SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOTwiLL BE NEAR FIVETPOINTS J lUvw^ r^PrU — loUte- ScUopU S^C.YoungNameM New Principal At i Erskine Ramsay j» b ~^VZll^\£tJ^,lTj"& ^,SS„ ",a rjrZt&£%,-S°J?S!?Zz?!r<<:xs. Si*-.«i»«» j-« »'"««•. —. t..n ..„„.*,•. Th. T. C. YOUNG the city and is only two blocks from Five Points. The building, as can trances from Twelfth and Thirteenth Avenues, both fronts being highly or mingham, with William D. Ittner, of Chicago, as consulting architect. Educator Has Enviable Record high school pupils in the southern section of the city. '" '"' " --»'•• .«««....»iU<; mgn ocnooi is intended to provide accommodations for In 28 Years Service The Erskine Ramsay • SKINE RAMSAY HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING In This City Technical High School ON THE SOUTHSIDE NEARING COMPLETION More than one consideration indubitably Thomas Campbell Young, newly prompted the Birmingham Board of Education ££T 7 0 ffl»«—TTTT — elected principal of the Erskine Ram­ tq name the new Southside educational plant the say Technical High, whose appoint­ ment was announced Saturday by Dr. Erskine Ramsay Technical High School. Rarely C. B, Glenn, • superintendent of does it happen—rarely has it ever happened— schools, is widely known in Alabama that a great establishment of this character is educational circles. named after a living person. The one best ex­ Mr. Young, born in Petersburg, Va., was educated first in city schools planation of this unusual departure from cus­ there. He took college work at Guil tomary procedure is that Erskine Ramsay's gen- » ford College, N. C, and won his A. B. erous material gifts to state and civic educa­ degree from Birmingham-Southern. He is a graduate of Winchester Nor­ tional causes have been one with his gifts of mal College, Tennessee, and has tak­ heart and hand. His gifts have carried the giver en extension work at Peabody Col­ with them. During the last decade he has shared lege, the University of Tennessee and the University of Alabama. Work to­ liberally of his fortune in the construction of wards a master's degree was taken by Alabama's educational institutions. Erskine Ram- Mr. Young at Columbia. fay has given without stint not only to the Mr. Young came to Birmingham, higher educational institutions, but in rich gifts September, 1901, as principal of Mar­ to Birmingham's public school system; and per­ tin School, and served in the same capacity at Fowell, Barker, South haps the richest gift that he has given to this Highland and Paul Hayne Junior city he loves has been his service on the Board High School. of Education, where his wisdom, his sagacity, Mr. Young has served under the his prudence and his economy have been valued board of education here 28 years and has made an enviable record. He or­ aids for years. ganized the first elementary school In honoring a man like this, Birmingham hon­ athletics, was member of the first board of directors of the playground ors itself. He has given his wealth, and more association, organized the first pla­ than his wealth he has given: he has contributed toon school, served as member of the of his store of business and. engineering knowl­ board of directors of Camp Green­ brier for 16 years, acted as director edge—knowledge for the most part accumulated of athletics, Camp Highland Lake, Viithout the assistance of professors and text­ and performed other services in an books—to the youth of this generation. The educational way. things that Erskine Ramsay has done, is doing, Mr. Young has been president of the Jefferson County Teachers As­ and that he means still to do, are mightier than sociation, of the Birmingham Ele­ candle-beams. Actions like his will multiply as mentary Principals Association and a the years increase. He has been a good citizen member of the Alabama and National and a good servant. There could be no memorial Educational Association for 20 vears. He is a member of Kappa Phi Kappa more appropriate- for a man of this character Fraternity. than a technical high school overlooking the city In which he has lived and served. The latest institution for higher learning in the Bi rmingham public schools system is the Erskine Ramsay Technical High School, shown above. The structure, located at Twelfth Avenue and South Eighteenth Street, is nearing completion, and will be ready for occupancy the second semester of this year. This is the first unit of the building, which will care for high school students on the Southside, and eliminate the need of the present Paul Hayne Junior High. The new high school is named in honor of Erskine Ramsay, president of the Board of Education. Birmingham - Bldgs. - School S?Tu*e «L« it Two frame buildings occupying the site were moved to the rear and joined to make a temporary lunch room. The West End High School adjoins the grounds of the Lee Ele­ EREC[BpNGS mentary School which gives an unin­ terrupted campus of more than 17 Material Used In Constructing acres. An athletic field with a base­ Ramsay Tech High, Largest Of ball diamond, football field and track Building Bought Largely is being graded. When all outlined units are added Seven Structures, Will to the West End project at an expen­ istrict diture of $750,000, the plant will have i an auditorium, gymnasium, perma­ OCT *JM Accommodate 875 nent lunch room, music and art stu­ Grouped around a small model of dios and a few additional classrooms. the Erskine Ramsay Technical High Work is progressing on a $43,000 When city and county schools open addition to ^IcAdory High School in School, the first unit of which is be­ in September, 2,515 pupils will take the county system which will care ing constructed at Thirteenth Ave­ up their studies in seven new build­ tor 400 pupils in 12 rooms. This will nue, South, and Eighteenth Street, is ings or additions now being complet­ replace the Pleasant Hill Elementary shown the material which is used in ed at a cost of $1,167,746, according School which was located near Mc- to figures released by the Birming­ Adory and was condemned recentlv construction of a modern fire-restric­ ham Board of Education and the Jef­ as unsafe. More than 700 pupils will tive building, in a display in the ferson County board. be housed in the consolidated plants. Twentieth Street window of the First The largest unit to throw open its This new unit will be ready for oc­ National Bank. doors for registration Sept. S is the cupancy Nov. 1, according to Bern Materials were obtained largely Erskine Ramsay Technical High Price, Jefferson County architect. from concerns in the Birmingham School in which equipment is now- $67,000 Program district. Materials from 22 companies being installed and grounds land­ The county's educational program are in the exhibit, which was ar­ scaped. This structure, located on in Shades Valley represents an ex­ ranged by the Birmingham Board of Thirteenth Avenue, South, just west penditure of $67,000 and includes a Education. of Twentieth Street, represents an new white elementary school, a new Policy Of Board investment of $739,160 and will ac­ negro school and an addition to the . "The policy of the Board of Edu­ commodate 875 students. The site of Shades Cahaba High. cation is to let its contracts to the this structure covers eight and one- Six classrooms are being built to lowest responsible bidders without half acres. Its elevation gives a view the high school to care for elemen­ specifying where material shall be of the entire city, being near the tary grades recently assigned to that purchased," according to a statement crest of Red Mountain. district. In addition there will be an by Dr. C. B. Glenn, superintendent of Included in this building of un­ auditorium, locker rooms for boys schools. "The board, however, is al­ usual architectural beauty are 15 and girls and two laboratories. ways pleased to know that contract­ classrooms, two science laboratories, The Edgewood Grammar Sc'ftool ors are able to obtain material from six commercial rooms, two conference will accommodate pupils in four Birmingham concerns, and that they rooms, three offices,' a library, a classrooms and a basement, the en- : find it to their advantage to do so." banking room, a lunch room, four tire space of the building to be used The model of the Ramsay Tech, is health units, two lounge rooms for as a physical training room, labor­ of the completed building, which will teachers, a boiler and fuel storage atories and locker rooms. accommodate approximately 3,000 stu­ room. In addition, four wooden The Homewood Negro School will dents. At present only the first unit structures which were on the site contain seven rooms and will replace i have been remodeled for use in man­ is being constructed. This will ac­ T?a**tr«<, T5c»*Roi«m"t«t ^^K &JU»<»1 ual training, domestic science, physi­ a structure built 40 years ago and commodate 875 pupils. cal training, music studios and R. which has been repeatedly con­ West End School O. T. C. demned as unsafe. The City of Bir­ "With completion of this unit, Dr. mingham is erecting a four-room ne­ Glenn stated', there remains but one Will House 2,500 gro school at East Thomas at a cost other building to be constructed out When the entire plant is completed of $6,000. of the school bonds voted in 1927. in a few years the total cost will be Cost of the site of Ramsay Tech This is the high school at West End.