Ouachita Parish High School - Roarer Yearbook (Monroe, LA)

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Beginning with a six-room building which ,housed in l894 both grammar and high school departments, the present plant for these two departments with combined enrollments of l938 stu' dents and faculties of seventy-seven is as follows: The grammar school, enlarged from the original l894 building to its present size, the high school, containing sixty class rooms, tour laboratories, caieteria, auditorium, and l2,UUO-volume libraryg the gymnasium furnishing also a band departmentg the studio serving the Vocal music department, the garage and parking lot used ior its fleet of thirty-three buses. Ouachita has ever given distinguished service to its corn- niunity and has won numerous awards in literary and athletic contests. lts 5748 graduates have been worthy representatives of their Alma Materi ' lt is noteworthy that its destiny has been guided since its inception in 1894 by only four principals-H. E. Chambers, l894- lS96g H. H. Byrd, l896-H3995 T. O. Brown, 1899-19087 lack Hayes, l908w. Ouachitas First Horne Economics Department T. O. Brown, who served nine years as Ouachita's Princi pal and thirty-one as Ouachita Parish Superintendent. A man whose very life was woven into Ouachita's warp and Woof. ' Ouachita's First School Bus PCIQQ Elghf

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South Monroe boasts two places of special historic interest+Lovers' Lane and Layton Place. Lovers' Lane was originally an ave- nue of catalpa trees running through the lower Pargoucl Plantation, the prop- erty of Hypolite and lean Francois Pargoud. Layton Place is associated hristori- cally With Iudge Henry Bry, responsible for the naming ot Monroe, Vtlhen John I. Audubon was collecting materials for his Birds of America, he tramped the forest swamps of North Louisiana, so- journed tor months at the Bry horne, and left there many of his original drawings. Beginnings ln the days when cotton was king, Old Trenton, a thriving port, situated along the west banks of the Ouachita, teemed with commission merchants. Here steamboats landed, loaded their bales, and unloaded cargoes from New Orleans. Lovers' Lane 'QD f rv' 4 'Lv' A, 'V' tr Page Seven Shipping Cotton on the Ouachita Bell from the West Monroe Landing in By-gone Days

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, Ouachita Parish High Schoo1 1894 9 ur Alma Mdtcrls Beginnings Fifty-tive Years Later-fOuachita Parish Grammar School 1 Both grammar and hiqh schoo1 departments until 1924 were housed in this buiidinq, en1arqec1 to its present size in 1919. Page Nine