Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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THE PIONEER 23 occupy the space in the center room, and in the center rear and extending back about forty feet beyond the rear wall of the main part of the building is the auditorium, which is directly over the gymnasium. The auditorium projection is but one story above the basement, while the main part of the building is two. The entrance to the auditorium will be from the corridor on the first floor, directly in front of the main entrance. The grade class rooms arranged for on this floor are designed to accommodate forty pupils each, and from each class room will open cloak locker rooms. On the second floor (above the basement) the high school department will he cared for. A center corridor, narrower than the ones on the two floors below, runs the entire length of the building. This floor provides for a large academic study hall seating one hundred and forty, where no recitations will be held; four high school recitation rooms, one of which will be fitted up for a music and drawing room; two science laboratories and the necessary supply room. There will also he provided for on this floor a reference library reading room, a small office and emergency toilets. The woodwork of the interior is to be finished in mission style and the furnishings will conform as far as possible to that finish. The walls are to be tinted a light buff color above the dado cap, while below the color will be a dark green. The laboratories will he equipped with the necessary tables and appliances for the work in chemistry, physics and biology and one of the class rooms on the second floor will be equipped with furniture for the work in the commercial courses, which, it is planned, will be started next year. The building will be ready for use at the beginning of the next school year. It is doubtful if any town in this part of the state has a more complete and up-to-date school plant than Goshen will have when this magnificent building is completed and the new equipment ought to give an added impetus to the work of public education. Geometry Pupil: “E. R. : H. W. : : J. L. : M. F.” Mr. Smith: “Very well, can vou prove it?” Geometry Pupil: “Oh that’s a self evident fact.” The Graduation Exercises. HE graduation exercises of the class of 1911 will be held in Music Hall, Wednesday evening, .June 21. The usual reception to the graduates will follow the exercises. Dayton’s full orchestra will furnish music both for the commencement program and at the reception. Program. Orchestra. Invocation Rev. Floyd A. Crane, Ph. 1). Salutatory Harriette Houston Essay—“The Stone House” Ruth Thompson Essay—“The American Flag” Jane I). Coleman Essay—“Legal Holidays and Others” Bertha Schooumaker

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22 THE PIONEER part of the town and in close proximity to the old high school building, which will render the management of the schools much less difficult than would be the case were they at a considerable distance from each other. The lot is directly in front of the old building and has a frontage of nearly 200 feet on Main Street and 350 feet on Erie Street. The building follows the general lines of many of the best schools of recent construction and the plans have been given the highest praise by the State Department of Education. The exterior walls are of the finest quality pressed brick, of a light buff color, with trimming of Indiana limestone. The interior walls are of fireproof macolite blocks. The heating and ventilating system was installed by the Johnson Heating Company, of New York —the system used being the direct-indirect radiation. The boilers and coal bunkers have been placed in the extreme rear of the building, removed as far as possible from the class room, thus minimising the danger from fire and removing the noise and the dirt of the fires from the rest of the building. The ventilation of the building will be effected by four fans, driven by small electric motors. The toilet arrangements, which are in the basement, are automatic flushing, and are of the most improved type of sanitary plumbing. This work, as well as the plumbing for the other parts of the building, is under the direction of Frank C. Hock. The building is piped for gas and wired for electricity throughout and a system of call bells, fire alarms and telephones has been installed. The building is entirely above the level of the street, and although the first floor is used partly as a basement, it is, in fact, the first floor of a three story building. The building provides for four grade rooms and the high school department as well as for several unassigned rooms, which will later be used as the growing needs of the school may require. An auditorium seating five hundred is provided for and also a gymnasium with locker rooms, etc. The gymnasium, which is designed for physical training classes, will also he adapted for basket ball and other indoor games. The main entrance will be on Main Street, with two entrances at the sides, one for the boys on Erie Street, and one for the girls on the side next to Music Hall. The side entrances, which will be the ones used by the students, will let into a long corridor extending through the center of the building. At either end of this corridor stairs will lead to the floors above. As one enters the main entrance in front, he will find himself in a lobby from which opens the Board of Education office and the teachers’ room. These rooms will be large and well equipped for their purpose. On the basement floor are the lockers and toilet rooms for the entire building, two unassigned class rooms for future expansion and the big gymnasium, whose dimensions are about 45 feet x 70 feet. From the front lobby a broad flight of stairs leads to the first floor above. The corridor on the first floor above the basement, running the entire length of the building, is sixteen feet wide, and an inlaid mosaic floor is planned for. On this floor the four corner rooms are to be primary grade rooms. The libraries are to

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24 THE PIONEER Orchestra. Essay—“The Passing of the Old Oaken Bucket” Molly Foster Oration—“President Lincoln at Gettysburg” Paul R. Sell river Essay—“The Story of Pocahontas” Mae Can- Essay—“Scenes from the Life of Alexander Hamilton” Adele Witt Violin Solo—selected Julia C. Reid Essay—“Ideals and Airships”----------- Alma Abx-ams Essay—“The Reign of the Short Story” Emmy Kattmann Valedictory Margretta Farley Orchestra. Presentation of Independent Republican prize; the Minisink Chapter D. A. R. prizes, and the Board of Education Scholarship prize. Presentation of Diplomas. Orchestra.