Show faculty forum by lee P F gledhill the P T A executive board has set up a general planning committee on beautification of the new school grounds the committee is composed of vail hatt warren dean and jos hua nielson the purpose of this CO is not to do the actual work of beautification but to study poss ible plans and procedures and to ordinate coordinate co our thinking with that of the school board on this basis then the committee can suggest i deas to the P T A membership for discussion and consideration last thursday night vail hatt speaking for the committee made a preliminary report the following ideas were brought out 1 the architect architects s original plan for beautification called for an island just east of the covered porch this would be planted in grass and shrubs the flagpole could be placed in it the island would serve the double purpose of beautification and traffic control 2 the architect has recently sug that a row of fairly mature trees be planted along the south side of the building say about 30 feet from the building budding 3 the board has some ideas toward black topping a section of the area south of the building after some discussion at the P T A meeting thursday night the group voted to a plant 10 or a dozen trees along the south side b investigate further the architects ideas on the island at the east c investigate the possibility of put some shrubbery along the south side |