Fifth Avenue High School - Archer Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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X ,. isi. 6 FIFTH AVENUE LlFE A Quarter nf a Glrninrg Agn How WOL1ld you have liked to attend school at Fifth at its opening twenty-five years ago this month? Or if that were not possible, how would like to look back to that period and watch its early life? It is a scfientific fam' ihat, owing to the velocity of light-136,000 miles per second-if 3 person were on a star, say about a billion miles away, he could, by looking down on our earth, see what was happening there several hundred years ago, since it would take that long for the light from the earth to reach him. 1Vell, then, suppose we were on a star at some distance away, so that we could watch the happenings on our earth a quarter of a century ago? Since it can be done iso we thinky let us put the telescope to our eye and look in the direction of the earth. On December 10, 1895, the Central Board of Education enters into the focus of the lens. XVe can watch them discuss the plans for a new high school, and then decide to lease a lot on Fifth Avenue on the site of the market house. They lease the lot-200 feet front and 120 feet on the side- for a term of 99 years in consideration of one dollar. Wie notice nothing of importance until March 13, 1894 when Mr. Edward Stotz is selected as the architect. lt is not until another meeting that we see the board adopt his plans. On July 24, 189-l, the XVilson Construction Co. receives the job of erect- ing the school building, which they formally turn over to the board May 12. 1896. At the formal turning over of the building we can read editorials in the newspapers to the effect that this building was erected at a cost of 37,500 below the original estimate. Everyone is praising this efficiency. Follow- ing this outburst of favorable comment, we see through our glass architects and other notables, from all over the country, view the wonderful building- the last word in modern school structures. Bring the telescope nearer to your eye, for we are going to get thg first glimpse of the interior of the school. XYe,see that everything in the build- ing is modern, efficient, and beautiful. Starting from the basement, we see that Fifth is the first school in Pittsburgh in which the air is washed before it is sent into the rooms. Wlithin the space that now constitutes the ma- chine shops, is located the supplies for all the city schools. Coming to the first floor, where are now the shop and drawing rooms, there are five rooms used as a training school. Here is adequate accommodations for over two hundred small children, who are taught two weeks by each girl of the nor- mal department, who is in her last year. XX'here are now the cooking and the sewing rooms, we see the offices of the lloard of Education. They use the Special gnu-ance, which is beside the main one Know removedfl The two upper floors are occupied by the normal department, the rest by the com'- mercial department. Let us now point the telescope on the personnel of the school. First of all, we see Mr. C. B. Xkood, director of the three city high schools lFifth, s fl it

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