McClenaghan High School - Florentine Yearbook (Florence, SC)

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CLASS POEM Class-mates our school days have ended. Our childish habits are dead. We dream of the past that tve’re leaving And wonder what lies just ahead. We're leaving the scenes of yesterdays And the school we called our own. And many’s the lessons we leave unlearned. Though its loss we fail to mourn. Fond are the memories we take with us Of our comrades and teachers too, Of the old red building with many scars That will soon be replaced with new. Memories of those substitute teachers And study periods thrown away, And thoughts of the many popquizzes we had, They all are with us to stay. But soon the world will call on us, And this the call will be, “I have a place for every one But what can you do for me?” Class-mates arise to his question. And say that you will try. Remember to do the part you have For the glory of dear old Hi!

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THE FLORENCE CITY SCHOOLS BOARD OF CITY COMMISSIONERS: N. W. Hicks, Chairman H. E. Davis J. W. Irby R. E. Currin J. C. McClenaghan W. L. Brooker, Superintendent Miss Trix Barber, Mrs. J. L. Wysong, Primary Supervisor Music Supervsisor The Florence City Schools District was organized by special act of Legislature in 1883. There were then in use a few' small wooden buildings for the small schools of the village. In 1914 the first brick building was erected on Cheeves Street. This was used for all grades until the large, modern grammar school was erected on Dargan Street. This new building, the Central Grammar School, was occupied for the first time in January, 1918. The High School was continued in the old building on Cheeves Street. The schools grew rapidly and soon filled both buildings. To meet the growth, the Board built the Park Grammar School in 1915. This was occupied in 1916. The schools continued to grow with the steady growth of the city and by 1919 all class rooms are again crowded. To meet this condition a modern high school'was planned. This building has been needed for some years. So the Board has begun its second building development. There is now being erected on South Dargan Street, a large modern school building. This will he of fireproof construction and will include provisions for all high school work and activities. Manual Training, Domestic Science, Domestic Art, and general laboratories are provided. In addition, there will he sixteen standard classrooms. The auditorium will seat 1200 people and a large gymnasium will provide the needed physical training. Large playgrounds and a full-sized athletic field will be a part of the equipment. The building w ill cost about $200,000 and is so planned that future additions are possible without marring in any way the plan. The growth of the schools during the last decade has been remarkable but only in keeping with the growth of the city. In 1910 there were in the schools 1019 pupils. Now the enrollment is 3237. All class rooms are being used and are crowded. There is every evidence that the growth will he constant. To meet this in the future, the Board has alradv secured a site in West End for another grammar school and one in North Florence for another negro school. This summer a high school building will be erected for the negro schools. There is every evidnce that the future heolds for the system much that is encouraging and progressive.

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LAWSON PAUL BARNES “Fatty” “Cupid' “Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer judge. President of Serior Class; Secretary F. H. S. Literary Society 3 ; Annual Staff (2-34); Member Basket Ball Team Ml; Captain Basket Ball Team (3); Manager Basket Ball Team (4) : Member Foot Ball Team (2-34); Manager Football Team (34); Member Block F. Club (1-2-34); Member Glee Club (3-4); Member Bo Club (4); Member Sans Souci (4); Member Busy Bee Club (4). There are no words of fitting exactness and variety to describe Paul. Whether it be on the athletic field, in a debating contest, or on the floor at Pinewood Paul is a star. From making even our most austere teacher laugh to supplying the needed excuse for all 11-B’s devilment he is “on the job.” It is said that Paul is some heart smasher, but since last summer “be looked at her and saw nothing but her.” We think that he has been initiated into the secret order of “K. P.” Perhaps this is why his books and the desks of the High School at large bear these fatal initials.