Polytechnic High School - Parrot Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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Old Dinow Building Polytechnic High School 1923-1 938 Thurman Wood and Sam l. Calloway with first trophies: A District Trophy and a County Trophy in baseball. Years ago, the date has long been forgotten, a small, two-teacher school was erected in the community oi Polytechnic. This was known as the Man- chester School. Out oi this small beginning has grown Polytechnic l-ligh School as we know it today. The Manchester School, with its inadequate facilities, struggled along until 1905, when the first Polytechnic High School building was built. ln l907 PgF I

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POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOCL FACULTY -l9lI-I2 First Bow: Mr, Harvey Miner, Miss Marnie Drahn, Mr. Sarn I. Callaway, Mrs. Lena Gardner, Mr, T. B. Cooper, Miss Ada Wessenclorff. Second Bow: Miss Penelope Hamilton, Miss Lillie Melugin, Miss Ruby Smith, Mrs. B. H. Kennedy, Mr. Webb, Miss George Ina Smith, Miss Lydia Robert, son, Miss Butli Ward. POLYTECHNIC HIGH BASKETBALL TEAMfl9ll Front Row: Mary Brown, Kara Asliley, Oscar Duvall, Fay Boykin, Bessie Latimer. Standing: Lois Vxfilcox, Lorene Owens, Bess Dixon, N. Cox, Coach, Grace Buckley, Ruth Gray, Lucille Stewart. the first high school grades were added. At that time there were 300 pupils with only 6 teachers. Through the able leadership of Sam I. Calloway, the school thrived in spite of great odds. Nearby was Polytechnic College offering high school work, and not far away the then Port Worth High School, now Paschal, was catering to many Polytechnic people. The school continued to grow, and in l9l2 the first class of graduates emerged. The enrollment at this time had reached something like l,UOO, and eleven members were given diplomas at the graduation exercises of Iune, I9l2. In l9l6 Dr. L. W. Newton, now a professor at North Texas State Teachers College, took over the superintendency of the Polytechnic Independent School District. I-Ie carried on the good work until l9l9 when Mr. R. M. Parker became superintendent. Because of the rapid growth it was soon found that the building would not accommodate the number of pupils. Due to the Page Fifteen