WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN ADDITION TO THE BUILDING ON THE EAST SIDE IS THE BAND ROOM. FROM THIS SMALL AREA CAME THE GREAT MARCH MUSIC POPULAR IN THE 40s AND 50s. I AM REFERRING TO THIS ERA AS I WAS A PART OF IT IN THE 40s. AT THAT TIME THE DIRECTOR WAS JACK GRACIE.
THE GYM DOOR HAS A STORY OF ITS OWN. I MUST FIRST DENY KNOWING ANYTHING AS TO THE VERACITY OF THE STORY. IT WAS THE DAYS OF PRANKS OF VARIOUS KINDS. AT THIS TIME MR. GRACIE, THE BAND DIRECTOR DROVE A SMALL ENGLISH CAR, I RECALL A MORRIS-MINOR. FOR SOME REASON HE HAD LEFT IT AT SCHOOL OVER NIGHT. A GROUP OF PRANKSTER SOME HOW GAINED ENTRANCE TO THE SCHOOL LATE AT NIGHT. USING TOOLS FROM THE SHOP THEY CAREFULLY REMOVED THE CENTER DOOR SUPPORT OF THE GYM DOOR LEADING TO THE OUTSIDE. WITH THE REMOVAL OF THAT SUPPORT THE HEALTHY PRANKSTER PROCEEDED TO PICK UP, PHYSICALLY PICK UP MIND YOU, MR. GRACIE'S MORRIS-MINOR AND
CARRY IT THRU THE WIDE OPEN DOUBLE DOORS, INSIDE THE GYM THEY AGAIN, WITH BRUTE FORCE PICKED UP THE CAR AND PLACED IT ON THE STAGE. THEN THEY REPLACED THE DOUBLE DOOR SUPPORT PIECE AND CLOSED THE OUTSIDE DOOR WAS THEN SECURED AND NO ONE THE WISER. YET THE CONSTERNATION OF THE POWERS TO BE ON THE MORROW WERE
NEEDLESS TO SAY, MIXED, SOME ANGER, SOME LAUGHTER, AND A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
IN DUE COURSE 'VOLUNTEERS' REMOVED THE AUTO.
THIS WAS SOCORRO HIGH SCHOOL IN THE 1930s 40s 50s. AT THE TIME OF BUILDING THE MOST DESIRED DESIGN WAS SOUTHWEST, AND AS YOU WELL KNOW IT IS BY FAR THE THE DESIRED DESIGN EVEN NOW. DON'T YOU JUST LOVE IT?
THE PATIO OF THE SCHOOL WAS OF COURSE AN ATTRACTION IN THE EVENT THAT THERE WOULD BE A BIT OF SNOW TO PASS GENTLY ALONG IN THE FORM OF A HARD PRESSED BALL. ONTO THE UNSUSPECTING BACK SIDE OF OTHERS IN PURSUIT OF REVENGE.
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