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From: Dick Huddleston
Date: 23 Sep 2002
Time: 18:29:59
Remote Name: 24.206.107.20
Looking at the picture on the first page of this site, I thought of the gym. Students now don't know about such a thing, since the entire building is gone!
As you face the building, the gym was on the second floor to your left (south) and was open up to the 3rd floor. The bleachers pulled out from each side, and the dressing rooms were at the west end, down at the very first floor. What I remember most was that at lunch time, the gym was used as a 'holding area' for those who brought their lunch, or to just visit.
Of course, you could always stay outside, but in cold and wet weather, the gym was the place to be. It was mainly a practice gym, with the BB games being played in the Jr. Hi gym (at the south end of the present building).
What really brought it to my mind was that last week while substitute teaching at a HS here, I looked at a floor plan and they have FIVE (5!) gyms. The student population is 3,000 - they count 9th grade as High School here - and keep the gyms busy. There is one practice gym, a wrestling gym, a cheerleaders gym (really), a varsity gym, and a girls' volleyball gym. And they don't have to use them for lunch since they have a cafeteria and serve 3 lunch periods.
Makes me appreciate what we had. More comfortable in a small place.