Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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8 Piedmont High School was raised. The thanks of the school are due to the friends of the institution whose loyalty and liberality have made it possible for us to take another step forward in the march of progress. Piedmont is not dead. Piedmont is no longer in its infancy. PIEDMONT IS NOT AN EXPERI¬ MENT. From small begnnings, through toil and sacri¬ fice, it has ripened in efficiency till it is now generally recognized as one of the strongest preparatory schools in the State. It has sixteen years of steady growth behind it, a large patronage and many friends in the present, and glorious possibilities for the future. Our water cannot be surpassed. At a distance of about a quarter of a mile from the school buildings is a fine, large spring of pure, sparkling water, affording more than twelve gallons per minute. This water is piped to us by means of an electric pump. A tank of fifteen thou¬ sand gallons capacity, standing on a steel tower more than fifty feet high, gives us the best of means of fighting fire. With this and with electric lights, with no danger of exploding lamps nor of deadly fumes of gas in our dormitories, with buildings of only two stories high in front, we feel that we have less to fear from fire than ever before. At a distance of not more than four hundred yards from the School are springs of health-giving sulphur and chalybeate water. Situated on the top of a majestic hill sloping in every direction, thus giving perfect natural drainage; com¬ manding a magnificent view of hills, vales, grassy, un¬ dulating plains, and of the Blue Ridge in the distance; shaded by a forest of stately oaks; enlivened by the music of rippling water; with excellent drinking water and air fiee fiom the taint of malaria, nature has made this an ideal spot for an educational institution of a high

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Lawndale:, North Carolina 7 of our terrible disaster. In all there are six buildings on our campus. The main building, Schenck Hall, con¬ tains four well lighted and well ventilated recitation rooms, a dining room, thirty-three by seventy, a kitchen with many conveniences, an office and rooms for the Principal and his family. The whole of the upper story of this buiding is used as a dormitory for girls. The next is a stately building containing the department of Music, the business school, the primary department and an auditorium fitted with raised seats and modern stage scenery. Its seating capacity is about nine hundred. The Waters’ Library building was completed at the beginning of the last session. This building is the bequest of Miss Nancy Waters, erected in memory of her brother, Captain A. G. Waters, who was a brave Confederate soldier killed in the battle of Gains Mill, near Richmond, Virginia, June 27, 1862. The legacy was not sufficient for the building desired but the deficit was made up by Major H. F. Schenck and Mr. John F. Schenck. The building, thirty by thirty-six, two stories, built of pressed brick, the smallest but the finest of our buildings, adorns the crest of the hill. It is a fit monument for one who gave life for native land—more appropriate by far than glistering marble or lofty granite. On May the seventeenth, 1911, the last day of our com¬ mencement, after an inspiring address by Honorable T. W. Bickett, Major H. F. Schenck, President of the Board of Trustees, presented the needs of the School to the audience, and asked for five thousand dollars to pay off the existing indebtedness, to paint the buildings and to install water-works. A wave of enthusiasm, such as is seldom seen when the people are asked for money, passed over the audience. Wealthy men, boys and girls working their way through school, women and children, all caught the spirit of the hour. More than six thousand dollars

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