Operation Big Switch at Glenridge Junior High School was most successfully completed over the weekend when 460 pupils moved into their new quarters from the temporary barracks at Signal Hill.
     The new school now has 16 completed classrooms, an art room, a shop, a home economics department, a cafeteria and two physical education departments. The School Board has approved plans for eight more rooms which will be completed by next fall and will house the ninth grade.
     The move started on Wednesday when the library books were packed and driven from Signal Hill to the new school. On Thursday, the teachers' desks were moved and on Friday morning the students' desks. A selected group of students were excused from classes to help with the moving. The rest were discharged at 1 p.m. Friday and driven home in special buses. By 1:30 Saturday the move had been completed and classes were resumed at the regular hour Monday.

     Although most of the pupils liked their primitive barracks at Signal Hill, they are delighted to be in the new school, Mr. A. E. Stockard, principal, assures the Herald. Some of these pupils have spent all their school years in temporary quarters or double shifts. This is their first "real" school and helping with the moving, clearing of ground and landscaping makes them even more a part of the school than they otherwise would be.
     On Wednesday morning a group of girls were spending their gym class clearing the athletic field of roots and branches. Where there is now nothing but loose sand there soon will be a football field, a 1/4 mile track and four clay courts for basketball, tennis and other games.
     Mr. Stockard has planned quite an extensive landscaping program for his school with rows of tropical shrubs and St. Augustine grass between the wings. The pupils themselves will sprig the areas in front of their class rooms. Some of the parents have already donated grass but much more is needed and Mr. Stockard will be grateful for any donations.