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The Voice of St. Matthews, August 15, 1957:Annual Back-to-School EditionSt. Matthews schools are big business$2,344,000 worth of new school buildings will open this FallSt. Matthews School are big businessEducation is getting to be a tremendous business in the St.Matthews. Area.More than $2,344,000 worth of new school buildings will beready here this Fall.Besides all that, the County School Board alone is spendingalmost $2 million to operate schools in the St. Matthewsarea this year. Of this, about two-thirds will go for teachers’salaries.There will be two new public schools — the Wilder ElementarySchool on Herr Lane between Westport Road andBrownsboro Road, and the Shryock Elementary School onBrowns Lane be-tween the Inner Belt and Lowe Road.***One new private school will be ready to go. That’s theCatholic Country Day School in the former Thomas Monohanresidence on Browns Lane near the Inner Belt. The newbuilding will cost an estimated $85,000 and school will openthere Sept. 9.Estimated cost of the Wilder School will be $653,000. TheShyrock School will cost about $604,000. These two are expectedto be ready by the time school opens Sept. 3, althoughthere is some doubt about Shryock.Also ready to go will be the $524,000 addition to WaggenerHigh.***Sad to say, Eastern’s $178,000 addition will not be ready. Be-cause of. the cement strike, the building may not be finisheduntil the latter part of October, according to John L. Ramsey,assistant superintendent of County Schools.Trinity’s High’s $350,000 addition was completed early thismonth.Until Eastern's addition of 10 classrooms is ready, the schoolwill have to do a lot of doubling up, according to Mr. Ramsey.“We’ll have to use the lounge, conference rooms, andthe audio-visual room to get by,” he said. “It’ll, be inconvenientbut we’re used to it.”***The extra 10 rooms will give Eastern 73 rooms. That will—take care of the school “for several years,” according to Mr.Ramsey. This year there will be about 1,-765 students,