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.

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GUI? SCI-ICDOI. EXPANDS Under the bleachers of the gymnasium the fol- lowing rooms are located: music department with a band room treated with accoustical plaster and containing a platform large enough to seat one hundred students with their instruments, an office for the director, practice room, and instrument stor- age spaceg printing room with an adjoining lecture room, dressing rooms with lockers and showers, storage rooms for equipment, and offices for both boys' and girls' physical training directorsp domes- tic science kitchen and storage room, cafeteria kitchen, and a cafeteria capable of seating one hundred people, and with storage space for equip- ment. The domestic science kitchen and the kitchen for the cafeteria are so arranged that they may be completely closed off from the cafeteria, making it possible for the cafeteria to be used for other ac- tivities during the periods it is not being used for serving lunches. This new addition will house the physical educa- tion classes for high school, all classes in printing, domestic science, music, commercial subjects, mathematics, foreign language, journalism, health, and safety, and with 'these added facilities will make Peru Senior High School rank as one of the very best high schools in the state. CDFFICIALLV YQURS ON PAGE 3- Left to right, Miss Mary Stutesman, Mr. Richard Bateman and Miss Elizabeth Wilson. For many years, the needs of youth have been ably served by Miss Wilson, our assistant principal. Due praise to her who has administered so skillfully to our wants. Equally well has Miss Stutesman, our Dean of Women, given of her time and effort to the welfare of the girls of our school. While this is only her second year in this capacity, she has gone far. Mr. Bateman, who became principal after Mr. Godwin's resig- nation in the middle of the year, has already established himself as one who is vitally interested in every phase of school work. His sense of fair play, his impartial viewpoints, and his energetic personality have won for him a deservedly popular position with the students, as well as with the teachers. During the brief time he has been with us, he has spared neither time nor effort to bring about improvements which he felt would better our school.