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Show Edgemont School Construction Is Authorized "A new elecentary school at Edgemont will be constructed immediately, im-mediately, according to an announcement an-nouncement made by Superintendent Superintend-ent Alma P. Burton. This decision was reached at the meeting of the Alpine School District Board of Education, held Monday, October 18. The plans call for a fourteen-classroom fourteen-classroom unit, with design similar sim-ilar to that of the new elecentary school at Pleasant Grove. Bids are to be advertised within the week, with construction to be completed by fall of 1955. The site is a ten-acre ten-acre plot located at approximately 36U0 North on the Provo Canyon Road. New elementary school are also approved for Lehi and American Fork, rians will go forward in the near future on these two schools. The sites have been purchased and the architect will adapt the building build-ing to the site. It was reported that the site for the new Orem High School had been cleared. Final plans for the building will be completed by Jan. 1, and bids opened by Feb. 1, 1955, with the building completed during the fall of 1956. The Board received receiv-ed an artist's conception of the building. This drawing will be placed plac-ed in the lobby of the Scera Theatre, where the public is invited to view it. This new high school will be named the Orem High School. The junior high school will retain the name of Lincoln Junior High School. Other business at the Board meeting included the approval of outside drinking fountains and service ser-vice tables for Sharon and Hill-crest Hill-crest Elementary Schools, and a chain-link fence between private property and Centarl Elementary School at Pleasant Grove. The Board also decided to match funds raised by the PTA of the Geneva School for play equipment on the school grounds, with the provision that from this time forth all PTA and civic organizations will be asked to raise funds for educational purposes or beautifica-tion beautifica-tion projects in the district. In order to encourage parents not to withdraw their children from school, the Board has arranged arrang-ed a two-day fall vacation, Friday and Monday, October 22 and 25. The purpose of this vacation is to reduce absences from school. State funds to finance the district are based on the average daily attendance attend-ance of students. Therefore, when students are absent from school, funds are reduced accordingly. Parents are asked to cooperate with school authorities in this matter mat-ter and encourage all students to be in school whenever possible. |