Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-30 | Page 60 | Bingham High School Shows Rapid Growth

Bingham High School Shows Rapid Growth Increase in Scope of Activity Activity Ac Ac- Evidenced During During Dur Dur- ing ing Past Three Years ears Faced with a constant program of Americanization brought about mainly by the shifting shirting Industrial population of the small mining town which it serves the Bingham high school has made rapid progress in educational lines since its inception three years ago It Is not uncommon for a classrOOm classroom class- class rOOm oom of forty or fifty students to tobe tobe too be o composed of ot representatives of twenty wenty or twenty-five twenty nations Athletic Ath Ath- letic teams at the school are made up UI of five or six different nation nation- In view yiew of ot this mixed enrollment It t may seem strange to the outsider that hat the community and the school In n particular work harmoniously and happily together Race antipathies antipathies antipathies anti anti- seldom arise It Is is' because of this that the Bingham high school accepts the problem of Americanization as one of Its chief objectives DEVELOP COMMUNITY The early years of the school were directed largely to the lem em of ot developing a community spirit in the heterogeneous mass of people cople Because of this primitive beginning it has been just recently that hat the school has been able to look ook forward to the building up of an n educational system which ranks on n a par with tho the average Amerlan Amerl- Amerl can c'an an high school Three years ears ago a campaign was launched for the development of tho tholine fine line arts homemaking and mechanIcal mechanical Ical cal arts At that time only a dozen students were registered for these courses courses but these courses have havo gr Town grown wn until at the present time more nore than half the Students are registered for the work The rapid growth has made necessary an on additional additional ad- ad building program which will be started within the next few months With the advent of the added s pace ace and facilities departments In auto uto mechanics and woodwork willbe willbe will wille be e added MUSIC ADDED In other lines of development the students have shown progress But three years ago the schools school's music department consisted only onh of ot a music instructor there was no music department on the regular curricula There were no musical instruments in the school and no desire on tile the part df f the students to o interest themselves in m any branch ranch of musical activity At the present resent time the school boasts of two wo bands hands and has made several successful operatic presentations Dramatic art and public speaking speaking speak- speak ing ng have increased materially in popularity among the students Growing rowing from fron a registration of but nye five ve students in 1924 th the departments departments depart depart- ments are now filled d to capacity rho rhe he is now ow working toward elie ehe he development of an art and dancing department and it is is' is expected expected ex- ex that within the y year ar these will will vill have mat materialized