Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-04-19


more pressing than we sometimes
realize, and the time should come
soon when Willmar will give this mat
ter it's careful consideration.
More Room Needed.
These are some of the needs Of tie
Willmar schools in the future, and to
these needs should be added the need
Of room to properly house the child
rem who are now forced to attend
school in the basement Of the library
building. While this room is below
the level Of the ground it is very Diff
ficult to ventilate it in the best way.
1t is not properly equipped with toilet
and cloak rooms, has INSULT cient
blackboard space, but worst of all
provides absolutely mo opportunity for
play ground activities. Forty-five or
fifty children are here forced to play
in the streets, or upon the private
property of neighbours, or in the court
house grounds.
Better Quarters For Normal Dept.
It is also very necessary that the
normal training department should be
removed from the attic of the central
building. This attic has no ventilat-
ing dues to extract the foul air, is
poorly lighted, and would be a very
dangerous place in case of fire. 1t IS
reached by very steep and dark
stairway, and better quarters should
be provided as soon as possible.
Lincoln Building 0vercrowded.
The Lincoln building has been over
crowded for the last several years.
Pupils from this building have to be
housed in the high school or library
buildings and, as the the Lincoln dis
trict continues to grow, more and more
of these children must be transferred
each year.
Six years ago the Garfield building
contained just about one-half the
number of pupils that it has at the
present time, and it has now reached
it's full capacity, and in the future
pupils from this building must be TAX
en- to the high school building in or
der to relieve the pressure here.
The Lafayette building is running
at full capacity, and even more than
full capacity, in the highest room.
High School Building Too Small.
The high school building, with a
capacity by law for one hundred sew
enty pupils, has an enrolment Of two
hundred fifty this year, eighteen of
whom are housed in the attic of the
central building.
Industrial Building Demands.
| The manual training department
needs, and is now using the whole
ground floor of the Industrial build
ing; while the domestic science de-
partment will need, in the near fut-
ure, all of the second floor of that
building. This makes no proper pro-
vision for the housing of the agricul-
tural department.
Suggests Junior High School.
There is, therefore, needed at the
present time new building quarters
capable of relieving the pressure up.
on both the high school and grades
It would seem that a junior high
school, including the seventh, eighth
and ninth grades, would best serve
this double purpose. There are sew
emty-five pupils in the eighth grade
central building, eighty pupils in the
seventh grades, something over forty
pupils in the seventh and eighth
grades, Lafayette building, and about
eighty pupils in the high school fresh
man class. These, together with al
lowance for a future growth of fifty
pupils, would require building sui
ficiently large to accommodate three
hundred twenty-five pupils. Coule
such building be made, and the
freshman class be removed from the
, high school, and also the pupils re
moved from the second floor of thu
central building, the pupils from tn:
library building could be moved int
one of the three rooms thus vacated
, while the normal department coult
occupy ano' her of these rooms, an<
then leave a third room for the over
flow from the Garfield and Lincoln
, buildings. Thus we would have tn,
l Lincoln, the Lafayette, the Garfield
? all but the attic of the central build
ing, and the two rooms in the higl
school building, fully occupied b.
grade children. This would probabl,
l make it possible to move the borde
2 line between the Lincoln and h;gl
}, school districts from Third stree
E East to either Second or First street
! and likewise make it possible to NOV
e the border line between the CARTEL
|. and high school districts from SIKH
D street West to Seventh or Eight
t streets. Many pupils, living near t