In December of 1938, the Conway School Board solicited bids for building two wings on the 1923-vintage Kennett High School. The three-story east wing was to contain several new classrooms, including a science lab, with a kitchen in the basement for the then-popular Home Economics curriculum. The west wing was to be dominated by a gymnasium, with a stage.

We who attended Kennett in the 1960s knew them as the “1938” wings, but they were not built until 1939.

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