Oil City High School - Oil Can Yearbook (Oil City, PA)

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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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In the days when the Senior High school, as now known, was not in existence, and graduating classes of more than three hundred were undreamed of, high school students in the city attended sessions at the present Central and Pearl avenue structures. But in April, 1900, these classes were transferred to the newly constructed Senior High, which is now known as the “old building” of the school. Here students—practically all were enrolled in the college preparatory course—studied Greek and German as well as French and Latin, under the supervision of T. F. Turnbull, first principal in the new edifice. With the enrollment increasing steadily through the years, the capacity of the building was eventually reached, then passed, and finally in 1932, as a necessary outlet for the crowded conditions, was erected the present modern school. Today, its facilities and personnel on a par with larger schools, the Oil City Senior High School is rated as one of northwestern Pennsylvania’s better schools. Besides the twenty-seven classrooms in use in both buildings, there are two gymnasiums, two laboratories, three art rooms, a music room, and a printing shop. The completely equipped cafeteria can serve 150 customers, the auditorium-study hall seats a thousand, and on the shelves of the school library are more than 2000 volumes. Thus our Alma Mater! 9