Just outside Carnegie on Washington Avenue, this school opened in the fall of 1935. It was designed in a bracingly modern style by Mount Lebanon architect J. Lawrence Hopp, who designed a number of other schools in nearby suburbs. It has been an office building for quite a while now, but the alterations to the exterior have not been severe, as we can see from a 1950 photograph of students trying their hands at rescue techniques.
A certain number of students were probably lost every time these drills were performed, but that is the price we pay for preparedness.
Some history of the building and all the yearbooks are at the Chartiers Valley Historical Society page on Clark High School.
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