Spartanburg High School - Spartana Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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MIRIAM LILES CAROLYN DES CHAMPS NAT SIBLEY Jiuiineit Manaqer MISS MATTIE FRANKLIN CHEATHAM . Faculty OfAiser Co-C'dilon 3

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The history of the Spartanbur3 High School as a separate institution begins in 1897. In that year the board of trustees, selecting a site in the center of the city’s population, erected the building known from its location as the Converse Street High School. This building cost ten thousand dollars. It consisted of six classrooms and an auditorium, and had a faculty of ten teachers and a student body of less than two hundred boys and girls. The graduating class of 1901 had eight members. The two succeeding decades saw such a growth in the town and such an increased interest in public school education that in 1920 the demand for more space and better facilities was met by the first step in a splendid building program. This step was the erection of the Dean Street wing of the present building. This was completed in 1921 and was called the Frank Evans High School in honor of Dr. Frank Evans, who was the Superintendent of Schools in Spartanburg for thirty years and who was recognized throughout the South as HISTORY