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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1920 AT TTP rp WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1920 We are ready to raise the $350,000 fund to build Winnetka's New School! Hesitation and doubt have been swept away by the need for a modern upper- grade school with ample space for play- Winnetka accepts the chal- lenge to build immediately and to build the school by popular subscription grounds. of publicity for its plan to build a new Upper Grade School on its Elm Street property. The plan itself, of course, dates back for two years--from the date when AST July the Board of Education began a campaign the people of Winnetka voted in favor of purchasing this twelve-acre tract. For the past eight months, however, the Board in many ways has endeavored to put before the parents of Winnetka full details of its plan to meet the annual 11% to 23% increase in pupils and at the same time provide them with a well-rounded educational program. The Board has welcomed the many questions that from time to time have been raised. It has conferred and analyzed and studied the proposition from every angle. Meetings and conferences have been held in the schools, in private homes, in business offices. Whenever and wherever any citizen wished to discuss the School Board's plans, a hearing was willingly held. wid iE Lum Jr ep tnt Cacorrvr Jr AE HEA Won Onk Jr To impose the new building on the Horace Mann site would leave no room for playground space. Necessary land to partially meet the fair requirements of organized play would cost about $150,000. To substitute a multi-story building would add 20% to building cost because of fireproof stairways, wider corridors and heavier construction throughout. A plan best serving the interests of the whole Village ROM the very start the Board has understood its obli- gation to the public to rest on a broad policy of service to the village as a whole. That such a position has been at each step backed by the general sentiment of the Vil- lage has greatly encouraged the Board and inspired it to go forward in the preparation of its campaign for funds. Sketch of the complete school of which only such part will be built now as will satisfy immediate and near future requirements. Every classroom is lighted by skylights. Instantaneous exit possible in case of fire. A building combining beauty and educational utility to a remarkable degree (designed by Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton.) It 1s safe to say, we believe, that out of all the dis- cussion and conference and explanation there is now left no point of the plan on which the average fair-minded and forward-looking citizen may have any genuine doubt. "Good schools" at the most reasonable cost The Board has assumed, naturally, that the public wants to practice economy in the conduct of its schools in so far as economy is compatible with reasonable edu- cational facilities. It has assumed further that health-building and character-building play is an essential in the equipping of our children for the battles of life. From the standpoint of practical economy, the Board early dismissed the proposal for a perpetuation of three eight grade schools. The cost of building three sets of rooms for Domestic Science, Manual Training, Drawing, Science and Gym: nasium would be $170,000 more than the cost of one set. To maintain these three duplicating equipments would mean an additional cost of $21,000 a year over the maintenance cost of one centralized school. Partial curtailments of equipment to save part of this extra expense quite naturally would reduce the efficiency of our schools in direct proportion. A location with ample playground A T first thought it might seem wise to erect this cen- tralized Upper Grade School at the -exact center of school population, which is between the Horace Mann School and the Elm St. site. But to secure the remainder of the Horace Mann block, for example, would cost at least $54,000. And with the New School added to this block there would be left by careful estimate but a pitiful amount of ground area for the total of 800 or more children who would occupy the two buildings. To gain merely space enough for these children to romp and play would mean condemning part of an ad- jacent block, with the prospect of long delay and high cost of dispossessing people from their homes at a time when houses are at best scarce. Organized play with its character-building benefits would be out of the question on such a site without an added expenditure of about $150,000 for land alone. All distant pupils to be transported WE have left then the practical plan--that of utilizing the large Elm St. tract to erect an Upper Grade School on twelve acres of playground space. At a fraction of the added expense of any other loca- tion, busses will be operated for the benefit of those chil- dren living at a unreasonable walking distance. And from this spacious play area Winnetka is to de- rive benefits which progressive communities all over the country are seeking, at costs which Winnetka in its fore- handedness will be fortunate enough to avoid. PROPOSED PLAN i CROUNDS OF WEST ELM ST SCHOOL o_o "One of the most important functions of a schcol is to teach courage, responsibility and co-operative social efforts," says Harry P. Clarke, Supervisor of Playgrounds. "With the new school site, Winnetka will at last have the opportunity of putting such teaching into actual practice through the playing of games that demand 'team' play and subordination of self." A school we have long wanted Its spacious study rooms, lighted evenly from above, its special equipment for practical work that stimulates the interest of adolescent boyhood and girlhood, its gym- nasium, its assembly hall, combine to form a building so attractive that your children of 12 or 13 will have a keen zest for their school work. This new school plant gives us an opportunity to bring out in our children qualities of resourcefulness, com- mon-sense, bodily development, a love for the refined and heautiful--a desire to learn, to be of service to humanity. As the walls of this finely equipped build- ing are raised this summer, may each and every one of us be able to say: "I . did my part toward giving Winnetka children their birthright of sound bodies and well-developed minds Must be built by your gifts LL of the School Board's reserve bonding power is needed to provide future additions to the three pres- ent schools, to care for the rapidly growing number of smaller children. The limit is fixed by law. But what Winnetka cannot do by bonding power, the people can do by voluntary subscription. It is a fine ideal, worthy of Winnetka, that each of us should contribute in our fair proportion that our own and our neighbor's children may not be handicapped. The raising of $350,000 is a big task. But everywhere there are signs that the people are ready to give cheerfully and that the money will be raised. : The $60,000 Memorial Hall S a nucleus to start, we have the Jane Kuppenheimer Memorial Hall, donated by Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Kuppenheimer in memory of their daughter. This means $60,000 already raised. Supplementing this are a number of $5000 to $15,000 gifts, already pledged. We are assured of a substantial total from those able to afford large gifts, but only the aggregation of gifts from everyone, accord- ing to individual ability, will produce the needed sum. Jil] SIT Ce Js he = ak Lg a ® "MEMORIAL HALL - WEST ELM STREET SCHOOL WINNETRATLLINOIS TJ The Jane Kuppenheimer Memorial Assembly Hall is the central unit of the building, around which the various classrooms will be built. So let us be ready when we receive a call nex week from a member of the voluntary committee which is can vassing the village. Let us consider what we are getting for ourselves and for Winnetka and give in generous measure. Subscribe--subscribe--SUBSCRIBE for Winnetka's New School. This advertisement paid for by a fund spec- tally subscribed by friends of the New School