Chico High School - Caduceus Yearbook (Chico, CA)

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the entrance will be the office of the principal and secretary, beyond which will be rooms for the teachers, a girls, rest room and the girls' lockers, all on the west side of the corridor. The remainder of the south half will be occupied by the English and mathematics departments. The large room on the southeast corner willbe equipped with a stage, 125 opera chairs, and a moving picture and stereopticon apparatus. Besides special classes, evening meetings for the general public may also be held in this room. On the right of the main entrance is to be the new library, with stacks for a large number of volumes, and tables for reading. Upposite the library will be the registrar's office, a committee room, and the boys' lockers. In the re- mainder of the north half will be the history and language departments. On the second floor will be -the science, art, com- mercial, and home economics departments. In the science department will be facilities for physics, chem- istry, biology, physiology and generaliscience, with provision for junior college extensions. Boys' and girls, lockers, storage rooms and departmental offices will also be placed on,this floor. Of the secondary buildings, the gymnasium Will be the most important and pretentious. It will con- tain gymnasium equipment, and rooms .for th,e music r department, including band and choral rooms. The teria and lunch rooms will be underneath the gym- nasium proper, which will also be used for social pur- poses and as an auditorium when occasion demands it. cafe The agricultural, botany and manual training de- artments will be in three separate buildings on the south side of the High, School grounds. In them will P be a printing shop, laboratories, class rooms, and stor- age rooms. There will be a drafting room, a finishing and gluing room, a Wood turning room, a blacksmith shop, a forge room and offices and shop equipment. In the rear of the shops will be sheds for automobiles and bicycles. A splendid athletic field is provided with. courts for tennis, basket ball, handball and other games. There will be a drill ground with armory equipment. The buildings and athletic fields will cover about eighteen acres. The remainder of the land will be devoted to agriculture, and such new buildings as are necessary will be erected upon it. Chico is to have a new High. School of which it may well be proud. Not only will it have the largest High School campus in Northern California. but it will also have a beautiful building and adequate room for expansion. ..12..

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GUR NEW HIGH SCHOOL ' ,ga HEN the proposed building on the Esplanade is finished Chico Win have a High. seheei which will be unequaled by any similar build- '6 21 ing in the .Sacramento Valley. But it has been obtained only through years of ex- treme hard work. A ' The first High School was erected in 1904. It was much like our present one, which is the original re- built after a fire in 1911., Almost immediately need for room was felt. The Caduceus of 1912 complains of lack of room to carry on the work required. In 1914, however, the first of our two shacks, the manual training building, was erected to relieve con- gestion. 'The second, .called The Annex, was built after the bonds of sixty thousand dollars had failed to carry. A The bond issue would have blocked development for a number of years, and was defeated because it was too small. VVithin a short time it was evident that Chico want- ed a new High School, and on the 18th of Qctober, 1919, after a strenuous campaign of parades, rallies and open discussion, the people of Chico by a seven to one vote, voted S440,000 for the erection of a new High School. - ' The site chosen is an excellent one. The area is 53 acres. The building will face the Esplanade. The grounds extend westerly along Sacramento Avenue to Ivy Street, then south on Ivy Street to th.e campus of the present High School, forming an L, and bounded on the inner side by the State Normal, the Bidwell Mansion grounds and Mansion Park Exten- sion. The land cost 31,000 per acre. The soil is of the finest in the Sacramento Valley, and the possibility of agricultural development is unlimitedg . The school is to consist of a main structure and several minor buildings. The main building is to be about 300 feet from the Esplanade, and will be reached by walks and a semi-circular driveway. The building is to be of brick, of the Tudor style of architecture, and will cover an area nearly two-thirds as large as our present High School campus. It is to be 340 feet long and about 240 feet deep. Cf thelthree front entrances, the central one is to be the most beautiful. This win have ah eight-foot vestibule, then an entrance hall extending to the main corridor. Qpposite the entrance will be the study hall and the offices of the vice-principals. 'On the left of -11...

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