Central High School - Pemican Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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THE 1945 I Fa:-4 EQl:!! at L-fs!! as 01' .HIGH ?C9INT H IGH SCHUUL H I G H P O IN T NORTH CAROLINA

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High Point High School today offwcrs the .lm-sr 'in cducnlrionnl opporrunirics. 4 8

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. h,, P Qdnxfw LOOKING BACK 'i,,,,,,,,,'f V v . -... i t starteh with the spirit which leh the city fathers in 1859 to allot 520 for a log school house, anh has continuch until tohap, when ifaigh iBoint may point prouhlp to her crowning achiehement in ehucation xx a beautiful, 5750.000 senior high school builhing, openeh in 1927. although the first graheh -9 school was not openeh until September 20, 1897, we finh that long before, the neeh for ehucation hah tnahe itself felt. Qfter that first log cabin came a succession of schools. These were out anh out subscription schools, but in 1870, Zfaigh 1Boint coulh boast of a so- calleh free School. where the free part came in, we cannot tell, since this happeneh to be a 920-a- month, three:-monthsa-pear affair. X N X N N X X NFXXXX , Q' f, .EQ D59 ' 'vs 1 se ' Q . ALTHOUGH it hah been felt in harping hegrees in former pears, the neeh for a public school reallp starteh the ball rolling in 1894. 31. ftilwooh Tux, who hah built a spacious home arounh that time on the site of the present post office, was willing to sell it to the citp for use as a school. Zllipon this offer, an election was helh on a 910,000 bonh issue. This split the citp intotwo factions: those in fabor anh those opposeh, not so mush tothe, school, as to the citp's buping mc, Tox's white ele: phantI Some eben opposeh the issue on the grounhs that was communistic, since the gobernment woulh be creating competition for the prihate schools in the bicinitp. The measure was hefeateh. N N NN NNNN N NN NNNNNN 5NXX