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

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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.

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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 GYMNASIUM The dual gymnasium was constructed and equipped in 1938 at a cost of $81,000, has a 101x90 foot basketball court, surrounded by sets of folding bleachers. The building contains two class rooms, one for boys and one for girls, offices for coaches, two dressing rooms, showers for students and coaches, and a check room.