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 dents demonstrates clearly the wisdom of our plans and the soundness of 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 of 1909-1910. The lower story of this building is used as a boys’ dormitory. The upper story is used by the Musig- marhonian and the Pierian Literary Societies. On the seventh of March, 1910, the main building, con¬ taining recitation rooms, dining room, auditorium, Prin¬ cipal’s office and residence, girls’ dormitory and one dormitory for boys, was destroyed by fire. As only two dormitories 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, called a meeting of the citizens and it was determined to re¬ build. The contract was let and work was begun at once. Sequestered student life gave place to the builders’ work. Girls, boys, teachers, study and examinations had given way to the carpenter, the mason and the tinner. Soon the wooded hill was resonant with craftsman’s tools. Out of the ashes of the old was born a bigger and a better Piedmont. Out of the fire-fiend’s ruin; out of cherished, broken plans have come the fruition of broader founda¬ tions and the realization of higher ideals. Three struc¬ tures, more modern in construction than the old, more dormitory rooms, more recitation rooms, greater con¬ veniences, water-works, a larger campus, larger play¬ grounds, and electric lights are the outcome of our ter¬ rible 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 con¬ veniences, an office and rooms for the Principal and his family. The whole of the upper story of the building is used as a dormitory for girls. The next is the stately building containing the department of music, the busi¬ ness school, the primary department and an auditorium fitted with raised seats and modern stage scenery. Its seating capacity is about nine hundred. The Waters’

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ELAM HALL GIRLS’ DORMITORY NEWTON HALL