Carthage High School - Carthaginian Yearbook (Carthage, MO)

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Q5 tQI 6!Cl,y CARTHAGE HIGH SCHOOL Diamond Jubilee The year of 1872 marked a new era for the young men and women of Carthage lt was on this date that school work on the secondary level w as frrst offer ed the graduates of the elementary school, and the school year 1872 1871 marks the begrnnrngs of Carthage Hrgh School The Carthage School Drstrrct came rnto exrstence rn 1869 and the frrst publrc school burldrng was located on the west srde of thc publlc square next to the present srte of the Bank of Carthage The years followlng the Crvrl War were crrtrcal trmes, Carthage had been one of the battlefrelds of that War , the town had been burned the populatron had been more O1 less scattered rexenues for crty and school opcratrons were exceedrngly scarce ln 1870 a new school burldrng was erectcd on the pr cscnt srte of the lngh school, at a cost of 5550 O00 and two years later the or ganrzatron of the hrgh school was started The attendance rn the hrgh school drvrsron was small, and rn fact at the trme of the gr aduatron of the frrst hrgh school class some five years later only '31 students w ere enrolled rn the cntrrc school Carthage Hrgh School thrs year rs celebratrng the Dramond Jubrlee of the foundrng of C H S and durrng the past seventy frve years of rts exrstence, we, the students of today are rndebted to the alumnr and former students for the glorrous past and for the rnsprratron whrch strmulates us rn antrcrpatron of the future 1813 1814 1876 1871 1818 1819 1880 L CAMPBELL Superrntendent A hrgh school was org rnwed rn Crrthage Only the X ery brsrcs of hrgher educatron were offered lhe upper floor of Central Hall wr used for the hrgh school The elementary gr des were dow nstalls rcqurred to trke L tlll rvcrvone madc hrs mwn fun Irfe of 1 young student centered rround home schc rl and the church No extra currrcorlar rctrwrtres yet students lrxed through school Sex en graduates of the llllall school proudly emerged from scxeral years of hard studs Nettle beaslex Loure Brown Ed Crow Fva Mc'C,onn ll Florence C l rrkell Fr rnk l rercc nd I lnnre Vlest constltuted the frrst grfrcluatrng, cl rss of H There were young ln rrr rges cx er rn that day and rge Hlkll school turned out to bc the last flrng for ex eral of the young people Most of the burldmgs on the north slde of the squ rre burned to the ground on Thanksglxrng Day - 5 0 1 ' ' 1 ' i - . 1 . L . . , . , . - -. . 3 . . . . 3 . . . J . ' v - ' . v . . v , 3 I 1 J t ' f , 7 . . . . . . . Y . . I .v l , 2 . . . l I 'X 4 . Y . by n -J. . , , F: T ' 1 vf 1 ri ' A ' u K v 1 2 ' , if ' U 'P' 1 . A . - . vi S IA . ' K , . y, ,-.El va y Q s 4 ' ..' 1875-School means work. Three teachers taught all of the subjects. Everyone was 'H z a . .--3 ,I . A .L 2 , . J. 5 I , 3 , , R , b . J, , . . . D - -' ' 'z ',f,j ' ' . . r- ,ii . . 1 ' r 4, , . , 'L , ' 'L ' ', ar -z ' - .' . f , ' r - C. . S. r-Z' . ,At Y a-J: I. v I' . .Y ay. 'r b.. . A . - ' . S v 1 A V . T K. ' ' L S' S Z . 1 V

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