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Sarasota News Leader May 17, 2013 Page 50 PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAM OF 1954-1960 FEATURED IN EXHIBIT An exhibit featuring the people, events and architecture that shaped the Sarasota Public School Program from 1954 to 1960 is on view at the Sarasota County Visitor Information Center and History Center Museum, 701 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, the county has announced. the public educational environment of Sarasota County, and offered a new precedent for school design across postwar America," the release adds. The initiative was launched by Phillip Hanson Hiss III, who relocated to Sarasota from the Northeast in 1948. He later was elected to the It is a collaborative effort of Sarasota Coun- Board of Public Instruction, forerunner of the ty Historical Resources and the University of Sarasota County School Board. Florida Historic Preservation Program, a news "In a 1958 interview with Time magazine," the release notes. release continues, "Hiss described his dissatCalled The Building Itself Teaches, the exhib- isfaction with the physical state and outdated it tells the story of how five new buildings and pedagogy of public schools in the area: 'When four additions constructed from 1954-1960 I got the facts I went wild. Some of the schools — collectively known as the Sarasota Public were downright unsanitary. The restrooms School Program — "dramatically transformed were so bad the students wouldn't even go to The Sarasota County Visitor Information Center and History Center Museum is located at 701 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Image courtesy of Sarasota County