East High School - Orient Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Since its beginning and through its growth, Principal Wilcox has guided East High. His wisdom, his patience, his tact, combined with an always modern and understanding View-point, have made the school's life the quiet, orderly, progressive one which so many take pleasure in remembering. When East High is mentioned, the spirit with which Mr. Wilcox has endowed it instantly comes to the foreground of one's consciousness. Mr. Wilcox, who built, in spirit, East High, is now retiring after thirty-live years of construc- tive, inspiring work. His presence will be greatly missed by all those who have had the good fortune to be associated with him. Mr. lVilm,viI1z.ft df will remember frim. I2

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Yi' N L Meanwhile, the library had quickly grown to proportions far beyond the capacity of the oflice, and had been moved upstairs into its own place, with a special librarian. The lunchroom had been enlarged, and the bicycle rooms moved to make room for it. The laboratories had doubled in size. A machine had been installed where rooms 320, 322, and 324 now are Qlater the shop was moved to Benjamin Franklin when that school was openedl. Commercial subjects had made their appearance, led by shorthand, which arrived in 1906. The Students' Association, dying gradually since the Board of Education tookiover the financing of extra-curricular activities, pronounced its own funeral service and dissolved. In 1923, East High again became so crowded that it was necessary to revert to procedure used in the Dark Ages of the old Fitzhugh Street monstrosity. Z UNIVERSITY ANNEX Tlmnglu leaky and freaky, with euerzre mziqlze, The Annex balllr dear all the while. In head lifted high with pruml lzzemariex ofgynre, A 77ltlfUlf in true Mill-Victarielzz Jgyle. The pupils were divided, half coming in the morning and half in the after- noon, with a hectic two periods near noon when all thirty-six hundred at- tended. There were two annexes, one on Goodman Street in an old gun factory, and one on University Avenue. This continued until 1930, when another high school opened and took many of the extra students from East High. During this time the Social Science Laboratory was initiated, the flrst of its kind in the country. Clubs sprang up, clubs went on flourishing, clubs died, clubs were revived and took on new life. Fraternities and sororities were no longer recognized as part of school life by the Board. Bicycles de- clined in popularity with the pupils and went entirely out of favor with the faculty. Teachers and students found their ranks depleted by the war. In short, things changed, progressed, regressed, and evolved. 11

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