On April 7th, 1916, the following article appeared in the Galt Herald reporting the opening of the new Galt Grammar School on E Street, between 5th and 6th Streets, built by a bond issue of $17,000.00. A parade of children marked the day’s importance.
Monday, April 3rd was a memorable time for the teachers, school children of Galt and their parents, for on that date, the proud teachers and pupils took possession of their fine, new modern and perfectly equipped Grammar School.
The school is a one-story structure in Mission style, built of interlocking tile, plastered and painted with picturesque red-tiled roof. It contains six large airy class rooms, each specially constructed to obtain proper lighting, maple - flooring and oak wood work. It also contains a large auditorium with seating capacity of about three hundred with stage setting, moving-picture machine and a new Kurtzman piano - a make of piano extensively used in our best institutions of learning throughout the United States.
It is a building of which a much larger town than Galt might well be proud. It shows in its attention to detail the most careful and painstaking effort on the part of the trustees, Messrs. George Orr, Timothy O’Shea, and A.W. Wright - upon whom too much praise cannot be bestowed for their untiring zeal and efficient service.
Promptly at 9:30 A.M. to the stirring roll of the drum, the pupils of the Grammar School left their old home with three cheers for departed days and in a procession headed by two little girls clad in white and two little boys carrying the flag marched to their new school - home.
There, with proper exercises commemorating in song and story, the patriotic sentiment it creates, Old Glory fluttered to the top of the new flag pole, amid cheering and singing of the Red, White and Blue. The exercises were concluded by giving a rousing three cheers for the tax-payers, the trustees and the new School Home.
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Last edited 27 February, 2005
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