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THE OPTIMIST | Editors Chairman—Winifred Snell Pearl Fikkrlstein Everett Bauman Jeanette Goldfine Sylvia S. Strauss Joseph Marzel THE HISTORY OF SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL The greater part of the land where the South Side High School is now located was purchased on November 24. 1905, from the executors of the estate of Charles O. Ripley. A delegation ap- peared before the Board of Education on March 26, 1908, requesting additional high school facil- ities in the southern section of the city; a little later a similar delegation urged that an appropri- ation of $»00.000 be made for a new high school. Many sites were proposed, and after long dispute the Johnson avenue property was selected. The residents of the district protested, claiming that a school would lower the residential value of that section, but on the contrary, the handsome build- ing has increased the attractiveness of the neigh borhood. The construction department was author- ized by the Board to prepare plans and specifica- tions for the building: on December 3. 1912, the contracts were let, and three days later construc- tion began. The students and faculty of South Side High School met for the first time on September 8. 1913, in the old Normal School building, at Washington and Linden streets. For a week before. Dr. Ken- nedy and the faculty had been working to elim- inate unnecessary confusion from the opening day. The rooms had been assigned according to the grade and course of the pupils. At each door of the building teachers were stationed, and each pupil as he entered told the teacher his grade and course, and was sent to the proper room. Dr. Kennedy went to each room and gave a little talk on the history of the old High School and the prospects of the new South Side High School. As the building was overcrowded, the freshmen with their faculty were sent to East Side until the new build- ing should be ready. The students soon settled down to work, and despite the lack of a gymnasium or an auditorium, everything proceeded as usual. The two highest classes, the 3A and 3B organized and elected officers. On Wednesday. November 26. 1913. the faculty was notified that the school would be moved dur- ing the Thanksgiving vacation, and that the pupils would have to take their books home. On Friday, two large vans carried the teachers’ effects to the new building and deposited them at the front entrance. Waiting to receive them was a gang of laborers, and. directed by Dr. Kennedy and aided by the small boys of the neighborhood, everything was soon carried in. When the students arrived on Monday they found that studies would continue as usual. In the South Side High School auditorium on the evening of December 3. 1913. there was a meeting of the Grammar and High School Teach- ers of the city, the first assemblage of any kind held there. The school was formally opened to the citizens and pupils of the city on the after- noon of December 4. Exercises were held in the auditorium, and the school orchestra acquitted it- self very creditably on its first public appearance. The dedication ceremonies took place that even- ing. The speakers included the Right Reverend Erwin S. Lines; Mr. Charles P. Taylor, president of the Board of Education; Mr. Tompkins.chair- man of the Committee on Buildings. Grounds and Supplies, who presented the key of the building to Mr. Brown of the Board; Dr.Straycr of Co- lumbia University; Mayor Haussling: Mr. John- 14
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