Putnam patriot., 1909-09-17
Committee te Investigate Putnam fligh
 School Accommodations.

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 ra THE ssi. esrNES og THE roWN or
 PUTNAM.
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 At the annual town meeting held on the first Monday of October. iG1s, the subscribers hereto, together with Will liam R Barter. wefe appointed by the town as committee ito investigate the matter of increasing the accomme- dations of the high school by enlarg. ing the present school building or otherwise and to report to the town al future meeting
 This committee immediately upon It's appointment commenced its work, but, for the reason that In the neigh boring town of Thompson magniii- cent building was in the course of con. struciion and would be opened early In this September, and would upon opening materially affect our high high school, your committee believed that the matter could be best disposed of after 1t was fully shown what the effect of the opening of the Tourtelotte Memorial school would have upon the number of scholars In our high school.
 At the writing of this report the town of Thompson has magnificent new high school building and the town of killingly has recently con structed n new high school building, and your committee believes that the number of pupils In our high school will not for good number of years hc affected by any action of other towns tn building new buildings.
 The committee was appointed solely for the purpose of reporting as to ac. commodations for high school pur- poses, but in the course of our investi- gations we became convinced that the interests of the Israel Putnam gram. mar school and the Smith Street gram. mar school. were 50 closely interweven that the interests of the high school that in order to properly solve the problem Of high school accommodate tions IL would be necessary for Us to take up and report our views upon the problem of accommodations for the three schools, and we respectfully sub mt the following report covering in a measure the whole situation of school accommodations for the three schools Immediately upon our appointment as committee, each aad every mem. | Der of the committee made . personal | investigation of the condition of the high school so far as accommodations for scholars are concerned and we have made several inspections from time to time until this date, We found ia De- tober, 1909, that the situation had be- come such that an inspector of the State Board of Education had reported the unsatisfactory conditions and a communication had been sent to the town school committee calling the at teniion ofthe school committee to the fact that the State Board Of Education had by vote recommended that ar engagements be made for more room and, fl possible, for new high school building; and your committee from it's investigation found al that time that the conditions attending the nccommo- daiions for the high school scholars were almost intoierable, being decided ly inconyenicnt, unhealthfui and un- safe. In this September, 1900, after the opening of the school we found that although the Tourtellotte Memo rial School at Thompson has taken away from our high school goodIy numbes Of Thompson students yet the present accommodations are both in. adequate, unsafe and nnhealthful, and we have made careful investigations as to the natural increase which will occur in our high school in the next few years and we are unanimously of the opinion that the situation will in the near future become again deplor- able and that VIC shall be In danger Of having our high school building con denmed by the State Board of Educa- ton and the money for outside pupils taken away from us. Further, all of the architects and builders employed by this committee have been most em- phstic in making the statement that under no conditions or circumstances would our present high school bniid- ing be allowed to be used for school purposes in the State Of M assachusetts. We find that the present high school building k too small, that the arrange ment is not satisfactory, that it is not properly lighted and Is not properly ventilated, that 1t would be dangerous In case of fire, and that the sanitary conditions are altogether inadequate.
 When we became fully convinced that the present accommodations for high school scholars were unsatisfec- tory we employed two different aschi- tects to make drawings and estimates for new building to be used for achool purposes. We hsd our present grounds surveyed, the floor space Of our present building drawn, and had the two ar- chitects come and make personal ex- sminaslons Of the buiIding and prem ises, and both architects made draw- tngs showing how the present building could be enlarged for the accolnmoda- ton Of about two hundred scholars. We also had the afchiteets make draw ingx and plans Of new building, mod