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History of Russeilil High School In 1922 because of lack of housing facilities, bonds were floated in East Point for the purpose of erecting a new high school building. After the bonds were sold, the next problem was to find a site suitable for a building of this type. Ten acres of the siLe which our school occupies today were donated by Mr. John J. Egan; the provision of this donation was that the name of the school to be erected there should always be known as the William A. Russell High School7 so named for an uncle of Mr. Egan. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Egan died7 and his wife added five acres to her husband7s donation7 making a beautiful fifteen-acre lot for the site of the school building. Plans for erecting the building were soon made, and in the summer and fall of 1922, the Russell High School building was constructed. In the spring of 1923, the high SChOOl students of East Point looked with pride toward the opening of the new, spacious modern building, which they were to occupy in the years to come. When the new building was completed and occupied, Professor James T. McGee was appointed superintendent. The entire student body in 1922-23 consisted of ap- proximately three hundred pupils, thirteen of which were seniors. In the spring of 1928 the systems of education in East Point, College Park, and Hapeville were merged into one school and were operated under the Fulton County system. To accommodate the large increase in the number of pupils resulting from this merger, the Russell High School building was enlarged to almost twice its former size. The cost of this magnificent addition was over a hundred thousand dollars. The building was equipped with a large, modern cafeteria and other up-to-date con- veniences. The auditorium was enlarged, new science laboratories were built and electric lights were installed in the class rooms. In the fall of 1928 the largest number of pupils ever known to Russell High came from the surrounding communities to occupy the new building, the total enrollment heing over eight hundred. The graduating class of 1928-29 consisted of about seventy-five pupils. This year t19301 the senior class consists of over one hundred students, and the total enrollment from all the classes is almost one thousand. GEORGE LONGINOe-BO.
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