Whiting High School - Reflector Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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THE BUILDING PROGRAM By Supt. J. H. Hoskinson The building program of the W hiting Schools, which is now being actively and rapidly developed, comprises three separate and distinct features: The Junior High School shown above, a new central heating plant, and a grade building. All of these are now in the course of construction and will be in full use before the passing of many months, and which, when complete, will give the city of W hiting a building equipment unsurpassed in this State of good schools. The Junior High School, which in fact will be much more than a Junior High School .will have three tloors. The basement or ground floor will contain a kindergarten, lunch room, social or club room, offices of physical education, health and attendance departments, school store, swimming pool and gymnasium. I he floor of the latter is 54 x 6 feet, has balcony seats for six hundred spectators, showers, etc., and is complete in every way. On the first, or main floor, will be found the Principal’s office, lantern room, seven class rooms, and the Auditorium. I he second, or top floor, will be given over entirely to class rooms and the balcony of the auditorium. The building, centrally located as it is, will not only provide lacilities for an enlarged program of day and evening school activities, but will admit of large community use. The Auditorium with its splendid stage and seating capacity of nine hundred will probably be the finest and most commodious in the county. It will be equipped with permanent seats, a grand piano, and motion picture machine. The lunch room, social room, gymnasium and swimming pool will all facilitate larger community activities. The new heating plant will be built in and about the lower story of the present Auditorium building and will comprise an ample room for fuel storage, a set of new smokeless boilers, and a stack one hundred feet high. The entire heating equipment of the present buildings will be made over and adequate radiation installed in the present High School. In brief, the

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T. S. BOYLE President J. E. EVANS Treasurer J. B. KYLE Secretary MARY L. MORRISON Clerk

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 J. H. HOSKINSON Superintendent , i ., ,-t Board of Education has endeavored to discover all the defects in the heating sys'.eni of our plant and to correct them all at one time. We look with much pride, and justifiably so, upon the improvements above described, but I think the grade building being constructed at Wilcox should be contemplated with scarcely less interest. What the new Junior High School will mean for the community life of central Whiting, that building will mean for the community activities and life of the south side of our city. It will be a one story building of eight class rooms constructed around tlllt!IMlH!IUlllllJfllllUllll!IHUllIMlllltRlllllintllttllllllltltltHtttlllKntUHn!lt|lll!tl!III[l(!lll!I!IHIIillllUIIIH