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

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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

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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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JMS'-,rQV' '. i x 1 ' 'AL IQ ' X? I -Z- 2127C 3 i b ,Qi oratorp combineh with an all out bribe bp the QEnterprise ' won out, anh the issue waspasseo in l887.AU1Che school openeh with nine grahes, a facultp of twelbe, inclubing the su- perintenoent, Mr. Qeorge IE. Crowell, anh the principal, Mr. Giobb IE. lane, ano an enrollment ot 386. The first grahuation took place in 1898 with a class of four, consisting of Miss Qstelle Qiurlep, Bliss Bea-rl ilhol, Miss he stuhent Qha Jlilpers, anh Mr. Qlbin Sv. Barber. in those haps hah somewhat the same curriculum as the present hay scholar, with the exception of music anh inoustrial arts. These oepartments were introouceh later anh habe become outstanoing in the past hecahe. Bur school. is saih to habe the best equippeh shop in the state, while music, after its comeback following the Depression, has become a' crehit subject as well as a creoit to the m-,king backat the last fiftp pears, we community. see that 'the bepnote then was prog: ress. we must, as future citigens, upholh that spirit so that at the enh of the next fiftp pears Ztaigh 1Boint will habe gone to the herp top in the fielh of ehucationQ x x x x x x x xxxx -Q.. . J I f,