Main Avenue High School - El Sombrero Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Alma Mater • »» As we prepare to leave this hallowed spot, what fond memories we carry away with us. The third, or Manual Training Building, contains the room of rooms, mystery and queer symbols—the chemistry laboratory. Upstairs are the departments that turn out the future housewives,—the sewing and cooking rooms. In the basement arc the saws that buzz and twang. The buffer, the second building, with its wooden steps worn into grooves, contains Miss E. Stone’s room with its walls plastered with pictures and caricatures of our favorite writers and poets. Here, also, are the study halls and library. Connecting the first and second buildings is the old stone bridge; then up a flight of steps and behold the roomy front hall with its cross-word puzzle tiles. Branching off from it are the office, with its “mourners’ bench”, and the auditorium, where we passed many happy hours, and the museum with its curios. Upstairs is that haven of rest—Mother Clark’s office, where every thing can be mended from broken hearts to broken arms. Last, but not least, come the imposing front steps where “the bunch” gathered before school, at noon and in the evening to discuss the events of the day. Fifteen