Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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ijl The following year S. P. Eggertsen became principal and short- Vx hand and typewriting were introduced, with Miss Cornell as teacher. q The small office room then used by. the Board was large enough to accomodate the class. Today there are two hundred taking the IjUjl course and thirty machines are kept busy. I£X In 1918 the “White and Green” first saw the light, due principal- 'H ly to the efforts of Lucy Phillips of the English department. } | March 1919—Glorious news! Plans were drawn for a new ICC building and in May the Board decided to put into the school a four JjC year course. June 1920, Superintendent Eggertsen resigned after long and efficient service. Some time later resolutions were drawn up by a committee appointed by the citizens who met to rejoice because of the completion of the gymnasium. The resolutions are as follows: Superintendent L. E. Eggertsen: To you dear superintendent and co-laborer, do we representatives of Provo C'ty Schools express our appreciation and gratitude for your untiring efforts in establishing the high school in Provo City. Your work has been well done, and whenever boys and girls, young men and women enter to prepare for the battles of life and ask: “Who was primarily responsible for a High School for Provo City ?” Graciously we reply: “L. E. Eggertsen!” Public servants, in every community, are known for some special service performed; when your name is mentioned here you shall be lovingly and greatfully known as the father of the Provo City High School. W. LESTER MANGUM, Rep. Board of Education, HANNAH J. CARDALL, Teacher, GEO. POWELSON, Principal, —Committee. September 1920. School began under the charm of Superintendent Dixon’s personality and efficient management, and with Principal Atkin’s enthusiasm going on “high,” with a complete four year schedule and the new building ready for occupancy. The course in Home Making was added, enlarged art department and ether new classes. Seminary opened. This same year the “Provonian” became the school paper. The seventh year was brought to the Central, making the full six years, the Junior High three and the Senior High three. In May 1921 the first class to complete the full course consisted of four boys and fourteen girls. The paving in front of the new building is their gift to the school. Mrs. M. B. Jacob became head of the English department, and after two years of intensive study has organized a department equal to any in the state of Utah. The English course for the coming year will be new and fitted to meet the needs of the individual. September 1922. The enrollment reaches nearly twelve-hundred, including faculty members. March 1923. Principal Atkin resigned and L. B. Harmon, who has for five years been a popular member of the faculty lias been appointed principal. There are new things in store for us next year. “WATCH US GROW!”

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Provo High School Buildings iimm 0 n 02E| PROVO may justly be proud of her splendid High School buildings. The Junior Building—erected at a cost of seventy-five thousand dollars, houses the Domestic Science and Domestic Art laboratories of the Senior High School. Besides these two rooms, which are uniquely situated for the particular work of these departments, there are twelve large and beautiful class rooms and one rather elaborate study room. The cost of maintaining this building for one year is as follows: Coal ......................................$ 777.30 Electricity ................................ 213.67 One Custodian ............................. 1200.00 Janitorial Supplies ........................ 185.00 Water ...................................... 185.50 Total............................$2561.4 The Senior High School Building was erected at a cost of two-hundred sixty-seven thousand dollars. The Auditorium will cost another twenty-seven thousand six hundred, eighteen dollars,'— making a total of two hundred, ninty-four thousand, six hundred, eighteen dollars. When completed the Auditorium will have a thoroughly “up-to-date stage,” where operas, dramas, and other such activities may be presented in classical form. The finishing and seating of the Auditorium will also be up-to-date in every particular. The Auditorium will have a seating capacity of twelve hundred. The Senior building also houses the swimming pool, which is sixty feet long, thirty feet wide and from three and one-half to six and two-thirds feet deep. Without an exception this is the most elaborate swimming pool in the State. Over the pool is the gymnasium, the dimensions of which are sixty-two feet by thirty-five feet. Besides the auditorium, the swimming pool, and the gymnasium, there is the woodwork laboratory, the chemistry laboratory, the physics laboratory, the free clinic, the student body office, the girls’ rest room, the book store, the store room, and twelve class rooms. The cost of maintaining this building for one years is as follows: ' Coal .......................................$2350.00 Electricity .............................. 885.00 Three Custodians .......................... 3180.00 Janitorial Supplies ........................ 280.00 Water ...................................... 207.00 Total ......................$6902.00 1 !J. JJ. I :o: ff g ft YY YY :o. Yt 4 YY YY M :o: YY •H.