Arlington High School - Indian Yearbook (Arlington, MA)

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The academic, section is 184 feet by 61, and the auditorium! about 7U feet front by 150 deep There are 16 class rooms, a library and one study room. In addition, two rooms are devoted to general science, one to drawing, and one to music. The domestic arts have two rooms and there is a general mechanical shop and a print shop. The principal has a suite for his office force, and there are retiring rooms for the teachers The auditorium has accommoda- tions for a check-room and a ticket office which fit it for community use after school hours. An added feature is the Bristol reproducing horn, which gives a phonograph record or a radio a volume of sound adequate to the hall. The gymnasium is equipped with showers, lockers, and dressing rooms and includes offices for the physical directors and the school nurse. This school house is the fifth building erected in as many years to house our rapidly growing school population, and is the largest school building in Town except the High School. During the last 10 years Arling- ton and Belmont have had the largest percentage increase in population in the Metropolitan area. Realizing these facts, it should be a matter of pride to our citizens to know that even with a yearly increase in school population of over 500, requiring a new school house each year, Arlington has been able to finance this extensive program without appealing to the legislature for authority to borrow beyond the debt limit. The school children of Arlington are now housed in brick buildings of good construction, with two portables to take care of any local emergency. ----- -o BUILDING COMMITTEE. ELLIOTT R. BARKER, Chairman. CHARLES B. DEVEREAUX. WALTER F. ROBINSON. CHARLES H- HIGGINS. WILLIAM A. CORCORAN. ARCHITECTS. FRANK IRVING COOPER CORPORATION, of Boston CONTRACTOR. C. S. HENRY CO.. INC., of Boston. Arlington Advocate Print