Evening star., 1932-04-14
Takoma Park Seeks Senior
High, Bringing Total in
City to Nine.
VOCATIONAL INSTITUTION
SOUGHT FOR SOUTHEAST
Additional Playground and Rec
reation Facilities Requested
for 1894.

A new senior high school, two ele-
mentary schools and a community
vocational school, were the major
projects requested by citizens in their
conference last night with public school
authorities on the 1884 appropriation
| estimates
Pointing out children in the thickly
settled Takoma Park section of the
District have to travel several miles to
attend Central High School-the near
est senior high school to the northern
| corner Of the Capital--spokesmen for
| the Takoma Park Citizens Association
urged the school authorities to seek
funds for construction of a new high
school on the site already purchased at
Third and Underwood streets. Con-
struction Of this building would give
Washington nine senior high schools,
| including the proposed school for the
Fort Reno section Of Chevy Chase.
Other Schools Asked.
The American University Park Citi-
zenS' Association asked for an elemen-
tary school, pointing out that at pres
ent 1t lacks public school facilities of
any sort. The second elementary school
request was for a building to replace
the 5O-year-old Grant School in Poto-
mac Park.
Speaking for the Southeast Citizens
Association. Allan Davis, principal a
Business High School. asked for con-
struction of the community vocational
school, that was proposed 30 years ago,
when site was purchased for that
purpose at Thirteenth street and Poto-
! mac avenue southeast Mr.. Davis re-
called the site was purchased to ac-
commodate school which would teach
certain trades that are followed in the
Navy Yard to boys Of the southeast
section.
Requests from all parts of the city
were made at the conference for in
creased appropriations for the main
tenance OF school garden work. It was
eontended that the school garden pro-
! gram affords excellent opportunity for
| character training by providing chill
| dren with constructive occupation dur
\ ing leisure time.
Many Requests Listed.
Prominent among other requests for
funds in the 1884 appropriation were
those for eight-room additions to the
| Banneker School and the Phelps Vo-
cational School and an addition to the
Elliott Junior High School
Other requests presented were: Ad-
ditional playground at the Addison
CurtiS-Hyde Schools in Georgetown;
auditorium curtain and playground
conditioning at the James F. Oyster
School; combination assembly hall
gymnasium and a playground at the
Garrison School; combination assem-
bly, hall-gymnasium at the Harrison
School n1auOrTnIfV1d nf no
School; land for playground at the old
Business High School Building in an
ticipation of its use as a colored COM
bination high school and elementary
school; play space at the Shaw Junior
High School; a room for cleaning and
dyeing at the Margaret Murray Wash
ington Vocational School: an automo-
bile shop. conservatory and corridors
connecting the wings of the building
for the Armstrong High School; as
sembly hall and rest room at the Bruce
School; auditorium for the Monroe
School; combination assembly hall
gymnasium and a modern heating
plant at the Slater-Iangston School,
and additional playground for the Burr
vile School.
New school site at Twenty-fourth
and Randolph streets northeast; addi-
tional playground and landscaping of
the grounds for the Kingsman-Pierce
School; boys gymnasium, modern toll
cts, playground fencing and additional
playground for the Powell Junior High
School; grading and sodding and gen.
eral improvement of grounds for the
Eliot Junior High School; new heating
plant and grounds improvement at the
Stanton School; new heating plant and
hot-water supply system at the Payne
School additional nlaypTO11rd at the
Giddings School; stage equipment at
the Dunbar High School and a stadium
for the Roosevelt High School.