Zanesville High School - Comus Yearbok (Zanesville, OH)

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new vlstas meet the eye From the rough and weedy falrways of the abandoned Country Club golf course have arlsen new beauty and new ut1l1ty Th1s IS the Hrst scene gl1mpsed by the thousands of v1s1tors who have come to see the startl1ngly modern four m1ll1on dollar Z H S Travel ers from near and far declare that no school 1n the nat1on IS liner Great projects take t1me The mass1ve we1ght and power of our commun1ty began to roll 1n 1948 when a S2 775 O00 bond 1ssue was voted for school 1mprovements After add1t1ons to Wllson and Westvlew only Sl 900 000 remamed not enough The C1t1zens School Bond Ad vlsory Commlttee sald Go ahead Start bulld 1ng. Zanesv1lle w1ll find the money In july 1951 E Mast and Sons began excavatlng for Four the academ1c w1ng and gymnasmm In November 1952 the people of Zanesvdle by an overwhelm1ng ma1or1ty voted another construcuon of the vocat1onal wmg the aud1 torxum the mus1c department and the g1I'lS gym locker rooms and provxded for landscap1ng and equ1pment for the entu'e school plant ' . ' ' 82,100,000 to finish the job. This financed the

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of Zanesville high school Our Thanks To all the friends of Z.H.S. Our Pledge Our Hope To do our best in every way To make our city proud of us 4 T l T 'ij

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modern youth 11'l a modem school Glass block gI'H.11ltCllk6 masonry fluorescent llghtlflg acoustxcal t1le these md many other modern features make the new Z H S '1 school of the day md the future a school th It ll1Sp1l'8S 1tS students It IS 111 step w1th the jet age the atomlc age the elec tronlc age Our mmds project forward ln these surroundlngs We feel the Splflt of pI'OgI'CSS Open house and Parents N1ght brought our fam1l1es and frlends 111 droves to share the thrllls of dlscovery The blllldlflg IS so well deslgned 1ts proportlons so perfect that onlv by entermg and explorlng can 1ts lrnmensltv be grasped The 500 foot halls '1 block and '1 space covered IS 85000 square feet nearly two acres There are SIX floor levels mlles of heat lllg PIPES electrlcal COI1ClllltS water p1pCS and two way COITIIHLIIIICQIIOII XVlI'6S whlch are hld den 111 the walls Colors are st1mulat111g or soothlng accordmg to the use of each area Fwe , . - . K 7 . . , C . . - 2 c ' . . . c 2 , V 2 . . . i . . . . , 1 . C , - K 1, .T . , 1 , . . . . . 1. , . I - . . I . . . - . . , I . . 7 . , . 7 . . 1 K7 I - C . . . . . - . , c c l ' l ' l c . half long, stretch away endlessly. The ground Careful planning is everywhere evident. ' A Q T -4 r, 3 ' Q Xt V