Binghamton North High School 1947 Yearbook (Binghamton, NY) - Full Access

Tenth Harvest Many moons lwvo passed– many traditions made since our tepee flaps were first thrown open to 1,500 students in the /all of 1937. Planned as a million-dollar W. P. A. proj– ect in the midst of the depres– sion, our reservation became an actuality whe·n the smoke of blue and scm·let flames be~an to curl in•o the skies /rom the campfires of North Hi~h. JVhe1·e Andrews A ve11ue meets East F1·ede1·ick Street- that was the chosen campsite, but be/ore the 1937 Christmas vacation our tribe was facin~ its first foremost problem, a tepee horta~e. ophomores, spend– in!! their first " I-ndian sum1ner" at the Old tate Armory, were inconvenie·nced by crowded class– l"ooms, narrow, traffic-jammed stairways, atzd short hours. Junior and snziors complained compara– tively little about no lockers and only insu/ficietzt equipment durin~ their afternoon sessions at East Junior. Pareuts' Ni<~ht - February 14, 193 - BitzghamtotJ thron~ed throu~h our wide impressive maitz entrance and roomy corridot·s to see our brand new classrooms atzd laboratories with up-to-date equipment; our ~round floor technical, i11dustrial and vocational shops; our first floor with its smart modern administration of/ices, gy,mwsiums, we/1-platmed and well- locked library; our second floo,· with its model apartment; om· tlth·d /lo01· with its cafeteria decorated iu modern tempo, vocal and itzstrumental mu ic arzd practice rooms; and most of all, our amazingly pa– cious auditorium with the second largest proscenium arch in the United States, bowing only to that of Radio City Mu ic Hall- Two hundred and eighty rooms of B.N.H. . Classes beJ!an- evelz that first yem· ortfz High, built to relieve the crowded city cia srooms, was itself crammed. 6