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Show Traveling Schoolhouse Arrives for S. L. Stay The "little red school house" ( and its modern descendant came here this week at the Union Pa-1 cific Railroad Station. "School! Room Progress U.S.A.," as the exhibit is called, is a traveling educational exhibition sponsored by the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village of Dearborn, Michigan and the Encyclopedia Americana. schoolroom facilities. First, our "old" car consists of authentic life size models of three classrooms typical of the I 19th century. Its open fire places and whale oil lamps, birch whip, McGuffey readers, Noah Webster Web-ster dictionaries, etc., have been j taken from the famous collection collec-tion of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village at Dearborn, Dear-born, Mich. In sharp contrast the "new" car. sponsored bV the Encyclo- I Cadet Richard W. Madsen, 20-year-old son of Mrs. Adaline A. j Frost, 21st South and Redwood Road, is receiving six weeks of training at the Reserve Officer Training Corps camp at Fort Lewis, Wash. A 1956 graduate of Sacramento, Sacramen-to, Calif, high school, he is a student stu-dent at the University of Nevada. Ne-vada. His father, Richard W. Madsen, lives at 579 Harrington Ave., Los Altos, Calif. Under the auspices of the Utah Power & Light Co., the exhibition exhibi-tion will be on view here, admission ad-mission free, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday Satur-day and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday. According to its curator, Robert B. Johnson, Schoolroom Progress ' U.S.A. has been seen by an esti-1 mated one million persons during dur-ing its visits to 35 major cities.' Consisting of two 86 foot rail-, road cars, the exhibition contrasts con-trasts the new and the old in pedia Americana, exhibits 5 of today's schoolrooms. Most modern mod-ern of classroom architecture, equipment and audio and visual devices are exhibited along with architectural drawings and pictures pic-tures of outstanding examples of today's school buildings and classrooms. The classrooms have been designed by five American Institue of Archiects Award winners, with the help of the, research facilities of the Encyclopedia Ency-clopedia Americana. |