Claremont High School - Hickory Log Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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THE HISTORY UF As you rush from class to class, fairly running down the hall for fear you might be late, do you ever wonder about the structure housing you approximately seven hours every day, Hve days a week, which is celebrating its 25th year as Claremont Central High School? Yes, in 1925, accompanied by 17 teachers, 350 boys and girls entered the new High School building. To them it must have been a won- derful experience to enter such a spacious school. At that time the biology and chemistry classes had leeture rooms and laboratories, and the auditorium was so large the students thought it could never be hlledl Little did they dream that dear ol' H.H.S. would be like the old woman who lived in the shoe and would have so many children she wouldn't know what to do. ln l933, with the enrollment steadily increasing, Mr. W. D. Cottrell became principal, succeeding Mr. S. W. Thompson. Changes were going on outside, as 1.a!1