Queen Annes County High School - Pride Yearbook (Centreville, MD)

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I l 4 Y, I AND GIVEN TO THE CONTRACTORS ARCHITECT William H. Elliott, AIA CE ' ' NERAL CONTRACTOR Lee Brohawn and Bros., Inc: PLUMBING AND HEATING C. Albert Matthews, Inc. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR John W. Tieder, Inc.

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- - ' - --- .Nw H , 1 -.rm-,..,. V- -- W 'Y' Y ' H ' ' 7' 'Y ' ' ' T PLANS APPROVED AND MONEY APPROPRIATED QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION Mrs. Carolyn Thompson Vice-President William E. Sylvester P 'd z resl en Harry C. Rhodes Superintendent William V. Riggs QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS William E. Coleman S. Grayson Chance Percy E. Thomas a. mm: mn: QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY LEGISLATORS Robert P, Dean Carter lVl. Hickman Elliott Risley

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WTHE BUILDI G. fi covers five acres of the 137-acre site. Into the school's construction have gone one-half mile of corridors, six hundred doors, 660,000 bricks, one quarter of a million cement blocks, thirty-two train carloads of glazed struc- tural tile, five miles of channels in concrete reinforced columns, and enough feet of electric wiring to reach from Sudlersville to the State Department of Education and back. . A total of twenty classrooms for general instruction in subjects like English, social studies, and mathematics account for a considerable amount of the school's size. In addition to the standard classrooms there are two instrumental music rooms and one choral music room adjoined by six practice rooms which comprise the music suite of the new school. Laboratories for Science, Foreign Language, and Vocational programs are well planned. With Science a required course for all ninth and tenth graders, and for many eleventh and twelfth graders as well, there are three labs for general science and two for biology. A physics lab-classroom and a chemistry room make up the area which will be under the teaching supervision of six high school science teachers. Display cases and preparation rooms are special features of the science section. Foreign Language with its important role in the curriculum will be taught by three instructors in three lang- uage rooms and a laboratory. Two of the classrooms are completely equipped with electronic listening stations. The lab is complete with ten listening and ten recording stations. Vocational instruction will be going on in laboratories equipped for practical nursing, child care, cosmetology, clothing and textiles, foods and nutrition, automobile mechanics, farm and power machinery, welding, electron- ics, mechanical drawing, carpentry, trowel trades and food services. In addition five business education class- rooms and one distributive education classroom make up another vocation area of the new school. Office ma- chines in the business education section will include bookkeeping machines, duplicators, calculators, and type- writers. In the vocational curriculum area there are two cosmetology labs, a theory classroom, a conference room and a salon. One of the first of its kind on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the cosmetology program has already enrolled over fifty students. Another laboratory is for food- services. It is in the area in which the school lunch program is to be carried on. The eating area will eventually be an all-purpose area for lunches, banquets, dances, testing and other stu- dent activities. One interesting feature of the foods program will be the use of paper products which can be mulched in a grinding machine for ease in disposal. In the new school the Instructional Materials Center, which takes on more than the character of a library in todayis school program, is being housed in an area approximately ninety-four feet in length and fifty-four feet in width to enable it to handle at least a tenth of the school enrollment. The l. lVl. C., which will contain 10,000 volumes when completed is the area in which are also to be reports, films, and audio visual-equipment. One full-time librarian and one part-time librarian will staff the l. lVl. C. The capacity of the new school auditorium is 1200 people. Designed so that it can be divided into three sec- tions-the main seating section and two teaching stations at the rear-the auditorium will also contain an in- novation in its use of open-stage rear image projection. Measuring 122 feet by 107 feet in area, the new gymnasium will contain bleachers that will seat 2000. The bleachers are designed to fold in such a way that additional teaching stations can be established in the area. Four courts will be among the advantages of this new physical education setting. The Guidance Department will occupy offices and a testing-conference ro o m in the comprehensive high school. Other special areas in the building are two resource centers for teachers, a health suite with a nurses, office and an examining room, an arts center, a publications room, a school bank to be operated by the business edu- cation department, a fire-proof, burglar-proof, damage-proof vault, centers for the construction and storage of a variety of visual aids necessary for effective instruction, and a television studio which can be adapted to future television offerings.