Antigo High School - Hi Light Yearbook (Antigo, WI)

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Typical of the natural beauty in which Amigo is placed the game Sim 35 the present One, The Sire was presented to the city of Antigo for educational purposes by the Honorable H. F. Deleglise. The block was covered with a thick growth of trees at the time and a few of those trees are still standing. Between 1890 and 1902 our lirst high school paper, The Mercury, was published. During those years also, Latin and German were added to me curriculum. ln the summer of 1902 the build- ing was improved by the addition of several class rooms and the enlargement of the main room. ln the year 1905-1906 our school was placed on the approved list or the North Central Association of Universities, which meant that graduates of this school could enter any one of several colleges and universities without taking entrance examinations. This fact was something to be proud of in those days when camparatively few high schools in Wisconsin were so approved. Between 1897 and 1906 live wooden school buildings were erected in addition to the high school building. The first frame school building was moved to the fourth ward to make room for the public library. The need for a new building and especially a new gymnasium, was felt for some time before the old high school building burned. The building was destroyed by fire on the bitterly cold morning of January 6, 1916. Many valuable school records and trophies were burned, most of which could not be replaced. Antigo is an abbreviation of Nequeantigo, meaning green balsam river. Page Six

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Page Five In 1906 the renting system of book was installed. i 1 l 1 X ku Q --Q 4...f' we are scce cf , , , i.f,c.fft jar-744 Y A Li -hiv, fe - . ' f , 1' .' ' , ,lf-f' - fr W. X ff., ,jj cf' , ,-LT., I at A .1 A 1 ward to accommodate the senior and grammer dep2rIm2I1IS- This building WHS I1iCkIl2m2d The dry goods box because of its shape. Principal Marsh was ambitious to have a free highschool in Amigo and he held the first entrance ex- aminations in October, 1883, Twelve Students passed me required state test. lt was necessary to have twenty-five or more qualified students before A0030 WHS Entitled I0 2 free high school. S0 in 1384 a second examination was held, Finally rlqe eel-rifi.ate arrived from the State Superintendent of Schools stating that the city of Antigo was entitled to a free high SCH001 Wim 3 three YW? COUISC and that lf Was also entitled to S300 aid from the state. The first graduate, Agnes Donahue, completed the three year course in 1885, with a record of never having failed in recirarion, The following is the program of the first commencement. It is interest- ing to compare it with more recent programs: Music by orchestrag recitation, Kentucky Belle, Sybil Cornish: essay, Self Reliance, Edith Logan: declamation, Edinburgh after Flodden, George Porter: music: valecnctory essay, Character, Agnes Donohue: presentation of diploma: music. The high school course was extended to cover four years in 1888, and it is interesting to note that one student who had graduated in 1887. re-graduated me next year from the full course. The first brick school building was erected in 1890 at a cost of Sl6,500. This building occupied . - V , Q tx c Y or 1 . i ', 'Xi X X' YW ' f ' .si , V -, R ' r, -i i. Q - 'FX XV. . -. '5 ii' V , - x - r I v We . ' I X . x ex - me N-' 'x 1 5 ' X C' 'i X . N , . A X X X r X Y. .N X X, K . , 1 if . .X XX N 'XX X X . KN L Xqcx ' N. i -rr-4

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I T Y' V F' ' Y ' sT'sWi?i'gfl? 3tf'f:EE F ' T 'fA'ZPEw5f.'1:'S5?-'5'i',f?'41'f'f, ' ' 'nv' ' 'fYw ' Page Seven Facilities for carrying on school work were immediately provided. Business places, lodges, and churches offered rooms for the use of the school. A special meeting of the board of education was called and the president appointed a committee to secure rooms. Most of the offers already made were ac- cepted. The Palace theater was used as an assembly hall for the whole student body, Plans for a new building were discussed at once and Robert Messmer, a Milwaukee architect, was asked to prepare plans and specifications for a high school building to cost not more than Sl00,000. On May 18, 1916, the building contract was awarded to the Immel Construction Company of Fond du Lac, for S96,000. The contracts for heating, Ventilating, and plumbing were let to the General Heat- ing and Ventilating Company of Milwaukee and L0ui5 Peters of Amigo, The cornerstone was laid with impressive ceremonies in July, 1916, The building was 61-st used in the spring of the MX! Year- The l2Ck of 3 ZYmnasium had meant lack of interest in school athletics so that the new building with its gymnasium meant a great deal to the student body. All the buildings S22l'l12Cl W0l'lCl2l'fl1l I0 those SIlld0nIS who, the Y021' before, had had to meet in various buildings around the city. Following the dedication of the new building. 2 change was made in school administration. The PfiHClP3l'S P0SiliOI1 WHS made 8 SCPBIHIC 0110 f1'0m that of superintendent of schools, requiring two men to hold the ofhces. The deaf school and the ungraded fogm were added tg the school system at this Neither is our city without architectural loveliness W 5fi5g1,e333aE5..f' .xi ' rfij ,M