Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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18 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL THE OLD CiJNTRAL SCHOOL BUILDING

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL DESCRIPTION OP NEW CENTRAL SCHOOL. The Valparaiso City High School is a building of which the people may well be proud. The civil city being bond- ed to the limit, the state legislature passed a law that the school city might, by the vote of the people, permit the school board to issue bonds for the construction of neces- sary buildings. Two years ago our board complied with this law, and bonds to the amount of $44,988 were issued for this purpose. We now have a building consisting of twenty-three rooms to be used for school purposes. The basement is built of concrete and Joliet stone. The main part is the best quality of pressed brick. A tile roof adds much to the architectural appearance as well as to the durability of the building. The high school occupies the entire second floor which consists of an assembly room with a seating capacity for two hundred and twenty-five pupils. This room is finished in Dutch bronze which appeals at once to the artistic eye. On this floor are rooms for each of the following depart- ments: Science, Mathmatics; Latin, English, German, History and Typewriting. The library and superinten- dent’s office are also here. The rooms open into large hall- ways at the end of which are the toilet rooms. The first floor consists of ten well lighted recitation rooms opening into spacious halls. In these halls are lo- cated the open cloak rooms. The seventh and eighth grade departmental work is located here occupying five of the largest rooms. The basement is well lighted. In consists of Kinder- garten, Teachers’ club room, Chemical Laboratory, and two rooms, each ninety by thirty to be used for boys’ and girls’ gymnasium, manual training and domestic science. The building is heated by steam, and it is ventilated by indirect radiation which has proven very satisfactory. The school board should be commended for making some necessary changes in the material even though it cost a little more realizing as they did that the building would stand as a monument to the people for many years. School men and architects have pronounced it one of the best constructed and best arranged school buildings in the state of Indiana. Nothing more need be said. The building stands ready for inspection from basement to garret.

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 19 I IN MEMORIAM I t() I Old Mr. V. H. S. Building who departed from our midst in the fall of 1902. HAMLET DOWN-TO-DATE.