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Newspaper report, end of February 1982 (Die Oberpfälzer Nachrichten)
 
Students show a lot of imagination
Competition of Augustinus-Gymnasium for redesigning the schoolyard
Prizes from DM 50,- to DM 200,- were offered for the best suggestions from the 9th and 10th forms as to the redesigning of the schoolyard. Our photo shows the chairman of the parents' council Josef Ehlich (left) and headmaster Erwin Spitz (right) with the winners and their art teachers during the presentation of prizes.
Photo: Bonkoß
Weiden. (cd) Seating units with wooden benches and no monotonous asphalt, but cobble stones and a lot of plants: that's how the winning team of class 9d would design the schoolyard. Chairman of the parents' council Josef Ehlich was surprised about the number of suggestions developed by the students of the 9th and 10th forms with the help of their art teachers. Cash prizes were awarded for the best suggestions which are to serve as an impulse for the redesigning of the schoolyard. 
"Choosing the winner was a difficult piece of work", said Ehlich when he and headmaster Erwin Spitz congratulated the winners on Thursday morning in the headmaster's office at Augustinus-Gymnasium. This is why the parents' council increased the cash prize from DM 600,- to DM 800,- after seeing all the models so as to be able to honour all the
suggestions.  
Due to an impulse from the Mayor saying that the schools themselves should make suggestions as to the design of their schoolyard, the parents' council of Augstinus-Gymnasium had started a competition - with an unexpected echo: till the deadline on January 20, 34 suggestions were presented. So the jury, which consisted of representatives of the students, the teachers and the parents, had the difficult taste of picking a winner.		   Apart from the artistic aspect and the harmony with the surrounding buildings, of course also the costs and the realizability of the suggestions had to be taken into account. 
The first prize of DM 200,- was awarded to the students Elmar Wünsch, Martin Weiß, Andreas Wies, Markus Schmid and Horst Pleyer from class 9d for their joint effort. DM 100,- were offered to Frank Rößler (9b) and Klaus Wirner (10a) respectively. DM 50,- are given to classes 9a, 9c, 10b and 10d for their cooperation. 
Thanks were said to the students for their participation as well as to the art teachers Roland Taubenberger and Franz Berg without whose support the competition wouldn't have been possible. The chairman of the parents' council intends to present the winning suggestions to the Mayor hoping that some of the ideas of the students can be realized.