Altoona High School - Horseshoe Yearbook (Altoona, PA)

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XE. 2 . XXX Q Altoona High School Annex y T has been the privilege of the class of 1929 to be the first class to have the use of the new annex. While other classes were squeezed in the over-crowded orig- inal building in previous years, the class of 1929 was able to spread out and be more comfortable. Naturally more room gave better facilities for studying, so our class has been fortunate while those following us will be more fortunate. The work on the annex began July 1, 1927, and was totally completed by February l, 1929. The cost of the building and equipment was S900,000.00. The superstructure is steel, reinforced with concrete and the exterior is Altoona red brick, trimmed with Indiana limestone. The corridors of the new building are glazed buff brick, five feet high, the plaster wall continuing the remaining heighth. The floors are of battleship linoleum and terrazzi. There are approximately fifty academic class rooms, their iioors being white maple. The basement contains the gymnasium, supply department, and the Vocational Department. The last named contains an up-to-date automobile shop, an electrical shop, a sheet metal shop, a machine shop, and rooms for mechanical drawing. The gymnasium is acoustically treated with specially designed acousti- celotex while the fioor is made up of separate wooden blocks, each stood on end. There are permanent bleachers and a temporary stand can be erected at one side of the floor if necessary. All the offices concerned directly with the high school are on the first fioor of the annex. The girls' gymnasium is there and there are also two medical rooms where sick students can be cared for. There is a study hall equipped with 'two hundred fifty arm chairs for student study during the day. This room is so planned that it can readily be turned into a meeting or social hall for the evenings. lt has two entrances leading directly from the street. During the erection of the new annex, the old auditorium was completely remodeled. Thirteen hundred fifty new seats were installed, so placed that the stage' can be seen from every seat. The ceiling was also acoustically treated. . On the second fioor, the new library was established. lt contains one big room for the students to work in and a smaller one for storage purposes. The cafeteria is situated on the third floor. It has seventy-live tables capable of seating six hundred persons at one time and two private dining rooms adjoining the main room. Special acoustic treatment was given this room by means of a specially designed plaster. The music rooms are treated in the same way and are practically soundproof, the doors being specially constructed. The Household Arts Department, also on the third floor, contains two cooking rooms, two demonstration rooms, and three sewing rooms. So, in departing, the class of 1929 leaves to the classes of the future thislmodern building with all its facilities, and the hope that it will be used to its best advantage. Page Ten

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ata' Qt ZAR ' English Department Mathematics Department Elizabeth Armstrong Marion R. Bancroft J nie R. Brennecke ith G. Frederick E la M. Kern Anne E. K1-ick R. Eleanor Krick Rena Lauver Margaret J. McCauley Hilda M. Orr M. Florence Rollins Norma G. Swayne Mary V. Turner Mildred L. Wieland Gertrude Wray Beatrice Morrison -9 me Science Department ' A Edgar A. Bowers eah S Decker 'Louis P. Helmbright Helen K. McCartney Lena Weisman Harold C. Wimmer Music Department Lawrence C. Stitt Art Department m 'N S 'li l Emily D. White Grace E. Allen Ella G. Burley Edward F. Emanuel Edith R. Fleck Joseph N. Maddocks Mary C. Ross Irene J. Sauserman Bertha A. Swartz Elizabeth E. Taylor History Department Earl VV. Dickey H. Marjorie Downes Emma C. Eherle B. Landis Craybill Irvin S. Gress Nelson G. Han f Ethel M. Henry Marie N. Lauver Nelda Miller Nell J. Tllomasl-IM-1:'ra H'afold J. Pegg Carrie F. Waite Paul A. Zetler Vocational Department William A. Fickes Walter H. Grove Stephen W. Hoover Carl 0. Lundegren Jacob Miller Joe Miller Charles G. Plummer C. S. Romig James C. Ross Henry F. Selwitz Samuel B. Smith Clyde N. Snyder Household Arts Department Florence E. Gray Alberta Johns Miriam A. Salter Grace M. Swan Anna M. Young Herbert S. Sheetz Jeannette Stevens ' A. Angella Unverzagt Latin Department ' Perilla Rl Harner Una E. Small . S. Edith White 3 Commercial Department Dora Kades Josephine H. McBrier Helen C. Orton Addison E. Pohle George C. Stover Mary Unikel Modern Language Department Mary E. Dunbar Helen L. Johnston Marffaret L. Kraemer , M. Marie Ritts 777. ft? -Q.: Page Nine nfww

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