Beaver Falls High School - Tiger Yearbook (Beaver Falls, PA)

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I CBEAVER FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOGL I The Beaver Falls High School truly exemplifies the Architectural progress of our nation. It is of the Modernized Collegiate Gothic design. Over the main entrance arch are carved figures symbolical of education and flanked by two tourelles. The entrance to the Auditorium is surmounted by a conventionalized American Eagle symbolizing the Spirit of the nation underlying our system of education. The exterior of the build- ing is faced with a smooth brick pail in piers, panels and pilasters, and trimmed with stone creating a harmonious design. The building consists of three units, the high school proper, gymnasium, and auditorium. These are so planned and connected that they can be used separately or as a whole. The high school proper contains twenty-four modern class rooms, offices for the Superintendent and Principal, Office and Board Room for the School District, School Library and Clinic Room for the district doctor and nurse. The gymnasium which is to the rear and connected with the school building, con- tains a playing floor, size sixty by one hundred, surrounded by fourteen hundred seats arranged in amphitheatre form. Adjacent to the school building is the Auditorium. This building has a main entrance from Eighth avenue, and is so arranged that it can be used by the community without interfering with the high school Work. The Auditorium has a seating capacity of sixteen hundred. There is a large well-equipped stage and at the rear of the balcony are booths equipped for movies and talkies. The space under the auditorium contains a Cafeteria consisting of kitchen and dining room with a seating capacity of eight hundred. The various contracts for the building were let in February 1930, and the build- ing completed and occupied in September 1931. .Plans and speciiications were pre- pared by Carlisle and Sharrer.

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FOREWORD The members of the Tiger Staff present this book with the hope that you who read may find in it pleasure and enjoyment, and that through the years it may bring happi- ness in memories.

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The Tiger Staff and the classes of 1932 wish to express their appreciation of the faculty adviser of The Tige1 ', Mr. Neal Mathews. lt was by his careful planning and direc- tion that this book was made possible. Because of his un- failing kindness, understandg ing, and helpfulness, he has endeared himself to his classes.