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SCHOOL HISTORY Blacksmith and Wabasis Indians used to have undisputed possession of the land now covered by our city of Greenville. It was an extensive forest then abundant with wild-life, and dotted with lakes where the Indians fished. Flat River gurgled and leaped over the rocks on its way to larger waters. Probably Indian children splashed and played in the shallow water, for the [ndian village was on the river bank. This was the life until L844, when John Green brought his family to this locality, and built a half-roof shanty. At first there was not a white neighbor within six miles but soon Josiah Russell's family became Green's neighbors. The settlement had begun. It grew until it was incorporated as the village of Greenville in 1867. The first school, an imposing structure twelve by sixteen feet in dimensions and eight feet high, was opened in 1845, on Lafayette Street where our city hall now is. Miss Katherine Satterlee, a dashing brunette, was the first teacher to weild the beech-rod .For her salary she received the startling amount of nine shillings a week and the privilege of boarding at the homes of her pupils—there were twenty-five, including six Indian children. Later,at the corner of Cass and Lafayette Streets,a little red school house was built,which also served for church and public meetings, and was eventually made into the Eagle Hotel . At this time Greenville was important in the lumbering industry. Familiar sounds then were the clankings of chains, the stamping of massive horses and the song of the caw. The river now had a heavier load then before—it carried thousands of immense rough logs just cut, floating down the mill on the river bank. The town spread northward and more schools were built. Our Union School building was completed in 1869, at an approximate cost of thirty thousand dollars, and was later entered on the university list. Since Greenville was but a small village comparatively, at that time, the structure seemed rather large and expensive. It has since been partially burned, and a gymnasium and other parts have been added. How overwhelmed Miss Katherine Satterlee , Greenville' s first school teacher, would be if she came back and saw the complex development of our school system I How would) she like student government? And wouldn't she be thrilled by our journalism and occupation classes? I believe it would also be amazing for one of those first graduates to take a speech class from Mr.Hampton, learn the art of stage make-up, and to cap it all, see him do the notorious snow-bird act. Don't you agree?
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• 3 5 COMMERC IAL The typing students do much practical office work by typing the tests, programs, teacher's letters and slips besides typing the weekly SPECTATOR and the senior annual. The shorthand and stenotype students receive practice in dictation in the advanced classes and in the school offices. Commercial law is the study of rules of every day business. Parliamentary practice is taught one day a week. Alliquot parts, percentage, and interest are stressed mainly in business arithmetic. INDUSTRIAL The fundamental use of tools and the procedures of shop work are learned in Junior High School. In Shop, the senior high student,after learning to run the power machinery works on cedar chests, end tables, magazine racks, etc., according to his own ability. Mechanical drawing is a fundamental course in drawing and inking whereas machine drawing is just as its name implies. Architectural drawing covers a study of floor, elevation,and house plans. MUSIC AND ART Some subjects are taught to give students co-ordination of mind and hand.Some are taught to instill a love of the beautiful. Others are taught to stimulate the mind, but only one department teaches all three at the same time—the Music and Art Department. Under Mr. Roth the high school band and orchestra have been growing in their wealth of musical knowledge and ability as has the Girls' Glee Club under Mrs. Scarvell. Miss Miller's art classes have a varied program of projects of both practical and artistic value. Such as making designs, Christmas cards, lampshades, and posters for school and town activities, figure construction, sketching and book illustration. FOREIGN LANGUAGE parlez-vous francais? and everyone is bewildered as Miss Lau twitters on in French. The first year French course is a study of the fundamentals of French and the history and life of the French people. Second year French is a comprehensive study of French literature combined with translating several French classics. The Latin students won't,of course, attempt discoursing in the Roman tongue the first year. However even the general himself would approve of the way the army of thirty-four attack whole chapters of Caesar with barely a defeat.
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