Show Tx r za w o i P j V S' S S'S S a i aP F t. t HOBBY DOBBY PAYS AYS OFF FF Two Atlanta school children examine a I no new school i design built In to miniature b by R. R F. F Snyder Atlanta business man I Snyders Snyder's s model-building model avocation resulted In this revolutionary revolution revolution- ary school design which has beep been converted to scale full-scale construction of rural schools in the South NO r o MORE HOOKEY Inventive Salesman Perfects Revolutionary School Design ATLANTA GA An GA-An An inventive salesman who is neither parent nor educator paradoxically has devised a rural school from which even the most recalcitrant children may Y be less loathe loath e to play tt hookey hockey rr i in n future He is R R. F F. F Russ Snyder Atlanta businessman who teamed up his business with a 1 hobby to Produce a school esi g n in miniature that has since been translated into scale full tion The feature calculated to hold the interest of pupils is that classrooms classrooms classrooms class class- rooms are almost as outdoors as the play Several months ago Snyder attended attended attended at at- tended the southeastern school conference conference conference con con- ference in the interests of Libbey- Libbey Owens Ford Glass company and came home with an idea buzzing in his headMost headMost headMost head Most kids dont don't like to stay Indoors he reasoned especially especially especially espe when the weather is nice outdoors So why not bring the outdoors In to them He sat up nights for lor two months he says building in his workshop a two room school model I opened up the walls to all outdoors outdoors outdoors out out- doors with the the biggest biggest windows pos pos- sible And I 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 childrens children's eyesight The sun you know also can be used to help heat the school during cold months And the large windows windows windows win win- dows dispel that cooped up feeling and give spaciousness to rooms Snyder set up his completed model mod 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' architects meetings throughout the state and explaining explain explain- ing his plans to parents' parents organizations organizations organizations and child welfare groups His school model featured a whole wall of glass to the south with the roof extended to shield the big window window window win win- dow against the sun in the extremely extreme extreme- ly hot school months Opposite without sacrificing blackboard space he placed a cl clerestory window window window win win- dow high up under the roof to admit admit admit ad ad- mit north light In the north room he reversed the window arrangement and glazed the south clerestory window with heat absorbing and reducing glare-reducing glass to assure balanced lighting Today rural schools patterned patterned pat pat- after Snyders Snyder's design to engineer the greatest possible possible ble amount amonn of daylight into classrooms are arc actually under construction in the South Snyder has a quotation too from I one of the worlds world's authorities on ou lighting to bolster his theory If from fr fre m tl a e five years 4 t 1 did their reading tasks of their other a and anaT d t L in the abundant ight of ot ofa ota ne near j on a Jf rrt in daytime there would needing eyeglasses eyeglasses eye eye- be feu wearing or glasses when they finished school hand in inputting inputting inputting He figures he may have a putting a good many of the nations nation's children in that abundant light I i in in th midyears to come |