In the beginning, in 1940, there wasn't much technology.  They had typewriters and classes for them.  There were no computers or calculators when the school was built.  The auditorium had different colored lights and had a speaker system.  They had morning announcements on the public address system (PA System). 

In 1942 Henry L. Schultz went to Genet, which was called Columbia then, and he said the whole picture changed. His old school, Clinton Heights, was nothing like the new Genet.  The new systems at Genet had not exsited in Clinton Heights. There were electric eyes used to sense the light level in the rooms and turn on the lights if the intensity fell below a preset level.  The clocks in the rooms were controlled in the office.  Science was a big thing back then.  They had science fairs and other programs. 

World War II started the things that students did in science class to help them to win the war.  In what is now our art room, we had a shop and students could bring in their cars and work on them with the shop teacher.  Then free calculators came in from the government in the 1970's.  They would have cost them $100 each.  Then some complaints came from a college that kids our age should do the math by themselves and that the college kids should get the calculators.  We said it helped us learn and we won the argument.

This is the first newspaper made by the printing press

This is the old Genet TV station Around 1976 Genet started a TV studio.  They provided antidrug information  including the consequences of drug use.  Other students'  projects and activites for the tv station were made possible by the PTO who donated $300.   The principal, vice principal, and co-coordinator, did the wiring.  They used a ditto machine to copy paper.  It  wasn't perfect but it was the best they had.  They used a printing press to print out a newspaper called WEEKLY BULLETIN.  Later it was called CROSSROADS because of its location.  We hope this information is helpful to future Genet students.

This is the second newspaper made by the printing press