Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-02-01
Our New High School
opening Entertainment

School is moving into its new
home, and they are justly proud of
it.
As one enters the large glass
double doors he mounts by two
steps to a roomy corridor, with the
cloak rooms on either side of the
entrance and stairways leading TO
the basement. Passing along to
10 the left one enters the sunny
south room used as the laboratory
and study room. Two large glass
windows and a glass paneled door
opening into the next class room
allows teacher to hear a reeita-
ton and still keep an eye on the
students who are not reciting, and
do not have to stay in the same
room where the recitation is going
on. In this way two teachers can
handle three rooms, a very import
ant feature in small high school.
Yet ample provision has been
made for future growth, as this
room can be thrown into the assem-
bly, hall by folding back the door
partition extending clear across
the room. Every place in this Ell
larged hall commands a full view
of the stage, which, with its rich
brown curtain harmonizipg beauti
fully with the light oak woodwork
and the buff walls and ceiling, and
with the three sets of scenery, over
head and foot lights, adds greatly
to the interior and affords special
attraction for presenting plays or
other entertainments. The stage,
by means of its folding door paiti
ton, can also be used as a princi-
pals office and class room. A door
from the stage opens upon a small
landing and stairway which leads
back iuto the main corridor again,
thus completing the circuit of the
ground floor.
Passing down stairway at eli
ther end of the corridor one reaches
the unfinished basement. Under
the cloak rooms will be the toilets,
where perhaps the shower baths
will be added i'll the future. Under
the stage there is ample room for
an electric motor and shafting
whenever the demand warrants the
establishment of manual training,
while the other end can be used
for domestic science, leaving the
large central space for a gymnas-
ium.
Sevaral features call for special
mention. The large simplex win
dows, extending clear across the
back and ends, make the rooms
light and airy. The beautiful broad
paneling below the windows and
blackboards, not i'll the original
specifications, but introduced by
Mr.. Reilly, the contractor, place
the interior of the building in a
class by itself. The electric wiring,
all controlled by wall switches, was
carefully planned and completed
by NJ. ], Burr, principal ot the
high school. He also put in class
call bells in each room and ran a
wire from the stage to the back OF
the assembly hall; very convenient
for signaling from lecturer to Ian
tern operator.
lGNredit should be given to Prin
cipal Burr, who drew up tde orig
inal plans, and to Architect De
Longchamps of Reno for their
practical working out, to the Coun'
ty Commissioners, who donated the
the ground and gave other valua-
able assistance, to the Board OF Ed
ucation, who, i'll the face OF trying
war conditions, finally put the COM
pletion through; to Mr.. Hugh
Reilly, the contractor, for his faith
ful adherence to the specifications
and the beautiful paneling already
mentioned, and to J w. Mathews,
the foreman, forthe splendid work
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