Bellows Falls High School - Sampler Yearbook (Bellows Falls, VT)

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I )ed ica l Lion T Am all the alumni, administration, and faculty of Bellows Falls High School - past and present - with- out whom there would be no school, we dedicate our 1971 Sampler. All have given a part of themselves to make the school a more productive institution. Our spe- cial thanks go to them for their individual and collective contributions through the years. 2

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Bellows Falls High School Bellows Falls, Vermont

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T i k he first years of Bellows Falls High School were very different in many ways from today. The first class to graduate from the high school in 1876 con- sisted of five people. This year, there will be 140. When the high school first started, there were few of the “modern conveni- ences” we have now. But after the fire in 1925, when the school burned to the ground, a new school was built - “the latest word in up-to-date schools.” As de- scribed in the Rockingham History, it was opened in 1927 and had all the modern equipment it had lacked before: new sanitary facilities, automatic temperature, atmospheric controls and ventilation, a large gym, art and sewing rooms, a fireproof vault, and numerous other conveniences, now accomodating as many as five hundred pupils. In 1956, it was decided that there was need of a new entrance to the gym and a new ell, which now contains labs, typing rooms, shop areas, and the library. However, even with these changes, the school became crowded, as it is today, and the decision was made to build a new school. Next year, this school will be ready for its occupants. Therefore, the class of 1971 will become the last class to graduate from the hallowed halls of Bellows Falls High School. 3