Birmingham's High Schools

Y -No. 6 ALABAMA SCHOOL JOURNAL IS ALABAMA SCHOOL JOURNAL February, 19x25 i and wood turning shops, 3 shop BIRMINGHAM'S HIGH SCHOOLS ,ge rooms and 2 locker and wash ns, auditorium, stage and balcony, nnasium with folding doors to sep- ate from stage and to divide into 2 ,mall gymnasiums, lunch room and kitchen, 3 girls' locker rooms, 3 boys' locker rooms, 2 girls' shower and dress ing rooms, boys' shower room, boys' rest room, girls' rest room, 3 girls' toilets, 3 boys' toilets, 2 teachers' rooms, janitor's room, kitchen helper's room, waiting room and clinic, 3 store rooms, boiler room, coal storage room and fan rooms. The following changes will be made in the present building on ground floor: The study rooms in central section will become classrooms and bookkeeping room; 2 classrooms will become book JOHN HERBERT PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM keeping room; typewriting room will be- armory, machine shop and boiler room on the southside with an enrollment of :ome stenography room; bookkeeping in central section to become the lunch 18 pupils. It became a four-year high oom will become typewriting room; on room and kitchen; the lunch room to school in September, 1902. In 1910 it rst floor: 2 classrooms will become 2 become 3 classrooms, girls' toilets and was moved to the Lane Auditorium on udy rooms; science laboratory will he rest room; woodshop and turning shop Eighth Avenue. The enrollment in me physics laboratory; on second to become sewing, fitting and small din 1910-11 was 201. Courses in cooking, or: physics laboratory will be used for ing room; 2 classrooms on second floor sewing and manual training were added eral science and the ladies' rest room at front of building to become 2 study at this time. In 1915 it moved to the become teachers' room, and mechan- rooms; 3 classrooms on third floor to site at 8th Avenue and 9th Street, where drawing rooms will become rooms become 2 physics and biology labora additions were made to the existing ibrarian and conference. tories and science lecture room; chem church building, 2 story building and Ensley High School istry room becomes physics laboratory; 14 cottages in 1919 and 1922. The This school serves the entire western 2 typewriting rooms become 2 book maximum enrollment of 1302 was section of the city: Ensley, Wylam, keeping rooms. Pratt City, Fairview, Central Park, Ens reached in 1923-24. WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM ley Highlands, Shadyside and Owenton. Negro Industrial High School The first unit of new Industrial High It has a present enrollment of 1429 as This school was first organized in School just completed and opened in Following the bond election of last elude equipment or architect's fees, rooms, a physics laboratory will become compared with 246 in 1910-11. The 1899 in one room of the Cameron School September, 1924, was made possible by May, in which the people of Birming which are estimated to cost $69,414 and chemistry science room, and the two present building was erected in 1910. ham voted $3,500,000 for their public $20,665, respectively. The completed students activities rooms will become The new unit construction which will schools, plans of the Phillips and Wood building will acommodate 3000 pupils, class rooms. soon be started will increase the capaci lawn high schools have been revised, the or at present the pupils from both the Woodlawn High School ty of the present building to 1800 when contracts let and work started on the first unit of Phillips High and from the This school serves the entire eastern completed. It will be of fire-resistive new additions. Architects have also Paul Hayne section. section of the city and has an enrollment construction, 3-story brick, stone and been selected and plans are nearing com The new addition will contain the fol at present of 1278. The school was concrete. \ pletion for the new addition of the Ens lowing rooms: 22 classrooms, 2 study opened in the second semester of the ley High School. Messrs. Wm. B. Itt- rooms and 2 large study halls, biology school year 1921-22 with an enrollment The new addition as proposed will ner and D. O. Whilldin are the associ laboratory, 2 general science rooms, of 938 pupils. The present unit of the contain the following rooms, 19 class ated architects for the Phillips and Ens typewriting room and commercial rooms, building has a capacity of 901. The rooms, 4 study rooms, 4 science rooms, ley high schools and Messrs. Wm. B. art room, 2 mechanical drawing rooms, contract was let for the erection of the shorthand room, bookkeeping room, Ittner and H. B. Wheelock are associate music and lecture room, 4 music prac new unit on September 19th and work freehand drawing room, mechanical architects for the Woodlawn High tice and 2 auditorium practice rooms, was begun on October 6th. drawing room,- music room, auditorium School. auto and sheet metal, machine, print, and stage enlarged, R. O. T. C. armory, The contracts let for the Woodlawn Phillips High School electric, forge and moulding shops, prep 3 woodworking shops, print shop, auto- High School addition amount to $383,- aration and lumber storage, turning and mechanics shop, electrical shop, 2 gym This school, which serves the central 007.75 not including equipment or archi pattern shop, and woodworking shops nasiums, cooking room, kitchen, 2 in ection of the city (nearly 50 per cent tect's fees, which will cost about $72,288 and locker and wash rooms, boys' gym structors' rooms, rest room, 5 store f the entire city), is now housed in the and $922, respectively. The completed nasium, lunch room and kitchen, arm rooms, 2 locker and shower rooms, jani 'rst unit and in the old Paul Hayne building will accommodate 1800 pupils. ory, 2 student activity rooms, boys' tor's room, boiler and coal storage room. tilding on the southside. The total en- The new addition will contain the fol locker room, 2 girls' locker rooms, and 4 The following changes are proposed in llment at present is 2 705, about double lowing rooms: 21 classrooms, 3 study lat in 1910-11. Contract was let for instructors' rooms. the present building: The classroom at rooms, lecture room, sewing room, fitting left of entrance to be used for clinic; e new addition on September 19th and The following changes will be made room, chemistry laboratory and lecture irk begun on September 29th, 1924. vocational drawing room to be used for in the present building: One classroom room, 2 general science rooms, mechar' sewing room; the small dressing room, The contracts let for this addition will become a general science room, two cal drawing room, freehand drawing f mechanical drawing room, classroom, aount to $408,587, which do not in- classrooms will become physics science art room, auto-mechanics, print L ENSLEY HIGH SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM WOODLAWN HIGH STADIUM WILL SEAT 4,200 AND CONTAIN CLASSROOMS, OTHER FEATURES TO BEDEDICATED J Football Game, Addresses By o Jones, Ramsay And Pageant Will Be The Features Students of Woodlawn High School and Birmingham public, school offi cials will be joined by members of the City Commission and citizens of the community at the dedication of Woodlawn High School Stadium, the first stadium constructed in con nection with a city school. Exercises are to be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the school auditorium. A football game between Phillips and Woodlawn High Schools will follow. Students of Phillips High and C. J. Going, principal of the school, will participate- in the dedication exercises. Just preceding the game Phillips High will present two flags for the standards at the stadium. These will be raised while the Phil Views of the Woodlawn High School Stadium to be erected on a site adjoining'the school, '("he fflans lips and Woodlawn bands play "The were approved by the Board of Education at a recent meeting and construction will begin shortly, it was Star Spangled Banner." said. The design and drawings were made by Vernon J. Douglas, supervisor of manual arts in the public Principal To Preside schools, assisted by students of Woodlawn High mechanical drawing department. Sketches show the N. B. Hendrix, principal of Wood stadium as it will appear from the high school side, and from, the football field. It will have a seating lawn High, will preside at the dedi capacity of 4,200, and will be 345 feet in length, and two stories high. It will contain eight class rooms, cation exercises, and the Rev. Frank a small auditorium, R. O. T. C. armory, and shower bath and locker rooms for the football teams. These will MacDonald, pastor of the Woodlawn be situated' at each end of the stadium. The building will be erected under the supervision of D. E. Mc Baptist Church, will ask the invoca Kinley, business manager for the Board of Education, according to present plans. The stadium was made tion. Dr. J. A. Collins, chairman of possible by the agreement of Erskine Ramsay, president of the Board of Education, to match dollar for the citizens committee which raised dollar the amount raised by people of Woodlawn, and the board offered to match this double sum. In this part of the stadium fund, will rep way $50,000 is available. resent the community. Mrs. E. P. Triplett, president of the school's Parent-Teacher Association, and Mrs. G. C. Ellis, chairman of the associa tion's stadium committee, will speak on behalf of the organization. Erskine Ramsay, president of the WOODLAWN STADIUM TO WOODLAWN STADIUM^ Birmingham Board of Education, whose gift of $25,000 initiated the BE DEDICATED NOV.

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