Quakertown Community Senior High School - Recall Yearbook (Quakertown, PA)

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-wdtiom school was laid to provide for the increasing student body, and the first classes were held in 1929. This modern high school, today offering six courses taught by fifty teachers, has an auditor- ium, a gymnasium, a library now containing approximately 9,400 volumes, a well-furnished homemaking department, sci- ence laboratories, and class- rooms. Other features of the school are the Alumni Field, school farm, cafeteria, macadarnized play area, three playgrounds, and vocational wood, metal, and in- dustrial arts shops, each equip- ped with modern machinery. The building of a new and more modern high school is al- ready in progress. Quakertown High School of today and Quakertown Community High School of tomorrow form an im- pressive contrast to the four- room schoolhouse with the pot- bellied stove, the strict school- master, the hickory stick, and the slates of the first Quaker- town public school. HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING Occupied 1929 HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING Proposed occupancy September 1956 Three

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Two Om cedaal TENTH STREET BUILDING Occupied 1880 CENTRHL BUILDING Occupied 1892 LINCOLN BUILDING Occupied 1912 The first Quakertown High School, dating back to 1880, was conducted in a four-room schoolhouse on Tenth Street. From here the first three pupils graduated in 1884. As the community grew, the school system expanded. The high school was transferred to the Central Building after this building, erected in 1880 for elementary pupils, was en- larged in 1892. During the two decades when the Central Building housed the high school, two additions were built. To meet even greater demands for schooling, the Lincoln Build- ing was erected alongside the Central Building in 1911. The high school moved here on Lin- coln's birthday in 1912. When the six-year high school was organized in 1922-23, the junior high school occupied the Lincoln Building and the senior high school, the Central Build- ing. ln 1928 the cornerstone ot the present junior-senior high

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Four Weexgbfzeuan '. MR. DONHLD BHRTO To Mr. Donald Barto, our faithful and con- scientious adviser, the Class ol 1955 expresses its sincere appreciation by dedicating this seventeenth issue of The Recall. The progress We have made toward group unity and the goals We have achieved have been largely due to his constant efforts and encouragement.