Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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AT LCNG LAST K For a number of years school board mem- bers, school officials, teachers, parents, and students have wanted a high school addition erected to meet growing demands for im- proved educational facilities and to relieve crowded conditions. Consideration of initial cost, economy of space, permanency of con- struction, efficiency of administration, and fu- ture needs were factors carefully considered while making plans for the new building. During a school board meeting in October, 1935, W. A. Hammond recommended to the board that proper steps be taken immediate- ly to secure a federal grant to construct a new high school addition. Procedure was started immediately, and on Iune 22, l938 the Board of School Trus- tees was notified by the Public Works Ad- ministration that an allotment in the form of a grant of 592,572 had been made. The School City issued bonds to the amount of Sl22,428, which made a total amount of 32151100 available for the erection and equipment of the building. Hency C. Wolf of Logansport was selected as the architect for the new modern fire- proof building. Mr. Wolf prepared the plans and specifications, and the contracts were awarded to the following people: general construction, Milton W. Pillinger of Oak Park, lllinois, plumbing, heating, and venti- lating, Freyn Brothers, Inc., of Indianapolis, electrical work to City Electric Company, Peru. A CYMNASILJM The building, which is of red brick with modernistic limestone trim- ming, is divided into two sections, the first section of which contains the classrooms. On the main floor are three classrooms and an apart- ment consisting of living room, bed room, kitchen, and bath-the apart- ment to be used for demonstration work in the home economics depart- ment. There are seven classrooms on the second floor. ln the rear section is the gymnasium which is of modern steel arch beam design. The four entrances to the building are located at the corners, thus giving a clear view from all of the four thousand seats. The playing floor is regulation size. Including the bleacher seats and approximately tive hundred chairs on the playing floor, the gymnasium will accommodate forty-five hundred persons for public gatherings.