Evening star., 1949-09-14
StateFundAsked
For School Work
In Montgomery
Eight New Buildings,
Five Additions to Be
Built in Program

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81 ,330,125 in loans was before
State officials today after receiv-
ing approval of the county Coun-
Gil.
The board said yesterday the
money would be used to build
eight new schools and additions
to five existing buildings as part
|of its $5,000,000 school construc-
ton program.
New schools are the Viers Mill,
East West Highway, East Rock
vile. Homewood. Rolling Terrace
and Glen Haven Elementary
Schools for white pupils, the
Rockville Negro Elementary School
and an unnamed Negro high
school.
Additions are to be built at
the Somerset, Oakview. Alta Vista
and Bradley Elementary Schools
and at Montgomery Blair High
School.
Contracts Already Approved.
No State loan was asked for
the new Negro high school, for
which $27O,000 in unused funds
is available, but a 100000 grant
was requested.
According to school officials
contracts already have been ap-
proved for all the projects, except
the two Negro schools and the
addition to the Bradley School.
Work is scheduled to be COM
pleted next FEBRUARY on the Som
erset, Oakview and Alta Vista
additions and the new Viers Mill
East-Wes Highway. East Rock
vile, Homewood and Rolling Ter
race Schools. The new Glen Ha-
ven School and the addition to
Montgomery Blair High are ex-
pected to be ready for occupancy
next fall.
For the Montgomery Blair ad-
dition, which will consist of a
shop building and new boiler. the
board accepted the $257, ,222 bid OF
Morrison Bros. Bethesda.
Heating Plant Bids Accepted.
The board also accepted the
$123,300 bid of Victor Judson
Silver Spring, for the Glen Haven
School and the $6.870 bid of the
Stewart Bainum Co.. Washington
for a new heating plant at the
Woodside School.
Expenditures of $1,000 for grad
ing and landscaping work at Ken
sington Junior High School ano
the grading and paving OF Dam.
eron drive to serve the new Forest
Grove School were approved.
Richard H. Carpenter, assistant
superintendent of schools, was di-
rected to prepare a master plar
for future school sites and to sub.
NIT it to the board next month
The board denied a request BY
the Bethesda Public Library As.
sociation that part Of the Bethes.
da Elementary School be donated
to the association for a library
site.
The group also authorizing the
closing OF the Poolesville Negro
Elementary School because of its
small enrolment and the transfer
of the pupils there to the Sellmar
Negro Elementary School.
New Teachers Appointed.
The following new elementary
school teachers were appointed
Mrs. Rachel Paffenberger, Pooles-
vile; Mrs. Frances w. Darby
Rockville: Mrs. Margaret Ron
deau, Lynnbrook; Mrs. Mildred
Hunter, ,Gaithersburg; Miss Doris
Vickers, Woodside; Mrs. Jennie
Workman, Glenmont; Mrs. Eliza
beth Harris and Mrs. Helen H
Irwin, ParkSide; Miss Rose E.
Koury, Pinecrest; Mrs. Marion
Convers, Forest Grove, and Mrs
Margaret Lawrence. Homewood.
The new junior and senior high
school teachers appointed are:
Robert Finnegan. Richard Mont
gomery; James w. Jacobs and
Mrs. Lucille Lowe, Leland Junior
High; Mrs. Lenore Nickison, Rob-
ert Porsche, and Miss Mary Sul-
livan, Bethesda = Chevy Chase:
Miss Joan Mcdonald and Mrs.
Mildred Wertz. Sherwood.
Also Mrs. Julia Ceranton, Clay
ton Lawrence and Donald Wat
kins, Gaithersburg; Bernard
Hulse, Takoma Junior High; Miss
Maryjo Franklin, Montgomery
Blair; r. Lawrence Dowell, Miss
Mary Jane Lynch and Miss Es-
ther Shafer, Montgomery Hills
Junior High; Miss Daisy w. Myles
and Mrs. Doris Sewell, Lincoln