Description: Newspaper article about new Junior High school open house.

Lockwood PTA, Faculty and Board to be Hosts at School Open House

School Trustees of District 26, faculty members of the Lockwood Junior High and elementary schools and members of the Lockwood Parent-Teacher Association will be hosts at an open house to show off the schools Monday from 7 to 10 p.m., serving as guides when parents and other interested visit the schools.

The new Lockwood Junior High School, occupied in early December, is not completed, although accepted from the general contractor, J. C. Mitchell Construction Company. The building which has six classrooms, cost approximately $248,380 exclusive of fees of the architect, J. G. Link & Company. Plumbing is not complete in the building.

The elementary school which has eight teachers including Charles Lundgren as Principal, was completed in 1950 at a cost of $169,000. The old brick building used this school year until the new Junior High building could be occupied, has been sold and will be razed soon, according to school officials.

The school location, about 3 miles east of Billings on the Hardin Road, includes about 23 acres. The new Junior High has six teachers for about 80 seventh, eighth and ninth grade students. Marvin Klampe is Principal of the Junior High, in addition to be Superintendent of the two Lockwood schools.

Teachers are Mrs. Leo Murray, 9th grade and girls physical education; Mrs. Henry Peterson, 8th grade; Mrs. Lowell Mondt 7th grade; Robert Leone, 9th grade and boy physical education; David Todd, industrial arts and Bob Goodnow, music including band, orchestra and vocal.

There are 243 students in the grade school. Teachers are Miss Mabel Holley, Mrs. John Schnurr, Mrs. Jean Eller, Mrs. Lorna Buck, Mrs. John Glenn, Mrs. Fred Beckert, Kenneth Blevins and Lundgren.

In addition to the 6 class rooms in the new building there is a gymnasium, library, offices, faculty and health rooms, showers, lavatories and dressing rooms. The dressing rooms are near the gymnasium stage, for which equipment will be installed soon.

Other work not finished, besides plumbing, includes a sidewalk from the front walk to the northwest door of the gymnasium and oiling of the driveways, Klampe said.

Both buildings are of similar construction, utilizing wood beams for support, and have asphalt tile floors. Gas-fired furnaces furnish steam heat automatically controlled, with both also including air conditioning.

Both buildings have deep wells for fire protection, although drinking water is supplied for a joint cistern by the city of Billings. A one-way inner-communications system operated from the Junior High offices will be extended to the elementary building, Klampe said.

Mrs. Ben Spencer, president of the Lockwood PTA, is in charge of members who will assist with the open house. Also assisting PTA and faculty members will be members of the school board, of which F. L. Sturdevant is chairman and P. O. Brush the clerk. Other members are R. A. Wright, Ben Fulton, Jalen Nailor and Carl B. Peters. The gymnasium in the new Junior High building is 85x55 feet, with a 70x37- foot playing floor. Folding bleachers to be installed will seat about 320 persons. Officials said the building was planned so that two to four rooms could be added later on the east end and one on the west end of the building.

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This is the main entry of the new Lockwood Junior High School, which with the elementary Building completed in 1950 will be open for public inspection at an open house from 7 to 10 p.m. Monday. The entrance is at the northwest quarter of the $242,380 building which is not completed but was occupied by 80 students and 6 teachers in December. The new brick building and the $169,000 elementary building will be shown by members of The District 26 School Board, Lockwood PTA and faculty of both schools. Marvin Klampe is superintendent of a Lockwood schools.

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The ninth grade study hall at Lockwood Junior High is shown in the mathematics and science room at the school where an open house Monday night will allow public inspection of facilities. The students, under direction of Bob Goodnow, music instructor, are shown using “move-about” desks, one of two types used for the school. At the rear of the students in the 50x25-foot classroom is storage space for science equipment, and a science demonstration table will occupy the front of the room. Floors in the classroom and throughout the school are asphalt tile, with acoustic tile used for some of the ceilings.

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