Benson Polytechnic High School - BluePrint Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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OUR NEYV BUILDING On the preceding page is a picture of a dream come true. For years Benson has been badly in need of an auditorium. Holding assemblies in thc gym was very inconvenient because the chairs and the platform had to be put up for each occasion, and then they had to be removed before the gym classes could be resumed. Our senior classes have had to present their plays at other schools, but now they can present them here where they will feel at homeg and when the plays are given here, the lower classmcn feel that it is really an event of their own school. and many more of them attend. For years Mr. Cleveland has done all he possibly could to help Benson get its auditorium, the Tech Pep has contributed its shareg so has everyone else who is at all interested in Benson. We students, who have had to sit in the uncomfortable chairs in the gym, have waited patiently for Benson's dream to come true. We seniors regret that we must leave just as Benson gets its new auditorium, but we are grateful that we were able to present our class play here, and that we have the honor of being the first class to hc graduated in the new building. The auditorium is so well built for the reproduction of sound pictures that the Western Electric agents asked if they might use the building in which to demonstrate their equipment to prospective customers. As far as we know our sound equipment was the first to be purchased from the VVestern Electric Company, the hundreds of other theaters equipped with VVestern Electric apparatus having been allowed only to lease theirs. The radio broadcasting studio, another important feature. was designed by the same firm that designed the Junior N. B. C. studio in New York. And as we all have seen, our cafeteria is an fine as any. The third picture is a view of our new stockroom under construction. The rest of the school having far outgrown the old stockroom, the large addition was necessary. The new section is providedx with several modern features, one of which is a separate room in which to store paper. A sep- arate room is necessary for the proper storage of paper because the tem- perature must he constant and the humidity quite high. Another feature is the new incinerator with the chute opening into the hall wall, making it quite handy for the janitor. An additional point is the systematic arrange- ment of the many supplies for the various departments of the school, thus making it easier for Mr. Teats and Mr. Braddock to till the many orders that come to them. Benson has grown by leaps and bounds during the last year, but it has not become too large for the ever-increasing number of students and probably never will. Those of us who expect to come back and visit Benson in years to come hope to see the dingy portables, which now mar the campus, replaced by permanent brick structures, and as the dream of the former graduates came true, we believe tllat in a comparatively short time our vision will be realized. PAGP 29