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T X ’ ! ir 1 V4 Air view of Boulder City shows high school ' In r foregroundWater js from Hoover Dorn's Lake Meade T Corridors of this million-doll- ar wM ' ' v1 school are outside the’ buildings V ' - i li) 'W W 1 V J i This Is 3 Typical of the splendid classrooms and facilities the modern chemistry lab at high school Is this arf room Big windows provide adequate Lighting t r— $ I V e v v k jc From community’ that originally was constructed with no provision lor schools That there should be such school facilities in a commu- -' nity of 4000 in a school district assessed at three million dol- Board of Education of School District No 3 the Bureau of Reclamation which maintains and operates the city the lars where the legal bonding power allottees (Department limit is 10 per cent seems of Water and Power of the incredible indeed and is a City of Los Angeles and Southern California Edison Co) to situation that did not “just whose price for power was happen" Since there was no way to added at that time the eost of the government-ownemaintaining the city government architects and specialist land of the federal reservation or the federal buildings which in school planning- - Charles house government ageneies D Gibson who consulted with ’ here and no’ way of floating" the school board bonds on them the only thing The nature and size of the to do was to get a congres- - 1 community -- with already exslonal appropriation for the isting facilities pointed to the new school advisability of a six-sigrade V - This entailed meetings with organization with junior and an unsympathetic congressisenior high school grades in onal investigating committee the new plant he said n sent here and trips to Probably growth of the comby Superintendent of" munity under" the recently ac-- ‘ Schools Elbert B Edwards and qulred status of independence L’R Douglass of the Bureau - from the Boulder Canyon proj- - of Reclamation now a member ect (which administers Hoover of the school board They had Dam) and eventual incorpora- to argue long and persuasively tion under the laws of Nevada before - congressional called for a design which could approAfter be expanded readily priation subcommittees - considerable shedding of The southern Nevada desert “blood sweat and tears" Mr climate was a deciding factor Edwards and Mr Douglass in laying out the classrooms ' were rewarded by seeing pro- to extend east and west so vision for Boulder City’s new’ there would be no direct sun- school included in the appro- - shine in any room It also allowed for outdoor corridors priation bill of 1949 Edwards pointed out that the - under overhanging eaves and t new school is the fruition of this in turn permitted bilateral : 10 years of fenestration architects' ' term planning tion and construction by the for windows on both sides Boulder City Nev the “city by a damsite” has progressed far and fast toward the ideal educational setup in the 21 -: years of its existence When the town was set out by the Bureau of Reclamation - " on the face of the blistering9 desert in 1931 as a construction camp for Hoover Dam on the Colorado River it was con eeived and put together so hastily that when the first autumn came and time for the opening of school there was ' no school or provision for pay ment of teachers Volunteers paid by donations from parents opened classes in whatever quarters they could find avail- -- 'tax ' - able rt-- “ J Perhaps in atonement for this incredible situation Uncle Sam now has swung the t pen-duiu- m the'other way" " With the completion this gymnasiilm and manual arts buildings at a cost of $517000 on the campus of the new million dollar junior-senihigh school Boulder City’s 420 junior and senior high school pupils are enjoying the luxury of a school integrating the most modern western ' summer of or ' t design while the 650 elementary school and kindergarten pupils are able to expand into the two-stor- y brick building and adjacent gym on Arizona St which theyandformerly shared with seventh eighth grades and high school “ M Bilateral fenestration permit ted a departure from the usual -- design with narrow classrooms of width and allowed for rooms to be 32 feet wide The new high school is of block construction with steel framework Inverted trusses permit roofs to be' flatter than usual and partitions to be By Laura Bell i vl d -- ' x Wash-"ingto- -- a- ' j 24-fo- so -- they are readily adaptable to any requirements for changes in classroom sizes Cheap electrical power from Hoover Dam power plant is utilized for clean convenient heat in winter and to operate individual-uni- t air conditioners for cooling the classrooms in the hot months of spring and fall beautiful new high which sprawls on the desert at the foot of California Street is administered by "William McCormick principal"" whose office is located in the spacious administration build-in- g on the northwest comer of the plant A luxurious board Toom offices of Mrs Lillian Honeycutt girls’ adviser and R Owen Gibson boys’ adviser and the nurse's quarters are included Competently filling the The school junior-senio- r o 7u r I J v - 1 ‘rT-- 1 x: n - Hi $ t’yV J V iJ V V! -- y I - y " V 4 J' J high school the community for the present the extensive new needs of plant with its expandable design is expected by some to one day include Nevada’s first junior college under its ropfs Students chat at lunchtime' on tawir between units THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE j -- Sunday November 16 1952 |