Knoxville High School - Trojan Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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IIISTIIBY 0F KNOX1ILI la llli ll SCll00l ln l905 the presudent of th Board of Educatuon of the Knoxvulle schools Judge John W Green urged the buuldung of a new hugh school un several addresses mad to the people ofthe cuty Many other men such as Herbert l-lennegar a graduate of one of Knox vulle s schools made notable oratuons on the need for a new hugh school The work of these men for thus hugh school was a prumary factor un the fught for a hugher standard of educa tuon The unstututuon of learnung at that tume was called the Gurl s Hugh School but boys and gurls both attended Thus hugh s hool was located on the corner of Wall and Unuon Street When Superuntendent S A Mynders came to the cuty un l907 he went to work un a systcmatuc manner to secure the new hugh scnool It was due to hus efforts propably more than any other man that the magnufucent buuldung was secured ln order to get th buulclung publuc sentument had to be aroused Thus was done largely through the Mothers Assocua tuon now known as the Parent Teachers Assocuatuon and newspapers as well as educa tuonal meetungs Mr Mynders found able and wullung workers un the cuty offucuals The sute of the new school w s once the pruvate home of J Y Johnston Thus sute us now the educatuonal home of some l8OO students and us ruch un tradutuon and funancual ap precuatuon The man uon was erected un l87l and was torn away un l909 after th property was purchased by the cuty The orugunal buulduno was opened un l9lO wuth an attendance of 646 An addutuon to the buuldung made ut possuble to uncr ase the enrollment un l9l4 to l 337 A house warmung of the schoo buuldung was held under th durectuon of the 'Vlother s 1 Y 7 7 1 1 V . L 4 A I J . D . . 1 ' '-' 1 , . . . D . , N. . ' 1 1 ' . , , . , . . . . . . . ,, . , . ,, 4 I , . . Af F . . e . . . , A . . u . . I K , . . . D . . 1 ' ' I . . - . , . 1 ' 1 1 '- ' 3 . . . .fl ' . . Q. . . 3 . -V I L .. , . . : . , . . , - 9 1

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IN WlL'Vl0lll KVI To all thosc of our hugh school who gave me Last Full Measure of dev tion nn the servuce of thear country to those flohtang to pres rye peace rn the world and to those who vnll an the future make whatever sacrrflces necessary to defend our country w dedrcate this the last annual of Knoxvnlle Hugh School Ll Ll Y l'0 KNIIXVII I I Illl ll We ve seen her columns ru e In sllent grace And lald our hearts wlthun her portals wldc We ye seen her years pass by wlth measured pace And seen her prouder wlth each waning trde She as Mtnerva steeped IH Atlas form Where all her walls ind stones lle mute and Cold She as the paradox whe e munds grow warm Her embers burst to flame where once gr w o Each Mldas touch that wandered from her fare The ftre of Delphi strnpped of pedantry o burn n a nts pureness brighter htgh r And so she dues the Cad of uc orv The Trojan walls strnpped bare before live yet The dew drop tears on gr ss grown grawes where cry the dead A better world ll not ffwrg Are all our hearts GOD Bl ESS YOU KNOXVILLE HIGH W B Fields V W 4 A L L L A 5 I F A ll- ' I' ' A N! I I -Q fx ' . b' 1 X' . . . . 1 f - n . , X. I I . ' X 1 1 r v v 41 1 A I A A 4 A A I , . . . Q - 1 . . . , ,J , . I c T I , I , ' C r ' . e ld K , Y . 1. '1 wr, 4 , 1 I , , ' , C . . f T , I. , , . -,- ff . If I WI L Cl. , 1 , , .

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Assocuatuon Among the vusutors to the hugh school were rnanv ot the pupuls who l'ad grad uated from the old hugh school General Knox s p wrtraut was presented and addresses were made bythe Superuntendent who sp nt a few mlncutes descrubung the dutterent def artments Ot the buuldung uncludung cookung se vung manunl traunung chemustry and other branches not tncund un the average hugh school uflr Mvnjers who dud so much ta help get the new hugh chool later became the commussuoner of Edpcatuon ot the state of Tennessee The turst pruncupal of the new school was W J Barton ln l9l3 Mr W F u-lemmu g came to the school as pruncupal He had tudued abroad and was one ot the most lear wed men ot the day l-le remauned at the schoou untul l9l11 when Mr l-luxson came It was DOUT thus tume that the school began to have 1 rapud orawth t students The same people who had Seen the need tor the new sch ol now saw the need tor more room The hugh school then only covered halt the space ut covers now Nothung now ver was done about the overcrowded sut uatuon ln l9l6 Mr E E Patton came to the huoh school as pruncupal l.e1vung Knoxvulle l-lugh School un l9l7 he became pruu upal of Central l-lugh un l9l8 He boasts he us the onlv man wluve to have xer done thus ln l9l8 Mr W E Evans b ame pruncupal of the schoo' The need for mnre room had now become a cute ln l9l9 M Evans skcd 1 delegatuon of graduwtung suuudents to speak before the cuty Board ot Educalufvn on true cr vwded condut ons ot the school Due tv these students speeches and the help of the Ptrent Teachers Assocuatuon the B ard saw fut to enlarge the school t uts prese l suze The school has r mauned the same un manv respect unce that tume , 1 - l ' , t V I . C . , . X x, X . I. . I I ... I :u I I , , . X T ' , J . , I I . C . I , .1 I , . . . , I I- .W r . . . I . . . uu . . S . F: I . I . . N. ,I 4 . I . , .4 c -I O . . C I c V - . ' - ' ' A ' '- . I V I t , I , . 5, . C , , .YI-. . . j , I ' ' l ' T 1 C C el . , . . QT. u, f ' 1 . ,., V I L , C I T, tx c . c . . . , , . ' -. I C ' l I u 1 1 - - A K . ,, c I ,Q Q Tx , . I . . , E u S S