Allegheny High School - Wah Hoo Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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+-- 1 - Hint. r ,V-S, V THE HISTORY OF ALLEGHENY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL .rn , A 1 I' 1. ' V SW' Y ' The history of the Allegheny Vocational High School is interesting and worth pre- serving. The school originally was The Allegheny Preparatory School, c private in- stitution maintaincd by the residents of that part of the city in which we are located, qt that time, a section of homes of wealthy citizens. It is one of the oldest schools on the North Side. After the World War the building was taken over as e Rehabilitation Sehnol for disabled soldiers and continued as such for several years. In the fall of the year 1925 volunteers were sought among the boys at the Ralston Industrial Schoolg which was then the only school of its kind under the direction of the Pittsburgh Board of Education. In the early spring of l924, fifty boys of the Franklin School were sent to form c nucleus for e future student body. Thc'buildin5 was remodeled and the Allegheny Vocational School was in full swing, In the your 1940 there were eight hundred boys in Allegheny Vocational and more boys enrolling. In 1930 Hr, Case-was made Principal nr. ncciii was was counselor in 1951, and the school name was changed to The Allegheny Vocational High School. Q ,