Moline High School - M Yearbook (Moline, IL)

 - Class of 1914

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THE GROWTH OF THE NEW SCHOOL 13 OCTOBER, 1913- APRIL, 1914

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7.9 1 ' V a ' H E 1 1914 ( n M ) The New High School What hopes these four words have aroused for ten years past ! What visions successive generations of students have vainly cherished of a building that would contain the many features that the pres- ent building has always lacked! How the teachers have looked forward to the increased facilities for doing their work and the consequent expansion of the work — “when we get the new building!” Some of those students are now heads of fami- lies, and are looking forward to the time when their children will enter “the new building.” Only two or three of the teachers who first looked forward to the relief from the congestion will be here next year when the “New High School” finally becomes a reality and is occupied. Here is hoping that those who have gone to other fields of labor may see the picture of the building in this annual and know that their dreams have at last come true. The story of the postponement of its erection is too long for details. First, a new grade building was a necessity. The resources left were not enough for a high school so they were used in enlarging an- other grade building that unexpectedly became congested. The erection of the Manual Arts building relieved congestion for a time, both in the high school and in the treasury of the school board. Then when the bonding capacity had again in- creased to a point where a New High School looked possible, a sudden develop- ment of the east end of the city called for another new grade building, so we heaved another sigh of regret and appropriated the room of the Art and Calisthenics work, turning those departments out to shift for themselves. At last, in 1912, re- sources had accumulated in quantity suffi- cient to warrant the erection of the New High School. But Fate had one more blow in reserve for us — the bonding proposition failed to carry at the polls. At this juncture the gloom on the hill became so thick as to attract the attention of the citizens — particularly of those who had failed to vote on the bond issue, and the proposition was put to vote again and car- ried two to one, with the provision that the ground east of the present building be used as a site for the new structure. Then ensued prolonged consultation with architects, extended trips taken by the Superintendent and Principal to other new buildings in this and nearby states, with the result that there took form on paper a building that embodied the best features and avoided the mistakes ob- served in the buildings visited. Decatur furnished the Gymnasium plan, but we added a running track, directors’ rooms, direct entrances for contests and a circu- lar stairway to the stage. The Auditor- ium plan came chiefly from East Aurora, but we provided a larger stage with dress- ing rooms conveniently placed. The arrangement of stairways and light courts is most like Burlington’s. Decatur had the best lunchroom plan, so we borrowed 12



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Ct ‘H E 1 1314 MR V M it. The new Science Hall at Knox Col- lege contributed valuable features for our laboratories. Davenport’s study rooms were copied, as well as the arrangement of the Office suite. The Library, Train- ing Room for out-door athletics, and the Program Rooms, which can be entered directly from the street, are original fea- tures, as we failed to find them satisfac- torily provided in other schools. The new Hyde Park High School in Chicago, cost- ing nearly a million dollars, was a great disappointment, and yielded nothing but horrible examples of what not to do. The limited amount of money at our disposal and the circumscribed area of the building plot made it impossible to include some very desirable features, such as a swimming pool ; but the $200,000 voted will give Moline, when this building is completed, class rooms and laboratories to accommodate 1,000 students; an Audi- torium seating 1,050, equipped with a modern stage on which can be given plays of the better sort ; a Gymnasium larger and better equipped than any in this section of the country ; a lunch room with kitchen equipment capable of taking care of all demands upon it ; lecture rooms admirably arranged for the use of either students or the general public; and the whole building possessing an outlook from its windows surpassing that of any high school building in the state. Elsewhere on these pages will be found snap shots of the new building in process of construction from the day last Octo- ber when the mule teams with much bray- ing began to fill in the track below the terraces — the scene of past athletic tri- umphs — with earth scooped from the hole in which was to be built our new Gymna- sium — the scene of basket ball victories to come. At the present writing (late April), the brickwork is rising rapidly and cutting off our view from the Library window; and Mr. J. L. Simmons, the con- tractor, gives 11s reason to believe that we may move into our new quarters next February, in time for the beginning of the the new semester. Our old building will be immediately occupied, and pretty well filled, by the Central Eighth Grade stu- dents, who will turn over to the pri- mary grades their present home — the high school building of twenty years ago. if the experience of other cities with new high school buildings may be taken as an indication of what will happen here, the new building will be used to its full capacity within eight years, and it is quite possible then that the present building will again be called upon to provide for further expansion. E. P. NUTTING, Prin. 14

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