The menu was posted on a blackboard in the corridor, with each dish priced at five cents.

This was something in the nature of an innovation and other cities made inquiries regarding the success of the scheme.

The principal advantage, according to Burch's report to the Superintendent, was derived from serving warm lunches to the students, many of whom came from a distance too great to go home every day for a warm lunch, and who did better work in the afternoons than if they had eaten a cold one.

[4] A new South Division High building opened September 7, 1977, one block from the old school.

Efforts to bring it "back home" to be incorporated into the new building failed;[6] and it now ornaments a local gardening supply business, where it also houses a collection of old South Division memorabilia.