Award of contracts for architectural and engineering services on three proposed school enlargement projects to accommodate 1,187 additional children on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico was announced today by the Department of the Interior.
The largest of the three jobs involves an expansion of the Indian school at Leupp, Ariz., from its present capacity of 67 students to 697. The $60,000 architectural-engineering contract on this was awarded to Scholer and Fuller, Associate Architects, Tucson, Ariz.
Facilities at Mariano Lake, New Mexico, which now accommodate 103 children, will be enlarged to a capacity of 330. The $35,000 contract was awarded to architects Stanley and Wright, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
At Pinon, Ariz., the school will be expanded from a capacity of 330 students to 660. Anne J. Rysdale, architect and associates, Tucson, Ariz., was awarded the $31,500 contract.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs expects to invite bids for construction work on the three projects during the summer and fall of 1958.
