In 1975, Percy L. Julian High School emerged as a result of the community's desire to relieve the overcrowding of area high schools. School officials originally referred to Julian as the 103rd and Dan Ryan Site High School. Julian's founding principal, Dr. Edward H. Oliver, changed the school's name to honor the renowned scientist, Percy Lavon Julian, who died in April of 1975. Julian school colors were orange and brown. The most popular part of Julian high school that helped mold me into the person I am today is the north wing of the school. The north wing included the band room, the radio-TV department and the flag room.
When you first enter the north wing all you see is orange and brown. Orange meaning powerful and Brown meaning stability …show more content…
You would open two big black doors and as you walk in you would see mobilized six-foot cameras, LAD lights, vision boards and the list can go on. Since there were two floors in the studio the top was the producing section .yellow and green foam padded walls so the sound would bounce off the walls. Big glass windows so you can look downstairs and direct your cast. There was also about 20 students in the studio at one time dressed up in different customs. We had two main teachers for this class which you would have to stay in for all your years in high school since it was your major. We became more like a family because we see the same two teachers and 30 students each day for 2 hours of our school day. We went off a lot of trip to different studios thought out Chicago and met a lot of famous people. Since our school was known for our radio-TV program we got sponsor and received 30 brand new mac computers so we were always up to date on the technology. I learned so much in that classroom that I thought I could never do. I learned how to do different backgrounds with a green screen and I even produced videos that were shown on Julian TV.im so glad I was able to get into a program like this because it paved the way for me throughout my high school life. Before this program I was sky but being in front of the camera you had to loosing up. I also got a job at channel 7 news in downtown Chicago because of Julian and the skills that I had learned from radio tv.i felt as if I was on top of the world because how could a young girl like me from middle-class family and a “hood school” get an oppunriunies like that compared to the kids that went to the top school in the
When you first enter the north wing all you see is orange and brown. Orange meaning powerful and Brown meaning stability …show more content…
You would open two big black doors and as you walk in you would see mobilized six-foot cameras, LAD lights, vision boards and the list can go on. Since there were two floors in the studio the top was the producing section .yellow and green foam padded walls so the sound would bounce off the walls. Big glass windows so you can look downstairs and direct your cast. There was also about 20 students in the studio at one time dressed up in different customs. We had two main teachers for this class which you would have to stay in for all your years in high school since it was your major. We became more like a family because we see the same two teachers and 30 students each day for 2 hours of our school day. We went off a lot of trip to different studios thought out Chicago and met a lot of famous people. Since our school was known for our radio-TV program we got sponsor and received 30 brand new mac computers so we were always up to date on the technology. I learned so much in that classroom that I thought I could never do. I learned how to do different backgrounds with a green screen and I even produced videos that were shown on Julian TV.im so glad I was able to get into a program like this because it paved the way for me throughout my high school life. Before this program I was sky but being in front of the camera you had to loosing up. I also got a job at channel 7 news in downtown Chicago because of Julian and the skills that I had learned from radio tv.i felt as if I was on top of the world because how could a young girl like me from middle-class family and a “hood school” get an oppunriunies like that compared to the kids that went to the top school in the