Baraboo High School - Minnewaukan Yearbook (Baraboo, WI)

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Ill' CHI-NIlQ'lRX IXBORAIK Adjacent to the study halls is the library The library is one of the features of the building it is a large comfortable, well lighted room It accommodates forty five students, and its shelxes have room for four thousand xolumes It is furnished with ample magazine and newspaper racks In the north vest corner of the library is the of fice of the librarian commodate thirty Although some of the rooms are furnished with old style desks, most of them are provided with comfortable study chairs The lighting of the class rooms is a most attractixe feature Light enters the rooms from the left side only providing ideal natural lighting conditions The artificial lighting was carefully planned to give a maximum bright light with a minimum of glare This was successfully accomplished by the use of a special ty pe of globe vshich makes it possible to have several hundred can dle power of light in a room without discomfort Each room has a special heating and xentilatlng unit Warmed fresh air is forced into each room at a rate which assures a complete change of fresh :ur sex eral times each hour There is an electric clock in each room The spacious officts are on the first floor Adjacent to the office of the superm tendent is a reception room Both the office and the reception room are attractively furnished A fireproof sault has been proxided vihere important school records are kept The assemblx is located on the second floor This room has a seating capacity of fue hundred and fiftx The stats art sem: upholstered opera chairs designed for this auditorium The siagt is fully tqulpptd A large modern theatrical sw1tch board allows xaritd lighting tfftcts The stage has 1 utlorama curtain which makes it possible to present plays with 1 minimum of painted scentrx and maximum effectnencss The rich red xelxtt xtlour curtain guts to tht stage a proftssionfnl appearance This curtain, 12 . Q F I . IX 'I' 1 ' 1. . ' ' nu' . . 5 . . A v 1 -. ' 1 - . The individual class rooms vary in size. The smallest seat twentyg the largest ac- ' Q . . , . . - Y Y - . . - , ' ' . - s 1' r 1 ' 1 ' t 1 ' i L v ' s ' , ' s s s 1 y i - v - i i i i V V 1 v w - I ' y' 1 s s K v I s ' K . i '

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FXR KX XIX X81 The leadnng school arehntects of the country were called 1nto competmon to dravs up plans for the new bulldmg The one presented by Claude St Starck, Madnson, offered the most m utxllty, permanence, and beauty, and was accordingly selected In choosing a srte for the structure. the Board hxt upon an Ideal locatlon The prox 1m1ty of the two school burldmgs results not only ln more effrclent admnnnstratnon, but an actual fmancxal savlng IS effected as well, for nt IS posslble to use 1 single heatlng system for both buxldrngs Constructxon was begun m the fall of 1927, the bunldmg was ready for occupancy m May 1929 Due, however, to the fact that there was only 1 month of school remam mg, xt was not used untll the begxnnxng of the present year The bulldmg 15 occupxed by the semor hugh school composed of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades The junior hngh school IS well establlshed m the old bulldmg Thls new structure embodnes the latest Innovations rn educatlonal constructlon Books are no longer kept 1n the students desks, but nn steel lockers buxlt xn the walls of the corrndors of the fnrst and second floors Each locker 1s,shared by two students, and If IS used by them, not only as a place to keep thelr books, but as a place ln whlch to place their wraps The assembly room as a place for study has been elxmmated Study mg IS done elther m the home rooms or the study halls The home rooms and study halls represent the most modern educatxonal development Each teacher has charge of 1 room Durmg the perlods when classes are held If IS used as a class room, nn the mornxng and at noon rt IS a home room Each morning and noon the students report to thenr respectne home rooms, roll IS taken, and ln the mornmg a twenty fue mmute perxod of superylsed study rs allowed When classes pass, the students who have classes to go to the rooms of thenr mstructors, those who have a study perlod report at the study halls There are two of these, each Seating seyenty flve students They are under the supery 1s1on of a teacher 1 1 1 l A YI 1 ' IX THE QQ fr .' YM . . 1 . . V , 1 . . Y . I . ' 1 V Y r ' y , .

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it IIBR costmg more than flfteen hundred dollars was not part of the orngmal stage eqtup ment Part of the proceeds of each play produced nn the audntornum ns donated to a fund which eventually wxll be used to recompense the school board for the money ld vanced for the curtaxn The room. IS sclentnfncally constructed and the acoustlcs ure unusually good Abov at the rear, IS a fnre proof movmg pncture booth wxth a tel ephone connectnon with the stage A regulatxon moung pncture screen ns part of the regular equnpment ments are made On specnal occasions the room IS used for lectures Thus .lULllI0l'llll11 fllls a long felt need, for xt presents to school and cnvnc orgamzatnons an :deal place for meetmgs and entertannment at no cost There are three laboratornes m the bulldmg,-chemlstry, physlcs, and blologv Both the chemrstry and physncs laboratornes have stock rooms and mstructors rooms adjacent Modern equxpment IS used throughout On the basement floor, at the south end of the building, as a sm1ll greenhouse vshere research nn botany may be conducted under :deal condmons The gymnasnum IS one of the features of Whnch we are most proud The playnng floor xs of regulation snze, nmety by forty snr feet Permanent bleachers on the west sxde will accommodate seven hundred spectators On specnal occasxons by usmg the playmg floor at would be possnble to seat two thousand fxve hundred, makmg thas the largest audltorxum nn the city Lockers and shovsers are located under the bleachers On the part of the gy mnasxum, extendmg out beyond the rest of the buuldxng, there IS a roof playground We who are students nn the hugh school are partncularly grateful for the prnvnlege 13 E, I H-. L V' O IN THE . Alu' u . . 5 , . . K . 1 . . . . . . Q , I . L I . e, ' - Each noon a convocation of all students is held in the assembly, and announce- . . . . 7 V