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

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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

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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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Cheerinq squad leads or pep-meeting Students enjoy practicing yells for C1 biq qclme SCI-IQCDL Page Ten