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OLLOWING only a brief breathing spell during which the stricken community was recovering from its death dealing shock, the Bath Board of Education, in contemplation of its forced building problem, secured the
counsel and advice of Mr. Holmes, school architect of the
Warren-Co-operating with the Governor and Senator Couzens, the architects developed a plan that provides for the survivors of the Bath disaster, both young and old --- a community school building. The undestroyed portion of the school is strengthened and rearranged. The main feature of the new part is a fine community room and gymnasium fitted with a stage, and boys and girls shower and locker rooms. Spacious rooms are provided for manual arts, home economics, and agriculture. Necessary classrooms for grade and high school accommodates two hundred fifty children and ten teachers.
The building is planned particularly to
correlate the every day problem of the rural community with book learning.
The agricultural department fitted with a growing room is also the room
in which physics, chemistry and botany are taught. The clothing room is
used for English teaching, and the manual arts room holds classes in
drawing, algebra and geometry. The community room seats the parents as
well as the boys and girls at the lecture course, school entertainments
and commencement exercises or inter-school basket ball contests.
Community banquets were anticipated in placing the foods laboratory
adjacent to the gymnasium.
When completed, it will represent one of
the most up-
School under handicapped conditions
started September 5, 1927. School is held in the community hall,
township hall, and two store buildings. Although somewhat handicapped,
it is moving along smoothly under the supervision of Superintendent O.
M. Brant, an educator with considerable experience and formerly of
Luther, Michigan. It will not be long until this burden will be improved
as United States senator, James Couzens, of Detroit and the Bath school
board have accepted the plans donated to Bath school district by Warren
Holmes, Lansing architect. The people of this community feel very
grateful for leaving the burden of replacing the wrecked school taken
from their minds on Wednesday, September 14, 1927, when the contract was
let for the new building. On Thursday, September 15, Enos Peacock,
treasurer of the school board, was notified by John W. Haarer,
vice-president of the City National Bank of Lansing and chairman of the
general relief fund appointed by Governor Fred W. Green, that he was in
possession of a check drawn to the Bath school district by United States
senator, James Couzens, for seventy-