Huntington High School - Huntingtonian Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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THE HUNTINGTONIAN

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1926 THE HUNTINGTONIAN Some Facts Concerning The New Huntington High School This building will contain twenty-five rooms, including an auditorium, laboratories in chemistry and domestic science, a library, principal’s office, teachers' rest room, and a hospital room. The auditorium will seat five hundred people, and will be equipped with a motion picture machine. Seven hundred students can be comfortably housed in this building. The structure is fire-proof throughout. The site on which the building is located is one of the most beautiful in the state and consists of more than seven and one-half acres of ground. Three acres of this site will be used for a park and playground. (17)

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LO Э THE HUNTINGTONIAN WHAT WE MISSED The Senior Class of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the first graduating class of Huntington High School, like those who would be pioneers in any field of endeavor, whether it be those who journey to some distant and dreary wilderness or those who establish the smallest institu- tion within that community. Those who go first must be determined to en- dure many hardships in order that they may overcome the numerous ob- stacles that must of necessity confront every effort of man in its infancy. It rests with the Pioneer to establish traditions and customs which will not only go towards perfecting these organizations for themselves, but the gen- erations of those who follow might receive the benefit of their labor, and so the Pioneer endures the log cabin that those who follow might build in its stead a mansion. The frame building in which this class has done its work has none of the outward appearances of a modern high school. Its equipment is very limited, without playground or laboratory, but with these handicaps there has been perfected an institution with its organizations and a form of government which would do credit to any high school, and more, this institution will enter a beautiful new building next year with its large airy class rooms, playground, laboratory, and spacious auditorium. This magnificient new building is what the class of nineteen hundred and twenty-three will miss. But we are proud of the fact that whatever the future of Huntington may be, we are the Pioneers, and have established traditions and customs and helped in the perfecting of an institution that has been and will continue to be a Beacon Light of Knowledge in our community. J. Е. CRAWLEY. (19)