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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL,' Salem, Oregon
Tuesday, September I, 1953
RAPID, EFFICIENT CONSTRUCTION
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Byrd Recalls Schools 'Back When'
Donald M. Drake, prime contractor for
new South Salem high Khool, employ! a
large crew efficiently organized to bring
Salem'f newest and largest high school in
to rapid completion.
Meiv High, Grade Schools
Mow Under Cons traction
Some 1800 itudenti In one
more year will march to classes
In the brand new South Salem
High school, only one of the
School Sept. 14
Af Willamina
Willamlna Both the Willa
mina Union high school and
the Willamina grade school will
open Monday, Sept. 14, accord
ing to Information released wis
week.
The following personnel will
be ready for work at the grade
school: Principal, Kenneth
Ramey; first grade, Mrs. Irma
Duggan, Mrs. Eugenia Matches,
Mrs. Ira Lam son and Mrs. Nel
lie Moody; second grade, Mrs.
Ethel Ray, Mrs. Betty Kerr,
Mrs. Gayette Barnett; third
grade, Mrs. Kenneth Ramey,
Mrs. Mary Davis, Mrs. Warren
C. Cook; fourth grade, Mrs.
Velma Ault, Mrs. Enola John
ion, Mrs. Fay Sexton; fifth
grade, Gerald Gillaspie, Mrs.
Mabel Gillaspie, Mrs. Grace
' Herzberg; sixth grade, Mrs.
. Louise McPherson, Mrs. Lois
Baker, James McCoy; seventh
grade, Mrs. Florence Wallace,
Curtis Benefiel eighth grade,
Holland Kerr, Carter Boggs;
music and band, Marvin Baker;
craft and library, Mrs. Neva
Beck; office secretary. Miss
Dorothy Davis; cafeteria, Mrs.
Roxie Bryant and Mrs. Viola
Splcer; janitors, Hugh Stuart
nd Walter Willis; supervisor
of transportation, Ray Mack.
. The teaching personnel of
the high school is: Warren W.
Cook, superintendent-principal;
Tom Cowan, social sciences and
coaching; Arnold Huntley, phy
sical education and coaching;
Miss Mary Stevenson, English;
Mrs. Lucille Mitchell, commer
cial; Mrs. Esther Edmiston,
English and drama; Mrs. Jean
Johnston, home economics;
. Mrs. Mary Cody, girls physical
education; Mervln Werth, his
tory and social studies Norman
Lovell, mathematics; Richard
Johnson, manual arts; Miss
Esther Burch, library and Eng
lish Richard Schoenbnrn, vo
cational agriculture; Robert
Collins, Music and Morris Wea
ver, science.
Show Screened at .
Atomic Center
I-os Alamos. N. M. Ml For
the first time in the history of
this atomic center, a circus set
up its big tents in Los Alamos
Monday.
The ISO members of the
troupe of the Gil G. Gray
Shrine show underwent se
curity screening last week. As
they paraded through the main
gate Monday, they were sub
jected to lesser, routine
check.
pranks of the bloomer days,
Byrd says that, In high school,
when the boys wanted to go
borne someone stole the fan
belt which worked the old hot
air heating system and, as he
says, ' stopped classes cold.
Another . trick was to put
hydrogen sulfide from the
laboratory in the fans. The
of iuc uuirii'i lar in sniaenu. wm ob me ju-si unii 01 a new the rooms was he savs "Quite
Under construction are the building which will eventually effective" in disbanding: fur-
new offerings being prepared unit is under construction. This
Creative arts never heard
of that when I went to school
we took four years of Latin
instead," says Clarence Byrd,
Salem insurance man who is
having fun at the start of a
new year, remembering his
own class of 1911.
"Little" Central grade
school was located at 12th sad
Center Sts., where a Safeway
store now resides, and the
larger school sat where the
present administration office
is now. at 460 North High.
These schools, situated
where the administration
building is now, took care of
all grades to the high school
level. "And we only had one
teacher, too," emphasizes
Byrd.
"She'd divide the room into
grades then while one recit
ed, the other would study or
try to," he says. Though he
refuses to say whether he
thinks the "old system'! 'was
better than the new one, he
admits "we had stuff they
don't get till college nowa
days and it we didn't learn
it we got a jickin i
Remembering some of the
SALEM GRADUATE OF 1911
ptjrf I ' '. .jit.'nii';w,.li.', ' ". "' . ' 1 . " "
New Instructors for
Sacred Heart H.S.
K..rA TTrt Salem's Cath
h(h hnnl will onen for
Mff ,tHnn sent. Hu 11 ana
classes will begin Sept. 14 for
an estimated capacity enroll
ment of 280.
Special enrollment will be
held for freshmen Sept 8 from
in n 12 a m. and from 2 to 4
p.m. Sister Sheila Maureen will
again be principal, and Leo
Grosjaques will continue as
athletic coach.
Several neur iearhere will
on hand to greet the students,
four of them In the music de
nartmenL Thev will he Slit
Regina Mary who .will com
from The Dalles to head the de
partment; Sisters Mary Elaine
of Eugene, Julie Ann of Port,
land and Mary Bernardette,-Seattle.
Sister Mary Michaels nn is
coming to teach science and
two Franciscan priests, whose
names were not available to
day, will teach world history.
Latin and religion.
Clarence A. Byrd, who graduated from Salem schools
with the class of 1911, has, with the opening of a new
school year, been spending some time on recollections of
his own school days. Though he doesn't admit "the good
old days" produced better students, he does say "they
might have worked harder." .
Morningside school for elemen
tary pupils, and additions to
Hayesville and Liberty.
The new South Salem school
Is modern, fireproof build
ing with adequate faciljties for
iouu pupus. in io tne en
rollment of senior high school
pupils will be about 1100 but
the extra classrooms will be
used for the overflow of pupils
from Leslie Junior High school,
which Is overcrowded now.
On the basis of present en
rollment, the building will be
filled to capacity by 1958, at
which time the Leslie pupils
quartered in the high school
will need to go elsewhere.
The Morningside school will
have ten classrooms and is lo
cated so as to relieve over
crowding at McKinley, Bush
and Liberty schools and to ac
commodate children living
south and east of town. Census
figures indicate that seven of
the rooms will be in use in 1953-
54 and that the remaining three
will be filled by 1050.
One new room Is being built
at Hayesville to accommodate
increased enrollment in that
area and at Liberty a six-room
replace the present school.
Connected - by fireproof cor
ridors to the old building, -it
will eliminate any costly reno
vation when the old building is
removed and additional rooms
added. 1
ther scholastic activities,
There were, says, Byrd,
only 63 in his graduating class
and there were twice as many
girls as boys. This was, he
says, lots of run.
Social life was expressed
District Plans New Buildings
Planned for the future but
as yet still figures on an arch'
itects' drawing board, are two
new buildings for the Salem
school district.
Expected to be ready for oc
cupancy in 1954 are a new
administration building and a
replacement for Grant, school,
Salem's oldest building.
Purchase of the present
school administration building
at 460 North High street, has
made It necessary to construct
a new building. This will be
located just north of the pres
ent school warehouse at South
13th and Ferry street. Bids
will be taken early In Septem
ber. The old building will be
turned over to its new owners
on June 1.
An attempt Is being made
to get additional land so a 14
room building can be built on
the present site of Grant high
school.
Another new building will
presently take care, of the Au
burn school situation consider
ed at present entirely inad
equate for Its enrollment. Only
four classrooms must take care
of classes which continue to
grow. Overcrowded conditions
will make it necessary to
transport two classes to the
Hoover school until the new
building is ready.
Tentative plans have been
made for a new construction
in the Candalaria Heights area
but it will be some time before
the population will justify the
building. In the meantime
McKinley and Salem Heights
through . the Amate dancing
class. "Amate freely translat
ed," says Byrd, "means 'I love
you' our idea of a pretty ris
que title."
Another former student who
expressed interest in "old
times" is Ralph Cronise, now
publisher of the Albany Demo
crat-Herald, who says this in a
letter to a Salem friend:
"It recently occurred to me
that in September, 1953. it will
have been a half century since
I entered high school. But that
date also marks the 50th anni
versary of the legal establish
ment of a high school in Salem.
me iirsi class which was
graduated in 1906 entered the
ninth grade in September. 1902
This was on the ton floor of the
om ast Salem school build'
schools
uation.
are handling the sit
ing. Eugene, Pendleton, Baker
and some other cities in Oregon '
had high schools, besides Port-'
land, but Salem had none.
So the school board acted to '
place the matter on the ballot
to establish a four-year school,
make the necessary appropria
tions and to vote on funds for a
high school building. j
"My class entered in Septem- j
ber, 1903. That year we all,
worked about 20 members of
the class of 1906 and. I believe,
about 70 of the '07 class. On
election day we hired carriages
and hauled voters to the polls.
I wrote stories for the States
man and we stirred up all the
interest we could. The issue
carried and Salem high school
was entrenched. It was a thrill
to move into the new building
at Center and High Sts. in the
fall of 1906." 1
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