Salina High School - Trail Yearbook (Salina, KS)

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activity attracted people to Salina by the thousands. Within the next score of years the pop- ulation of Salina was to increase approx- imately l5,000 persons. More businesses were added, houses sprung up all over the area, especially to the south, southwest and later to the southeast. Shopping centers began to be established, buses became a necessity, more streets, more of everything that goes to make a city. - Within this period of expansion, Salina was to build seven new elementary schools, many of them containing many more than the usual seven rooms, a new senior high school and to vote bonds for a new iunior high. All this within the short span of eight years. On Monday evening, October 27, T952, Superintendent W. M. Ostenberg presided at the dedication ceremonies for the new two and one half million dollar senior high school, erected on a site that had been a wheat field only two years before. On the following two nights, more than 10,000 citizens wandered through the new building to see what had been added to the Salina schools. The new structure was to have many new features compared to any- thing that had been seen in Salina high schools. A new gymnasium with a seating ca- pacity of approximately 3,000 was one of the first things to meet theinquisitive visitor. A library, second to none in the country, was ready to receive scores of new books, well equipped science laboratories for both biol- ogical and physical science was a part of the overall plan. A complete shop section with a feature never before offered in Saline County, rooms for vocational agriculture, and spacious quarters for allied industrial arts subiects. One of the show spots of the school was a new auditorium with 1,400 permanent seats from which everyone could see and hear any type of production which would be seen on the stage. This building, after five years of use, is much as it was then except that hundreds more students use the facilities daily than on the opening weeks only six years before. 'li

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