The Washington times., 1916-01-02
ALEXANDRIA SCHOOL
BUILDING FINISHED
Modern High School Structure
win Be Occupied When
Schools Reopen Tomorrow.

ALEXANDRIA, va, Jan. 2.--Publlc
schools of the city will reopen tOmor-
row morning after the Christmas hol-
idays, which began on December %.
A shake-up in the present assign
ment of classes to the different build
ings will take place as a result OF
the transfer of the high school to the
new building that has been in the
course of erection during the past six
months at the corner of Cameron and
West streets, in the northwest Sec
tion of the city. The use OF the audi
torium over the Richmond Theater
will be discontinued and the grades
now housed in those quarters will be
removed to the Lee building vacated
by the high school.
The new high school structure is OF
red brick and is much on the order
OF the Lee building, built several
years ago as a girls school but, since
the founding of an Alexandria high
school, used both for girls grammar
grades and the high school grades.
The flaggings and other trimmings
are of white stone, and two large
front doors at each end Of the side
side face the Washington-Virgin
railway tracks on Cameron street. A
large tract of land surrounds the
building, which will be used by the
school for athletic purposes.
Including the large basement there
are three stories to the structure. A
modern heating plant has been in
stalled in the basement and the re-
mainder of that Section of the build
ing is expected to be equipped at a
later date with gymnasium apparatus.
On the first floor proper are eight
large class rooms and on the second
six class roos, principals office, and
L.. AA.wa faWg.a A (.
are nine sections to the four grades
in the high school and eight OF these
will occupy the lower floor, while tho
one fourth year section will be situat-
ed on the top floor. The room ad-
Joining the fourth year room will
probably be used as a physical and
chemical laboratory. The remaining
four class rooms on the second floor
are expected to be used temporarily
by four primary grades from either
the boys or girls school.
There are nine members to the high
school faculty during the present ses-
sion, as follows: Conrad Johnson, prln-
cipal, who teaches mathematics: 8. G.
Blanton, teacher of Latin and French
G. 7. Ryan, English: ]. Douglas Nc
Lean, science; Theodore H. Ficklin,
science and mathematics: Miss Kroes
Ficklin, history: Miss Mary Bontz, Eng
lish; Paul S. Gillian. Latin; j. II. Sum-
mcrs. mathematics.
Charles c. Glover died early last night
at his home, 420 South Washington
street, following a long illness. He is
survived by one son, Harry, Glover OF
this city. The deceased was a MEM
her of Alexandria-W Washington Lodge OF
Masons and had been employed for
many years as a carpenter in the
quartermaster department at Fort
Myer.
An address was delivered at a mass
meeting of men and boys this after
noon at 2:30 o'clock, at the Richmond
Theater, by. William Knowles Cooper,
secretary of the Washington Y. NJ. C. A.
Meetings will be held at the moving
picture house every Sunday afternoon
by the recently organized Laymen's
League of this city, which will secure
a prominent speaker for each occasion.
Judge Edmind Waddill will preside
at the midwinter term of the Tinted
states district court, which conVenes