The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-02-06
HIGH SCHOOL
IS DEDICATED
Visitors to New Building De-
lighted With Show.
PROGRAM FOR FORMAL OPENING
ATTRACTS MANY PATRONS,
Miss Grace Shepherd, State Superin.
tendent, Delivers an Interesting
Address.

The dedication and formal opening
of the splendid new high school build
ing, which occurred last Friday, will,
in days to come, be recorded as one of
the most auspiciouS events in the his
tory Of the Twin Falls tract. The
school trustees, Superintendent o. NJ
Elliott and the faculty of the high
school,, assisted by a number Of stu
dents, were the hosts during the after
noon and evening and graciously con-
Quoted the crowds of visitors through
the entire building, both before and
after the dedicatory exercises. The
program for the afternoon was a long
but interesting one and the large audi
torium was filled with very appre-
ciative audience.
The work of both the orchestra and
the glee club was most praise worthy,
and won for these organizations much
complimentary criticism.
In accord with custom establish
ed by the class of 1910-that of each
graduating class leaving some memen-
to, as a picture, ornament or piece of
statuary, to the school-Harry Eaton
of the class of 1870 in behalf of that
class, presented to the high school two
beautiful pieces of statuary, Venus of
Milo and Winged Victory. His presen-
tation speech displayed so much of
fineness and ability as to bring forth
the highest commentators from the
other speakers who followed him.
The response by Prof. Harry w.
Jones, principal of the high school,
was by the presentation of high school
entrance certificates to twenty-five
new students from the eighth grade
superintendent Elliott, in presenting
the certificates, stated that this class
had established a precedent, every stu
dent graduating from the eighth
grades at this time having entered the
high school. The new student body
consisted of fourteen boys and eleven
girls, making total high school en-
rollment of 240, which about fills the
present capacity of the building.
The second part of the program,
consisting of the principal addresses of
the day, was diversified by an instru-
mental duet by the Misses Teasdale
and Thomas, songs by the seventh and
eighth grades and the primary grades,
all of which received hearty applause.
The Cost of the Building and
Equipment" was given by w. E. Nixon,
treasurer of the board. His address in
part was as follows:
"At the time Of the beginning of the
agitation for more room for our
schools-and there has never been a
time in the history of the school dis
trict when there was more room than
was necessary--the board of trustees
was composed of J. A. Waters, chair
man; w. H. Eldridge, clerk; H. H.
Howe, Peter Peterson, T. w. Potter
and myself. After a thorough discus
sion of the situation it was the unani-
nous opinion of the board that high
school building should be the next
school to bel built in order to take care
OF the growing population and the in
creas1ng number presenting them
selves at the school. The accommoda-
ton Of the high school in the Bickel
school for the past three years has
been very bad and the wonder is that
the results were at all satisfactory.
"A mass meeting was called and
held at the Bickel building at which at
least ten were present outside of the
members of the board. The necessity
OF providing additional room for the
school was discussed and it was the
unanimous voice of the meeting that
the board be authorized to ask for a
bond issue for the purpose of erecting
q A16A oCuOOl. Inc oIcCtlO0 was CALI
ed and the board authorized to issue
$4,000 of bonds, this being the limit
under the law to which the district
could be bonded at that time. The
plans were then selected from COM
petition of eight sets of plans and af-
ter much discussion those of Wayland
4 Fennell Of Boise, were selected and
preparation for the construction was
begun.
Ground was broken on the present
site on May 18, 1910. 1t was at once
discovered that we were up against
real circumstance in the shape of a
pinnacle of rock less than six feet un-
der the surface and as the plans call
ed for an excavation of fourteen feet
for the gymnasium and the heating
plant 1t was discouraging to say the
least. The excavation in this rock cost
about $4,000 more than the straight
dirt would have COST About the first
OF August, 1910, actual CONSTRUCTION
work was begun by Gates Bros. Ani
Gilmore. which was prosecuted until
cold weather put stop to It. Il had
already been discovered that hs,4 :.
portion OF the central part OF the hufA1-
Ing could be completed with the funIls $
then available so it was declded to Ss119j
for another hond Issue Tor q muoIl ~
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