Ben Have You Lomond High School, Ogden, Utah. — Lawrence D. Olpin, Architect, Ogden Done Enough? a ~ Ogden’s Ben Lomond High School When beautiful Ogden High School pened its doors for the first time in Seplmber, 1936, Ogdenites thought of it as heir school for the future. ‘‘Never,” we hought, ‘‘will our city of forty thousand keople outgrow this building. Why, if we lave to, we can put two thousand students n this place. We will never have that many nth, eleventh, and twelfth graders in our ‘thools.” So, we splurged a little. In addiion to providing ample space for instrucion, we added wide marble halls, built in lecor in the marble floors, set up especially pressure to get the most in space from each building dollar, Dr. Smith has directed the thinking of the school board, the building-planning committee, and the community, toward functional, practical building with multipurpose use of every pos- lesigned display cabinets for trophies, and nluded many another luxury item troughout the ornate, three storied buildtg. Our high school took an honored place Mong the beautiful educational buildings it the country. In September, 1953, not a dozen and a alf years later, Ben Lomond, our new two uillion dollar high school plant was ready ‘r occupancy. For in these dozen and a alf years, our city increased her popula- ‘on by almost 50 per cent . . . has grown Om a quiet 40,000 to a bustling 60,000 ‘pulation. Defense activity centering in 1S area explains much of the growth. tr huge, just initiated, 65 million lar reclamation program promises its *tmanence. j Almost since he first Bden’s superintendent took office of schools, Dr. as T. - Smith, has had to deal with the problem Student Hoo overcrowding. BOARD JOURNAL Under terrific for JULY, 1954 The entrance to the auditorium from the parking lot located behind the school. | 31