Newark High School - Reveille Yearbook (Newark, OH)

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22 The Reveille up-to-date with all modern equipment. The swimming pool occupied one-fourth of the whole gymnasium. I was told by the guide that every one of the sixteen hundred pupils took exercises one period each day. They were much stronger and more it to resist epidemics than the pupils of former years. It was almost lunch time so we took 'an electric elevator from the gy'mnasium to the lunch room. The room was entirely white with tables enough to accommodate fifteen hundred people. The domestic science rooms were just off the lunch room where the food was prepared by expert cooks. -After lunch the guide said we would rest awhile, so he took me to the library. It was the most delightful place I had ever seen. The books were handsomely bound and well kept. There were comfortable chairs at the many reading tables. Small reading lamps were on each table. Flowers and ferns were placed in all the windows and charming posters, calling attention to all new books, were on the walls. Several pupils were in the library during their free period. They were using the reader's guide and card index. 'The library was so extensively used that it required two trained librarians to manage it successfully. ' After leaving the library we visited the club rooms. The Civic Society. Dramatic Club, Athenian Society and Thalian Society had their separate rooms in which they held their meetings. There were two rest rooms on the same iioor. A trained nurse had charge of each rest room. The next place we visited was the printing room There were several teachers and about fifty boys setting type, oiling the press, and hauling paper from the eleva- tor to the press. The guide told me that the Reveille was about to go to press. He said that these boys would be experienced printers when they left the High School. We intended to visit some study halls and recitation rooms but an electric gong sounded which summoned the pupils to Assembly. The guide told me an Assembly was conducted by the pupils every day in the week. We went into the enormous auditorium and took seats in the balcony. The orchestra which was almost three times as large as the one in 1920 was playing a stirring march. The stage was large with appropriate scenery. An inter- esting program was given by the pupils. The entire program was devoted to agricul- ture. The guide said that each Assembly was devoted to some special subject but tomorrow the Dramatic Club would present a one-act play as it was accustomed to do every two weeks. An announcement was made that the student council would meet afterischool. I learned from this that the school was governed entirely by the pupils. School was dismissed early on account of a football game. There was a general rush for the garage. I waited until the stream of automobiles and bicycles had sub- sided and then started for my hotel.

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The Rgvegillevg f such as swimming pools, basketball floors, and shower baths. The roof of the gym- nasium will be so constructed that it may be used as a floor, making possible open-air training. All pupils will be required to take physical education. At the first of the year each pupil will be given a thorough physical examination, the purpose of this exam- ination will be to determine what phase of physical training it is best for the pupil to pursue. The physical work in the gymnasium will not only develop the body of the pupil, but it will help to correct any physical defect he may have. Special opportunities will be given those interested in art and music. There will be classes in both these subjects. One of the greatest advantages offered by the new school will be that of the co- operative plan of classes. Pupils will be going to school half a day getting the theoreti- cal training and during the other half he will be at that work which will give him the practical training. As a result of this plan many will be in school who otherwise might have been forced to work. The new High School will have a new auditorium with a seating capacity of twenty-five or thirty hundred. This auditorium will be a real community centerg Newark will hold its meetings and rallies here. High School conventions will beucom- ing' to Newark High School. This High School of ten years from now will be graduating pupils of which the city of Newark will be justly proud. The efficient training given them in this school will be fitting them for an active participation in community life. They will be pre- pared for active leadershipg they will take an intelligent interest in all the activities of Newark. Newark High School will be preparing its pupils for actual service. This is what the Newark High School ten years from now will be doing! A better High School, a better Newark, and so a stronger nation! NEWARK HIGH SCHOOL IN 1930 One autumn, in the year 1930, I had occasion to visit my home town. I had resided in New York since my graduation in 1921 and had not kept in touch with Newark and its activities. VVhile on my way to Newark, pictures of the High School and many happy days spent there, kept coming into my mind. On the second day of my visit I started for the High School. I was expecting to go back to the same old, red, brick building from which I had graduated. I was quite taken aback when a large white stone building confronted me. The lawn was beautiful. Hedges, fiower beds, and fountains added to the charm of the place. I stood before the building a long time before I recovered from my surprise. Then, seeing two smaller white buildings in the rear of the High School, I decided to go there, first. When I tried the door of the first building, I found it locked, so I went to a side window and looked in. There were rows and rows of automobiles and a large number of bicycles parked in the building. While I was still looking in the building, some one touched my arm. I turned quickly and was informed by a gentleman dressed in crimson and white that he was the High School guide and that the building I had been looking into was the High School garage. The guide took me to the second building which I found was the manual training and iron moulder's departments. Boys were making tables, chairs, desks, iron vases, and ink wells. The place was so noisy I could not hear a word the guide said, so we went immediately to the main building. The first place we visited in the High School was the gymnasium. It was very

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