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

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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.

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Sophomore Class of 1927 [HROUGH THE YEARS In 1919, along with the eighth grade, a south wing was added. This contained our present 100, 101 and 102, which was then an auditorium and 200, 201 and 202. Glen Allen became an accredited junic™ high school in 1920, when the ninth grade was added. The school became a four year high school when, in 1923 and 1924 the tenth and eleventh grades, re- spectively, were added. This was accredited in 1926. In 1925 the north wing was added, which con- sisted of an auditorium on the first floor and four classrooms on t he second. The auditorium was made into a library, two classrooms and a corridor in 1936, when the present auditorium and gymnasium were constructed. Glen Allen, in 1927, consisted of seventeen class- rooms (it now has thirty-two), basement playrooms, library, office and auditorium. There were two hun- dred and sixty students with ten teachers and Miss Olivia Hardy, principal. The Home Economics classes were held in the Chemistry Laboratory until the Cottage was built in 1939. Shortly after this, the Shop was moved to the present location and the Cafeteria, which was orig- inally located in room 106, soon followed. In 1942 Glen Allen became strictly a senior high school, and the elementary grades were moved to Laurel, Dumbarton, and Longdale. The year the twelve grade system was installed, the class of ‘50 entered Glen Allen and the newly built Annex. The Court buildings were added in 1949. On January 1, 1951, Glen Allen High became a Group 1 school with one thousand and five students. Now as we, the high school students, leave Glen Allen, we can look back over its sixty-five years of existence and say that it has prospered well. Through the years it has outgrown its physical bounds many times in its continual progress toward better educa- tio n for the youth of Henrico County. pase cronum Program Committee Plans an Assembly in