East High School - East Echoes Yearbook (Green Bay, WI)

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‘Sculptors of Long -Ago ’ LS [XJN W. IlHKitiS MRS. ILXVUOtUXKS UOOKk l.yJon Y E 3 riggs served as. principal nf the E jigh School .in. I supervisor of grades on the I :nst side of the river from tSr l 10 iS??. J-te had a Civil Vv nr record, having served With the Seventh Wisconsin Eiattcry 1 lying Artillery from 1861 to I Spf It is said that to him is due the real organization of the seEtools into well defined grades and a separate high school department. It was under his direction that the first formal commencement tens held in t 7s Ml ' Brings later became one of Wisconsin ' s fare- most educators, arid mas connected with Oshkosh Normal School up to the lime of his death hi itfr? Mr. Briggs had an able assistant in Miss Ida Cordon ol E- ' ond du Lae a versatile instructor, who could present all of the high school subjects, it is said, except zoology. She was elected city superintendent in 1891. As Mrs. . D. Cooke r her home is m ( keen Bay m here she it. Mill keenly interested m things educational. bite is young in spirit and Last E ligh of u i considers her as one of its most loyal friends. Pa£?yii]f

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Did You Ever Stop to Think That Old East dates back to aBfcc when Professor Kurbcr decided to add Latin and mathematics to the course of the grades’ I’hui mi 1S60 there were only i high schools in the l nited Slates? That at that time Abraham Lincoln was elected President and that ihc Civil War hud not yet begun’ That at that time telegraphy was young and there were no telephones’ 1 Thiii the bale School ur the Old lirick built in iS fo wus the first school house owned by the city’ that it cosi origins lly Si .jec.oo ' That tine New East cost almost £700.009’ I hat ihe from pan of Lite Sale School shown in the picture was nut added until How small the first building muni have been That in 1.878 a small building was moved 10 the Sale School grounds to relieve the overcrowding in the grammar grades ' 1 hat the boys called this building the Hen Coop ' and laughed at those whose classes recited there’ That the Sulc School was named lor Mr I.. 14 Sale, a former president of the Board of Education? I hue when the first class was graduated ' do, under Graham Bell was experiment- ing with the telephone Thai the United States was not quite one hundred years old ' Thai General Grant was President of the United Stales ' That East has at least three alumni on the present faculty of the Lnlversitj of Wisconsin Henry Schuelte, l J h. IX, Carl Illicit:, A. M, and Madeline Wi liman Jackson 1 Thai iiast now has four alumni members on Us own faculty Misses Sc hu Lite, Waggoner and Zingshcim and Mr Wilson? that wu are no longer the Hill-Toppers ' ? Some Day We ll All Return Were E hot mv own master w diftti Mv seeps where ' er mv 1 hnugta v willed them lujiu. to foreign land would bv mv whim 1 know. So stud v peoples homes and diuk-et . I 1 ji£ to France ' s brifiht jj.iv capital And fcam the jcov Parisian carefree wavs When m Greece - ■■cylpinred rule of ttiv-,. As |u?rnn of the Art . J would enroll, S hen Ini hi- Ikivlern. eiainr riev I would torn And there nmtmjj the Orientals tpum I he joys iliil! «or rims nf our brothc r s day nr would L liny smaller erttmC rv spurn ItviL k’iim their mil nnyr-- ht fore I .itijiiLirn And turn my steps back to tlx: Ix5iiHn ' urd way P“S e X ' jjcAi

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The First Class With All the World Before It - In 1875 MAY THOMAS Ua J1 UtfliMjg uaYLukij U l : mkki$ FRED WHITE ROBT. NATHAN Xi AKA K, Oouia I EOiA5ED A Prophecy Fulfilled - the Success of Fifty Y ears On a June night in CS 75 the first formal commencement of Hast I lij»h School ur Liir Ureen Bay High Sclwot as it was known in those days, was held rhe class nu tribe red six. fou r girls and t wo hoys. Ail lt t lie lapse of (i ft y yea rs t heir successes u re oul t anding. Louise Norris, line valedictorian and honor student, lx came a successful business woman, t ler name is now Mrs Alfred Dana Ryder and her home is Kansas Cite Mo. Robert Nathan, saint atorian and honor student is now a successful broker in New York City L.ast year his sister, Maud Nathan, a graduate of Lhe Glass of i rr acid now a prominent social and civic worker of New York City, presented a group of interest ins historical pictures to her Alma Mater May Thomas of the famous class is now a member of the faculty of Ohio State Universitj Fred hitc. now a retired business rsliin, has been traveling abroad recently, Mary 3 . GouEd, who served as a leather in the Milwaukee City Schools, died some years ago, Unfortunately the Aeroplane was unable to obtain her photograph. The member of the class of 1K75 whom present East I is h students know ix’SL is Miss Katherine Gaylord. As an efficient teacher in the Junior High School she has guided the educational InoL steps of many hoys and girls. Green Bay owe:- her a debt of gratitude for her years of community service I heir former teacher, Mrs. Cooke, speaks of them in itjij us follows As I look over the many classes it strikes me that few of them have a larger percentage of successes than the firsL two or three of I 75 ?7- Pa.fi Tan