Pittsfield High School - Yearbook (Pittsfield, MA)

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1805 1891fl905 l'rinm-ipl t'. A. Hyram 1897 1898 1 P45111 1905-1 l 1'rineipn1 W, D. Goodwin 1911 1911-17 Principal Hurry E. ltratt. 10l7f21 Principal Lorne 13. Hulsman 1921 Principal Roy M. Strnut. 1928 ltkil 1050 Needs and pleas went unheeded: facilities were dwindling, lint the Fates got some action -used the school for their kindling! Although the town fathers commissioned a new one, A good two years passed before it was done. A half-finished block at a Wlest Street location, Sadly equipped to advance education, Served in the meantime. Our very first high school, so the archives express For the space of a year next. relieved the distress. Down by the Vommon at a First Street address The new building was ready-a peerless suecessf-4 A structure imposing, with classrooms to spare, lt boasted labs, a cafeteria-in those days quite rare- And an auditorium! Business was booming, so they made a decision To arrange and conduct a commercial division. When the attendance had doubled in but a deca.de's space The students of business were prevailed on to make place By transferring their section to ltead School nearby: Their departure, however, served not to supply The much-needed relief. All methods and means were tried out in this crux In an effort to cope with and shelter the infiux They set. up more seats, held a double session, And accomplished slight ends by corporeal compression, They converted the attic without insulating tlt was freezing in winter: in spring, suffoeatingl - Into classrooms. A sin of omission to leave t.his unsaid: In this fortunate year Mr. Strout becalne head. The since titled High School of Commerce returned And the crowding seemed hopeless. Then aid was discerned The mayor appointed a special committee To seek and suggest some fit spot in the city For a new school. Sentimental objection couldn't bar their selection So, soon was complete the long-needed erection. The years intervening have swiftly passed by To find cause for expanding even this Pittsfield lligh Its history up to the presentis been told. Now, we'll opine what the future will hold That its first hundred years were the hardest! 'mf V

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