Glen Allen High School - Panthian Yearbook (Glen Allen, VA)

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Tht 1951 PANTHIAN STAFF ) Li) JAMES FINCH Vv Editor-in-Chief hr | k . es — t — CC (BE Nae oS, Oe af be gts, BETTY PHILLIPS Associate Editor The year 1950-1951 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of Glen Allen school. In this, its last year as a senior high school, the Panthian staff has tried to present to you a retrospect of its life and a pictorial history of the events of our school during this year. MILDRED DeVILBISS Business Manager NINA BOWMAN HORACE STANCIL MARY GOODE Ad Manager Photographer Subscription Manager MARGARET GRAVES EDITH BROWN BARBARA LINZY Treasurer Art Editor Subscription Manager

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Freshmen Class of 1927 GLEN ALLEN Mr. Charles Tinsley, in the fall of 1886, felt the need for a school for the children who lived near Glen Allen. The need arose due to the fact that the children were not in walking distance of the public school. He asked Miss Lizzie Holliday if she would open a private school in her home for these children. She consented. He, then, went to the school trustees, who agreed, provided that twenty pupils could be en- rolled to make it a public school. The schoolroom for the first two years was on the second floor, but as children kept falling down the stairs, as children will do, Miss Lizzie moved them into her parlor. During the first session, the children used two tables made from an organ case and sat on porch benches and chairs. Miss Lizzie used a piece of black oil cloth (tacked on one side of the organ) for a blackboard. Thirteen years later in 1899, a one room house was built on Mountain Road, one mile west of Glen Allen. The pupils soon outgrew this first Glen Allen School House and, in 1901, a room was added. The enrollment increased until a second addition was made. The school was divided into grades and given its first library in 1907. Junior Class of 1927 The location of this school was inconvenient and had again become crowded. In 1911, a two-story brick building consisting of four rooms was built on the present site, a three acre lot. The Glen Allen Im- Girls’ Track Team of 1927 provement League and the school officials were re- sponsible for this first structure. In October of the | same year, the school moved into its new home. Miss Gladys Bell, the principal, held sway over a hundred pupils in seven grades with only three teachers. This first section made up, what is now, the office, 106, 205 and 206. The last two rooms were made so they could be converted to an auditorium. A Junior League was formed which sponsored many improvements to the buildings and grounds. In 1914 an addition was made on the east side of the building. This contained what is now 103, 104, 203 and 204. Our present 203 and 204 was an audi- torium.