Nation's Oufstanding New Junior College Uses Fire-Protecfed Wood

NTEW CONCEPTS in education

^ \ and educational facilities are making Foothill Junior College, Los Gatos, California, the most talked-about institution of its kind in the nation.

This month, Foothill occupies its new educational plant-36 buildings atop a knoll rising in the Los Altos foothills. It will become the new academic home of 3,500 youths and adults, yet Foothill Junior College came into being only three years ago with only an antiquated grade school as its "campus."

Foothill is truly a community college. Voters of the community college district approved a $10.4 million bond issue for the new camDus. Its curriculum and its educational philosophies are geared to the needs of this northern Santa Clara County area, providing business and technical training in tw6 years that far exceeds normal trade school training, or providing two years of training in the arts which qualifies the graduate well for entrance in a four-year college.

The nerv concept in design provided by architects Ernest J. Kump and Masten & Hurd, won two coveted architectural awards even before ground was broken in Jrly, 1960. Buildings are in study-area groupings, mainly of redwood exteriors set off by exposed concrete piers and with redwood shake roofs with parapets that conceal all external vents, fans and utility connections. Glued-laminated wood beams support the roofs with broad overhangs extended over walks that surround the buildings. Larger buildings include a two-story library, three large octagonal lecture halls and two large physical education buildings.

With its extensive use of wood to p rovi de outstanding architectural beauty in such a wooded setting, Foothill alsohas planned carefully for safety. In major buildings where there may be heavy occupancy, exposed wood in what might otherwise be critical locations is NON-COM fireprotected wood. Fire-protected chemicals were driven deeply into its fibers in huge pressure-cylinders of Koppers Company, Inc. wood-treating plants at Wilmington, California and Everett, Washington. The NON-COM wood passed IJnderwriters' Laboratory tests, and approval for its use also was given by the California State Fire Marshall and the California Division of Architecture.

Approximately 45,000 square feet of fire-protected plywood and 165,000 board feet of fire-protected lumber was used at Foothill, including 100,000 board feet of Douglas fir and 65,000 board feet of rough-sau'n redwood exterior siding.

Newmqn Lumber to Open New Store This Month

Finishing preparations are now under way on Newman Lumber Company's new 3000 sq. ft. showroom which will be "oDen for business" in Newman, California, by the middle of this month. The completion of the store will be celebrated by a tu'o-day grand opening engineered by manager Al Togni and assistant manager Tony Mendonca.

The showroom is new in every respect including all new fixtures and and displays. In addition to regular fluorescent lighting, manager Togni has also installed severai adjustable spotlights in the ceiling which can be focused on any "special" display or item the yard might be featuring. The spotlight idea should lend itself nicely to the advertising of "specials" : "This week Newman Lumber's spotlight is on XYZ Roofing-just $$ a roll, etc."