Sanderson High School - Lakonikos Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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two measures before? Where I an entire performance can take place without a single per- former fainting on the scene? Where the chorus and orchestra members can spend the energy presently used for setting up the gymnatorium to do some- thing constructive like straighten their bowties and tune their oboes. The gymnatorium-to the performers and department heads, it is spelled with four letters. To the majority of the student body, it means foul lines and popcorn. To Conrad Hooper and the school board, it means the only acceptable alternative to the obvious solution to all this lamenting-an auditorium. According to Mr. Hooper, Super- intendent of Raleigh Public Who knows, if we had the facilities like we have the talent, we could do musicals, dramas, comedies . . . Ruth Honer Schools, the reason for such lack of proper facilities is as simple as the affliction of the economy today, lack of money. However, in the manner accustomed to men of influence, Mr. Hooper does not in any way rule out the possibility of an auditorium at Sanderson. At present, its construction is in the building program pro- jection, and its approval is contingent upon the decisions of the County Commissioners, the same group which dir! not allocate the funds for .in auditorium at the time Sanderson was built with the distinction of being the largest school 32

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