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

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OUR CAMPUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL The sixteen-room elemen- tary school, one of the newer buildings, has classrooms, an auditorium, offices, and a clinic. Surrounding it is a large playground. RECREATION HALL This building consists of a large recreation hall for the students, and two elementary class rooms. The recreation hall, sponsored by the Student Council and aided by the Parent-Teacher Association, the school board, and other town organizations, gives the students a place in which to dance and play games. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL The Junior High school building, erected the same year as the auditorium, has twelve class rooms, including library, music, art, and sci- ence rooms. Former Alvin High School and.Grammar School — Constructed 1910 — — Razed 1938 — Cold in winter, hot in summer, with narrow stair- ways running almost per- pendicularly from the first to the second floor are some of the memories of the red brick school.

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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

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OUR CAMPUS HOME ECONOMICS COTTAGE The Home Economics Cot- tage, finished in 1936, where high school girls receive prac- tical training in cooking and sewing. It has a kitchen, sew- ing room, living room, dining room, and bath. BAND HOUSE INDUSTRIAL ARTS BUILDING Near the Home Economics Cottage is the Industrial Arts building, finished in 1936. It can accommodate 70 students at one time in its drawing, wood work, and metal work departments. It has the most up-to-date equipment obtain- able, and in 1940 was con- sidered the second best in the state.