Folwell Junior High School - Folwell Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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School Bulletin 1-27-30 FOLWELL WING READY MONDAY New Addition Has New Type Music Rooms, Workrooms for Social Studies, Bike Parking Rooms Folwell junior high school’s $175,000 addition is expected to be ready for occupancy with the start of the new semester next Monday, E. H. Enger, Board of Education architectural engineer, reported this week. Meanwhile, the Folwell Parent-Teacher association- and the school are proceeding jointly with plans for a celebration February 18 of the completion of the now wing, which will make Folwell a Minneapolis standard junior high school plant. There will be a dinner, auditorium program and open house. Has Unusual Features “In plan and use of materials, the building has several features which are ••ather unusual,” Mr. Enger said. For instance, the two band and orchestra rooms in the basement have been provided with circular amphitheater seat platforms. The rooms will accommodate from 80 to 90 pupils each. Accoustical requirements determined the selection of materials for floors and ceilings. Each of the practice rooms has four individual practice rooms. Another unusual feature from an educational standpoint is the provision of a rather large joint workroom between two classrooms on each of the three floors. These rooms will be used for history, community life problem and geography classes. The workrooms are provided with filing cabinets and tables. There also will be other class rooms in the new wing.” No Federal Aid The addition is being built with Board of Education municipal bond funds, under contract, and without WPA or PWA aid. Work was started in July and all construction is practically concluded now. Installation of furniture started Monday. All the latest ideas have been incorporated into the new em library at Folwell Junior high school. Pupils will be able to work with a minimum of distraction from noise, for the ceiling, floors and walls are sound-proof. This is a firanch of the Public library. The new wing opens for occupancy tyonday. OPEN HOUSE To help celebrate the dedication of the new wing, the parents are invited to attend the open house at Folwell on February 18. At six o’clock a dinner will be served by the domestic science teachers, members of the cafeteria, and mothers of the district. It will be followed by a program in the auditorium. Later every one is permitted to go through the various parts of the building and visit with the teachers. L. R. Oberg is the general chairman for the dedication. hp may wheel his bicycle Into a Peclal room conutrorted in the basement at Kolwrll Junior high school for hou inc hicyelea. Tha room i one of the many feature In the new addition whieh opens Monday. A groove at the side of the tep prevent bumping on the way down. 22

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)LTS JOURNAL Sunday, Mar 7, 1933. k Pile—Give School Fully Equipped Stage sprny-giin—loft to right, Harold Holmbcrg, Jo® Slrany and O. K. Olson. Dumps Play Fairy Godmother to Junior High ■•.“.Un, th, „,„rrr„htj Oordon horn. Douid Folwell Students Dig Up Discards and Build VMlhur Johnson and Morrill Pearson. Model Stage Therefrom Dumps and junk piles around Thirty-sixth street and Twentieth avenue S. are almost bereft of old bed springs, tin cans auto parts and what not. Folwell junior high school has a new lake scene backdrop for its stage and four new woodland wings. Those two facts are very closely' related. Folwell, being a very new school, had little or no equipment to aid musical or dramatic presentations on Its stage. The board of education. being short of funds, could do little about It. There's where the Junk piles came in. They Get on the Job Students in the industrial department of the school were determined the stage would no longer be lifeless for school presentations. Scenery was necessary, and to make the scenery, certain equipment had to be made. They began making Informal calls on the nearby dumps. In one. they found an old cream separator. They took lta motor. In another, they located an old air pump on an ancient automobile. They took that, too. Another antique vehicle gave up a gas light tnnk. An old bed spring was brought Into use. Some More Resourcefulness By sawing out the middle of the gas' tank and soldering the two ends together, attaching the air pump and the cream separator motor. 8 fairly good paint spray gun was made. Long strips of muslin were purchased. borrowed and found. Boards. some new and some old. were brought into use. Merchants who sold linoleum were called upon and the long cardboard tubing from rolls of the floor covering were donated. The tubes were split and folded one upon the other until a long roll of eight thicknesses was made. And Girls Do Their Kit The muslin was sewed together by the girls In their sewing classes. It was tacked to the roll and to a top ridge-pole. The boards were nailed into wing frames and the muslin was posted to them. The spray gun and paint brushes came into play—and there stood a brand new lake and woodland scene to add atmosphere to all Folwell stage doings.” All of the work was done by the sewing and industrial classes under the supervision of O. E. Olson and W. E. Hamstreet, industrial instructors. 21

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NEW WING PICTURES A aeries of kodak pictures of the nen Jolwell wine 1® being kept by Mrs. Walton. On© picture was taken August when the men wore Two otherrf wore filned ab: of August when the fraao building wag being starl Krs. Ini ton ii of each of the f A master of loam and mind A Building must be. as you can see With iron and steel, with help of wheel Machinery to work, men to bind In work of toil, in work of soil