Greenbrier Military School - Yearbook (Lewisburg, WV)

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Two Still higher, on the hilltop, we recently leveled and filled a large plot of ground so that it is perfect for football, baseball, or practicing golf shots. Gymnasiums-Rifle Range Recently Greenbrier completed construction of the new Memorial Gymnasium. Of brick fire- proof construction, it has the most modern heating and lighting systems. The court is regulation size with folding bleacher seats on one side seating 540 spectators. It is planned to add a like number of seats on the other side. The main court is equipped with glass backboards. The floor has a concrete base, with hardwood subflooring on 2 X 4 joists and selected maple hardwood playing surface. There are dressing and shower rooms for the local and visiting teams. The building includes a new and modern indoor rifle range, well lighted and ventilated, complete with every safety precaution in- cluding movable targets. In the gymnasium is the Alumni Memorial Room built and furnished by the National Alumni Association. Our other gymnasium is 130 by 60 feet, with a 20 foot ceiling. It has gallery and bleacher seats, toilet facilities and dressing rooms and a shower room. An Intramural Sports Room is used for wrestling, boxing, tumbling, handball, and other contests. These two gymnasiums provide us with unusually fine facilities for athletic activity during the winter months. Swimming Pools Our cadets make regular trips to the Greenbrier Hotel in nearby White Sulphur Springs, where they swim in the filtered indoor pool, one of the most beautiful in the entire country. The new filtered outdoor modern swimming pool at Camp Shaw-Mi-Del-Eca is available for cadet use in fall and spring, The some of - I - Greenbrier s daily mllk SUPPIY I

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Entrance to Quadrangle and East Wing of Barracks Advantageous Construction These three buildings, although separate and distinct units, are all connected to form one struc- ture, 462-feet long and extending back 161 feet at the greatest depth. This is the largest military school plant under one roof east of the Mississippi, possibly in the entire United States. Because of our large connecting hallways a boy can go from living room to dining room, back to the reading room, to study hall or classes or the barber shop or store, all without going out of the building into inclement weather. This feature is of special advantage to the boy in case of a cold or slight sickness. Cases of more serious illness are confined to the infirmary. However, in the favorable weather we enjoy most of the year, these units are treated as separate buildings and are entered from the outside. Well Equipped Laboratories We mentioned the two laboratories located in our Academic Building. These are used for physics, chemistry, and biology. They are well equipped so students may do all the work required by the most rigid college entrance requirements. Boys taking these subjects are expected to spend two afternoons per week working in the laboratory, and our facilities and equipment are fully adequate for the work required. Q ATHLETIC FACILITIES If a boy is to be happy and do the best work of which he is capable, he must have some place to take regular exercise. Behind our building we have a large athletic Held on which several teams may practice simul- taneously. A quarter-mile track circles the football gridiron and the baseball diamond. On higher ground behind the concrete bleachers at the far side of the Held are located Hve hard-surfaced tennis courts, two volleyball courts, and a basketball court. 15

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THE H. B. MOORE MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM Campus and Farms These buildings are surrounded by a large forty-five-acre campus and playground. The school owns four farms containing about 1050 acres and rents about 650 acres, making 1700 acres in all. On these farms are raised almost all the food used in the school. The main advantage of killing our own meats and using milk and other products raised on our farms is not in the lowering of expense, but in knowing the kind and character of food placed on the tables and insuring it to be of the best quality. This is a great asset to the school. From our dairy herds we obtain fresh milk daily, and a plentiful supply is kept on each table so our cadets may enjoy it at each meal. Dlnlng Room and Kitchen The lower Hoot of the Dormitory and Administration Buildings are taken up almost wholly with dining room, kitchen, pantries, and serving rooms. These are modernly equipped and occupy commodious quarters. The kitchen, pantries and preparation rooms number fourteen in all. The bake room is fur- nished with modern bakery, electric dough mixer, warming oven, and other modern equipment. The preparation room is fitted out with electric milk separator, ice-cream freezer, electric meat chopper, electric vegetable peeler, and an electric potato masher, cream beater and utility machine. The kitchen is equipped with all steam cooking outfit, using high pressure steam, coffee urn, etc. An electric dish-washer cleans the dishes, which are sterilized with steam. Every device for cooking and serving food in proper manner has been installed. The large cold room is artificially cooled with electricity, keeping all vegetables and meats absolutely fresh and the milk, and other liquids sweet and palatable. 17