Dixfield School 1930's

The Old Dixfield High School was built in 1927.

Courses, College Preparatory, General, Commercial, Industrial Arts; 6 teachers, enrollment 120. 
Dixfield Grammar School: 9 teachers, enrollment 290.

Gerald D. Cushing, Supt. Union 27; Carthage, Dixfield, Peru, Weld; office Grammar School Bldg., Dixfield.
Health Officer, John Babb ; Health Nurse, Ruth Bridges, R. 1V.
School Committee: Richard Robinson chm., Helen Leslie, William W. Eustis.

The New Dixfield High School
     Dixfield's new High School building, constructed during 1946-1947 and occupied on September 15, 1947, is a one-story brick building with eight classrooms accommodating 150 high school pupils plus the eighth grade. The building is designed for expansion by addition of a second story and an auditorium-gymnasium.
In addition to the regular college course and general course curriculum, the school now offers a program of study leading to an industrial arts or a commercial diploma. The new industrial arts department, under direction of Wallace K. Hart, offers a general shop program as recommended by the State Department of Education. The department is equipped to provide training in blueprint reading and drafting, woodworking, electricity, metal working, automotive mechanics, and welding. In the new commercial department the following courses are offered: Business training, bookkeeping, business law, two years of shorthand, two years of typing, and advanced stenography.
     Besides the school glee club and orchestra, there are many extracurricular activities to appeal to differing pupil interest and ability, such as dramatics, prize speaking, art, photography, craft-hobby, and the commercial, nature, and science clubs.

	From Ted & Pat Leslie:    High School was in this building 1946/47.  The High School occupied three of the four rooms on the second floor and had a chemistry lab in the basement.  They were able to offer the college course, the business course and the general course at that time.  Wilma Dunham taught 7th and 8th grades in the fourth room on the second floor and all the other grades were on the first floor.    The new High School was ready  in the fall of l947 (with 6 rooms and an Industrial Arts shop with Wallace Hart as the teacher.)   Ted remembers an old unused mill that was in the background of the school.  He was interested to see steam or smoke coming from it....(and) ..trees on the left hand side of the picture.  He remembers that in the hurricane of 1938, that whole side yard looked liked a pile of jackstraws and the kids were not allowed to go out there.
This is a penny post card from the 1930's      I can't read the postmark date, but as Isobel True graduated in 1936  the postcard obviously was sent no later than that year.
	Ted thinks that maybe the 1936 graduation photo  was taken inside the front of the school building with the coat hallway for the third and fourth grade room at the left, though he is not at all sure.  He thinks that the reason the picture may be at the front of the building is because of the window on the landing.  A similar stairway at the back would have had a library and school office on the landing.