South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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THE TOTEM 1939 ll FEUJ BIICHUJIIRD GLIIIICES By JOE BEX When we South Siders came baclc to school last fall, we found a remodeled building. The new sec- ond story greatly improved the outside appearance and removed completely that one-story, factory look. South Side had grown up. More important than this were the results of the reconstruction work inside the building. The added story provided many much-needed rooms, and notice- able remodeling had been done on the first floor also. Expansion had been demanded by over-crowded con- ditions, but, along with this expansion, there came many other improvements. This was not altogether a surprise to 1110513 students, however. Tn the spring of the preceding school year, the reconstruction had been heralded in, you might say. The not un-welcome interruption of study by the tapping, scratching, scraping, hammering, grind- ing, and pounding of men at worlc immediately dis- closed to the brighter students that the remodeling had begun. By the end of school, even the 1110512 confused freshman realized that something was going on. At any moment during those days, the teacher was lilzely to find himself tallcing in direct competition with a compressed-air hammer. Some teachers even developed a teaching technique to suit conditions: They would speak rapidly during the brief respites of silence to get in as many words as possible before the racket began again, when it did, they stopped and permitted the pupils to ponder their teachings Not Rembrandts, maybe, but they learn Their aim-to make extinct the granite b during the interval, and then when the noise ceased, they once more resumed their part in the game. Then there were the entertaining conversations that floated into the classroom, of workmen talking, not too ener- getically, about how hot it was, how much time there was until quitting time, etc. On some occasions two or three men would enter a classroom, make a few measurements, tap here and there mysteriously, nod lcnowingly to each other, and then silently depart. On other occasions they would make similar in- vestigations and then proceed to discuss quite audibly ways and means and facts and figures for a while and then leave the room, still arguing. Those were interesting days. Students found the new second-story rooms all shiny and modern, with better linoleum, better black- boards, better windows and blinds, better electric fixtures, automatic electric ventilators, and movable seats. The new rooms were: the big study hall be- side the cafeteria, which can be used excellently as a small assembly room or cleared of chairs and used as a dance floorg the Greeley Room, with a greatly- appreciated built-in stage and an excellent compact little kitchenette, the additional social science, public speaking, commercial, and mathematics classroomsg the offices for Mr. Flint and Miss Pittengerg the en- larged general olqiceg the big recreation room which can be used in many ways and has been used for tumbling, high jumping, etc., with mats laid down, for talcing group pictures for this yearbook, for play- ing ping-pong, and for general getting together of to appreciate art. As ye rip, so ye shall sew.. . iscuit ..Physics students puzzling over the mysti- fying mysteries of matter in the laboratory In the chemistry laboratory one can always expect the unexpected-explosions, etc. Mr. Gould's botany class studying the science of Howers and trees and plants and things, Ili' Y' 1..a 1l.v'.4s , x