Arthur Hill High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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Trophies showing the prowess of the school speak for its traditional leadership. For tl1e Hrst tin1e in I-Iillite history awards n1ay be displayed in well-lighted cases in the front corridor o11 both first and scco11d Iloors. Especially attractive is the section of tl1e lirst floor between the ollice and tl1e audi- torium set oil by wood panels with chrom- ium band trims and lighted with flour- escent tubes. The last word in modernity is the impression a looker-on gets when he steps into one of tl1e eigl1t entrances and proceeds clown the streamlined nine foot high corridors. Ap- proximately 1,750 student lockers and lilfteen waste lockers are recessed into the walls of tl1e spacious halls so constructed that there's never a protruding edge. Two elhcient secretaries, a clock, a radio- Pllllllli address syste111, teachers' lockable 111ail boxes, a hall-way lined with indi- vidual otlices for administration heads on one side, and llll ollicc workroom with sup- plies, mimeograph equipment, and vault, connect the general oflice to tl1e up-to-date community room. Committee meetings, interviews, and social T gatherings Gnd a pleasant meeting place in the community room. Modernly equipped, this room has an artihcial hreplace. In tl1e walls of the whole room there are re- cessed cupboards with book shelves or dis- guised wrap cupboards. wo 30 by 120 foot well-lighted, beautifully designed libraries blend the artistic as well as tl1e essential in equipment for 4110 stu- dents six hours of tl1e day with a librtirian and reference material on hand to help all stt1de11ts. The second lloor ol: tl1e center section of tl1e building contains a small auditorium called The Little Theater, which seats about 200 PCTSOIIS. l11dividual speaking llllil dramatic class students Hll up the front section of seats while during debate season front and back sections both are hlled to capacity. Approximately l500 comfortable, blue-leath- Cl'-ClISl1lOllCLl seats with chromium llfllll PlllS small alcoves on the sides plus i11direct lighting plus a velvet curtained stage, tl1ree-story high stage equals the stadium type auditorium. A projection room in the CCFIICI' back ot tl1e auditorium fully equipped with a ve11tilat- ing system, light controls, a11d openings for spot lights and a movie projector, com- pletes necessary equipment lfor the staging and lighting of movies, assemblies, plays, a11d pageants i11 a community CClllC1'. 12 21,1111 1111 1111111 img mass! 1 i l I 5 l l 1 1 1 l 1 1 1

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lllllf T0 Tllll llll'l'llWll 'I' there is a scientifically-tested sufficient, or inadequate amount of natural light. All blackboards, located at the front of the room, have two indirect lighting fix- tures placed in the ceiling. These are -not controlled by the electric eye. Surveys have proved that thirteen per cent of school building accidents occur in the classrooms and there- fore inside of each room every precaution has been taken to make them the safest things under the sun. To avoid bumping heads the doors have been made with clear glass windows and have also been provided with locks of such a type that a student cannot be locked inside even though the door is locked outside. Still on the first floor .... is the auditorium, one of the most impressive and outstanding rooms in the building with exits at two corridor levels. VVhen night functions require the auditorium, gym- nasium, cafeteria, or library: ceiling concealed gates can be pulled down to cut off any separate unit. After looking over the first floor, john and Mary proceed up one of the modern, safe stairways. The steps are made of a sanitary, skid-proof, terrazo ma- terial that has been pre-cast for greater safety. The stairs, landings, and corridors are so designed to guide persons around the coves and out of the building in case of a fire panic. No point in tl1e building is more than one hundred 1 , s all --' - :., Q' feet or out of sight of a stairway or exit. The red esit lights, run from a separate circuit, are always sure to be on to insure the safety of night crowds. Twenty class rooms with separate wings for the language, commercial, math and art departments made up the second floor. Because the auditorium covers two stories and the balcony of the gym leads to the second floor, this floor is mezzanine type with one room to pay particular attention to . . . that being the Little Theater . . . with 2oo chairs for the audience, its stage, curtain, overhead and footlights. Only two departments . . . but two that no visitor should miss . . . are those covering the whole third floor, the cafeteria and the music department. The cafeteria fully equipped with two serving aisles, and about one hundred tables with eight chairs at each, make a room both convenient and beautiful. After Johnny and Mary Hillite had entered and examined every nook and corner of this wonderland, they decided it wouldn't be bad at all staying at school the whole six hours instead of having two hours free to ramble about as they had done down on Court Street. VVith safety an important factor chiining in with the other factors of modernity, size, and design, the new Arthur Hill I-Iigh School will grow as the com- munity grows and forever be a pride to Saginaw. Li ht and more light set ull each of these six dillerent stairways. The Night would not be feared il' from the darkness loomed a buildin-I two front and two back entrance stairways go to the third floor while whose lights always seem to say welcome, as does this right doom of the two front wing entrances go only to the second floor. the front center entrance off the plaza. ll -- - - t--fs.

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