Charles W Baker High School - Lyre Yearbook (Baldwinsville, NY)

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B'VILLE'S NEW SCHOOL The familiar colonial styled school building with tall front columns will be a thing of the past if school designers continue in the trend set by B'ville's new school. Clean, good-looking modern lines are shown in the model constructed by the industrial arts department under the direction of Mr. Enders and Mr. Hess. It not only shows the proposed building and bus garage but the entire school grounds area. The new building is to be located on Memorial Field near where the tennis courts are now. It will actually be on higher ground than our present school I Planned for a full attendance of about twelve hundred, the school includes many unusual features. Among these is the frequent use of glass blocks, rather than large windows, to illuminate the building. The floor is so planned that the principal can see all the corridors but one short hallway by standing in one place. The shops are located on the ground floor off the loading court and planned so that shop noise will not disturb the rest of the school. An agricul- ture shop and printing room are to be additions to the school program. No more standing or sitting on concrete benches if the new gym is built the way it is planned. It will seat about 1200 on folding grandstands. And in addi- tion to the gymnasium there will be a corrective gym where special exercises and gym programs will be planned for the handicapped. Between the two gyms will be the health center, designed by doctors and nurses to serve efficiently the health of the school. Baldwinsville's auditorium is notorious for its bad acoustics and inadequate stage. Plans for the new school include an auditorium that will seat 1200 on one floor, with curved ceiling for the best possible acoustics. Figures for the stage are not definite yet, but it will probably be a little less than 40 feet under the proscenium arch. Then there are the music rooms, art rooms, and a cafeteria that will seat over 400, but you will find out more about them later. And of course there is the little matter of a swimming pool. Well, it's in the plans and the school board approves, so here's hoping. And there s plenty more, like the outside amphitheater, the projection room and such. And what will all this cost? A mere — $2,250,000.00.

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 JANITORS These fellows work so hard that we had a terrible time to get all of them together for a picture. With Mr. Austin as the head of the legation, the janitorial staff on the north side school is made up of Brad Hamm, Mike Tarnow, and Bob Currie. The other members are Don Hammond and Carl Sidman, who were working in other buildings and were not present for the picture. We certainly appreciate all the work done by them to keep our school in the wonderful shape that it is. I hope we will all, in the future, do our best to help them, for it is our duty to help keep our school as one of the best. OFFICE STAFF Without these friendly souls to keep our wheels from breaking down under the strain of the daily school chores, our school would certainly be a much less attractive place for learning. They have that ability to keep the office in a con- stant flow of laughter, even when the boss is there, to say nothing of what happens when he leaves.

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