Emporia High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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HE OLD BELI History of the Garfield Bell and Senior High School The Garfield building was built in 1880. The building u as of brick, contained eight rooms and had a large tower with a bell in it. About 18 1) t ye building was remodeled and enlarged. In 1914 the Garfield building uas replaced by our present Senior High School. T ye bell that hung in t ye old Garfield building uas rescued by the alumni and students and made into the monument that now stands on the southeast corner of our campus. T ye material used in making the monument was taken from the Garfield building. The faculty of the original high school consisted of six teachers and the first graduating classes contained from ten to twelve people, most of whom were girls. T ye present Senior High School building is modern and well equipped, having forty rooms, a gymnasium and an auditorium with a seating capacity of nine hundred.

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OME of the E. H. S. SPARTANS

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Despite warm weather ami usual post-vacation sighs ami yawns, interest was not a deficiency w jch the roll was called in September. With a vacation behind them and a full calendar ahead, teacljers and students assembled to organize classes, sports, clubs and other organizations. Outstanding events and new plans for the coming year were discussed with much anticipation. Election of class officers provided a general source of interest for every one. Although the Sophomores had heard much concerning Senior High, tiyey still had many things to learn and they plied upperclassmen with numerous questions. Without a doubt, interest fulfills a very definite necessity in the school life of all students. It is this characteristic which makes one agreeable in social life. Unless it lies among a student's outstanding qualities, his life becomes gloomy for indifference is dull, and interest is radiant.