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ore word After the War Between the States, Little Rock pushed forward feebly, but heroically to educate her children. Some of her earliest school houses were homes converted into school buildings. Her first school house constructed for that pur- pose was a small three-room building with one room on the side, known as Sherman School on the site where Kramer School now stands. In time the Sher- man School came to include two small frame buildings with movable houses for the primary grades. Sherman grew rapidly, and her first graduating class of four girls and one boy, under one Professor Helms, received their sheepskins in 1873. In 1869 a four-room brick building was constructed on the site of what is no Peabody school, replacing an old cemetery whose last tombstones were not all I Removed, we are told by old settlers, till 1908 (to Mt. Holly Cemetery). When fyttle of the Brooks-Baxter War was fought in the street in front of Peabody, tha chool was temporarily closed. v Before long the Scott Street School was opened on the site of the pr N»nt East Side Junior High School. If was built on depreciated currency, county 3' f at 50 cents on the dollar, and Major R. H. Parham was employed as principal. Street School now boasted of being a high school, and Peabody became a mar school, like Sherman School. 1890 the high school was moved back to Peabody, into a new 12-room annex, with R. C. Hall as principal. Scott Street School now became a grammar schooi with Major Parham serving as the principal there. Another step of progress came in 1905, when Little Rock opened the doors of its new $100,000 high school built on the same site as the Scott Street School, at Fourteenth and Scott. As the residential areas of the city spread west, many children of Little Rock found themselves farther and farther away from their schools. In 1927, with principal John A. Larson, Little Rock opened the doors of her million and a half- dollar high school, lauded as the most beautiful high school in America. Its castle-like appearance has intrigued the fancy of many a traveler, and in the moon- light if takes on the resemblance of a fairyland of long ago. Still the city has grown westward. Plans are now being completed to con- struct another high school for the children farther west, and to be located in the area where Hayes Street crosses Highway 10. All of these plans necessitate the arrangement for the new member of the school-family to have a name as fair and as suitable as the time-honored and traditional name of Little Rock High School. Since there cannot be two schools of the same name, each must have a distinctive name. For that reason the name so long loved gives place to one to be cherished in like manner always-Little Rock Central High School-leaving the new school farther west still to be named. Published by the students Rock Central High School Little Rock, Arkansas iKM
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Editors for The 1954 Pix DANA GAIL BOOE Editor-in-Chief SUSAN RIFFE Co-Editor - V .«Ml PotVw . OlSe. r ( o -- .• ''fcl -A. Yo«-V 4V U 0 5 - -£or [ip C 2 C £ ( -C»- —I Q .( O • O ✓v-v cs C C3 io€Ou ”t . VCt«-p r 4- e eoe « •% Eighty-five years of progress, from Peabody to the present Little Rock Central High. The adaption of the new is a fitting time to reflect upon the old. The Pix Staff, remembering that the recent change in the name of our school does not take from us our history, salutes the classes of the past, and, in so doing, anticipates an even greater future for LRCHS. It is with a strong feeling of satisfaction, yet not without sadness, that we realize that the last work has been done on our book. We have taken the last picture, sold the last advertisement, and made up the last page. Now the Pix passes from our hands to yours. You have before you the product of a year's effort, a record of our school. In Affectionate Memory, The PIX Staff
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