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front of the building. Venetian blind.e will cover the
window space, Tt is going to be very complete and will
take care of the needs of 1 1 th and 12 th graders as well
as all other grades.

Many of our teachers were in the main tent. Sur­
prisingly enough, they do not mention the strain of
managing this formidable company. Remember the clowns,
the monkeys, the daredevils, the menagerie and the end­
less supply of nuts? I'm afraid our circus will con­
tinue to give freely of all these features. We dare to
hope our teachers will continue to work with us in our
new quarters.

Noticing that the hippodrome was being cleared for
the next act, I waited to see Joan'’Daredevil" Anderson,
queen of the bareback riders, bring in her string of
oerforming horses. Being interested in all sports,
Joan is looking forward to our new g7/mnasium where v;e
can always play basketball and other games now limited
to nice weather outdoors, or to the courts at Rohm and
Haas clubhouse and the ” Y ” . With a home g7/mnasium ,
more girls will be interested in playing more often,
and it will naturally follow that our teams will be-
come more skillful.

Next came the ne rformance of our skating bear,
Howard Brad_^ord. We 11, he skates, and I heard he hugs
like a bear. Howard , too, is looking forward to the
new b^annasium where t he boys will be able to enjoy much
better facilities, fo r which we now lack space. There
would be more intere st in intra-mural sports. With
increased population, better athletic equipment and an
indoor place for work -outs, our boys would no doubt at-
tract scouts and some might even get athletic scholar-
ships.

The new yinnasium will be about 100' by 120’, There
will be separate dressing rooms for the boys and the
girls. We expect to have about 600 to Boo lockers,
There will be equipment rooms and storage rooms,
Hither two cross courts or one full court can be laid
out for several tj^pes of recreation, tennis, badminton.
and the like.

Outside, the voice of our circus barker and ballyhoo
artist, Jim Baker, commanded everyone’s attention, ?Ie
was announcing a sideshow, putting every bit of his
heppy-pep py personality into a new line. Tt goes ...
sten right up, folks, step right up, for twenty --
five cents, only one-fourth of a dollar, see the small -
est man alive, the one and only General Tom Thumb-
Charlton - and the amazing, the brilliant, human cal­
culating machine, known as ”The Brain" Kemmerer — and