The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-07-06
Board Members
Favor Action
Will Seek Land for the
Erection of New
High School.
Realize Need of Building
Reports on Likely Locations
May be Made at Special
Meeting-Will Find Bond
ing Capacity.

HiS SdpdClty.
Premier steps for the purchase
of ground for the erection of a
new high school and a new gram
mar school to be built within the
next two years, according to the
bonding limit, We're taken last
night as the Board of Education
met in the office of the Superin-
tendent in the High School build
| ing.
Board members, realizing the
condition of the city in regard to
the housing conditions for its
school children, declared that
something must be done, and done
soon. The need of new schools
here was revealed by stories pub
lished in The Pleasantville Press
with an idea or arousing senti-
| ment on the question.
Members of the property COM
| mittee of the Board will make
investigations in an effort to find
centralized locations for the
schools needed, and may report
at meeting which will be held
later this month. A number of
sites are under consideration.
The bonding capacity will also
be learned before the next meet
ing, that members of the Board
may know just how much money
they can spend on a larger school
The property can be purchased
without the bonding capacity, but
Board members feel that they
must learn what they are to build
before they vote money to build
it.
1--WE have got to have a high
rsesi4oOI,.. and now &c. 49, tlnle s'tos
strike Dr.. Charles H. Conover,
president of the Board, declared
during the meeting. "If we build
now. we can draw from the entire
mainland"
1--WE should build as large a
school as it is possible to build"
Neil S. Campbell head of the
property committee, declared.
Lets build for several years
ahead so that we won't have to
construct again for time"
Members of the Board seemed
to follow the idea that was adj
vanced in The Pleasantville Press
story of last Friday, that a new
model high school, which would
care for students from every
Mainland community, be erected
somewhere in the center of the
city, and that the present high
school be changed into a Junior
High School.
To allow for the increased
school population, the present
high school on Washington ave-
nue. would have more rooms ad-
ded, which would care for the
number Of students who would
come up from the grammar
schools. This move, it was
thought, would relieve congestion
in the grammar schools.
DR.. COnover was under the i'm
preston that at least two more
buildings were needed to care for
the present crowded condition in
the city's schools.
Simon M. Horstick, successor
to former Superintendent William
c. Sullivan, spoke to the Board,
attending the first regular meet
ing. He made "a number of sug
gestions, among them that the
school grounds and buildings
should be kept in better condi-
ton, and that the Property COM
mittee visit each of the schools
to plan general house cleaning.
The Board decided to adver-
tise for a forced draft which
would save coal during the win
ter, and at the same time enable
janitors at the public schools to
heat the buildings in shorter
time. The appliances to be bid
on will be placed in the Wood
land avenue and the high school
buildings.
Miss Elma Mcconnell, a grad
uate of the local grammar school,
Atlantic City High School and the
New Jersey State College for Wo-
men, was employed as English
teacher in the high school.
The New Superintendent's con-
tract will be signed sometime
this month, when another meet
,,,or % thu D0ocI ,,,;1J he hold