Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-06-17
The New High
School Building
MM Modern and Up-To-Date
of Any in State.

East Jordan may proudly boast Of
having one of the most modern and up
to-date high school buildings of any
city OF its size in the state of Michigan.
The building provides for maximum
attendance of $50 students. The de-
partments in addition to the regular
high school academic subjects are
commercial, manual training, agricul-
ture and household arts.
The building has many unique feat
ures. In the first place, it is a one
story building. The walls are con-
strbcted OF brick and hollow tile. Sky
g0hts are used in all of the rooms which
are more than twenty-four feet wide.
This gives not only adequate but per-
feet lighting. The gymnasium and
auditorium are in the center of the
building. The gymnasium serves as
the stage OF the auditorium. This en-
ables athletic contests to be played in
the gymnasium and witnessed by spec
tators seated in the auditorium. When
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vet velour curtains are suspended from
the ceiling in such manner as to make
the stage any size or shape desired.
The gymnasium may also be shut off
from the auditorium by heavy doors
which run on track.
In the household arts department
electricity is used for cooking. Four
teen 100 Watt hot-plates are used.
These have proved to be the most sat-
isfactory cooking apparatus known.
The only basement there is to the
building is for the heating plant. A
fan system OF hot air is used-the air
being drawn in-from the roof, forced
through the furnaces and then into the
rooms. La the furnaces are humidifiers
which moisten the air for the rooms
and exhaust the impure air from the
rooms into the attic and from there
through the roof by means of ventila-
tors. 1t is possible to change the air
in the entire building in ten minutes.
II the. furnace is hot in the morning,
the AL can be turned into any room,
and in Just a few minutes the air is
comfortable. During the summer time
the fan is used to change the air in the
rooms, thus keeping the rooms cool
during the hot days. The heating
system has been found TO be exceed.
lngly economical.
AS a convenient building in which
school can be easily organized, the
East Jordan High School is especially
to be commended. High school stu
dents are not put to any inconvenience
of running up and down stairs which
is ALWAYS source of confusion. The
auditorium is on the main floor and
there are no stairs TO climb which is
always an inconvenience to the public
The corridors are so constructed and
the toilets so placed that the entire
school is easily respected. The manual
training department is set far enough
away from the classrooms so that the
noise of the machinery is not distur-
bance. Showers and lockers are plac-
ed in connection With the toilets just
Secross from the gymnasium which adds
to the convenience. The entire bull
ding is so planned that it makes it easy
to have athletic contests, to put on
school entertainments, to enter into de-
bsirg and oratory and all other func-
tioM which are worth while.
East Jordan ought always to be pro-
minent in those school activities which
uot only appeal to the public but which
are of inestimable value in the train
ing of young people.