Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-12
EXPERT SUGGESTS
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
FOR OLDER GIRLS
Accommodate All Boys With
Additional Facilities at
Technical
3 JUNIOR INSTITUTIONS
Urges Immediate Relief at Cen
trail; Cost S550,000; None
on Hill

nooted High school problem for tn
next ten years is suggested by Dl
James H. Van Sickle, the expert EN-
ployed by the school board to make
survey of the situation.
The recommendation follow:
New High school for girls of
senior age only, to front on or
near the Capitol park if possible.
Additions to Technical High
school sufficient to accommodate
all boys of senior age.
Three junior High schools for
accommodation of pupils of the
freshmen class of the High school
and of the seventh and eighth
grammar grades.
Cost of new High school in
Guiding furnishings not to exceed
Cost of Technical High school
additions or annex not to exceed
$175,0OO.
New girls High school should
be large enough TO provide ac-
commodations for at least 1000.
Addition to Technical High
school for boys should be large
enough to provide accommoda-
tions for at least 500.
Such recommendations, II car
ried out, sufficient to supply
High school needs until 1925 or
perhaps a year or two longer.
The Public View
The result of the survey was em
bodied in a comprehensive report yes
-erday afternoon to a special com
nittee of the board consisting of tn
Rev. DR.. William N. Yates, and Di
'ectors Harry A. Boyer, Harry NJ
Bretz, Robert A. Enders, C. E. L
kee6D and A. Carson Stamm. Thi
referred the report to
special committee consisting of Presi
lent Stamm and DR.. F. E. Downes
,ity Superintendent, and this commit
zee will digest the findings and sub
nit them with further suggestions t
The school board at its next meeting
In the meantime the public will hav
1 chance to consider the finding o
DR.. Van Sickle, with. a view to ex
pressing its views by voting upon
new High school loan in November.
The special committee appointe
by the board was subdivided to facil
ltate the work as follows: Messr!
Yates and Bretz as a committee o
'co-education and junior Hig
schools; Messrs. Boyer and Stamn
on building" Messrs. Enders an
Keen, on site" and Messrs. Yate
and Stamm on experts"
The. Experts Finding
DR.. Van Sickle of Springfield, Mass
was employed to make the survey an
he was very ably assisted by Dl
Downes, and by data collected fror
the school, city and health boar
offices.
The expert in presenting his repol
went into comprehensive detail on tn
following points:
The present need of relief for tn
Central High school; accommodation
and facilities that should be provide
to meet modern ana approved educa
tlonal ideas and demands, includin
location of necessary buildings, prob
able cost of project, including ful
but not sites; proba hi
length of time such buildings wi
meet the High school needs of tn
Some Historical Data
In reporting upon the High schoc
situation DR.. Van Sickle of course too
into consideration, the directions {
the city's growth, the traffic condition
and the other possibilities which hay
heretofore been treated in SURVEYS b
Snyder, the Jerse
City expert and in the Arnold rt
port to the Municipal League a yea
ago. Some of his data was built upo
figures that had been submitted
these reports. DR.. Van Sickle how
ever made a thorough inspection {
the schools of the city on his beha
and visited all the proposed or DO.
sible sites.
Il think" said he in this come,
ton" that 1 understand the natul
OF the problem with which the cit
is confronted in the development of il
school system"