Alvin High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Alvin, TX)

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Administration Building AUDITORIUM AND CAFETERIA The outstanding feature of the present campus is the spacious $1 15,000 auditorium with a seating capacity of 1000 persons. In addition to the auditorium proper, there is the superintendent's office, the guidance teach- er's office, a first aid room, the school board room, the school tax collector's office, the piano and harp studio, the kitchen, and the cafeteria.

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A miniature view of our entire campus from the football field. OUR CAMPUS: Yesterday and Today Eight or ten youngsters from the few scattered families of Alvin reported to a tiny frame building in I 882 to learn their first three R's from Mrs. R. B. Brown, wife of a circuit-riding Meth- odist minister. The first little school, which also housed the Christian, Methodist and Baptist churches, was located just west of the present Charlie Wright home on what is now Gordon Street. A few years later, because of the strawberry boom in Alvin, the little school-church was taxed to capacity for room; so arrangements were made with the Christian church to use their new building for school purposes. During 1893 the need for a separate school became acute so two new frame two-story buildings were erected on Sealy Street in the locality of the Clyde Bourland home. In 1895 a high school department was established in Alvin's public school, and enrollment increased so rapidly that three years later buildings were erected near the present campus. In 1910 Alvin completed the spacious old red brick school house. The present high school building was erected in 1929. In 1938, with the construction of the million dollar school plant, the red brick was demolished. The Alvin school plant, now consisting of nine ultra modern buildings constructed on a twenty-two acre plot, is one of the finest in the Southwest. It includes an elementary building, housing all grades through the sixth; a junior high building, with the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades; an industrial arts department and home economics cottage, considered among the finest in the state; a senior high school; a large brick and glass auditorium; a gymnasium; a band house; an agricultural building; a bus garage; and a recreation hall. From the wastes of prairie land with a one room school and a volunteer teacher, Alvin has indeed taken a far step towards enriching the minds of her young with the erection of a school plant that housed approximately 1000 pupils in 1945. A campus plan of the present Alvin Independent School District, drawn by R. Paul Fulwider.

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OUR CAMPUS THE ARCHWAY From out of the windows of this archway, may drift the noise of the clicking of typewriters and the general clamor of voices that comes from any publications room. Behind those windows are created the Clarion and the Yellow Jacket. The side door, the entrance to the study hall, was at one time a side entrance to the gymnasium. SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL The High School building, constructed in 1928 for $80,000 has twelve rooms, including a three-room com- mercial department, a journ- alism department, an excel- lent science laboratory, and a library. ENTRANCE TO THE LIBRARY Students seeking either knowledge or relaxation may enter this high school library door to make their choice of approximately twenty-four hundred books. Before 1938 when our modern gymnasium was completed, this doorway was the entrance to the high school gym and auditorium combined. 8