Collingswood High School - Knight Yearbook (Collingswood, NJ)

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T H E I 9 3 5 There was no stopping the steadily growing student population. ln l93l it became necessary to add tour rooms to the Senior High School and six to the Junior High School. At the same time, new and greater facilities were added to the athletic department to make it one ot South Jersey's finest, An entirely new football field and stadium were erected, leaving the old field tor practice. Three tennis courts were laid out, and a six-lane cinder track was begun, to be finished last tall, Last summer the traditional study hall came to an end, with its division into two rooms. In September, l932, a group ot about 300 be- wildered looking children, known as the Class ot l935, wandered aimlessly about the building, much to the disgust ot the haughty seniors who tound it necessary to direct them But two years have turned the tables. Now the Class ot V335 is on the brink ot graduation, about to step out into the world to meet their problems as other Collingswood 'graduates have done, leav- ing the school behind them with a tew more achievements, new laurels, and pleasant memories. l906-l935l Long years ot achievement are ex- pressed by these tigures. ln this year ot the three hundredth anniversary ot secondary education in America, the Knight greets all secondary schools and wishes them the success and wealth ot achievement enjoyed by Collingswood High School in the twenty-nine years ot her existence I Thirteen K N I G H I Hey-that's only seven cents! I Sprechen Sie Deutsch? I You'lI have to be quiet! I Are you chewing gum?

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T H E I 9 3 5 K N I G H T Take a letter, please Now, you see if the . . . Stampede Locate Eastern Roumelia. School History BACK in the doys when men were boys ond there wos no little red schoolhouse on the hill, o group of Collingswood citizens decided thot Col- Iingswood's youth should receive o high school educotion in the home town, Shortly ofterworde tn l906, to be exoct-eo group of boys ond girls found themselves students of ColIingswood's first high school where the present Robert Zone School is situoted, ln l9lO, to their own surprise, twelve students were honcled diplomos ond pushed out into the world. lt wos just ot this time thot the first port of the present building wos erected. The twelve students grew to twenty, then to thirty, ond so on. ln l9l5 the two wungs were built to meet the de- monds of the growing student body. The building, os it stood, little resembled the present one. Room 32 served os the office. The hondful of students gothered for ossembly in Room 50 ond then proceeded to Room lil for lunch, The ltbrory wos Iocoted in Room 3l. By i924 recognution wos coming to Collingswood l-ltgh School, the four courses whnch were offered, Acodemic, Generol, Commerciol, ond Technicol, begon to drow students from the surrounding dis- tncts, These pupils helped to swell the ever- growtng student body. The growth brought obout the decision to chonge the school system from on 8-4 plon to o 6-3-3. The Junior l-llgh School wos the result, The cofeterio, ouditorium, ond librory were ploced in their present positions, Twelve

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K 6 I FA,X'ULTY ff V' K! -J h W. E. Kline, Anna A. Lafimerf :Lf H. K. Reiss Holston, Dorothy H. Vo A-iees S. L. Byham E E. Mellinger, Flora Ho r, iw P. Grubb, Ruth A. Huzzcird, Stokes, Edith H. Kro M A T H E M A T I C S Rolph VV. E Kline Anno A. Latimer H I S T O R Y I-I, K. Reiss Holston Dorothy H, Voorhees S. L. Byhom E N G L I S H Eunice E Mellinger Floro Hooper Edith H, Kroener Ruth P. Grubb Ruth A. Huzzord Mory Stokes Fourteen