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

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F-x ,gg lage r-' '15 2'f 'F'B '59ffl -'E '9f f'E r 1 i l il . 3 4 i Q 1 s l . N l l e- ' 1 a px ' i A i I i f 5 1 ,gi l ' L N ' 1 l i 1 1' l l i t l lJ , l l , I 1 , , E ' M 1 M JL U 1 l 1 i m 1 1 i f 5 : t .vi , , I 4 if l l .J M i l il' I 1 I 'lf ' l l e . ' 2 I. l l ' ' ' History of the School l l is l , 1 l ' rl l i N ' HE first Dallas high school came into existence about the year 1884. The building l lg stood on the same ground on which the Bryan Street High School now stands. Q The school was originally a Methodist College and church until it was bought . l by the School Directors and put into use as a school building. The first floor of the I building was used at first as offices for the School Board and others, the second floor 3 ig F X was divided into classrooms, and the third floor was a dormitory for pupils who did l l J l not live in Dallas. ' Y 4' Children from the fourth grade up through the fourth year of high school were E l taught here. The enrollment the first year was only two hundred and fifty, the pupils fl i A' in the high school division numbering only one hundred, and one of the first senior in classes to graduate was composed of 4 pupils. This is in striking contrast to the lim' Q I-1 present enrollment of 1500 or more in each of the four high schools with senior classes 3 1 E of 100 and 180 pupils graduating in January and June respectively. The old Methodist College was used for Z3 years until in 1907, when the building if used at present was built to care for the needs of the fast growing city. This did i 1 V not long prove adequate to serve the needs of the city, however, so shortly after the 'H l 4 annexation of Oak Cliff, a new and larger high school was built there. In 1917 the . Forest Avenue High School was built and half the student body and faculty of Bryan iv' High were transferred to the new school. In February, 1922, the North Dallas High I ,1 I School was built to accommodate the overHow from Bryan and Forest Avenue. 'l !, x i 1 'N Q Ti ' yjlfl i 2 I l f .5 li l A Lia M 15... ,,,,.v,, 5,1 W, :VY . ,-....,. ..- ' -, ,ww ,,,,AmM,,WAf Page Fifteen