Redford High School - Redford Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Shown here is a section of the crowd being ad- dressed by Mr. Stocking wat Red'ford's outdoor mass meeting this fall. The entire student body and faculty assembled on the athletic field to hear speeches by team members and coaches, by school officials, and by a police department safety speaker. The fact that this meeting had to be held out- doors emphasized the way that Redford has grown. Within a few terms enrollment is ex- Photos by Shuptrine pected to reach four thousand and no let-up is yet in sight. All this growth has brought many problems, some still unsolved, but it has left the original spirit of Redford unchanged. Some large schools have become impersonal and have lost part of their original spirit of friendly co- operation. It is just this spirit that makes Red- ford the interesting place that it is. The school has retained the atmosphere of informality and helpfulness that is usually found only in small schools.

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Oved '100 years ago, in 1837, in the vill- age of Sandhill, the first Redford school had its beginning. The building was erected on the corner of Burt Road and Grand River. In 1885, a second school, made of clay brick taken from the creek crossing Lahser, was built, and 1882 saw a new white frame building of one room constructed. l l Shown above is District No. 10, the school built in 1882. Four portable buildings added in 1935 and 1936 Ctop of panelj. Among the 9A math students moving from the old building to the new as it opened in '38 Cmiddle photoj we observe this year's seniors Don Abbott and Bob Crawford. Architect's drawing of proposed Second Unit for Redford Cbottom photoh. Like the ever-rolling sea, Redford keeps going-and growing with each passing year. It wasn't long before the roomy old building became quite cramped, and necessitated the addition of four portable structures of two rooms each, in 1935 and I936. But even this did not entirely solve the problem of congestion. Students trekked across Chapel Avenue to the Redford Public Library. Here, classes were held daily, easing to a small extent, the overcrowded condition in the main building. ln the fall of '38, a new building opened its doors to admit the stream of relieved students. This would have been fine,-but Redford kept on growing. Enrolment is now 3701 andl 3800 pupils are expected next term. Fifty more than that would necessitate the school's again applying for use of the public library, Construction of a new unit, which would connect the present buildings, had been scheduled for l94l, but was held up, largely because of defense needs. At present, neither the Board of Education nor the City Council can assure us of more than that a new unit for Redford heads the list .

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Facult William R. Stocking, A. J. Hegener, Principal Assistant Principal Miss Aroline Arms 0 Foreign Language Department Miss Lois Banfield 0 Commercial Department Miss Mary Jane Barbey 0 Vocational Department Joseph Barnhart 0 Natural Science Department Mrs. Myra Barron 0 English Department Miss Helen Beaumont 0 Health Department Mrs. Gladys Bell 0 Social Science Department Mrs. Dorothy Benson 0 Commercial Department Dominic Bertetti 0 R. O. T. C. Instructor John Blair o Vocational Department C. D. Branigin 0 Counselor Charles Braun 0 Vocational Department Miss Mildred Breuser 0 Library Miss Eudora Champlin 0 Commercial Department Laurence Chickering 0 Social Science Department Homer Clark 0 Natural Science Department Head Roscoe Clark 0 Vocational Department Miss Shirley Clark o Health Department Edwin Comer o Natural Science Department