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Calvin Coolidge High School is a public high school located in the Northwest quadrant of the District of Columbia. ==History== In order to relieve crowding at Roosevelt High School, Superintendent Frank W. Ballou proposed building a new high school for students living in Manor Park and Takoma Park. Dr. Ballou suggested that the new high school should be built at Fifth and Sheridan streets NW,〔 on property that the District of Columbia had purchased five years earlier and across the street from Whittier School, which had been built in 1925. Temporarily named Northern Senior High School, the building of the school was supported by many Takoma Park, Manor Park, Chillum Heights, and Sixteenth Street Heights residents and North Dakota Senator Lynn Frazier.〔 The finance committee of the Board of Education approved the plan soon after Dr. Ballou's recommendation. The House of Representatives originally appropriated $450,000 for the building of the school, but a Senate subcommittee reduced the appropriation to $350,000, despite protests by Senator Frazier. In 1937, the question of a permanent name for the school was raised. The Manor Park Citizens Association and the Brightwood Citizens Association wanted to name the school for Calvin Coolidge, the only former president without a school named after him.〔 Other residents favored using the name Northern High School because it would fit in with existing schools named Eastern, Western, and Central.〔 Those favoring Coolidge won out. The Board of Education planned to build a two-story brick school with a flat roof.〔 Local citizens associations said the planned school would look like a factory.〔 They preferred a colonial style similar to that of nearby Roosevelt High School.〔 The Manor Park Citizens Association held firm, and the plans were modified to include three stories, a pitched roof, and a cupola. Architect Nathan C. Wyeth changed the design to a modern Georgian style. Jeffress-Dryer Inc. won the bid to build the school, and construction began in 1938. The original plans called for one boys' gymnasium and one girls' gymnasium.〔 Because two gymnasiums could not be afforded with the funds appropriated by Congress, the girls' gymnasium was eliminated from the plans.〔 After the Takoma Park Citizens Association petitioned Congress, the District's Board of Commissioners agreed to appropriate an additional $16,000 in order to build the girls' gymnasium. Construction was completed in February 1940, at a cost of $1,500,000. Coolidge opened its doors on September 23, 1940.〔 Its first principal was Thomas J. Holmes, previously the assistant principal of Eastern High School.〔 Holmes did not end up completing his first year as principal, as he took a leave of absence to serve as an officer at Fort Meade in April 1941. During its first school year, Coolidge had 31 teachers,〔 750 students enrolled, and a capacity of 1,801. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coolidge Senior High School (Washington, D.C.)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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