Northeast High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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jim, 'Flew .Sched l-IE NEW BUILDING is to be almost exclu- sively for the Industrial students. Even if we do not suffer a serious loss from those students who know what the new building will be like in its improvements over the old in both room and facilities, I know there will be some who wish that they were of the Class of 1938 instead of l937, for then the new quarters are expected to be complete. The total number of rooms for the Me- chanical Arts classes will be fifteen. They will include four each of electric, auto and wood shops, two machine shops, and one mechanical laboratory for those majoring in mechanical construction. These rooms will be placed on a level with the old building Cfour stories? and will be at least thirty by sixty feet in size. The new equipment will cost thousands of dollars and will help make Northeast the best equipped school in Philadelphia. There will be an elevator to run from the basement to the roof. In the fourth floor there will be the soundproof music room where Music Teachers Duffield and Washco will preside. Their present domicile will be con- verted into a library to be named, in honor of our principal, Rowland Hall. In each of the new rooms there will be a clock. CWere these not there we could still have Ioe Fara- ghan announce the time every half hour from the public address system centralized in the main office? In addition to this there will be telephones installed in the new rooms and those in the old rooms fixed so that one will no longer receive calls from mysterious strangers who appear to hang up when the receivers are lifted. The old bicycle room or inner courtyard, is being converted into a modern lunch-room to be used in conjunction with the old one. A specially-constructed bicycle room has re- placed the small lunch-room and has its entrance and bicycle ramp on the Eighth Street side of the building. Best of all, they Won't have to change the words of the school song, for the new build- ing will also be faced with granite. All corridors throughout the building will have a glazed tile wainscoting such as is found in many junior high schools. lt will be strictly fireproof, with hollow tile parti- tions throughout. The main structure is to be the Somerset wing which is to have a wire enclosed root playground. THE NEW NORTHEAST IN THE MAKING

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THE STAFF Biography Frank I. Helinek Sports Norman Axe Activities Ioseph Dixon Ierry Certaine Altred Boileau Donald Noble Biography George Gilbert Raymond Reinhardt Iames McCabe Martin Berman ' Serqius Neprash Herbert Shedinqer William Woehr Editor-in-Chiei WALTER R. RODGERS Business Manager GEORGE R. BATES Associate Editor ALLEN G. SAMPSON DEPARTMENT EDITORS Activities TYPi1'19 Iohn Corr Samuel Batejan Clubs Samuel Mann DEPARTMENT STAFFS Clubs TYPi1'l'-J Iohn McCauQl'1ey Robert Macljarlane Iames Parvin Conrad Kolb Sports Wilson Peck Henry Pollock lrving Adler Frank Holmes Iohn Quinn Martin Arost lames Buonassisi Iulius Horwath Iohn Zumbo Business lack Hieb Photography Harry Downinq

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' or N SEPTEMBER, 1890, students represent- ing the overflow of students from the Central Manual Training School, were cared for on the first and third floors of the William A. Lee primary school, on Howard Street, below Girard Avenue. When the next semester began in Septem- ber, 1891, shop equipment was installed on the first floor of the school. ln the same monthl, Mr. I. W. Moyer was placed in charge of the annex. ln the following September, Northeast became a separate institution with Dr. C. Hanford Henderson as Principal. After Dr. Hendersorfs Principalship that office was filled by Prof. I. Monroe Willard, who was succeeded by Dr. Andrew I. Morrison. Later an addition, which housed shops and laboratories, was built. ln a short time even two annexes were not sufficient to ac- commodate the great numbers clamoring for entrance, and the present structure was built in 1905. The cornerstone of the present build- ing was laid on Ianuary 8, 1905, by Mayor Weaver, in the presence of a large audience, including the entire student body. The building was dedicated on November 14, 1905, by Woodrow Wilson, at that time President of Princeton University. Dr. Andrew Morrison was principal at the time, and he held his post until his death in 1920. The present auditorium, Morrison Hall, was dedicated to him in the following year. The gymnasium, Shallcross Hall, was dedicated in the same year, in memory of Thomas Shallcross, who had been chairman of the Northeast High School Committee of the Board of Education. Upon the death of Dr. Morrison, Dr. George F. Stradling became Principal. After faith- fully serving Northeast for forty-one years Dr. Stradling quietly passed away on Ianu- ary 24, 1932. His successor was Dr. Theo- dore S. Rowland. ln the fall of 1890, the faculty consisted of six men, of whom the last survivor was Professor George D. Firmin, who retired in Iune, 1936. Shortly after moving to the present build- ing, the faculty and student body raised a large sum of money with which they pur- chased a pipe organ. Later a larger one was purchased and placed in Morrison Hall, but this was destroyed in a disastrous fire in 1935, and since then an excellent modern organ has been installed. Northeast Field was secured only after a hard fought battle against powerful odds. The Archive , a monthly magazine, ap- peared in September, 1892, under the able editorship of Vincent B. Brecht, now Profes- sor of English at Northeast. The Mega- phone appeared in March, 1923, as a mime- ographed sheet, with Stanley H. Lang as editor. The annual Fall Play and Spring Revue have given Northeast a dramatic record sec- ond to none. The first Revue was presented in 1921 and the first Senate Play in 1925. Now that Northeast is to be increased in size by an annex to be finished by Septem- ber, 1937, may it also increase in fame, scholastic and athletic merit, and always maintain at a high pitch, that unconquerable Northeast Spirit.