Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Miss Hattie Wortman (Piedmont High School) Intermediate Department Mrs. Arthur Mauney Intermediate Department Mrs. Alger F. Harrelson Intermediate Department Mrs. John W. Moore Primary Department DeWitt Carson (Piedmont High School) Librarian Miss Margaret Hord (Piedmont High School) Keeper of Reading Room Mrs. Bettie Lee Matron

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History, Buildings and Situation In so short a space, it is impossible to give even a brief history of a school that has so materially affected the lives and the for¬ tunes of so many boys and girls of this and of neighboring states. A sketch must suffice. Piedmont High School was established twenty-nine years ago. David Hall, in which the school had its beginning, small, weather¬ beaten and dilapidated, is being torn down because its proximity endangers the new brick administration building which has just been completed and which is now being furnished throughout with modern school furniture. This building contains nine reci¬ tation rooms including a chemical laboratory, besides a dining room and a fitting-room for the department of Home Economics, a principal’s office, room for heating plant, toilets, lavatories and a study hall containing a hundred and ninety-eight patent desks facing the stage. This will give ample room for every high school pupil and each pupil will be required to occupy one of the desks, while not on recitation, during study hours. The recita¬ tion rooms are also fitted with single patent desks. These desks will be used during recitation periods and when examinations are being held. Special attention is being paid to fitting up the laboratory for the teaching of Science. This will have arm chairs for recitation and tables and stools for use while making experiments. There has been added to the equipment, already on hand, microscopes and other much needed apparatus. The build¬ ing is provided with water, electric lights and steam heat. The natural lighting and the ventilation is fine. This new addition to our school plant was constructed according to plans and speci¬ fications of the department of Public Instruction of the state of North Carolina. As the study hall has a nice stage, chapel exer¬ cises will be conducted in it. The old auditorium will be used