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

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'- .x HIE ik? . , s iii: 15595: llasnl THE AUDITORIUM Shakespeare once said, All the world's a stage . The casual observer in our new High School Auditorium, upon first glance in the direction of the footlights, would gain the impression that the architect must have toiled diligently to reproduce Shakespeare's observation in a material way. It is indeed huge. And yet it is so entirely satisfactory. Measuring Iifty feet in breadth and thirty feet in depth, it is equipped as few high school stages in the entire country. It is furnished with white, blue, and red lights from foot-lights and border-lights. The switchboard furnishes rheostatic control for practically every light in the Auditorium. In addition, the stage is furnished with a Velure Curtain, Asbestos Curtain, Cyclorama, one fine Exterior and two complete Interior Sets. Four sizeable dressing rooms are in place with running water in each room. The main body of the Auditorium is in keeping with the wide and deep with good lighting and generous ventilation, that it conveniently and easily seats srixteen hundred people, and audibility it is in a class of its own. All in all, it is a magnificent outlay and one of which we Let us hope that with such a laboratory, all plays presented of the setting, and that we may one day cultivate the theatre Falls to a truer understanding of the art of the stage. 24 size of the stage. It is and is so constructed For comfort, visibility, should be justly proud. therein may be worthy going public of Beaver

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, .J , .,- il ,Lui .W , ffm-: 1 ' - . ..V.' llgilgl .A..A i' f' 'ff.5.:QL.gg,st.... CAFETERIA Pictured above is a daily scene in the new spacious cafeteria of the Beaver Falls High School as depicted by a spectator during any noon hour. The Cafeteria is one of the many active organizations of our school and serves a very important and definite purpose. The cafeteria is one of the most up-to-date systems ever installed in a high school, and ranks with the best in the country in equipment and efficiency. The kitchen and its surroundings are the keynote of health and sanitation and are sym- bolic of a wholesome variety and the wide selection of food. The cafeteria is under the direction and supervision of Mrs. Irene Detrick who is ably assisted by Mrs. Birdie Craft, Blanche McKee, Eleanor Morgan, June Detrick, and Dorothy Schmidt. Weekly shifts consisting of two girls from the Home Economics Department assist in preparing, cooking, and serving food. These girls are seen daily in the kitchen and at the counter performing their duties. Two boys, Robert Fulton and Curtis Young, also receive training, having as their duties the washing of dishes. The latter was replaced by William Creighton the second semester. The cafeteria therefore not only provides food for the students and teach- ers of the school, but also provides practical educational experience in the art of preparing, cooking, and serving appetizing food. Mr. Bennett is the Cafeteria Cashier. 23 0 .

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A ,: TV: al PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT The completion of our new Senior High School in September gave the students and the public of Beaver Falls the distinction of owning one of the finest gymnasiums in Western Pennsylvania. The gymnasium is sixty feet by one hundred feet. The playing floor is forty-five feet by eighty feet. Its six thousand square feet of floor space provides for a full size tennis court, two paddle tennis courts, and two hand ball courts, as well as ample space for indoor baseball. This huge room has a seating capacity of thirteen hundred seventy-five, with a possibility of many more hundreds being crowded in upon necessity. At the east end of the gym are the locker and shower rooms of the physical education classes, while at the west end are the facili- ties for handling the local and visiting football and basketball teams. Under the expert guidance of the Physical Education Instructors, Miss Alice V. Eskey and Mr. Joy Y. McCandless, classes in Physical Education and Health are held every period of the day. The value of this room to the public is inestimable because already many inter- scholastic as well as intercollegiate games have been played in it. Its importance to the students is incalculable, and without a doubt it is rapidly becoming a more indis- pensable unit of our educational system. rn