The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24
SCHOOL BOARD
ACCEPTS PLANS
Members in Session Tues
day Evening to Go Over
Architects Work.
FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Some Board Members Raise
Kick at Site of School
in Downtown Block.

Architect Chubb's plans for the new
high school were formally accepted
Tuesday evening by the school board
in regular session, thus bringing the
city of Kenosha one step nearer IN
the direction of the new building, the
need of which is becoming each day
more felt.
The plans will now be sent to Madi-
son for formal approval, after which
it is believed the breaking of the
ground for the senior high school will
be commenced on the site just east of
the present high school building.
Start War on Site.
While the acceptance of the plans
was accomplished with only one dis
senting vote, that of Joerndt, small
uproar was staged at the school board
meeting over the choice of the site.
w. j. Threinen lead the opposition and
appeared to be aided and abetted by
School Supervisors Joerndt and Whit
beck. Jay B. Glerum responding to
the rumble of discomfort, pointed out
that the choice of the site had had
the approval of the former board act
ing as whole.
Joerndt retorted that he had not
approved even then, but that he had
been a mere "grasshopper" in the
midst of the general movements
Harry Whitbeck commenced the dis
cussion while the acceptance of Mr..
Chubb's plans were being considered
by asking what was to be placed on
the other block, that is the present
L. 81 of mr.
high school. He was informed by
President Lewis Powell of the board
that the tentative plans provided for
heating plant on this site and prob
ably a vocational school. Mr.. Whit
beck answered with general denunci-
alton of the vocational school idea.
81 have yet to see any good condi-
tions coming out of the vocational
school," he said. "There is a whole
pile of money going in to maintain
them which isn't doing anybody any
good. We should go into all of this
more thoroughly before deciding to
build a new vocational school,"
Supervisor George Cook pointed out
that the vocational school is dis
tinctly city school, controlled by the
tenance of a vocational school is COM
pulsory under the state laws.
"Well l know dozens who attend
the vocational school only because
they are compelled to attend" ans
wered Whitbeck; an argument, how
ever, which might be applied to the
elimination of all schools in the public
school system, some of the other
school board members seemed to think.
The argument now well started,
shifted to the query as to the advis-
ability of building on the new high
school site between Sheridan road
and Congress street, Wisconsin and
Park streets.
Threinen declared that for his part
he considered it wrong to put high
school on a down town block, when it
was necessary to maintain an athletic
field two mics away on the Bonny
Hame site.
eve never been in favor of high
school on a city block" agreed Joerndt.
81 was little grasshopper in opposi-
ton when some machinery came up
here and railroaded the thing"
Whitbeck, another speaker in oppo-,
sition, said that he believed if the
matter were lefta to the high school
boys and girls to vote upon they would
be in favor of a high school that con-
tanned all of the requisite convent
ences and grounds, no matter how far
out. He said it was absurd to have
an athletic field two miles away from
showers, swimming pool and lockers.
Jay B. Glerum spoke in favor Of
the downtown high school.
"We. have been trying for ten years
to get high school, and now let's go
forward with it," he said. "The form
er board went on record for the down
town site. We have been told tina.
the high school must be built on that
block to carry out the larger plan now
being carried on by the city; the
board voted for it, and now let's go
ahead with the plans as presented and
give the children of Kenosha a high
school at last"
Other routine matters were taken
up by the board. 1t was agreed that
the school grounds during the summer
months should be open to the children
for play, but that this did not mean
the bigger fellows from the factories
who sometimes try to monopolize the
grounds after work to the exclusion
of the little folks and with danger to
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