The impressive auditorium now seats 1000, will accommodate 500 additional when a balcony is added. metal trim appears. Here again, doors to the park and roadway permit the delivery of supplies with a minimum of disturbance to other areas. General science rooms have terraced floors with demonstration table laboratories in the center front of each room. Chalk and tack boards and glass-faced storage cabinets are uniform in these areas. The doors from the cafeteria at the end of the administrative unit, open directly onto the park and roadway. The kitchen area can be completely shut off from the dining area. This provision complies with city health regulations and permits the use of the dining area for any purpose, even while food is in preparation in the kitchen. Tables and benches in the dining area fold out of the way when not in use. The floor is uncovered concrete so that rhythm games can be played here. While thought of and treated as a unit separate from the rest of the building, the complete closing off of the kitchen area permits the academic use of the dining area should occasion dem and. General classrooms are _ concentrated along the west wall of the north wing; business courses have their rooms across the corridor. General classrooms are uniform in size while commercial rooms vary according to the subject taught. Each general classroom has chalk and tack boards along three walls, a teacher storage unit, and an open shelved cabinet. These rooms, as do all others in the building, have individual thermostats. The heating system in Ben Lomond is forced air for ventilation and supplemental radiation in each room for heating. Each classroom has one entire wall of multipaned glass from wainscot height to ceiling. Outside these windows, jalousies permit of the regulation of light by handturning a crank inside the room. These aluminum screens are light, durable, and easily operated. In five-foot sections, they cover the outside of each window unit and may be adjusted so that any degree of light may enter any given window, or all screens may be closed for darkening the room. All classrooms are as fireproof as modern construction can make them. Fiber glass insulation above the steel framework has been used on ceilings. Ceilings are covered with mineral tile. Asphalt tile covers the floors and walls are pastel painted plaster. To facilitate student traffic, lockers, drinking fountains, and fire fighting equipment cabinets are recessed throughout all corridors. These corridors have asphalttile floors with acoustically treated tile ceilings. A great deal of thought is evident in the design and location of the large gymnasium. Because it will be the hub of community activity, the gymnasium has been placed at the north end of the building, near the best traveled public street. Parking areas surround entrances. Placed as far as possible from the auditorium, its noise will in no way interfere with any program being held there. Ogdenites are sports-loving people who turn out en masse when the school team plays. Seating capacity has been provided for 3000 spectators. Spectators sit in recessed balconies with entrances to these separate from entrances to the gymnasium proper. Folding bleachers slide back when not in use and electrically operated folding doors close off balcony areas into additional sports practice rooms. Under the recessed balconies, locker, shower, and dressing rooms are provided for boys and for girls. Student locker and equipment storage rooms can be completely locked off when community interests have the use of the gymnasium. Separate community equipment storage and locker space is provided adjoining the shower rooms. Plans include provision for a swimming pool to be built in the future, adjoining the gymnasium. The gymnasium proper has folding doors through its center, thus making a boys’ gymnasium and a girls’ gymnasium available at the same time. With doors rolled back a fine playing area for any sport or for dancing is provided. Because school authorities believe any social activity in the gymnasium should be confined to its lighted, supervised areas, doors are thrown across all corridors leading into the rest of the building. Of course, ture such as Ogden has, must have spect provision for expansion and contraction to prevent floor cracks. In Ben Lomond, four complete structural breaks occur, ee 2-inch expansion joints to take care 0 this movement. Plans include the possibility of ee wing parallel to the east wing ho city continue A ee ee Na to grow at its present rate. * 1a : With the opening of our new high school, our building program has by no pe ee come to a halt. Even before echoes of on and hammer die away from Ben Lomon 0 i halls, the first shovels full of dirt for fly. two new elementary buildings will SCHOOL mo a building of concrete and steel in a climate with extremes in tempera- BOARD JOURNAL for JULY, 1954