N R Crozier Technical High School - Wolf Pack Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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BRYAN STREET HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL By PAUL JOHNSON HE first Dallas High School, which was founded in 1887, from which the T present Bryan Street High School is descended, was located above Austin Bros. Grocery Co., at the corner of Main and Akard Streets. At this time the number of teachers did not exceed ten and the facilities of the school were core respondingly inadequate. Since this time the advancement of the school has been marked. After several years the school was moved to its present site which was then occupied by the building of what had formerly been a Methodist college. This was quite an improvement over the first school. In fact, although there are many courses in our curriculum now that we did not have then, although our facilities are more modern and more convenient, and although our teachers are possibly more efficient and more competent, there were several courses which we do not now have. Two courses, Greek and Psychology, which were taught then, have been discontinued and there were probably others of which we could get no information. Further, more, although no grades lower than the ninth are now taught, at that time the grades ran from the fourth to the twelfth. It was onlyin recent years that the practice of teaching grades lower than the ninth was discontinued. Finally the board of education felt the need of a new high school. Ac! cordingly, the old building was destroyed, and our present building, a picture of which is printed on this page, was erected. It was thought that this would sate Page Nine

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HISTORY OF THE SCHOOLeContinued isfy the needs of the city for a considerable time; but this conclusion was soon proved to be wrong. The remarkable growth of Dallas as a business center and the consequent demand for more schools showed that conditions had been misjudged. In two years the new building was crowded and the school board was seriously considering plans for building another high school. As it was most inconvenient for those students, who lived in Oak Cliff, a suburb of Dallas, to attend this school, it was decided to erect another building in Oak Cliff. The crowded state of afr fairs was somewhat relieved, and it was not until 1915 that the building began to be again overcrowded. During that year there were approximately nineteen hundred students attending the school, whose capacity was not over one thousand. The board of education, following out its generous educational policy, which has been heartily supported by Dallas citizens, erected a high school building of mag nificient equipment and appearance in south Dallas. The relation of Bryan High School to Dallas Educational affairs is seen by this brief summary of years of labor. It is the mother of all Dallas Highrschools. Although its solid front does not present that fresh beauty which its offrsprings do, its walls have seen, and its history witnessed a succession of earnest students and teachers of which they may be proud. The following have been principals: Professors, Johnson, Halyburton, Coleman, Lipscomb, Morgan, Hauslein, and Crozier. The improvement in the curriculum also has been very great. There is no high school course that is of any practical value that is not included in the cure riculum of Bryan High. The courses range from the most practical studies, such as Domestic Economy and Manual Training, to the classical studies of Latin and Music. Three years ago a course of Physical Training was arranged for the girls, and the Dallas Cadet Corps was organized for the boys, this high school being one of the first in the state to adopt military training. Since their organization both of these courses have gained in favor, and now a large percent of the students take one or the other of these two courses. The number of credits required for gradual tion is seventeen, and this admits a graduate to almost any college without examinar tion. n; The student activities have covered a wide field. Every since the presentar jl tion at Turner Hall of the first senior play, which wasa dramatization ofTennyson's j; ldyls of The King , arranged by Miss Bessie Grove, of the senior class, the seniors 55 have given plays, which have been unusually successful. There have been my lij merous literary, dramatic, and art clubs organized, which have been of as much use in educating the students, as have been their studies. The club council, a student organization for the solution of problems arising in girls clubs, and the Students Council, a student organization for the prevention of Vice in the school, have 7, served their purposes well. The Boys High School Club, and the Girls High J School Club, organizations with a purpose similar to that of the Students Council, 7 have been perfected. The Athletic Association, an organization for the encourage, ment of Athletics for the benefit of which a yearly minstrel is held, has proved its worth. In the Athletic world, the track, baseball, football, tennis, and basket, ball teams have brought home many laurels to their school. The Dalhi Journal and the Dalhi Annual, student publications, have been published for many years with increasing success. Since the entrance of the country into the war the students have been busily engaged in work for the Red Cross and relief societies; they have many thrift societies; and large amounts of thrift stamps and Liberty Bonds have been bought. Despite these improvements, the school is now in serious need of two thingse- a daily or weekly paper and a gymnasium. Page Ten lEA J Elmmt M imnmm 1918 mmmmmmmmnij lillLl m Widll rrtlhr r Law WE