Springfield High School - Resume Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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No elty ever spent one hundred thousand dollars more W1SLlY The people of Sormffheld haue 1 lI1ffh school bL11lCl11'1U' and grounds that would be an ornament to any Cltb md such as 'ttfords great sat1sfact1on to all the people qtI'tI1f 'C1'S x1s1t1ng our elty are attracted by lt and are lavlsh ln thelr pruse of lt The school 1tsclf IS quxte ln keepmg wxth tne bulldmff and grounds domf mos' excellent vxork '1 here ls no doubt th xt these splcndld env1ron ments hue a most happy effect on the teachers md taught The faculty a 1d studen s are more or less 1nsp1red bx such charmmg COI'ltllt10l'lS 1867 Spmngheld took the Hrst step tow ard free educatmn Lp to th1st1me she h Ld no free schools She h td loner supportc d excellent pru ate srho ls Her first step ln the free school hue was to rent bl1lld1I'10'Q A representatu e men wts elected 1n 1861 and tn 1972 tlus Board issued twenty thousand 'ten twenty ' ten per cent bonds purchased a lot ne If the Pubhc Square and erected a fine twelve room bmldmff thereon Plus was to ac comznodate all the xxhxte elnldren of the c1tx and here vt as erected the work that was to culrmnate ln thxs new modern bu1ld1ng Durmg the twenty xears from the erectton of the first buxldmg near the Squ tre to the bu1ld1n0' of th1s new H11 h school n1ne other blllllllflffb have been added, so that she now hls elesen school lllllldlflgi n1ne tor whxtes and two for colored See has Grown from a cxty of four thousand to nearlx +l11rt5 thousand people and her schools hate lncreased from an en rollrnent of one thousand ln 1873 to nearly su thousand 1t the present tune and her hwh schools from Vero an 1901 to nxe hundred and nftg students ln 1909 Thus haxe Grown the educ1t1on1l mterests of Sprmgneld m the last llllfty Exe years J IAIIBXINRS L . ' , .' E .1 ' t If ' . 1 . - . . . 1 .3 ' ' yn ' o K 17 ' ' . '. . f ' ', : . ' , . ' . X. ' ', ' 1 . N . . 5 . . . , . . 1- - . . D . . . r v v Y V , .Q V X . . - .' . ' . . H' , . . 1 . . . F' 2 7 th . ' . ' Y , ' ' ' . In F ' Y ' . Q u . ' . ' k , n . , ' ' ' .. ' ' b, . Board of Education composed of some of the best business, and the most T . ' ' ' as ' C ', ' . ' ' A s - .' - - , . ' , X . . , . 5 I 7 L . Z n L - . kr bv -v l L I . ' I ,l 2 ' is - J ' v D ' . s 1 . K if ' . ' ' 71- ' ' ' s 5 'X V1 W V . ' . . . D c 1 V' . u ' - L Q -X -' '3 I 1 - ' . b . . , ' c 7, ' ' . ' -f .f . ' ... I - ' B' c . . . 41 Q 1 Y '. . Ps. I