Clinton High School - Clintonia Yearbook (Clinton, IL)

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THE CLIO 19 12 THE FACULTY H. H. Edmunds, Superintendent. Thos. [. Wilson, Principal. Jessie M. Cline, Latin and Mathematics. Frances Leonard. English. Helen M. Hicks, English and Mathematics. Katherine Oliver, Domestic Science. Grace McIntire, Latin and German. Frances Abbott, Science. Marion Nichol. H istory. Guy Nichols, Manual Training. Guna C. Kei.ley, Music. 8

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THE CLIO 1912 The Clinton High School THE Clinton High School, erected at a cost of $50,000, was dedicated February 12, 1909. It is a magnificent structure consisting of twenty-five rooms, including Chemical and Physical laboratories, Domestic Art, Manual Training, and Mechanical Drawing departments, office, library, recitation rooms, and the assembly ball. I he main entrance is on the west, facing Jackson Avenue, the most beautiful thoroughfare in the city. The entrance is adorned with two Greek columns of Bedford stone, reaching almost the entire height of the building, giving it a massiveness that is stately and beautiful to look upon. The interior of the building is modern in every respect. The woodwork is finished in antique oak and the walls and ceilings are tinted in colors to harmonize in the most artistic decorations. The building is provided with an up-to-date ventilating system and an automatic heating plant. The high school course of study consists of work in the English, Latin, and German languages, Mathematics, History, and Science. To this is added work in Manual Training and Mechanical Drawing, Domestic Art and Household Science. 'Flic Faculty is made up of eleven teachers, all of whom have had extensive work in the subjects they teach, in the leading colleges and universities of the West. The Clinton High School is on the accredited list of all the leading Universities, and any graduate may enter these institutions without examination. 7

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THE CLIO 1912 Sui’T. H. H. Edmunds Mr. Edmunds was born in Gardner, Illinois, and graduated from the high school at that place in 1885. After teaching several years in the rural schools, he entered the Illinois State Normal University, graduating in 1895. He later attended the Universities of Chicago and Illinois. He has served as superintendent at Lovington, Atlanta, and Rushville. He is instructor in Mathematics at the summer session of the Illinois State Normal University. Jessie M. Cline Mathematics Miss Cline was born in this city and is a graduate of the Clinton High School. She has attended James Millikin University at Decatur, and the Illinois State Normal University at Normal. Before teaching here, she taught in the Normal public schools. Prix. Thos. J. Wilson Mathematics Mr. Wilson was born in Richland County, Illinois. He received his early education in the schools of Patoka. Indiana. Later he attended the Indiana Normal at Valpariso, the James Millikin University at Decatur and the Illinois State Normal University. He was principal of the Lincoln school, this city, for four years, and in 1911 became Principal of the High School. ■ 9