Show P 1 18 12 A HOBBY PAYS OFF two atlanta school children examine a new school design built in miniature by R F snyder atlanta business man snyder s model building avocation resulted in this revolution ary school design which has been converted to full fall scale construction of rural schools in the bouth HO NO MORE HOOKEY 1 inventive salesman perfects revolutionary school design ATLANTA GA an inventive salesman who is neither parent nor educator paradoxically has devised a rural school from which even the most recalcitrant children may be less loathe to play hookey in future he is R F russ snyder atlanta businessman who teamed up his business with a hobby to produce a school design in miniature that has since beano been translated into full scale construe tion the feature calculated to hold the interest of pupils is that class rooms are almost as outdoors as the play yard several months ago snyder at tended the southeastern school con ference arence in the interests of libbey owens ford glass company and came home with an idea buzzing in his head most kids don t like to stay indoors he reasoned especially when the weather is nice outdoors so why not bring the outdoors in to them he sat up nights tor for two months he says building tn in his workshop a two room school model I 1 opened up the walls to all out doors with the biggest windows pos sible and I 1 found that twice or three times more daylight could be supplied to some of the desks than in traditional school design daylight has an important bearing on an children a eyesight the sun you know also can be used to help heat the school during cold months and the large win dows dispel that cooped up feeling and give spaciousness to rooms snyder set up his completed mod el in the company s display rooms and invited atlanta architects and educational officials to inspect it enthused with his idea he began addressing architects meetings throughout the state and explain ing his plans to parents eions and child welfare groups H s school model featured a whole wall of glass to the south with the root roof extended to shield the big win dow against the sun in the extremely hot school months opposite without sacrificing blackboard space he placed a clerestory win dow high up under the roof to ad mit north light in the north room he reversed the window arrangement and glazed the south clerestory window with heat absorb ng and glare reducing glass to assure balanced lighting today rural schools patterned after snyder s design to engineer the greatest ble amount of daylight into classrooms are actually under construction in the south snyder has a quotation too from one of the world worlds s authorities on lighting to bolster his theory if from the age of five years it says children d d their reading and performed their other tasks of near vision in the abundant light of a window in daytime there would be fewer wearing or needing eye glasses when they finished school he figures he may have a hand in putting a good many of the nation s children in that abundant light in the years to come |