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Students learn about campus RSOs during the Activities Expo Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Katherine Mayo
Steve Connelly took some conservation department students to Cumming Nature Center to tackle projects such as the dismantling of an old footbridge to be replaced later.
Downtown Bainbridge,1904. Originally known as the Courthouse Square, the city acquired the land and made it into a park. It is a community gathering place for many activities through the year. The third Decatur County courthouse stood in the park from 1855-1904.
The Winecoff Hotel fire, of December 7, 1946, was the deadliest hotel fire in American history, killing 119 hotel occupants, including the hotel's original owners. Located at 176 Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, the Winecoff Hotel was advertised as "absolutely fireproof". While the hotel's steel structure was indeed protected against the effects of fire, its interior finishes were combustible and the building's exit arrangements consisted of a single stairway serving all fifteen floors. All of the hotel's occupants above the fire's origin on the third floor were trapped, and the fire's survivors either were rescued from upper-story windows or jumped into nets held by firemen.
A number of victims jumped to their deaths. A photograph of one survivor's fall won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. The fire — which followed the June 5, 1946, La Salle Hotel fire in Chicago (with 61 fatalities), and the June 9, also 1946, Canfield Hotel fire in Dubuque, Iowa (with 19 fatalities) — spurred significant changes in North American building codes, most significantly requiring multiple protected means of egress and self-closing fire-resistant doors for guest rooms in hotels.
The Winecoff Hotel (now the Ellis Hotel) opened in 1913 as one of the tallest buildings in Atlanta, Georgia. The steel-framed structure was built on a small lot measuring 62.75 feet (19.13 m) by 70 feet (21 m), bounded by Peachtree Street, Ellis Street and an alley, with 4,386 square feet (407.5 m2) per floor. Guest rooms extended from the third to the fifteenth floors, with fifteen rooms on a typical floor. Corridors on guest floors were arranged in an H-shape, with two elevators and the upward flights of stairs opening into the cross halls, and opposing downward runs of stairs converging on a single landing from the legs of the H. The single stairway, of non-combustible construction, was not enclosed with fire-resistant doors. While the use of multiple stairways was becoming common practice in tall buildings, the Atlanta Building Code of 1911 permitted buildings on lots of less than 5,000 square feet (460 m2) to have a single stairway. The steel structure was protected by structural clay tile and concrete fireproofing. The hotel was touted in advertisements and on its stationery as "absolutely fireproof".
Interior partitions, including the walls between corridors and guest rooms, were hollow clay tile covered with plaster. Room doors were 1.5-inch (3.8 cm) wood, with movable transom panels above each door for ventilation between the rooms and the corridors, closed by a wood panel of less than .5 inches (1.3 cm) in thickness. The corridor walls were finished with painted burlap fabric extending up to wainscot height. Guest rooms were finished with as many as seven layers of wallpaper. The hotel had a central fire alarm system, manually operated from the front desk, and a standpipe with hose racks at each floor. There was no automatic sprinkler system.
The Winecoff Hotel was within two blocks of two Atlanta Fire Rescue Department engine and two ladder companies, one of which was within thirty seconds of the building.
The fabrics are Riley Blake Alphabet Soup and Meadow friends by Deb Strain. This is an activity case I made for my children for when we eat out. It holds everythiung necessary to keep them quiet while waiting to be served! The pattern is my own, I took the ouside measurements from one of the notebooks (adding 1 inch all around and 1 inch in the middle) and just winged the rest. :-D
Jumping horse. This shot won't sell without major post-processing! No one wants another horse in their shot! Once the games begin, each hunter/jumper class is in the ring solo
Service Learning Project - Oral History
Students at Xavier School of Excellence in South Bend, Indiana prepare for their service learning project, visiting the Cardinal Nursing Home where they will be sharing gifts with the residents and interviewing the residents to learn about their life and times gone by. The students are practicing interviewing skills and using Nokia phones as recording devices loaned by the New Learning Institute’s Model Classroom program.
Brian Burnett led podcasting and interviewing preparation activities with students and Justin Zobrosky, the lead teacher on this service learning project.
This project is supporting the Model Classroom’s Teacher of the Year Tania Grimes (Director at Xavier School of Excellence in South Bend, Indiana), where she designed a mission based learning project supported by digital media and tools.