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Bellflower schools have risen to meet challenges of jet-age education with a $4,000,000 building program under super vision of Ralph Burnight and Dr. Norman Wamper, superintendents, respectively, of Excelsior Union High School District and Bellflower Elementary Schools. Even modern electronics devices have been called into play—among them a new heating principle, radiant heating, with M-H electronic controls. This is so ef fective that kindergartners have given up chairs and can sit, even take naps, on a warm and draftless floor. Other advances include windows on two, sometimes three sides of classrooms, workshops for boys and a big building at Washington Intermediate School devoted entirely to homemaking and homecrafts for girls. Even colors are chosen for utility; there is no money wasted for gingerbread or unneccessary decoration. Washington School and Bellflower High School (left above) and fenced kindergarten yard (right) are examples of modern schools. Washington home economics students Lee Spann, Marla Kenniston and Sharon Snyder find school facilities can be much like home. Above, R. S. Allen, construction chief, and Ralph Burnight, school head, check progress. Right, students at work in ceramics class Studying, practicing cooking in individual tile units, Washington girls learn proverbial best way to hearts of future beaux. Kindergartners group on radiant-heated floor, hear teacher, Donna Hannon, and Superintendent Wampler.
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Long Beach Press Telegram Southland
Long Beach, California, US
Sun, May 28, 1950
Page 5
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