Campus 1912-13

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Louisiana's ACADIEN
1912-13
	The Gymnasium
	THE great accomplishment of the Industrial Arts Department for the session of 1912-13 was the designing and complete construction of a gymnasium and grandstand, with an outdoor concrete swimming pool at one end. The grandstand faces the baseball diamond, the football field, and the quarter-mile running track, and completes the area enclosing the athletic field. It seats six hundred people. The gymnasium is part of the same building, just back of the grandstand and has a floor measuring 40 feet by 8o feet, with room besides for spectators and for dressing-rooms, lockers, and shower baths. The swimming pool measures 22 feet by 40 feet by a depth of from four feet to seven and a half feet. It is made of reinforced concrete and is joined to the gymnasium at one end by a platform, enabling easy access from the one to the other. These two structures which would have cost nearly five thousand dollars if let by contract, have cost less than three thousand by reason of being done by the students of the Workshop Classes, under the direction and with the help of their instructors, Mr. Bond and Mr. Woodson. Nothing of greater material value for the school has ever been done in any one session, and it is acknowledged by all to be an achievement of which the State may well be proud.