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The Oratorbears celebrate golden anniversarymuch has changed since the doors opened 50 years ago

Two-thousand-four-teen marks the 50th anniver-sary of Bryan High School. Since its opening in fall of 1964, the school has had its fair share of changes, from the high school’s move to the current building in 1971, to the recently added school based health center and new offices. The largest and most obvious change was when the building on 42nd Street, which was both a middle and a high school, became just a middle school as a new building on 48th Street was constructed to serve as the new high school, the school we know today. Even this building has sustained some heavy construction in the last 43 years since its doors opened, and we may be seeing some more in the near future with the current OPS Bond Issue that citizens will vote on on Nov. 4. “The funds will be used to make improvements in the school,” administator Tracy Wernsmen said. There is no doubt about it, the school, as it currently stands, will look completely different to us in the future as much as it does now to alumni who gradu-ated in its early years. For instance, many of the classrooms upstairs were connected by doors within them. Teachers and students didn’t need to use

the hallways to get from class to class. Throughout time many of these doors were removed, but some still remain in the central area of

the second floor. The two art classrooms used to be one classroom that juggled two classes and two or more

teachers at a time. This caused plenty of chaos, and a wall was eventually built in the middle, separating the two classrooms.

The foods and tex-tiles classrooms were similar, with only about a six foot tall wall separating them and ob-jects flying over it constantly

during class. “Until permanent extensions of our office walls were done, you never knew what would come flying

Students change clothes like they’re going out of style

The 60s was a decade that broke through many fashion barriers. Mismatched pat-terns and psychedelic prints were a huge style during this time, along with high pony tails and box shaped PVC dresses.

During the 70s bell-bot-tomed trousers and zip-up cardigans were popular fashion trends. This decade consisted mainly of chunky sweaters, t-shirts, the stan-dard jeans and sneakers.

Hair during the 80s was usually big and flamboyant because everyone wanted to make a statement. Vivid col-ors, sequins and denim jakets were also popular fashion trends. Converse during this time went with everything.

The simple grunge look took over during the 90s as a response to the overly bright 80’s. Women took on the look of over-sized t-shirts with leggings or colorful tights underneath. Men wore flannels with ripped acid wash jeans.

The 2000s was a mashup de-cade, with all different styles from previous years. Denim pants became more popular and started hanging lower on the waist. Over sized hoop earrings and belly shirts all became popular in womans fashion.

The styles for this decade have been defined as slim fit-ted clothing and skater fash-ions. Skinny jeans became popular for both men and women. Motorcycle inspired leather jackers, sun dresses and cardigans have been a huge style for this decade.

and 8-13 now stand was once home to tennis courts. They were removed to create more parking spaces, and the park-ing spaces were removed in

lockers once was. The science plan area was a computer lab many years ago, and the science and math teachers shared the current math plan office. The foreign language department got a computer lab in the early 2000’s, and what is now the Family and Consumer Sciences comput-er lab was a “living room” where meetings were held. The carpet in the pit was not always the for-est green we see now, but instead orange. The carpeted walls around the commons were the same. Some of this original carpet can still be seen above the entrance to the lecture halls on the north side of the commons. Until the addition of the west administration offices, the library was much bigger. When the offices were built, they built them into the library which greatly reduced its size. It also cre-ated the short hallway into the library from the staff only entrance. It is through change that we grow and through growing that we change. As we grow larger as a school, we will continue to leave our footprints in the halls that we walk daily.

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over between room 200 and room 205,” family consumer science teacher Krystal Kolb said. Where portables 3-7

the early 2000s to accommo-date the portables. Four classrooms on the south side of the building were added where a wall of

The school has seen many changes since it opened in 1964. In the 50 are yearbook photos from through-out the schools history.

Student council, school prepares for “a Starry night” on Oct. 4.

homecoming

Photo Illustration by Abbie Boiko & Josh Estabrook

Abbie BoikoEntertainment Editor

Jasmin JimenezReporter The school has seen thousands of students come through its doors and with them the styles and fads of six decades

Photos courtesy of Crusader Yearbooks