A Huge High School in the 1930s

ID: 1490 ~ Source: Held, Colbert Colgate "Cokie", interviewed by Lisa McCracken Lacy, November 8, 2010, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Colbert C. Held explains the attendance at the school when he was a student in the 1930s and what happened to the school after it closed.

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By Paige Sullivan
Old Waco High School is the oldest of several extant buildings to have housed Waco High School. Initially the school met in two small buildings in downtown Waco during the 1880s, and for many years was the only public school west of the Brazos. The…