INDIANA ARCHITECT SEPTEMBER, 1965 6 I extend greetings to the architects of the Americas: the artists and builders who create and sustain the cities of the New World. We have learned—too often through the hard lessons of neglect and waste—that if man brutalizes the landscape, he wounds his own spirit; if he raises buildings which are trivial or offensive, he admits the poverty of his imagination; if he creates joyless cities, he imprisons himself. And we have leanied that an environment of order and beauty can delight, inspire and liberate men. It is your responsibility as architects to communicate these essential truths. You determine, in large part, the shape of our cities. Those cities, in turn, determine the shape of our lives—so profoundly that future generations will ponder our architec• ture to learn our deepest values. Your work, therefore, has meaning which endures be• yond the life of the most lasting buildings, and you have a great task: to influence men to use their technical and com• mercial power to beautify the earth—not to blemish it. May you pursue that task with energy and vision. May your success be so great that when the judgment of the future is made, ours will be remembered as the Age of Beauty. LYNDON B. JOHNSON President 4 HEATED BY ECONOMICAL GAS k f^l^ANKFORT HIGH SCHOOL • • I If? fl "ENTARY SCHOOL. Wooresv. ^^oRTHWOOD '^"OOl. Se^ Dependable gas will heat these schools for more than 3 years for about the same cost as heating it I year the THESE INDIANA SCHOOLS • flameless way." Clean gas heat provides normal, healthful air chaimcs USE CLEAN GAS HEAT Stale air is wafted away by circulated, filtered warm air. Modern gas heat was chosen for thc'se Indiana schools There is now plenty of natural gas available for every• because only gas assures carefree comfort at lowest opeuit body, everywhere in Indiana Gas & Water Company areas. ing cost and minimum mainteiuince. For specific information on types and sizes ov equipment, engineering data, and a GAS MAKES THE BIG DIFFERENCE . COSTS LESS,TOO complete list of natural gas users, call or write our heating division. INDIANA OAS INDIANA GAS & WATER CO. S WATER OOMRANV, INC. 1630 N. Meridian St. (317) WA 6-3351 Indianapolis, Indiana INDIANA ARCHITECT Official Journal, The Indiana Society of Architects, The Northern Indiana Chapter and The Central-Southern Indiana Chapter, The American Institute of Architects VOL. IX SEPTEMBER, 1965 No. 6 The INDIANA ARCHITECT is ,he sole property of .he Indiana Society of Architect,, a .tate a«ocla. Hon of The American Institute of Architects, and is edited and published monhly in Indianapolis * Associates, P. O. Box 55594, Indianapolis, Indiana 46205. phone Tilden 9- 2103. Current average monthly crculation 3.200, including all resident registered Indiana architects, school officials, churches and hospitals, libraries, selected public officials, and members of the construction industry. Detailed information available on request. DON GIBSON L. D. KINGSBURY Editor, Publisher Advertising Manager INDIANA SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS President Vice-President JAMES McCLURt TURNER, AIA. Hammond ALFRED J. PORTEOUS. AIA, Indianapolis Secretary DONALD E. CLARK, AIA, Indianapolis Treasurer ANDREW A. TOTH, AIA, South Bend Executive Director: DON E. GIBSON, Hon. ISA, Indianapolis Directors ROBERT 4. SCHULTZ, AIA, South Bend WALLACE W. GIVEN, AIA, Evansville C. EUGENE HAMILTON, AIA, Muncie JOHN C. FLECK, AIA, Indianapolis JAMES L. WALKER, AIA, New Albany CARL L. BRADLEY, AIA, Fort Wayne WILLIAM G. RAMMEL, AIA, Fort Wayne THOMAS R. KEENE, AIA. Elkhart COURTNEY E. ROBINSON, AIA, Fort Wayne Central-Southern Indiana Chapter Northern Indiana Chapter President President CARL L. BRADLEY, AIA, Fort Wayne COURTNEY E. ROBINSON, AIA, Fort Wayne Vice-President Vice-President WALLACE GIVEN, AIA, Evansville ROBERT J. SCHULTZ, AIA, South Bend Secretary Secretary THOMAS DORSTE, AIA, Indianapolis THOMAS KEENE, AIA, Elkhart Treasurer Treasurer RALPH YEAGER, AIA, Terre Haute FORREST R. WEST, AIA, South Bend Immediate Past President Immediate Past President ALFRED PORTEOUS. AIA, Ind anapolis WILLIAM G. RAMMEL, AIA, Fort Wayne Directors Directors JAMES O. JOHNSON, AIA, Anderson EDWARD J. MALO, AIA, South Bend WALLACE O. JOBUSCH. AIA, Lafayette RICHARD T. BARTON, AIA, Fort Wayne JOHN A. CURRY, AIA, Terre Haute RICHARD L. WILDERMUTH, AIA, Gary ROBERT L. RITZ, AIA, New Albany JOHN H. JELLIFFE, AIA, Indianapolis RAYMOND W. OGLE, AIA, Indianapolis G. A. HUBER, AIA, Evansville CARLTON C. WILSON, AIA, Richmond EVANS WOOLLEN, III, AIA, Indianapolis CONCERNING THE COVER East Central Regional Director: WALTER SCHOLER, JR., AIA, Lafayette East Central Regional Secretary: WAYNE M. WEBER, AIA, Lafayette President Lyndon B. Johnson's message to the 1965 annual convention of the American Institute of Architects and the Pan American The INDIANA ARCHITECT it a member of Architectural Regional Magazines, Inc., with office, ai Conference of Architects, held jointly in 28 West Adams Street, Detroit, Michigan 48226. and is represented in New York by Martin & Hart, Inc., 25 West 43rd Street, New York, New York 10036. Washington, D.C. in June. iA/3 Rural schools mmmgoM North Miami High School ... backed by . electric service provided by Miami-Cass County REMC This beautiful new consolidated junior-senior high school is located on dependable the 900 North Road, 9 miles north of Peru. Dedicated in November, 1961, it is designed with classrooms, laboratories, cafeteria, auditorium and athletic facilities for an enrollment of 750. During the planning period a special committee of 15 people visited schools heated by coal, fuel oil and electricity. They discussed various types of heating with architects, and discussed electric heat with school officials. They also talked about heating electrically with individuals who have electric heat in their home and churches. Result: the committee recommended electric heat. Arch• itects were Hamilton and Graham. service There is a significant school building program underway in rural Indiana today. Big, mod• ern and efficient consolidated schools are springing up all over the state . making an excel• lent educational environment available to rural youth. • South Knox Junior—Senior High School School boards, trustees, teach• . electric service provided by Knox County REMC ers and architects all feel free This beautiful new school now under construction is located on a 51 acre to plan their new schools all- site near Verne, on State Highway 61 southeast of Vincennes. Designed to handle 800 students in grades 7 through 12, the building contains 15 electric. They know that they academic classrooms, 10 laboratories, a library, and 13 additional rooms for music, shop, art and supporting educational facilities . plus a 3,500 can depend upon the electric capacity gymnasium, and auditorium seating 600, a cafeteria and admin• service provided by the 42 istrative office. All of the inside spaces are air conditioned. Heating space will total 140.000 square feet. James Associates, architects, say this may REMCs in rural Indiana. be the largest school in Indiana using electric heat. Plan your new rural school ... all electric! 1965 ANNUAL CONVENTION Indiana Society of Architects, AIA Frencli Lkk OQOBER 7, 8, 9 & 10 Indiana THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 8:30 P.M. President's Reception FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 9:00 A.M. Registration 10:30 A.M. Central - Southern Chapter Annual Meeting Northern Indiana Chapter Annual Meeting Indianapolis Chapter Organizational Meeting 12:30 P.M. Informal Lunch 1:30 P.M. First Professional Seminar 4:30 P.M. Open 6:00 P.M. Reception 7:00 P.M. Dinner Charles M. Sappenfield, speaker Presentation of Indiana Architectural Foundation Presentation of Honorary Memberships 9:00 P.M. "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams, by lU Dramatic Group SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9 9:00 A.M. Second Professional Seminar 12:00 NOON Informal Lunch 1:00 P.M. ISA Annual Meeting 4:00 P.M. Open 6:30 P.M. Reception 7:30 P.M. 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People the billboard, the monotonous housing tract " abroad say that the United States has the most beautiful buildings and the ugliest cities in the So wrote Mr.