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Plans for a 4-B dramatic program (to raise funds for a class trip to Washington ) and “Senior Recognition Day were among the new additions.1 On Wednesday, November 12, came “the greatest event in the school's history Senior Recognition Day; jhe seniors marched in and took scats on the platform, following the reading of letters of congratulations from the city’s high school principals, a program of class messages followed. These messages consisted of poems (written for the occasion) gifts (Guildcd horseshoe, an account book) and a banner in the class colors (Blue and Gold). After the singing of a song(Written by Mr. Pickwick for the program), Carl Olshnetsky, the class president, addressed the student body. The program concluded with school song; the new seniors boldly wore the class colors for the remainder of the day. 1ST. GRADUATING CLASS 1. Editorial. The Orient. Vol. Ill, No. II. p. XVII. 2. Op. Cit. p XVIII. 3. Ibid, p XIX.XX.
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THE CLASS OF 1914 (Below: 1912 Faculty Photographed in Gym) In September, 1910, a competitive exam for principal was held and Mr. Thomas F. Kennedy was selected from a field of 50 applicants. 1 Mr. Kennedy then selected a faculty, choosing “front a wide field of applicants. The school was organized February 1st, 1911, in the Market Street Annex with all first year pupils. The following April the school moved into the new buildings.” with an enrollment of 450 students coming from all parts of the city. 4 The first mention of the story of the class of 1914 comes with an editorial greeting to the new principal; Mr. Kennedy, having transferred to the newly opened South Side High, Mr. Eli Pickwick. With Mr. Pickwick came a number of changes and the establishment of the precedents for the first graduating class.
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The story continues with the “Senior Number,” the class having chosen to publish the Orient to raise funds for their proposed trip to Washington, followed by the class will and a design for a class, school, ring. A later edition of “The Orient relates, finally on April 6, at 8:15 the group departed for their Washington trip. In Washington meeting Mr. Townsend, congressman representing the district in which East Side is located.” A good time was had by all, and the trip marked one of the greatest highlights of the Senior Year. On May 1st, the senior class gave the first senior play, “Mr. Bob” in the school auditorium, which was considered to be very well done and provides! the audience with a hearty laugh. The story of the class of 1914 concludes with graduation, Tuesday, June 23,1914.7
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