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Show REMODELING OF ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL HEARING HALF WAY MARK "New" Building Shaping Up Under $35,000 Program; Board Lists Changes And Additions - A $35,000 face lifting program is underway at the Roosevelt high school, and whatever the opposition the "building on the hill is being readied for occupancy occu-pancy in late autumn. With a set of plans prepared by Frpd Markham, Salt Lake architect, a tight lipped Duchesne county school board set about the remodeling re-modeling job immediately after classes were dismissed in May. With the Union high school still an unbroken piece of ground somewhere along the Duchesne-Uintah Duchesne-Uintah county line, and faced 1 with a grim public demand "to do something," the board accepted ac-cepted as its only alternative the complete remodeling of the present pres-ent Roosevelt high school. The structure, according to school officials, is being re-built along modern lines with the major changes being: the installation instal-lation of a new heating system, the construction of a gymnasium, and the addition of eight more class rooms. Overall will stretch a new roof, and somewhere within with-in the confines of the reborn building two modern shower rooms and lavatories are near-ing near-ing completion. f TO round out the scheme of modernization for the Roosevelt high school, plans have been made for redecorating the auditorium, audi-torium, installing more lockers, laying concrete floors and stairs, setting up a shop in the base- ment of the Toyack Chapter house, and stuccoing the exterior. exter-ior. Of equal importance though less spectacular will be the rewiring re-wiring of the . building, and insuring in-suring its occupants against "outside "out-side interference" by installing weather proof window casements case-ments and weather sealing ' it throughout. In making known the Roosevelt Roose-velt -high school rejuvenation program, which is moving rapidly rapid-ly along the road to completion, 3upt. W. J. Bond issued the following fol-lowing statement: "Students will be proud to attend at-tend the 'new' Roosevelt high school with its up-to-date facilities. facili-ties. The-building will be a credit cred-it to the municipality, and with the starting of a landscaping program, pro-gram, and the subsequent care of the grounds, the school can become a beauty spot of the Uintah Basin. We believe that a new spirit will prevail among the pupils which will make the job of the educator and the parent par-ent alike much easier." Marion Rasmussen will be en- -gaged as heating engineer for the Duchesne school district, and William Crozier will be charged with the care of the 'new" Roosevelt high school and its grounds. |
