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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 31, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 13.

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A United Work

By W. C. White

It has been proposed that in the erection of buildings and the opening of sanitarium and school work at Takoma Park, arrangements be made for the sanitarium to give a large amount of work to the school, and for the school to use its facilities as far as consistent for the forwarding of the interests of the sanitarium.
The first building to be erected on our forty-seven acre tract will probably be a schoolhouse built to accommodate about thirty students, then, close by a dining-hall, to seat about one hundred persons. Over the dining-room, the space which later on will serve as work-rooms for the lady students, can be used at first as a meeting hall for the church, and schoolroom for evening classes.
With these two buildings the school can open up a boarding-house for workmen, and an evening school. Tents can be used during the summer by many workmen, while the sanitarium buildings are being constructed.
In the erection of sanitarium buildings, we shall endeavor at first to put up a two-story building, with basement and attic, which will accommodate a family of about twenty-five patients, but so planned that it can be enlarged to accommodate fifty or more patients if enlargement becomes necessary. In this building must be our parlors, and in wings or annexes, the dining-rooms, bath rooms, and offices.
By using the schoolhouse as a home for sanitarium helpers, it may be possible to open up our sanitarium work with accommodations for a goodly number of patients before the next winter.
It is our hope that the schoolhouse may be the home also of some of the workmen engaged in erecting the General Conference building and the Review and Herald building. An earnest effort will be made to secure experienced and efficient teachers, and to conduct evening classes in such studies as will be most highly valued by the workmen on our various buildings.
W. C. WHITE, Chairman of Washington, D. C., Sanitarium Board.