Show NO MORE HOOKEY inventive salesman perfects revolutionary school design ATLANTA GA an inventive salesman who is neith neither er 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 lias since deen translated into full scale construction the feature calculated to hold the interest intel Inte test est of pupils is that class 4 rooms are almost as outdoors as the play yard several months ago snyder attended te the southeastern school conference te rence in the interests of libbey owens 0 wen s ford glass company and came home with an idea buzzing in his head most kad kids dont like to stay indoors he reasoned clespe especially I 1 when the weather Is nice ci outdoors u so why not bring the outdoors in to them he sat up nights tor for two months says building in his workshop wo ro room 0 rn school model 1 I opened up the walls to all outdoors with the biggest windows possible sib I 1 e 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 childrens eyesight the sun you know also can be used to help heat the school during cold months and the large windows dispel that cooped up feeling and give spaciousness to rooms snyder set up his completed modi in the companas comp anys display rooms and invited atlanta architects and educational officials to inspect it enthused with his idea he began id dressing architects meetings ft throughout the state and e explaining ng his plans to parents organizations and child welfare groups his school model featured a whole wall of glass to the south with the root extended to shield the big window against the sun in the extremely hot school months opposite without sacrificing bla blackboard aboard space he placed a clerestory window high up under the roof it to 0 admit north light in the north room he reversed the window arrangement and glazed the south clerestory window with heat beat absorbing and glare reducing glass to assure balanced lichtl lighting ng today rural schools patterned after r snyders design to engineer the greatest possible amount 0 of daylight into classrooms are actually under c construction ast ruction in the south snyder has a quotation too from one of the worlds authorities on lighting to bolster his theory 1 I if from the age of live five years it says children did their reading and performed their other tasks of near vision in the abundant light of i a window in daytime there would be fewer wearing or needing eyeglasses when they finished school he figures he may have a hand in cutting a good many of the nations gildren 11 ildren in that abundant light 00 the years to come |