Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-18

Remodeling of Central High
school for use as junior high
school.
Construction of large addition
to Technical High school to be
used as senior boys hiFn school.
Erection of new building for
senior girls high school.
The first two suggestions are now
being successfully carried out but
at much larger expense than ORR
ginally intended because of the in
creasing cost of labor and materials
and because the school directors de-
cided to have the buildings much
more extensive and better equipped
for intermediate school purposes.
This decision of the board is ap-
proved in. the report of the two eX-
perts which has just been receiv-
ed.
The New Report
The total cost of the first two
building projects of the 1916 plan
will be $663,000, for which bonds
have already been issued. AS loan
of 100000 was authorized TINS
leaves the board $5S7,00O, fund
far too small to carry out the three
remaining building proposals.
In place of the program outlined
in 1916 DR.. VanSickle and DR.. Sny-
der recommended in their report the
following:
Completion of the new Edi-
son Junior school and addition
to Camp Curtin building-both
in the course of construction.
Enlarging Technical High
school for central junior high
school.
Erection of large senior
high school for both boys and
girls.
School officials and taxpayers who
have studied the recommendations in
the report Just received say this VIII
mean a substitution of four build
ings for High school purposes. ior
the original program of five pulla-
ings.
One of the most Important
changes, should the suggestions
made now be approved by the board
will he abandoning the former in
tention of separating boys and girls
in the last three years of the puphc
school training in the city.
Drs. yanSickle and Snyder in their
recommendations declare they are
strongly in favor of co-education,
and with the chance now to change
the first program as outlined IN
1916. they are heartily in favor of a
big Senior High school Tor poth
sexes.
President Enders in discussing
the report which he has Just mace
public, said he has not had time
to make a complete study OF II put
believed 1t would solve the local SIT
a1nnnlfn
school facilities without necessitat-
ing an additional loan to be approx
ed by the voters.
Site Is Needed
He said the new Senior High
school site should soon be selected
if the directors approve the new
recommendations, and that the
building for boys and girls of the
tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades
will be q large structure to accom-
modate at least 1000 pupils, while
the Technical High school Will be
made much larger than originally
intended in order to provide suitable
facilities for girls of the interme-
diate seventh, eighth and ninth
grades when the building Is used for
junior school.
That the school district will be in
O position financially to carry out
the new program, President Enders
said he had little doubt. In addition
to the changes in the High school
plans, it is proposed to convert the
Central High school into an admin
istration building providing plenty
of Office room, storage facilities for
all school supplies and classrooms
for the continuation and teachers
training schools.
Big Building Needed
Z In calling attention to the COM
prehensive provisions made in the
construction of the Edison school
and the big addition to the Camp
Curtin building, the experts said
these are much more extensive than
they had planned but are commend
able showing the enterprise and pro-
gressiveness of the directors author
izing the work.
That a similar structure should
be available when the changes are
made to the Technical High school,
is urged, and it is suggested by Drs.
VanSickle and Snyder that even
more ground than was originally
needed, may be necessary to provide
room for the addition.
To determine the size of the Sc
nior High school, both the authori-
ties said the estimated number of
boys and girls who will use the
building must be based on the COM
bined estimates of the first plan to
have a Senior High school for boys
and one for girls.
In closing the report the experts
mention the advisability of securing
site facing or near the Capitol
Park as the most convenient and best
place for Senior High school for
both sexes.
The opinion of the two schoolmen
will be presented at the board meet
ing of Friday afternoon, and will
probably be discussed then, but local
officials do not believe any action
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