Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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THE SPECTATOR I Bvhiratinn The Spectator takes pleasure in devoting a part of this number to a question of vital import- ance at the present time-the Bond Issue for the Johnstown School Building Program. We hope that the importance of this project will impress itself on the mind of each and every reader.

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Enm thr Binh Svrhnnl Glam IQPIII Supt. H. J. Stockton What we have longed for and hoped for during the past several years is now within our power' to reach forth and grasp. The Board of Education have decided to submit to the voters a request for the authorization of 52,000,000 for erecting new schools as outlined in the School Building Pro- gram of 1917. Careful and conservative figures show that the district is 2,500 pupils behind in its building program. As the enrollment increases the conditions are aggravated. The enrollment increased this year 350 pupils or ten rooms. The normal increase of enrollment is 2 to 3 per cent, so that on a 10,000 enrollment, such as we have, an increase of 200 to 300 a year may be expected. Our increase of rooms should keep pace. 1 If I were asked what interest a high school pupil should take in this matter, I would say he has both a present and a future interest. Every high school pupil has a present in- terest in that bond issue provides for a new high school. It will also provide for several new grade buildings, and for a complete junior High School system that will benefit the younger brothers and sisters of High School pupils. It ought to be characteristic and from my experience is characteristic of the High School pupil that he enthusiastically supports better educational opportunities for brother and sister. The older brother or sister is a kind of second father or mother in this respect. The possibilities of a new high school ought to ire every boy and girl to the highest pitch of enthusiastic ardor. The present building served its purpose well in its day but it now belongs to a past era. In the first place it is crowded beyond all reason. The conversion of every possible room into class rooms has largely served to stave off the in-