R Nelson Snider High School - Safari Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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For eighteen months. Snider students watched their future school rise. ABOVE (TOP): During the first few months, progress was not very noticeable, for the underground work was being done. After the pipes and wires were in place, the foundation was laid. ABOVE (CENTER): Machinery, building materials, and a sea of mud helped compose the construction site. BELOW: Finally the walls were completely erected, and the inside work on the classrooms began. RIGHT: One of the many construction workers gets a bird ' s-eye view of the unfinished portion of the building. Girders and beams formed a network of steel, and produced a rough idea of how the completed structure would look in the future. ■Lu jtfMftl Ljj M P ?£ , ' J 5 i tear • »«»» 5

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Snider Building Grows with Time ABOVE: The leaves of summer cast a picturesque shadow on the first wing of Snider to be completed. It would be another year before Panthers walked down the halls of the entire building. BELOW: Early in the fall, the nearly completed building stood silhouetted against a background of tall trees. Only the interior remained to be finished before classes opened. Snider High School actually came into being in the fall of 1964. Since then the students watched the construction of their building with great an- ticipation. Due to unforeseeable cir- cumstances the completion of the building was delayed past the proposed date of the fall of 1965. Therefore Snider stu- dents attended classes tem- porarily at Chester T. Lane Junior High School on a 7:10 A.M. to 11:55 A.M. schedule. Work progressed rapidly, and classes began in the new building on April 11, 1966, even though the gymnasium, auditorium, cafeteria, and mu- sic and art rooms were not yet completed. Although a shortened schedule was main- tained, a full curriculum was achieved. R. Nelson Snider High School is the first new public high school in Fort Wayne in thirty-nine years. Snider has many up-to-date facilities in- cluding language and science laboratories, a research cen- ter connected with the library and audio-visual program, plus excellent physical educa- tion facilities. The four million dollar building will accommo- date a student body of ap- proximately 2000, plus a competent faculty and guid- ance staff with modern, use- ful classroom equipment.

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Friendship and ABOVE: Tim Cooley studies diligently in the library, where many students were to be found doing research for term papers and selecting books for book reports. Since Snider had to share the library facilities with Lane, the public library was also the scene for much hard work. BELOW: Student assemblies are anticipated by nearly everyone, for they pro- vide a needed break from studying and help to increase school spirit. These students await dismissal after a Friday pep session. LEFT: Apron and safety glasses compose the uniform of this chemistry student. Sandi Ridge helps her fellow lab partners perform an experiment to discover the effects of nitric acid on copper. Such work is done in groups.