Eastern High School - Echo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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jr. Qyeqfein AT THE DEDICATION Qfficielly Qurs The building was ablaze with myriad dazzling lights. Through the wide-Hung doors streamed a throng of eager people, filling the spacious auditorium to its utmost capacity. Excitement was high--for, on that night, March lil, the new Eastern High School was to be formally dedicated. Finally, the curtain began to rise slowly and, with vari-colored overhead lights glinting on their white dresses, the Glee Club came into view. At the same time, enter- ing from a rear door and advancing to their seats on the stage, came, in proud pro- cession, Miss Cairnes, the speakers, and special guests of the occasion. The exercises were opened by Dr. Vlfegleing and the first speaker was Judge Harlan of the Public Improvement Commission, who presented the building, on be- half ofthe City of Baltimore, to Mayor Jackson. The Mayor accepted the gift, offici- ally turning it over to the Board of School Commissioners. Mr. Forrest Bramble then expressed the joy and gratitude that he, as president of the board, felt at receiv- ing for Eastern High School this imposing new structure. Immediately following these speakers, the members of the Glee Club, under the direction of Miss Jessie L. Armstrong and accompanied by Marjorie Hardwick, raised their voices in a beautiful arrangement of Maunder's glorious Praise Thy God, Oh, ,lerusalemlw Dorothy East sang the solo parts. When Dr. Weglein had reviewed briefly the circumstances leading to the erection of the new Eastern High School, the Glee Club again rose, this time to sing a group of five selections. The first was The Nightingalefs Song, by Nevin, the second, The Swallows, by Coweng the third, Largo, from Handelis opera Xerxes, with Dor- othy Dittmar as soloistg the fourth, 'cLilacs, by Burwaldg and the last, Will You Rememberfp' for Sigmund Rombergis f'lVlaytimef' Miss Cairnes, who was the last speaker, gave a short history of Eastern and then spoke of the things of interest to be seen about the building. At the conclusion of Miss Cairnes' address, the audience left the auditorium to spend the remainder of the even- ing touring what they had been told was the most up-to-date high school building in the state.

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EGR EASTERN 1870-Aisquith and Orleans Streets The school completed in this year was near the site of the 1852 building and was built with a view to the future . . . free from useless orna- ment and as plain in plan and con- struction as possible to comport with 1 90 7-North Avenue The new school, completed and transferred to this departmentn CDe- partment of Education? in Novem- berf' has long since become famous for its classic lines and marble halls. When the structure was first put into use,the playg'r1oun-d,'1was -on the roof because the building occupied all of the avail-able yard space. The Assem- bly Hall had 'isittings for ten hun- the character of the buildingf' It was capable of accommodating about 600 pupils with comfort and securityf' To instruct the 337 fe- males , there were 12 teachers. and Broadway dred and thirteen. The building was heated by steam radiators . . . and lighted throughout with electricity- and with gas, should be electricity fail. A school board report in 1907 stated that the city is to be congrat- ulated on at last having a high school building that will compare with the best buildings devoted to such pur- poses in other cities? 1938 TI-HRTY-THIRD STREET AND LCC!-I RAVEN RCDAD 1 93 8-Thirty-Third Street and Loch Raven Road This imposing new edifice, oc- cupied on February first, is according to Dr. Weglein, the best of its kind in the state, and-if one should ask an Easternite--the best in the coun- try. It is a four story H-shaped building . . . with sound-proof ceil- ings in the corridors, music room, auditorium, cafeteria, and locker roomsf' and there is an electrical two-way sound transmission system throughout the school. The school accommodates 2600 pupils, the audi- torium 2000. The erection of the building was a W.P.A. project and the total cost of the building includ- ing equipment, was 31,4-52,538.62 THIRTY-THIRD STREET AND LocH RAVEN Rollo

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