Evening star., 1935-03-14
BOARD APPROVES
SCHOOL PROJECTS
FOR WORKS SET-UP
List of Construction Jobs to
Be Given City Heads
Today for Action.
S1,65O,O 900 INCLUDED
IN 1s BETTERMENTs
Four New Buildings, Plus IA I'm.
provements, Sought in
D. c. Requests.

A revised list of needed construction
projects in the public school system,
which the Board of Education hopes
to have included in the new public
works program when money is made
available under the pending s4,8o0,-
100000 works-relief bill, will be sent
today TO the District Commissioners
with a request that the program be
approved.
The list was made yesterday at an
executive session of the boards
Finance Committee, composed Of
George M. Whitwell, chairman: Mrs
Philip Sidney Smith and DR., j. Hayden
johnson. The closed meeting also va.
attended by DR.. Frank w. Ballou. su.
perintendent, and DR.. Hayden John
son, president of the board.
No official announcement of the new
projects was made after the meeting
but it was learned that the list OF
construction jobs recently sent to the
Public Works Administration by DR..
John w. Studebaker, United States
commissioner of education, was Sub
stantially" followed.
New Schools Asked.
The list. as it now stands. includes
18 projects requiring an expenditure
close to Sl,650,000. This sum would
provide for plans and specifications
for two new senior high schools, a new
vocational school for girls, a new ele-
mentary school and IA additions and
improvements to present buildings.
In addition to these, a number of
projects requiring little or no material
but a great deal of labor also we're
considered, it was learned, and prob
ably will be recommended for compile
ton as made-work projects under the
relief program of the District.
DR.. Ballou said today he would
forward the requisition to Engineer
Commissioner Dan I. Sultan, who is
in charge of all new District building,
some time today.
The new cenior high schools on the
list would provide a white school in
the northern part Of the city, probably
In the Manor Park area, and a colored
school in Northeast Washington,
probably on the site already owned
by the School Board on Benning road,
north Of Twenty-fourth street.
Would Replace Disgrace"
The new vocational school would
replace the Dennison School on S
street between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets, which is now consid-
cred "a disgrace to the school sys-
tenn" The board is not only anxious
to replace the building but also wants
to move it out of that area to q new
site. The present site of the Tuber-
culosis Hospital, opposite Roosevelt
High School, has been suggested if
that property il made available to
the board when the new hospital at
Glenn Dale, Md, is completed.
The new elementary school would
be constructed on Bladensburg road
near Mount Hamilton to relieve over
crowded conditions in other nearby
schools
The IA additions follow:
Rose Lees Hardy School. Foxhall
road and Volta place, completion of
second floor.
Alexander R. Shepherd School,
Fourteenth and Kalmia streets, COM
pletion of second floor
Assembly Hall Wanted.
John Greenlief Whittier School.
Fifth and Sheridan streets, construc-
ton of assembly hall-gymnasium.
George Truesdale School, Ingraham
street between Eighth and Ninth
streets. eight-room addition and
assembly gymnasium.
Bunker Hill School, Michigan avenue
and Twelfth street northeast, four
class rooms and space for four addi-
tional class rooms.
John H. Ketcham School, Fifteenth
and U streets southeast, eight-room
addition and assembly
James Monroe School, Columbia
road between Georgia and Sherman
avenues, assembly gymnasium.
Archibald B. Grimke School, Ver-
mont avenue between T and U streets,
eight-room addition and assembly
gymnasium.
Joshua R. Giddings School. G street,
between Third and Fourth streets
southeast, assembly gymnasium.
Room for Cleaning -Dyeing.
Margaret Murray Washington Voca-
tional School, o street between North
Capitol and First streets, room for
cleaning and dyeing.
Paul Junior High School, Eighth
and Oglethorpe streets, 10-room addi-
ton and gymnasium.
Shaw Junior High School, Seventh
street and Rhode Island avenue, i'm
provement of stage and corridors.
Armstrong High School, o street
between First and Thirds streets. gym
nasium and extension of auto repair
shop.
A second project at Armstrong calls
for improvement of corridors and
remodeling of present gymnasium.
The made-work projects. requiring
only labor, will include number of
improvements to Fairgrounds, grading
of school grounds, and number OF
minor repair jobs to buildings and
ground for which materials can be
made available by the board.