Tremont High School - Echo Yearbook (Tremont, IL)

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C f) c £ti)o , 1925 Our i cU) £s djool Puilbing Last February, our many patrons, by a vote of nearly three to one, cast the ballots that will add a thirty thousand dollar addition to our present crowded quarters. When this is completed we shall have reached our long desired goal, the privilege of having our graduates enter all high institutions of learning without taking entrance examinations. This addition, as designed by Architect Arthur L. Pillsbury, will be added to the west of the present structure. The upper floor will provide a study hall for I 10 students and a beautiful library. From this an entrance will lead into the present eighth grade room which is to be converted into a splendid place for sewing and cooking. On the ground floor will be arranged the high school recitation rooms. Four of these will be provided, all amply large to seat the full number of students that may be in any class. In the basement besides the boiler and fuel rooms, a large room for mechanical training, a mechanical drawing room, and a chemistry laboratory will be provided. With these splendid features, the work in our high school will have ample facilities to provide excellent courses in all subjects that the school may desire to o The contract for this additional feature is to be let on Wednesday, May twenti- eth. The present class will hardly be graduated before the work for the new structure is started on its way to completion. The structure is to be fully modern in every respect. The stairways are to be of steel construction to provide fireproof escapes. The lighting of the rooms will be ample to meet all requirements and is to be only from the left of the student at work. The laboratories will be provided with water and electrical advantages—the chemistry room to be provided with the usual fume chamber. The study hall may be converted into an auditorium with the library as a stage. This stage will then have all the lighting facilities required for staging such productions and plays as the students may desire to present to the public. Our community certainly may well be proud of its school building when these new features are added. The school heartily appreciates this action from its patrons and shall be greatly pleased to have its graduates enter into the higher institutions on an equal basis with any from the larger high schools. • i EIGHTEEN

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THE CLASS OF 1926