Biennial
Period
$ 6,000.00
$ 1,500.00
NORTHERN ARIZONA NORMAL SCHOOL—(Cpntinued)
In considering the above facts, it is also necessary to bear in mind that the high schools 1921-1922	19221923־
of the State, in providing for work of this kind, are setting a pace that the State institutions must follow or have their students along these lines much dissatisfied upon coming to the	.
State institutions.
In spite of all of this, it is thought wise to '	,	continue in our present quarters	for another
V	L	biennium.
LIBRARY
One of the most urgent needs of the school • is to provide adequate‘ library facilities. At present the books are housed in stacks so close together that it is almost impossible to •pass ^	between them. The total seating	capacity of
the library is sixteen. Its floor area is six hun-./■. dred square feet, not as great as that of the .	׳	usual elementary class room.
The only possible solution, other than to provide a special library building, involves rather extensive remodeling. At the end of the main corridor on the first floor of the main building is the present study hall, a room thirty-three feet square. Immediately to the rear of this room an extension projects to the south to house the domestic science work. This extension is but one story high. By raising the roof of this extension and adding another story to it, an additional room thirty-three feet square could be added to the present study .	room. By lighting this addition from above
and cutting out the partition between the two rooms thus created, a delightful library and reading room thirty-three feet by sixty-six feet could be provided. This library would house V	the books of the institution for many years
to come.
Our contractor estimates that this addition will cost........................:............ $	6,000.00	$........
PRACTICE COTTAGE
0 The school has a six-room cottage which 1 is so near to the new training school , that it must be moved at once. This cottage can be taken to the rear of the administration building and used for a practice cottage. (Last ?	summer the school was compelled to rent a
«	cottage of this type for the university work in
home economics.) In an emergency it can be ‘	used for an isolation hospital, as indicated
above.
The contractor’s estimate for moving this cottage and making the necessary repairs,
plumbing connections, etc., is״״............1,500.00 $  $............
BUILDINGS
To complete the building equipment of the Northern Arizona Normal School the following additional buildings should be erected as soon as possible:	GYMNASIUM, HOSPI-
TAL, INDUSTRIAL ARTS BUILDING, LIBRARY, PRACTICE .COTTAGE, RESIDENCE (President’s). Since it is obviously •impossible for all of these needs to be. satisfied in one biennium, the following plan is suggested for the next two years:
GYMNASIUM
For gymnasium purposes the rear of Ashurst Auditorium can be used temporarily. This provides opportunity for basket ball and for calisthenic exercises, but does not give the students the use of any gymnasium apparatus, and all are compelled to dress in their own rooms, using the showers .in. the dormitories, which are inadequate for such use. " While this arrangement can be made temporarily, it should not be a permanent one, because of the fact that indoor work in physical education is required for a longer period in Flagstaff than in other institutions of the State.
HOSPITAL
While a hospital is essential in the final equipment of a good normal school plant, it will be possible to get along by using the practice cottage (which is suggested below) for hospital purposes, in cases where isolation is demanded.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS BUILDING
The highest demand in the teaching profession, at present, is for teachers of vocational work. The Northern Arizona Normal School is not able to do its share of this work nor to participate in the aid that the Smith-Hughes Act would provide, because of the fact that the departments of commercial work, domestic science and domestic art, and manual training (including art metal work, forging and machine work) are not adequately housed. The present cooking department, which should be most attractive, can be reached only by passing through a dark, gloomy room of forbidding aspect. The floors are old and badly worn. ,The work in sewing is done in a room quite remote from the cooking department. The commercial work is comparatively well housed, but will, in a short time, be crowded for room. The manual training department is splendidly equipped for working in wood and for mechanical drawing, but no room is available for the introduction of metal work of any kind.