The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-12-18
REPORT IS MADE
TO SCHOOL BOARD
Recommendation as to New High
School are Made by University
Of Iowa Expert Who
Studied Situation.
| BUILDING INADEQUATE
Report Suggests That Bond Issue be
/ Asked for and Building Construct
4 ed to House Between 7V0
and 900 Pupils.
BUILDING INADEQUATE

A 0lSn ScUOol h1ouS'Ai t"'A~
modernly equipped in every way 10
house between seven and eight nun
bred pupils, to replace the present
inadequate building, is the recon-
mendaton of DR.. Harry A. Greene OF
the extension division of the state
university Of Iowa, who has oeen IN
Keokuk studying needs and condl-
tons here Of the Keokuk high school.
"The present high school when
was built at a time when the more
extensive and enriched curricula
were not in vogue is wholly mace
uuate to meet the needs OF the
modern school enrolment. II we
utilize the high school enrolment
data for period of years as basis
for anticipating future needs IL Is
likely that in the next ten years the
total enrolment for the four high
school grades will reach approx
mately seven hundred. Since the
school district must lay it's plans FOL
the future and not the immediate
present, it is evident that the schoo
building planned now and punt &c
accommodate the high school prop
lem Of the next fifteen or twenty
Years must be equipped to house be
tween seven and eight hundred hlgl
school pupils, estimated very conser
gatively.'
The report then goes on to make
some recommendations, the nrst o
which will be decided on Monday
when the school election will be held
! This recommendation by the stal'
expert Is: ~
at is recommended that the boar'
OF education secure the consent
the voters of the district to float
bond issue of 100000 for the pun
pose of erecting and equipping :;
modern school building adequate II
construction to house not less 'haI
eight to nine hundred pupils.
This building is to be suitably locate'
with a south front on the site re
Gently acquired by the board OF ecu
cation between Main and Blondea'
and Fourt eenth and Fifteenth streets
This site has splendid natural guam
| fcatiuns.'
| proqram of Board.
! This is the program that Inc poai'
Is planning. 1t is submitting the pro
| posed issue Of 100000 and VIII,
! il carries, build and equip bulldln;
| TO house 70C to 500 pupils in prope
fashion. 1t is the intention OF IN
hoard to build and equip TINS bui!u
! ing for the amount of the bond issue
las q resolution spread in The minute
! will show.
The recommendation also is mad
that the board defer active conStrut
ton OF the new building until Teou'
tion in building and labor costs max
practicable the letting OF ire cor
tracts within the proposed limit. IN
board has already anticipated TINS
fer at the meeting at which the ele'
ton was authorized, the board men
hers formulated a program an
spread it on the minutes to the enec
that il would not proceed until d
conditions were proper.
As to the floating Of the bonds, tn
report recommends that this be don
on the policy of issuing bonds for a
short a. term as feasible and only 4
needed. There are three crlterl
which NAV well guide the board
education in determining its financli
policy" the report says. "A, tn
bond issue should never be for
term longer than the active usefn
ness of the thing for which the bond
are float ed. B, a bond issue for ed'
catjonal purposes should be for
term long enough TO permit thos
who profit by it to help pay for
G a bond issue should not be for
term so long as to handicap the con
mnnitv from the standpoint of tn
future development of the educ
tional problems"
Recomn1e ndation Made.
Further recommendation are mad
as follows:
"It is recommended that the boar
of education confer with compe'ef
architect as TO the poSslbllllles
improving the lighting condluons
the class rooms in the old hlgh scho
building through the installation
additional window glass area. IN
Improvement may be bnought abo'
bv the substitution OF large ste
millions and sash in the place
the narrow windows and WIDE space
between them. In this way Inc ign
ing of the class rooms can be mac
much more nearly adequate. II tn
Man is followed in the case of tt
assembly room, the lnst2Ilatlon
three or four sets Of steel mulliol
and the proportional narrowing
the room should result in very q
cidedly improving the illumination
the assembly room. 1t ls evlde
that the illumination Of number
seni-circular rooms can not be i
, proved in this manner.
'It is recommended that the boa
of education proceed Immediately
: confer with an architect or other p'
son equipped to advise it. with