Cass Technical High School - Triangle Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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In recent years, the location of shops, drafting rooms and some classrooms has been shifted and re-shifted occasionally. At the present time, many of these rooms are awk- wardly positioned. The shops and laboratories for a certain department should all be on one floor of the building as close together as possible. Therefore, it has been suggested, that the art department vacate Room 647, so that the printing department can put lithograph presses in that room. The art rooms should be grouped on the north side of the building to enable better natural lighting. The ex-boiler room should be renovated, and all the Auto-Aero-Refrigeration shops on the fifth floor would be moved into the space now called the boiler room, leaving the rooms 541-549 to be occupied by another department. Furthermore, renovating the boiler room will provide much needed music rooms. Arifle range is also planned for this space. The moving of the shops would be accompanied by the installment of new facilities and modern equipment as required. Care would be taken to lower the ceiling of those rooms now having exceptionally high ceilings and inadequate lighting. Elsewhere, two drafting rooms capable of holding industrialized equipment will be established. Home Economics will be spaced on two floors. Additions to the department include a power sewing room, a laundry room, and an institution type kitchen. A public address system from the main office to every room is needed. It would pro- tect students from harm and prevent deaths or at least lower the number of people killed. The public address system would speed all types of communications. The design of Cass' stairways is such, that they are similar to chimneys, i.e., they provide an upward air draft. In case of a major fire, the terrific damage to the upper floors of the building and, above all, the large loss of lives can readily be visualized by anyone. To safeguard the student body and faculty of Cass Tech is the most important duty of the school administration. Therefore, it seems necessary, that fire blocks should be built at each floor of each stairway. This relatively slight cost if immediately justified by the protection value of the fire blocks. These changes do not happen from today to tomorrow, so the present student body may not derive many of these benefits. Let no one forget, though, that now is the time to provide a better school for the future students. No one can say, whether tomorrow's Cassite will walk along a beautiful campus and enter a building equally outstanding in appearance, to conduct his studies there. The decisions are up to the administration, faculty, and student body. The student of tomorrow can only enjoy those things planned today. -11-

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