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Show EMM BOY SCHOOL i Last week we have had the pleasure pleas-ure vl waiting tiio Highianu Boy uiaoo bcuuui and yere very lnuca turpr.ed and tieiighted with our visit, i'limipal 1). C. Watkins spared no pains iu showing us the. educational plant of which he la the head. We were taken to every nook and corner of the building from the furnace room to the principal's office and found everything in first class working work-ing order. This school is one, of the best equipped for indoor sporta and entertainment enter-tainment of any which we had the privilege to visit. In the supply room we found well equipped first aid cabinet ca-binet which serves the school in any accident or injury need. The" pupils ( of the upper grades are taught how, to use this equipment. The school j has a band with a full equipment of. instruments. Football, baseball, has-: Uetball and volley ball equipment fill the lockers of the Gymn. The latoatj acquisition to the school is a large. Radio set with preparations being made for loud speakers in each room. I is without playgrounds, being located It .should be remembered this school In a narrow gulch high up in the to;j of the morntain, with room only for an ally!!ke roadway in front. T!:ei School Board has'ctnslderd this mat-j ter and hns tlcne much to ofTset tl.isi handicap but the school ltnelf lmj done mu h too to supply lis own nee:V, for instance, they are thii week giving a two days carnival to the necessary funds to take care cf the Installation of the Radio sets. Every class room was visited and eae-i was filled with orderly pupils who seem to be working - in perfect cnloyment and content. When we reached the seventh grade room we were entertained with several vocal numbers rendered by the forty or more pupils In this class, this was a most pleasant surprise, some of tVe numbers were, sung in foreign languages lan-guages which we did not understand but were enjoyed nevertheless and gave an idea of the problems of this particular school and Its work, obtainable obtain-able in no other way. The school Is composed of children whose parents speak not less than 15 different languages. lan-guages. . The most outstanding feature of the schoolwork is art. Every room was vrofvse with models, paintings and drawings. Some very creditable pieces of hand embroidery and needle woilc 'were on dinplay. Specimens of many different kinds of minerals also on arranged desks and tables In some of the rooms and in one room there l8 a miniature mine, with tunnels, chutes, etc. It would seem that Principal .at-ikns .at-ikns and his staff of teachers haye found the strongest way to appea to these children of the different natlon-alities, natlon-alities, that is through the eye and el. The beautiful in and the charm and inspiration of musk keeps - the pupils actively and intensely inter-Lted inter-Lted in this community institution The Caching staff of the school ULUUanChrlsUiansen; 2nd Ruth Valentine; 3rd - Ora IvlPtf 4th - Vloles Stevens; 5th.-:nce4Chhristensen.. 5th.-:nce4Chhristensen.. 6th Lola Ht, sen- 7th - Daisy Evans; Sth - Prt? cipal DC Watkin.9 and Kindergarten, Christene Hegler. |