Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-30
SCHOOL CLASSES
TO BE- HOUSED IN
COMMUNITY CLUB
Upper Floor Of Building
Offered To Relieve
Congestion

The upper floor of the Community
Club house, on the city Playground,
which was purchased by the city more
than a year ago as community cen
ter, has been offered to the board
of education for use for school room
purposes during the coming year to
help relieve the congest4! conditions
of the public schools. The offer
has been transmitted by j. Ralston
Cargill, president Of the Playground
association to w. w. Dykes, president
of the school board. The action was
taken by the Playground association
up the request of the four women's
civic clubs of the city.
According to Superintendent j. f.
Mathis, the offered facilities will
care for three school primary classes,
entirely relieving the overflow which
for the last year or two has been
placed in class rooms wherever avail
able, without regard to their suit
ability. Last year one of these was
placed in the high school building,
producing a cramped condition there
which greatly interfered with school
work. Just what classes will be plac-
ed at the Playground has not been
decided
Following is the letter of President
Gargill to President Dykes, which eX'
plains the transaction entirely:
MIR. Cargilfs Letter.
"To the President, Mr.. W. W.
Dykes, and Members of the Board
Of Education, Americus Public
Schools, City.
Gentlemen: 1t gives me pleasure
to report to you that, acting on the
initiative of the four women's clubs
of the city, a concurrent resolution
being adopted by them unanimously
the Beard of Directors of the PLAY
ground have also voted unanimously
to offer for the use of the public
schools under your direction the en-
tire second floor of the Community
club house.
This tender is made because it
became known to the officers of the
four clubs, i. e., Woman's club. Unit
ed Daughters of the Confederacy,
Daughters of the American Revoh-
ton and Music Study, that the city
faced an emergency in the overflow
of the primary grades at school nee
essitating immediate provision for
housing the increased number of lit
tie ones who will require educational
instruction this fall.
Each club voted separately and
instructed its representative on the
playground directorate to report the
unanimously favorable vote at
playground directors meeting in or
der that the wishes of its members
might be transmitted to you. 1t mo-"
not be amiss at this time to recall the
conditions surrounding the purchase
of this property bv the city: 1t was
bought for educational purposes and
therefore placed under control OF
the Board of Education. The Board
of Education delegated authority to
the Directorate of the Playground
Association to govern the property,
always subject to the educational
needs of the public schools as they
might arise.
Grounds Being Used.
''The grounds have been and are
being used for physical education and
development, of the youth of Ameri-
Gus and the building is devoted to the
use of the four women's clubs which
undertook to furnish and keep the
house in order for purposes of club
meetings and community gatherings
for the welfare of the people of the
city. These several clubs and the
! representatives of other civic inter
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