Brush High School - Sagebrush Yearbook (Brush, CO)

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TRAILERS SERVE AS CLASSROOMS Assembled by the Con- tinental Coach Company in Loveland, Colorado, the trailers, costing approxi- mately $50, 728.00, with- out including other necessary items, such as gas utility in- stallations, were purchased by the district. Three of the four trailers were 24' X 60' and the fourth unit, to be used as a library, was 28' by 32'.

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J Voters of the Brush Re-2 independent school district went to the polls on October 3, 1967 to determine whether the district was to build a new junior-senior high school building, at a cost of $2. 089, 000. Although the proposed school was strongly supported by the Student Council by means of posters such as the above, and pamphlets, the school bond issue failed by a margin of 285 for to 800 against. Following upon the heels of the defeat of the bonds, Mr. James Underwood, a representative of the Industrial Commission of Colorado, discussed the poor conditions of Brush High and the alternatives to correct the situation. In addition to the unfeasibility of rebuilding the present structural system of Old Main, other suggestions submitted by Mr. Underwood were: sharing a split session with Central, using Hillrose and Snyder schools for classrooms, or buying mobile units. This final plan of purchasing portable homes was adopted as the best policy to follow. 14

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Above, Mr. Brower, Mr. White, and an unidentified individual view the con- struction procedures of a mobile classroom. NEW ADDITIONS ARRIVE TO BRUSH HIGH CAMPUS Arriving in early March, the smallest unit, being the library, was the the first portable trailer to be completely assembled and equipped on the B. H.S. campus. Directly afterwards each of the other three trailers was delivered and placed in front of the Auditorium-Gymnasium, along with the mo- bile library. With each trailer arriving in two sections, the first step was to couple the two units together and put them on firm foundations by the use of approxi- mately twenty-five cement pads for each trailer Once this had been accomplished, the wheels were removed and the axle dropped. 16