Landmarks: In the Floors and on the Field
At first glance, Gilbert may look like just another huge suburban high school campus. But take a closer look and you will see a few things that make it different from everywhere else.Anyone who has been to the school and walked down Tiger Hall, a quarter-mile-long main walkway through the center of the school, will have noticed big “conversation pits” built into the floor. When the building first opened up in 1987, the pits contained lockers. But now that the lockers are gone, they are places where students can sit and enjoy their lunch and talk.
“I think the pits are cool to have because they’re convenient for people to just sit in there and eat lunch, talk and stuff like that,” says Jennifer Darland, ‘10.
Another unique feature of GHS that anyone who has been to a football game during the past eight years has noticed is the giant tiger-eyes mural painted on the back of the weight room. In 2000 it was a senior gift, painted to help show our school pride. Paul Perry, a football player who graduated in ’08, says he liked having the Tiger watch over the field when he played.
“It’s an important part of our stadium to me,” he says. “When we’re out there on that field and we look at it, it’s just a reminder of what we are — Tigers — and who we represent. Plus, I think it’s kind of an intimidating factor to our opponents. They know whose house it is and that we mean business.”
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