Evening star., 1952-02-06
Fairfax 10 Open Bids
On 4 More Schools;
Contracts Awarded

The Fairfax County School
Board is preparing to open bids
on four more school projects this
month, after awarding contracts
yesterday for a new Herndon High
School and for the Woodley Hills
Elementary School.
The Herndon High School bid
was awarded to Sharpe g. Hama
ker Of Arlington on a low bid OF
$464,518, and the Woodley Hills
job went to Young g. Crary. Inc,
of Washington, on a low bid of
l$196,252,
Next Tuesday bids will be
opened for an addition at Willston
Elementary and new Gum
Springs colored elementary. Bids
for additions at Wayanoka and
Fairfax Elementary will be opened
ion February 81.
sos Million Bond Issue.
The school projects are being
built with proceeds of a sos
million school construction bond
issue and State grants.
A gymnasium provision was
deleted from the Herndon High
School to keep the project close to
the amount set up in the bond
issue. Roy Dunn, who is super
vising the school building pro-
gram, said total of $478, 900 was
set up for the Herndon project
and that the bid accepted yester-
day. plus the architects fee, will
slightly exceed that amount. The
gymnasium would have cost an
other $4,000.
The school board decided to
leave-a 700-seat auditorium in
the Herndon project. after some
debate. Mrs. II. c. Crowther,
school board member from Mount
Vernon District, said she did not
understand why Herndon High
School, with an enrolment of 37O,
was entitled to such a large gym
nasium. ] Mount Vernon High
School. with an enrolment of
1900 is getting an auditorium
with the same number Of seats,
she said.
f Questions Plans.
How can we justify building
for future enrolment at Herndon
when we don't have enough class
rooms in other places?" she asked.
Schools Supt. w. T. Woodson
said all of the county's high
schools are being designed for an
ultimate capacity of 1900 and
it was proposed that all should
have audftoriums to seat about
TOO. He said it is impractical to
expand auditoriums once they are
built, and therefore 1t is wiser to
build their ultimate capacity in
the beginning.
Fred w. Robinson, School Board
chairman and representative of
Dranesville district, in which
Herndon is located, pointed out
that the Herndon Elementary
School will be operated in con-
junction with the new high school,
and that both elementary and
high school students could use the
auditorium.
The Woodley Hills School will
contain seven claSsrooms, cafe
terra, multi-purpose room, teach
ers' room, library and clinic. Mr..
Dunn commented that the bid
amounted to slightly less than so
cents cubic foot. He said $780,
900 has been set. up in the bond
issue for this school.
Plans Protested.
A delegation headed by the Rev.
Milton Shepherd protested plans
to include an elementary school
wing on the new colored high
school, which is to be built at
Merrifield. The elementary wing
would take the place of a separate
elementary school that was
planned at Mount Pleasant.
Preliminary plans of the Merri-
field colored school are in Rich
mond for approval.
The board invited the colored
PTAs to organize an advisory COM
mittee to the School Board. A
committee is being organ
lied by the white PTAs.
Preparation of plans for a new
school at Clifton was authorized
on motion of r. r. Buckley.
The board refused to authorize
Of any funds to Alexan-
cvio hocol1Sn 0f annexation