to Two world-wid- pews gath- e TT ering organizations The Associated Press and The United Press provide dispatches for this newspaper Q 0— Q' The ES provides its readers with superior local news written by experienced and accurate men and women OGDEN CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 19 1937 rBmo 1-- B LnJ O DD LOOKING DOWN ON OGDEN HIGH CAMPUS Luxurious Fittings As Aid to Designed ’ Classes Improvement High Schdo I Career Carried It Through Number of Buildings i Saw Its Days In What Is Now Elks Lodge In City Hall and Central Junior As Facilities Enrollment Increased -- By Dwight Jj Jones ‘ By Louis A Gladwell Standard-ExaminStaff a scheme of beauty fused into LUXURY and practicability in intermountain architecture places the new $1200000 Ogden High school in the forefront of educational facilities The truly magnificent structure offers such a variety of accommodations equipment and innovations that a visitor must stand in amazement For sheer bulk the building dimentions are 480 350 feet across at its and feet long widest point Ten thousand windows flood its classrooms gymnasiums offices and laboratories with ample light Two thousand students can be - handled without congestion y cream brick esThe tablishment located at Twenty-eight- h and Harrison commands a sweeping view of the city on the west and the mountains behind It is free from the noise and smoke of the- city below The main entrance on the west festoonedwith intricate designs of and terra-cot- ta opens Orriasonary stairway leading to a square corridor intersection The square and much of its ad- jacent walls are marble-face- d South east and north run hallways that in the classroom sections are14 feet wide and in the gymnasium-auditorium unit 22 feet wide The main floor contains a sevens' room commercial department ad-- ’ minstrative quarters visitors’ room auditorium visual training auditorium and lavatories Measurements of the majority of the classrooms are 22 by 32 feet accommodating 40 students each 2000 IN AUDITORIUM The auditorium at the extreme southeast wing will seat 2022 people divided into a lower floor and a balcony It is 104 feet wide and 158 feet long with a stage 36 feet deep and 76 Jeet wid$ Behind are reachdressing rooms which may be ed through wide passages connecting with the gymnasium dressing rooms below and to the west This arrangement will allow for presentations of pageants In which thousands could participate without disturbing the audience or causing inconvenience to cast mem- projection compartment In the Its school Which this year moves into a new OGDEN High dollar building h£sa past as humble as that of the pioneers whose descendants it will educate for years to come 55 ON STAFF OF NEW H S ARCHITECTURE OPENING BEAUTIFUL AND — four-stor- AIDS STUDIES " 40-fo- ot ‘ O Dbers rear balcony section is equipped remote-contr- with a system operating lights and curtains This system is so arranged that it may remain unused and the illumination and drapery controlled from the stage if so desired Between the auditorium and the boys’ gymnasium balcony' on the west is a visual education auditor ium with a seating capacity of 210 people It is fitted with a motion " picture projection room which will be used in connection with classroom instruction R O T C USE education auditorium will also be used for lecture work and dramatics and for cadet units of the R O T C during the morn ing hours Motion picture sound equipment is installed The ground story contains two gymnasiums a cafeteria and foo preparation department and do- mestic art classrooms and supply v rooms The boys’ gymnasium lo cated on the southwest wing has a floorspace of 70 by 100 and a balcony with seating accomodations for 2000 persons The gymnasium is easily the larg est of its kind in Utah schools Both the gym and the auditorium are assessible from a large entrance on the south side of the building The balcony sections on the north and the south each extend back 32 feet The permanent bleachers will seat comfortably 1500 people with provisions for a portable seating arrangement which will handle nearly 600 more COOL FOR PLAYERS The unit is so ventilated that spectators may enjoy a temperature 70 degrees while the teams are up and down the floor below are In a temperature zone of 50 degrees The unit is 29 feet to the tresses and 39 feet to the ceiling The heat is delivered from over- head in the balcony sections drawn out to the balcony edge and before reaching the players in the pit Another heating system controls the temperature on the floor area The girls’ gymnasium immediately west is 41 by 70 feet with a 20-- 1 foot ceiling Spacious dressing d rooms with shower compartments and lavatories adjoin both gymnasiums ' the boys to the southland the girls’ to the north LARGE CAFETERIA On the northeast wing is the cafeteria with a seating capacity of 580 persons The dining room section is 65 by 96 feet and the kitchen and serving department 26 by 140 feet Cooking and sewing ( Continued on Next Page ) ol OFOR ? i O Oof short-circuit- O tile-face- ed mm ' SCHOOL RESOLUTION the following resolution was passed by the city administra- Many Innovations Noted In New High School Structure In upward and with its crown bf terracotta glistening in the sun brings up a feeling of reverence The architectural design has its roots in ancient Assyria and yet is of the restrained k modernistic school The style developed for lighting purposes proves most effective from the standpoint of beauty The color and texture of the brickwork gives d a warm atmosphere brick was purposely used to give shadow value IMPORTED MARBLE In the vestibule and lobby a spirit of refinement is established by the use of glass and marble Since Utah marble quarries have not been developed to the point where the stone can be removed economically it was necessary to bring it in from Tennessee It is used for panelling the walls of vestibule and lobby and in the hall leading to the auditorium The floors of halls and stairways throughout the building are covered with asphalt tile a compound of asphalt rosin clay which comes from Pennsylvania It is cut into hundreds of pieces and laid by skilled 'artisans in star and other patterns Battleship linoleum is used for most of the classroom reaching I set-bac- 1851 tion: - Ogden’s new high school building resting on a sloping hill with a background bold bountains-fo- r offers the architectural novelty of all entrances on different levels The entrance tower climax of the structure with its vertical lines A CAMPUS IS BORN The new Ogden high school plant’s true Is caught in this airplane photo by Ralph Forney Standard- Examiner photographer At right foreground are the girls’ and boys ENLARGEMENT OF SHOPS PLANNED Present Building Will Be First of Three Units Eventually gymnasiums with the auditorium at their rear Classrooms and tories are located in the central structure and shops in the separate building at the left rear I I three-wing- ed Sch ool’s Curriculum Shows Steady Growth Emphasis Is Placed On Physical Education Vocational Training and Homemaking two-sto- ry Light-colore- jsemi-annu- al it - was-inaugurate- d ar EAST TO THE HILLS" DEDICATION SET OCTOBER 2930 Formal opening and dedication of the new Ogden high school will be held October 29 and 30 according to a recent decision' of the city school board The dedication will be held October 29 and open house for the public’ October 29 and 30 DIGNITARIES BIDDEN To make the occasion as impressive as possible Secretary of the Interior Harold L Ickes under whose direction the PWA money for part of the building was allotted will be invited to attend Invitations will be sent to J W Stude-bak- er United States commissioner of education Governor Henry H Blood? and other dignitaries Details of the dedication are not yet complete Everything according to Superintendent W Karl Hopkins will be completed in time for the dedication that will be completed this year Parts of the fourth floor and the cafeteria are the only sections which will remain unfinished Even the lawn will be planted and landscaping finished except for planting of shrubs and trees GRANTED EXTENSION extension of time for of the auditorium and completion other sections of the buiding was recently granted George A Whit-mey& Sons contractors' This to brings the completion date October 26 45-d- ay er TIME FOR SCHOOL AGAIN ‘ -- (1912-191- nd '' 4) Resolved that a com- 1 tee” Four years later Secretary I ekes and Others Invited to Take Part In Open House A “Section mittee of three be appointed to look into the situation and locate school districts in Ogden city “Section 2 Be is further ordained that Lorin Farr James Brown and Joseph Graver form said commit- labora-immensi- ty The $50000 shop building a modern least 35 subjects wlil be taught at Ogden High school fireproof structure which will house the school’s me- AT this year They include everything from gym to Gerchanical arts department cadet man look all the more impressive when compared to and equipment and boiler room is designed to allow for future enlarge- the single English course which made up the curriculum ment without injury to the contin- during the school’s first year in 1890 are uity of its architectural lines It Subjects taught this year 1936 is located east of the main buildsame as in practically the to retract his statements ing The only difference according to refused In 1901 an elective system allowFIRST OF THREE UNITS Principal A M Merrill will be in Convinced that vocational train- the added emphasis upon physical ing the student to choose subjects ing and apprentice courses in sec- education and home economics he preferred to a certain extent ondary schools will double within More attention will be devoted to was adopted together with a the coming decade the architects these subjects because of better promotion system have constructed the shop build- facilities The school will this year Manual training with the school ing so that the present unit rep- have an ample playing field two since early times has always been resents but one of an anticipated gymnasiums and a completely taught with inadequate facilities three-unstructure equipped home economics depart- The building which housed the area taken by the ment The total manual training and mechanical SPECIAL FACILITIES building is 167 by 53 feet It has a drawing departments until this year conscious emphasis will was built by manual training stugeneral entrance on the west alAlthough though both floors have openings be concentrated upon these two dents on a ground grade as the building subjects along with shop work HOMEMAKING ADDED is constructed on an uphill plot the improvement in all equipment 'Domestic science was added in Its architectural while will result in better teaching There 1910 by Miss Lillian Royce Dradesign floors that of the main build- are special facilities for music vis- matic art has been prominent in matching The ornamental plaster work is is simplified ual education and laboratories the curriculum since early days in conglomerate modernistic design ing MUCH WINDOW SPACE furnished with the ‘latest scientific One of the early dramatic clubs with a strong Moorish influence The top floor is divided into com- apparatus The art department is even presented “The Merchant of In the auditorium the plaster work partments equipped for shop work the only one unfinished Decora- Venice” Art was also- an early reaches its high point of interest automobile mechanics and manual tion of the art department Will be subject a room having been equipAs it approaches the proscenium training In addition there are left to the students ped for this purpose as early as it becomes increasingly ornate classrooms and locker rooms where “The school is better equipped 1902 in all departments” in the words (Continued on Next Page) The commercial department ( Continued on Next Page ) in 1894 Until 1909 this supof Dave Wangsgard assistant two-yeschools was of course conducted a erintendent I I Classes taught this year are di- without books The students convided into two groups those for ducted businesses such as stores students who intend to enter col- and banks Gregg shorthand was lege and for students desiring to introduced in 1903 The first textobtain vocational training without book one on bookkeeping was used a college education in 1909 Either gym or R O T C drill Squire Coop was the first music is required of all students So is instructor coming to the school English College preparatory stu- in 1903 dents will study such things as RATING SYSTEM geology zoology chemistry physOne principal change since 1901 ics physiology French German is in the system of credit rating Spanish or Latin some form of At first - credit Was rated as in mathematics business college five hours sociology credit being principles history and civics given for a class meeting five times VOCATIONAL TRAINING weekly Now credit is - rated in The vocational courses include units 16 of which are needed for auto mechanics carpentry mechan- graduation Other changes include ical drawing typing and shorthand introduction of the Junior High bookkeeping office machines home school system in 1916 economics public speaking and dramatics music art economics and law This majestic array of subjects JOKE GAVE OGDEN is the result of a gradual evolution through the years that is inHIGH ITS COLORS teresting to follow since it also traces the trends of educational theory throughout the nation Origin of the Ogden High school To begin with the lone English colors and black is atof class first offered emphasis was tributed toorange Ernest T Spencer a placed upon grammar The class student at the school abput 1896 ' was taught by lecture only and According to reports Spencer students were not urged to develop came with to school one individual writing styles They cop- a “questionable” flag morning of yellow and ied from a model black which he announced were The classical course dates from the school colors Although passed 1894 when George Eaton joined off as a joke at first the colors the faculty as a Latin instructor an evolution until through passed SCIENCE SPROUTS were adopted in 1904 as orange Scientific subjects were introduc- they and black ed to the school in 1899 In that Spencer was also the lone spirit year W C Crandall began teach- who conceived the idea of publishing physics and physical geogra- ing a school paper which he put phy The first chemistry class in out on his own hand printing set 1900 was taught to four students in 1896 under the name of “The with practically no apparatus Bot- Kicker” This later became “The any was included in the curriculum Classicum” by 1904 — — 44— --' — — is Interesting to note that It BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS Looking eastward through a rear one of the principals of the school The Twentieth Century limited window of Ogden’s new high school 'the majestic mountains pro vide Henry Peterson was operating between New York and a view of beauty The window forms a modernistic frame dismissed from the Brigham Young Chicago covers the 961 miles in for the shop building in this photo taken from the fourth floor (Staff university before coming to Ogden 18 hours at an average speed of ' because he taught evolution and 534 miles an hour phOtO) year-arou- Although the high school as a public institution officially held its first session September 1 1890 in the building that now houses the Elks lodge its roots were sprouted in the days when Washington avenue was a mud hole and those City Hall park a swamp-Idays a school was a school whethFOR er “high” or “low” and the city fathers who in 1851 took-- ' the first toward establishment of a Two Principals to Direct step school system did as big a thing as those who later decided to Faculty Six New Faces - spent a million for the finest in ' This Year equipment over-a- ll - Staff Standard-Examin- er er o has set a precedent V 'V Building to Provide Ample Accomodations For Enlarged Student Body Even Flow Of Air Safeguards Health o r staff iECTION B O Standard-Examine- 1855 an ordinance regulating common schools was adopted by the city at the suggestion of this committee The next year the first and second municipal Wards were formed into two school districts with three trustees each A school house was built on Grant between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixt- h (now the Elks lodge)' and the city school system was off to its first flying start in the “central” building then one of the best in the state FOUR SCHOOLS BEGUN Common schools pursued their common way for the next 20 years when a flurry of progress by churches and other groups resulted’ in establishment of four different institutions The first opened in 1877 by the Episcopal church was known as ‘The School of the Good Shepherd” and offered a high school education Professor A C Newell was the first principaL Ths next year the Right Reverend Father Scanlan opened the Sacred Heart academy in a frame buildstreet below ing on Twenty-sixt- h Grant The faculty consisted of seven Catholic sisters A third school Methodist was started about the same time by Mr and Mrs L M Gillilan It offered everything from first grade to high school The fourth school was the most interesting however and has more direct bearing'' upon the history of Ogden High school for it was' on the site of the Central junior and high school Twenty-fift- h Adams and later housed the high school Oddly enough organization and funds for this school came from the east where the New West Educational commission organized for the purpose of educating Mormons and others who were supposed to have been unjustly oppressed and Inadequately educated' HISTORIC BUILDING This school had a checkered career The building opened in 1887 had a capacity of 600 students It has been known at various times as the Ogden Academy the Gordon the Academy Congregational school the Ogden High school and the Central junior high school The next few years - will see It become part of Weber college Currents of agitation for a public high school were circulating the years before 1890 together with usual opposing sentiments ' “The Junction” one of the earliest Ogden newspapers advocated establishment of a public high school or academy in 1879 Politics subsequently ihad to run their course and it was not until 1890 that the state legislature got down to business and passed a bill setting up a uniform system of free schools in the state of which high schools were a part This gave birth to the Ogden public high school as such Cities of the first and second class (between 5000 anT 20000 and over 20000- population) were organized into single school districts by the law The first session of the Ogden high school was held September 1 1890 in the Central school building on Grant between Twenty-fift- h and Twenty-sixt- h Theodore B Lewis who had been principal of all the public schools until that time was first principal of the high school Miss Ella C McNeely was the only teacher Lewis died in - — 1899 60 CLASS The first session was held in one room of the building which had been furnished for the purpose ‘ NEVER BE LATE Artistically placed clocks like this one are located at vantage points throughout the halls' of the high school building as well as in classrooms — reminders that no tardiness Is necessary (Staff photo) - IN-FIRS- T (Continued on Next Page ) -