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Taken from the 1933 Totems: Grace Crosby is the first girl to become a member of the Lincoln band. Now Lincoln is the only high school band in the city with four French horns. The football team will have 1,000 sanitary drinking cups at tomorrow's Broadway (High) game - quite an improvement over the old unsanitary method of sucking water out of a sponge carried around in a pail by the water boy. Ad for Lincoln Cycle & Fixit Shop, 1601 N. 45th: Bikes for rent for 10 cents an hour, 20 cents for balloon-tired. Twenty-five thousand fans, at the "greatest game played before the greatest crowd a high school grid contest ever drew in the Northwest," saw Lincoln lose to Garfield in the University of Washington stadium, 19-7, on Thanksgiving Day. "STAN'S LOOKOUT: 1933: A year in the life of students at Lincoln High", JET CITY MAVEN - VOL. 4, ISSUE 5, MAY 2001. http://www.theseattlesun.com/2001news/0105may/stanstap.html
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In the fall of 1907, Lincoln High School opened in the Wallingford neighborhood. It had thirty classrooms, a study hall, and a single gymnasium. There were so many students in the area that the school was already too small when it opened. After several additions and 74 years of service, Lincoln High School closed in 1981. Since then, the Lincoln building has been used as a community center and temporary school building. Caption from MOHAI's Collection and Research, Lincoln High School, 1911. |
By 1913, the number of students had increased to the point that additional space was needed. The district superintendent reported that over 1,068 students attended Lincoln and 200 more were expected to enter at mid-year. Several portable buildings were used until a major construction project was completed in 1914. The center section of the building was remodeled into 14 classrooms, two locker rooms, a book room and stock room. A north wing was added containing an auditorium, library, and boys' and girls' gymnasiums. The expanded building proved adequate for only a few years, however. In 1920, a 10-room wooden annex had to be built. From Thompson, Nile and Carolyn J. Marr, Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, 1862-2000. Seattle: School Histories Committee, Seattle School District, 2002, p. 178. |
Several changes took place during the 1940's, as many Lincoln graduates left to join the armed forces. An evening school was held in the building beginning in 1942. That same year, all students of Japanese ancestry were taken to internment camps, leaving Lincoln without its Lynx Club president, the head of the Triple L, and editor of the Totem. From Thompson, Nile and Carolyn J. Marr, Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, 1862-2000. Seattle: School Histories Committee, Seattle School District, 2002, p. 179 |
In 1971 Lincoln was integrated with the addition of about 50 African-American students. Roberta Barr, an African American, became the district's first female high school principal at Lincoln in 1973. In 1974, 350 more minority students were assigned to the school as a part of the district's desegregation program. A few years later there was an influx of students of Southeast Asian ancestry, and a Newcomer Center opened to assist them in adjusting to the school system. From Thompson, Nile and Carolyn J. Marr, Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, 1862-2000. Seattle: School Histories Committee, Seattle School District, 2002, p. 180 |