Wethersfield High School - Elm Yearbook (Wethersfield, CT)

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Contractors for the New High School. The following reliable contractors are furnishing the excellent materials which are being used in the construction of the new high school building. They are further showing their interest in Wethersheld and our schools by giving us their support in the publication of this edition of the High School Elm. EBBETS 85 FRID, 15 Lewis St., Architect ....,......,.i,....... 2-7594 RICHARD JOHNSON CO., 50 Trumbull St., General Contractors ,,,......i ...4...,.,.....i,....4.,,,...,...,.......i... 2 -1 3 62 HARRIS 85 GRAHAM, 54 Trumbull St., Heating .,...,,.. 6-2489 J. MURPHY 85 SON, Ford St., Electrical 69' Plumb- ing Work ..,...i...........,.,..,....i.i...i.,...........,,,....... 2-3809 ANDREXVS 85 PECK CO., Charter Oak Ave., Millwork 2-2176 STANDARD STRUCTURAL STEEL CO., Wethersheld Ave., Structural Steel and Misc. Iron Work ...2-0790 A. LURIE 85 SON, 9 Atlantic St., Sheet Metal anal Slag Roofing ,....,.......,.......,..,,.,....,.........,.,.............,,. 6-0161 E. S. ADKINS, Case St., Slate Roojing ,,,... f ..,,,,..,.,,.,.,., 3-8365 JACKSON 85 SEQUINE, INC., 50 Trumbull St., Mason Materials ,.......,.......................,..,..,..,....,.,........... 2- 5 21 1 TOPPER 85 GRIGGS, Albany Ave., Concrete Reinforc- ing Materials ,.....................,.,,.,.....,.,,.........,......, 6-3 517 HART 85 HUTCHINSON CO., New Britain, Conn., Lockers, Metal Partitions ............,......,........,. . 3260 JAMES MADIGAN, Wethersneld, Furnished Aetna Contract Bond ....,......,..,...........................' ...,.... 9 -1293 EASTERN BRICK CO., New Britain, Brick .........,..,... N. B. 120 L. H. ROBERTSON, Sumner St., Tile 65 Marble Work .6-9167 BIDWELL HARDWARE CO., North Main St., Kalainein Work ...,........,...,..............,.........,.........,......,..... 2-8277 CAPITAL CITY GLASS CO., 14 Chapel St., Glass ...,..... 2-4289 CROSSCUP 85 VALCOURT, 372 Trumbull St., Painters..2-4096 THE HARTFORD SAND 85 STONE CO., 15 Lewis St., Sand E5 Stone ,................,......,.....,,................. ..2-0904 LIBBEY, F. GREY, 48 Trumbull St., Heating ............... 2-5257 TRUSCON STEEL CO., 983 Main St., Reinforcing ,....... 6-8785

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AS I SEE OUR NEW HIGH SCHOOL Not many years ago,-it was in fact in 1876,-Wethersneld, then a sparsely populated little village of perhaps 2,500 inhabitants, took its first great step toward the higher education of the young townspeople. This was the construction of the present Center High School, which has now reached its capacity and lacks modern equipment. For one-half a century Wethersheld boys and girls have enjoyed the advantages oifered through high school education, but, as the town grows, so must its educational program be enlarged. To meet these present-day requirements, Wethersheld citizens have voted an ample appropriation for a new high school which is even now under construction. The building, attractive in appearance and erected on an attractive site, is built of red brick and is to accommodate six hundred pupils. It will have eighteen class rooms, a work shop for boys, a combination gym- nasium and auditorium with sliding doors to enable the use of both sec- tions at the same time, a library providing room for seventy-five pupils, and a cafeteria which will seat two hundred fifty students. In addition to the new building, a new system has been carefully worked out providing six periods a day, with two periods a week for physical education. This system will require twenty-one instructors, six of whom are to be men. Practical arts for girls and mechanical drawing for boys will be two of the outstanding achievements of this system. In order to aid the Junior High School student in selecting the curriculum for which he is best adapted, there will be tryouts in lan- guages and mathematics. He will also study vocational guidance that he may have a more thorough understanding of the vocations from which he can choose. After summing up these many improvements promised us by the school board and the superintendent and principal, one cannot help real- izing the importance of such a progressive step in the educational program of Vfethersfield. THE NEW WETHERSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL WETHERSFIELD, CONN. Minor Krcfznzfr, '30. Winiier of prize offered by Mr. Hubbard on the new school.