Leavenworth Senior High School - Junebug Yearbook (Leavenworth, KS)

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carve? gui! ing , The Harvey Building, which houses the Leavenworth Board of Education offices, is located at Seventh and Olive Streets. This building was donated by the Har- ocafionaf Annex The Vocational Annex is a comparatively new addition to LHS. This building, located at 512 Walnut Street, was first put into use in Septeniver of 1950. The office of O. R, Young, director of adult and vocational classes. is located in the annex. Classes conducted there are gen- eral metals, woodwork, mechanical drawing, machine cabinet, millwork, disa- tributive education, retail selling, and Office practice. ' - .1 4. 3 Mm ggi if XX vey family in 1950, and remodeling of the old house was completed in March of 1951. Situated in the building are superintendent, clerk. cafeteria super- visor, elementary school supervisor. L music supervisor, and superintendent of buildings and grounds. Behind the scurry of students, teachers, and the main school building, are several buildings that people don't often connect with LHS. Among these are the Harvey Building, location of the board of education W, , .,,l - Xgijgk-f 4.-1,

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4 fi: :li 'gc an I ff' gl -ffl --- mqhwa' 'FV 2 vvvfv wi ll!i:fQ2fT I li i u u Cgiffl Q If llllivt' .nl ,de .vnu - ' , M11 . we Mm, V V gg A Senior High School building was completed March 15, 1933 at a cost of S181,584 It has a capacity of 800 and is of fireproof construction. Builders were Busboon 85 Rauh of Salina, and architects were Feth 85 Hazlewood of Leavenworth and Felt, Dunham Sz Krien of Kansas City, Mo. The Senior High School building was erected in 1933 for the education of boys and girls who desire to increase their skill in the vocational field or who are preparing to enter college. The steel, concrete, and brick construction of enior Sdoof the building offers little chance of a fire such as the one that burned the former high school building to the ground in 1932. The school's 670 students occupy 30 rooms, which include a library, cafeteria, study hall, science laborato1'y, typing room, home economic rooms, gym, auditorium, jour- nalism room, and music room, plus regular classrooms. The cost of the building, completed on March 15, 1933, was S181,584. . 7 ,.,..r, . l'

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Q I l'l'l OP? Abeles Armory, the new ROTC field- house, was completed April 15, 1952. A sum of 356,000 was appropriated by the school board to pay for the 140 ft. by '70 ft. building. The armory is located at Fifth and Isabell Streets. The modern- istic rooms contain facilities for sopho- more, junior, and senior classrooms: of- fices: and storage for equipment. A five-point rifle range. one of the best of its kind in the state, is located on the grounds. officesg Abeles Armory, the new home of the only Kansas ROTC unitg Abeles Field, where many student activities take placeg and the Vocational Annex, where vocational classes are conducted. 1 X 7.1, - x I FR X, . . : fif 0 Q Q-ii R-if A-'JT'-x 1.3 'Z X.. fs Z 1 ... i 'Q Ll 1 ...L AMA EMU! Abeles Field, Leavenworth's amateur field at Fourth and Poplar, was donated to the Leavenworth school system by Julius Abeles. The field was prepared for use by the Rotary Club in 1925. Located on the west side of Abeles Field are permanent concrete bleachers which seat 1600 people. Temporary wooden bleachers on the east side, seating an- other 1600, are soon to be replaced with permanent bleachers.