Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-17
BUSINESS HIGH ALUMNI
OPEN FIGHT TO GET
$400, 900 FOR BUILDING
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school within the coming year. Other
citizen groups are being approached
daily and they are expected to take
action on the alumni's appeal at their
next meetings.
The alumni association further plans
to make every effort to be heard at the
sessions of the Bureau of the Budget
next week when the District appropria-
tons will be considered.
It's members contend that the very
fact that the term supplemental" is used
to designate the estimate into which
Mai. Donovan has thrust the new Bust
ness High School indicates 1t will re-
ceive consideration only after the items
included in the primary estimates are
provided for. The outcome of supple
mental estimates in the past, they say,
proves further the small chances the
schools funds would have in their pres
ent status The Bureau of the Budget
| has ruled that the departments respon-
sibe for items included in supplemental
estimates, must be prepared to defend
| those items as absolutely Indispensable
and as a critical necessity.
Stresses Lack of Facilities.
In its campaign, the Business High
! School Alumni Association is calling at
| tention to the present schools lack of
space. lack of nom academic activity
! facilities, inadequate lunchroom and
! the incompatibility of the vicinity of
Ninth street and Rhode Island avenue
as the location for the institution.
! The school. designed and built in
! 1906 for capacity of 900 students, to-
! day is accommodating after fashion
! 1.275 boys and girls. A visit to the
and photographer for The Star revealed
classes in session in corridors where
make-shift claSsrooms have been rugged
under artificial light by the faculty in
its efforts to cope with the crowded
conditions.
Four classes of boys and girls were
| found lodged in the assembly hall in
place of section rooms"-the class
rooms in which the students academic
ratings and scholastic records are COM
piled and kept. During the schoolday
other classes were assigned to the as
sembly hall for study purposes while
at the same time still further classes
were in the room practicing music.
Inc eHeCbS on tnOSc attempting 10 STUDY
were visibly upsetting.
No Playing Field.
academic activities are entirely
inadequately provided for, 1t was shown
at the school. The foot ball teams at
present are being taken to distant park
lands where they train for the inter-
high foot ball series, because Of the alb
solute lack of any sort OF playing field
The building is separated from the en-
circlng sidewalk by a narrow strip of
earth from which sod long ago was
worn away and which in places has
been concerted to merge with the side
! walk.
Deep in the basement of the building
the candidates for the rife team were
found firing in a long narrow vault.
like chamber which always has been
and which is to continue to bc-the
schools ash pit for the storing of fur.
mace ashes pending their removal II
the dump.
Despite the 1875 enrolment. Bust.
ness High Schools lunchroom-wh
was used as an armory until lack o.
an appropriate lunchroom in The
vicinity Of the school made it impera
tive that some arrangements be made
to feed particularly the girl students oil
the school-can accommodate only 30r
pupils.