Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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THE TAU Mr. Rose ' s Message DECADE ago there were only nine pupils m the Junior Class of the (jreenville High School and none in the eleventh grade. This year the enrollment of the Junior Class is seventy-seven, while the Senior Class has enrolled fifty-eight. These figures serve to show great in- creased interest in high school training in the town. Realizing the above condition and realizing that the citizens of Greenville desire the very best for their boys and girls, the present Board of Trustees of the Greenville City Schools, citizens of vision and citizens of public spirit, have determined to give to Greenville the very best to be had within local means. Elsewhere in this volume is to be found an engrav- ing of the high school plant that is to be. This engraving is more than a dream — it is fast approaching a reality. The plans are very definite and have been adopted. When it is completed all three of the buildings will be one unit; and, in time, the com- pleted plant will be used exclusively by the high school department. The present school administration realizes very keenly that in the past it has neglected to train and develop the bodies of the pupils. I n the future this will not be so. Rather, in the new scheme of things, when the gymnasium and swimming pool are completed, there will be a very definite place in the school day for work in health and physical education. This work will be done for the purpose of showing the pupil at an early age what are the. limitations and possibilities of his hinnan machine. The completed high school plant will not be merely usable. It will be beautiful as well, beautiful in its surroundings and beautiful on the interior. The completed plant will face east towards the ravine. The bottom of the ravine will be filled a bit higher than it now is, the floor leveled, the sides terraced, shrubs planted, gravel walks laid out, and everything else done to make the place one of the most beautiful in the town. In this work the schools are being aided by the civic organizations of the town and municipal government as well. In beautifying the new plant the school will continue to depend a great deal upon the student body. The grounds of the present building reveal very clearly the pride which the Greenville High School student body takes in its school. A number of the shrubs in front of the present building were planted by members of the Class of 1925 — planted when they were freshmen. Four short years have done a lot. This class can never pass the present building without feeling a bit proud that it had something to do with the beautification of the grounds. And so in the future, as the larger plant is developed and made beautiful, the classes of the high school will be allowed this same privilege, the privilege of making some part of the plant belong to them peculiarly. And this act is symbolic of the idea which is in the minds of the School Board and Faculty, namely that the Greenville High School belongs to the boys and girls of Greenville, and as a high school will always reflect the spirit of the boys and girls who enter its portals, who laugh in its halls, who play on its playgrounds, who sing in its- auditorium, and who work in its classrooms and laboratories. Junius H. Rose, Superintendent. T r