Northside High School - Bruin Yearbook (Fort Smith, AR)

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I O O girls dressing rooms and a balcony with a capacity of 700. An increase in enrollment neces- sitated the construction in 1935 of a stadium and building fupper right, just north of the main building. The Grizzly athletic field was completed at that time also. The present home ec building fbottom rightj was a four-unit apart- ment building before being purchased by the school in 1951. During the fall of 1956 a new wing fupper middlej was constructed I . , '51 w .F 5 over existing tennis courts. The school was without tennis courts until the class of '75 had new ones put down. The armex included an additional gym, now known as Gym B. In April 1962 the school board voted to annex Peabody Elementary School fupper lefty. Elementary classes used the first floor rooms and the high school the second Only tenth graders, however, assigned classes at Peabody. With the construction of a second Smith story. were high school fSouthsidej, Fort High School was changed to Northside High School in August 1961. Costing approximately S350,000, a new fieldhouse fbottom leftj was completed in October 1964 west of the main building. Ee? fr ' :asa l::: qi V is :Q EEE! 5555 ll ll , ll ' ' ' lll llll ll! I! rl lli lil! U! llll -353 Iill 'ill ii' 1 flfv: 4-'ggi W 5 af- . , 'Pg' IIIHN- -gg' E ai 2 md oil 1 lfl rx E1 I l Wai' .::: al

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1 ? -5..,l WJ Ml.. -'-W --N' W cf :Ilona ma4l k 1 . -f+ f In the fall of 1928 the Fort Smith High School and junior College were moved into the present building fcenterj. This photo is the earliest taken of t.he Structure. The building, which cost about S500,000, contained an auditorium with a capacity of 1,100, a complete public address system, 1,076 full-length, built- in lockers, a cafeteria seating 250, a greenhouse for science work, a library with a capacity of 15,000 volumes and 220 students, 35 dassrooms, vocational shops, and a gymnasium with boys and

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4 5 Lightning struck and dam- aged the smokestack last year, prompting its repair and repaint- ing. Tl1is nostalgic landmark was painted last in 1969. Decorated cars, eating eggs as punishment for throwing them, and special morning meditations by the Creative Writing class were all part of this year's Northside-Southside week, but the Battle of Rogers Avenue is nothing new. Long before Southside the rivalry was between the Van Buren Pointers until the annual game was diswntinued because of vandalism. h I Used even before World War Il, the Student Council gavel was carved from one of the walnut spokes of a caisson from the first fort. The gavel used to sport red and white streamers until the mde presidents believed the ribbons wee too feminine, aoeording to Mr. Wayne Bledsoe, SC sponsor. Following the national an- them, Janet Alexander will sing the Alma Mater, which was written in 1937 by a profes- sional songwriter.