Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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AUDITORIUM AND MUSIC HALL WATERS LIBRARY BUILDING SCHENCK HALL

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8 PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL, our policy; not perhaps from a financial standpoint, but from the standpoint of doing the most good to the most people. A building, thirty by fifty, two stories high was erected during the summer, and it was ready for occupancy at the beginning of the session in 1909- 1910. The lower story of this building is used as a boys 5 dormitory. The upper story is used by the Musigmarhonian and the Pierian Literary Societies. On the seventh of March, 1910, the main building, containing recitation rooms, dining-room, auditorium, Principal ' s office and residence, girls 5 dormitory, and one domitory for boys, was destroyed by fire. As only two domitories for boys and the society halls remained, it was impossible to continue our work, so the school was suspended for the remainder of the session. Major Schenck, the President of the Board of Trustees, calle d a meeting of the citizens and it was determined to rebuild. The contract was let and work was begun at once. Sequestered student life gave place to the builders 5 work. Girls, boys, teachers, study and ex¬ aminations had given way to the carpenter, the mason and the tinner. Soon the wooded hill was reso¬ nant with the craftman ' s tools. Out of the ashes of the old was born a bigger and a better Piedmont. Out of the fire-fiend 5 s ruin; out of cherished, broken plans have come the fruition of broader foundations and the realization of higher ideals. Three handsome structures, more modern in construction than the old, more domitory rooms, more recitation rooms, greater conveniences, water-works, a larger campus, larger play grounds, and electric lights are the outcome of our terrible disaster. In all there are six buildings on our campus. The main building, Schenck Hall, contains 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 Prin¬ cipal and his family. The whole of the upper story of this building is used as a dormitory for girls. The next is the stately building containing the department o± 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 5 Library building was completed

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