Elwood Community High School - Crescent Yearbook (Elwood, IN)

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OUR GYMNASIUM Mulford fMuff1 Davis will now speak concerning our gymnasium. Thank you, Dortny. In 1891 Dr.Naismith originated the game of basketball because he wanted to make a winter sport for his physical education class. Ever since that year there have been hundreds of gymnasiums built all over the world. These gymnasiums are built primarily for basketball and physical education classes, but the gymnasium is used for many other purposes too. Gymnasiums are used for political rallies and for school and community gatherings, so that a gymnasium is a very important building in any community. Like thousands of other towns all over the world. Elwood has a gymnasium of which its citizens are proud. Nearly every gymnasium is built on a different pattern. We see some gymnasiums with two, three, four, or even five doors. We see some with windows on two, three, or perhaps four sides of the building, but, no matter how they are built, the one purpose of the gymnasium is to take care of the crowds which attend the dif- ent activities. Our gymnasium is a brick structure with cement pillars around the top of the bricks and, also, over the four entrances. We have two sets of doors at each entrance. Our gymnasium is built with bleachers all around the floor except on the south end of the floor where we have a stage fifty feet long and twenty-five feet wide. We have a regulation size floor. We have our school letter painted in the center of the floor. The steel structure overhead is made up of right and forty-five degree angles. On these structures we have pennants of other schools of the Central Indiana Conference. We have two large press boxes on the east side of the playing floor. We have ticket offices at three of the four entrances. In the southwest corner of the gymnasium we have an ele- vator which is used in lifting articles from the basement up to the main floor. I have been in the dressing rooms and basements of many gymnasiums all over the state,and I have not seen any that are better than ours. We have six or seven fine dress- ing rooms. They all have windows opening to the outside. They all have showers which can be run very easily. We have a hall which goes all the way around the basement of the gymnasium. We have fourteen rooms which open into this hall. We have equipment rooms, coaches, and janitors' rooms. We have four entrances to our basement. Our gym- nasium is connected to our school building. We can reach the gymnasium through the shop room. This is very nice on rainy or cold days, when we have to go to the gymna- sium from the school building. ,L h .

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ELWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Dorotha Ann l-lancher will now give you a description of our high school. Thank you, Dorothy, and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, It is my great pleasure to usher you through our high school. The structure looks so magnificent that I am sure you wish to stop to see the inside. The lawn is spacious and very beautifully dressed in its green grass with the proud trees and shrubs lending more beauty. Over all of this splendor the flag waves majes- tically. The front of the building consists largely of windows with glass doors marking the entrance. The wide stairway leads into a friendly hall with a floor covered in dark red and green. At the top of the stairs loom two large oak doors leading into an auditorium. Over these doors hangs a beautiful white statue the Winged Victory. On either side of the auditorium doors are cases. One is the trophy case displaying the trophies the school has won. The students look on this with pride. The other case is used to display class projects and many other items. One thing that seems a spot of interest is the large bulle- tin board. which has everything on it from notes someone has found, to class announce- ments. The office of the principal and attendance keeper is over the front stairs with two short stairways on each side over which are small statues done in white. We are especially impressed by the method we employ in using the main stairways. The one on our left is the up stairs and the one on the right is the down stairs. This is done, as we know, to insure convenience while changing classes. The most impressive room of the building is the library, which is found near the au- ditorium. It is a large, many windowed room filled with comfortable tables and chairs. Nearly all of the three walls are lined with books ranging from science to romantic novels. In the wall to the right, above the shelves, is a beautiful frieze also made of white. Around the room are busts, statues, and pictures, which all go to make up this beautiful well-kept room. Nearly all of the rooms and the study halls are the scenes of much gaiety and study. The chemistry room is interesting with all of its mysterious bottles and appara- tus. Across the hall from the chmistry room, we find a room completely dark. This is where classroom movies are shown. We are also proud of the shop, where boys learn many things about wood and metal craft. The sewing and cooking rooms, where girls were learning to sew and to make delicious goodies, are also interesting. The last place we shall take you is to the old gymnasium. This is where parties and dances are held. It is an excellent recreational room. Now that you have seen our high school, we hope that you feel that it would be a great pleasure to attend school here Where the building looks so magnificent and in- viting. ELwooD HIGH scHooL 6

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WASHIUGTUH EDGEWOOD We wish to show you at this time four other school buildings not shown on the two preceding pages. These are our grade buildings known as Wash- ington, Edgewood. Osborn, and Linwood. These four buildings, enrolling pupils in grades I to VI, together with the Central School grade building shown at the right of the Senior High School and the Gymnasium comprise the Elwood school system. These grade buildings are important because many of our high school students received their early school instruction in them and later enrolled as high school pupils. The approximate enrollment at the present time in our schools is as follows: Washington, 125g Edgewood, 1653 Osborn, 1403 Linwood, 2853 Central grades I-VI 300-Junior High, 300g and Senior High, 600. This makes a a total enrollment of over 1900 pupils. OSBORN L 'NWQOD