The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-22

spoke particularly of Milton's fine
high school, and of other towns in
Florida that Pensacola might emu
late.
Mr.. Browns reference to the in
adequacy of the high school building
gave the keynote to the open. forum,
of which Professor Rogers took
charge, at the invitation of Mrs.
Mayes. r. Pope Reese spoke very
earnestly of the great need for a
more suitable high school building.
and, while he referred to the fact
that Escambia county is now heavily
taxed for former improvements, de-
clared it as his conviction that IL
enough individuals would use every
effort and exert every possible in
fluence to secure a creditable high
school building for Pensacola, it was
his belief that such a building would
soon be erected.
Mr.. Brown made a motion, which
was seconded by J. u. H. Barker,
that q committee be appointed to re-
port on the question under discus
sion at the next meeting.
DR.. Henry Borst spoke on the
needs of vocational training in the
public schools, and Manlius E. Morey
spoke few words to the students on
the necessity of training their minds
to think and think quickly in this
age of endeavor and competition.
Lee Goulding, former pupil of
the High school, and graduate of
the state university, who is now a
member of the High school faculty,
made a short talk, in which he fur
Their emphasized the great need of a
High school building for Pensacola,
Mr.. Goulding said that it had been
his privilege during the past four
years to visit most of the cities of
Florida, and that he had been inn
4 pressed with the fact that nowhere
!, else in the state were the school
!, buildings so ill-fitted to the needs
of a community as in Pensacola. He
| referred to Jacksonville's million
} dollar school; to the five hundred
thousand dollar school building in
Miami; to the school buildings Of
. Tampa, and declared it shame thai
: Pensacola, the third largest city il
!, the state, should have such discred'
], liable accommodations for the stu
: dents, as in the building in which thu
, High School is housed.
81 Professor Rogers, in the very in
: teresting facts which he cited in re
gard to the High school, brought on
that the attendance in the Higl
I school is not sustained as it shoult
a be, if the students are to receive thu
/ greatest benefits. In illustration o
this, Professor Rogers stated tina
d the attendance in the freshman elias
!. at the High school at the presen
< time is one hundred and fifty; on
t hundred and twenty are in the soph
n omore class; there are forty junior
$ and forty seniors; going to show tina
a the attendance steadily diminishes a
/, the students grow older.
: In the discussion which followe
e this statement, it was declared tina
this lack of attendance was YER
: largely due to indifference of par
y ents.
8 The members of the High schos
S faculty present at the meeting wer
Professor Ross Rogers, principal
: Professor William Tyler, Professo
= H. L. De Wolf, and Misses Mau
h Suter, Irma DeSilva, Helen Cartel
d Rex Todd, Josie Loftin, Mrs. Eft
e ellis, Mrs. E. NJ. Schornherst, Mis-
Buda Day, Mr.. r. L. Goulding, Mis-
Florida Waite, Mrs. Mia Osbor
: Benin, and Mrs. A. C. Reilly.