1984
1985

 

 

 

SOUTHWORDS
September 1984

Hall undergoes changes

   Remodeling in the south hallways of the Centers Area began this summer, but has temporarily been delayed pending the sale of the district's administrative building on the corner of Dee and Devon.
   According to Mr. Robert Simonson, assistant principal, the administrative offices will be moved into one of the three Maine High Schools when the current building is sold. If Maine South, the likely site, is chosen to house the offices, the entire south hallway including rooms C120, C122, C125, and C127 will be used for new offices.

 

 

January 1985

Anyone want to buy a building?
Administration to relocate to south hall


   At a recent board meeting, the Maine Township District 207 Board of Education approved a proposal to sell the district's administrative offices at the corner of Devon Avenue and Dee Road, just south of Maine South.
   The board voted to put the Ralph J. Frost Administration Center up for public sale by auction sometime within the next four months.
   The buyer whose bid will most likely be accepted is the Tool and Die Institute, a company that works with the distribution of information about the tool and die industry to to tool and die related corporations. The Institute said that it will meet the $1.2 million price being asked by the board.
   Jerry Dauphiner, the district realtor, said that the Institute has plans of upgrading the outside of the present administration building and possibly adding a parking lot north of the building.
   Since the building will no longer be owned by District 207, the administration department of the district will be forced to relocate.
   It was first recommended that the administration offices move into the Maine South building because of its convenient location. Some of the board members, however, voted against this idea stating that relocation to either Maine East or North would be cheaper because the district wouldn't have to spend money remodeling and in turn could invest the savings.
   In the end, however, the board approved the move to Maine South and hired a Chicago firm to do the necessary renovations to the school's South Wing area at a cost in excess of $500,000.