Washington Lee High School - Blue and Gray Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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GETTI it THERE? l iilli THE FUN Right top: Snow decorates the otherwise mundane ground outside the main en- trance. Centerg In the warmer months there is no lack of business for the bicycle racks. Bottom: An unidentified bus rider boards the bus after a long day. Far right top: Dennis Daniel hurls a snowball. Far right center: A lonely Volkswagen is framed by two trees as snow covers the football field. Far right bottom: A row of snow covered cars in front of the Educa- tion Center wait tor their owners. Er. H ' 'v , 'elk ,Taj I, 28 N 1 iff 'Ii Mt 4

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WHAT GDES UP MUST In February, fifty years and three months after its completion, the greater part of the 1924 wing of Washington-Lee was scheduled to be demolished to make way for a brand new, four million dollar addition to W- L. The new building, to be completed in 1976, will make it possible to use both traditional and modern teaching techniques. The new facility will be perpendicular to the existing building that is, paral- lel and somewhat recessed from Staf- ford Street. Although the buses will still arrive at the Quincy Street en- trance, there will be large doors fac- ing Stafford Street. The new W-L will be organized by departments. Every department but Math will have a large study area and several classrooms. The Math Depart- ment asked specifically that the large study area be deleted. The classrooms will make it possible to continue to use the present 'conser- vative teaching methods: the large area will make it possible to use lib- eral independent study and large- group assembly techniques. Although there will be fewer classrooms, there will be more aca- demic spaces because more seminar, conference rooms, study areas, and the like are to be included in the addi- tion. The classrooms will be substan- tially bigger than the present ones, but there is less total floor area - considerable corridor space has been removed. Furthermore, the new part of the building will be fully air-conditioned and each room will have its own tem- perature control. The library, central to the new build- ing, will be close to all of the depart- ments which use it regularly. .-.Q-ani-qaqQ... -.,.-- -.,, ..-N f--'A rx vii J.. U. t -, 4 ,. . I 1 .- Bains - o ..- Q 30 .v J ff 3 I rs ' D' I gp, O