Picture Year – 1943
Principal/President – Dr. Willette Rutherford Banks
This picture tagged “Number please” in a 1943 yearbook photo, shows ladies operating a telephone switchboard. A telephone switchboard is a system that was used to connect or establish a call and it required a physical operator to dial the number and complete the call. Today’s switchboards are operated using a set of automated algorithms that connect and direct call traffic without the assistance of a human operator.