partly converted, rebuilt and added to by the boys of our shops as a vocational project. This is part of our vocational training program and affords a practical classroom for training in these areas of industry. page nine

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A---v., i . s ' Stadium The stadium is located two blocks west of Allentown High School. It has a seating capacity of 22,ooo and is considered to be one ofthe largest high school arenas in the East. During the fall, the stadium is used for night football games by our high school and day games by the four junior high schools. In the spring, the quarter mile track around the held is used for track meets. The held house, practice field, baseball diamond, and the bleachers are located west ofthe stadium. With all these, Allentown High School has the finest facilities for outdoor athletic events. ., f f , 2. , . . R k . f- Y P11 I W if NL! L ,R i i f i if 1 X if tb 5 l I 1 f.: rz....J.ni..' Nl! V 332,41 M ,. A-L. ,, page eleven w as