Streator Township High School - Hardscrabble Yearbook (Streator, IL)

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Lg .,,mMAA S i 4' f Q W , .5 ',-' Streator Efuurnahup iitglp Srlpnnl Townshtp Trustees GEORGE W GRAHAM, President CHAS J ELLIOTT THOMAS M HOARTY A Bll of HISTOFQ Perhaps rennmscence would be a truer word In the tltle than hxstory Backward look mg more than present looklng may perhaps be expected from one whose memory as student and teacher 1n Streator Hlgh covers more than thlrty years Much more Illlght be sald m thls paper w1th as good cause for the saylng and perhaps much less ought to have been said To steer a nnddle course between pauclty and werboslty IS not easy The Streator Townshxp Hlgh School has a record of honorable achlevement from that sunny day shall we say IH the fall of 1870 when the few young people of advanced grade brought them selves and their DFGCIOUS Organ UD Bl00H11Ilgt0n Stleet from the old Central School ferected In 1869 on the D1 esent s1te of the Garfleld Schooll to the upper floor of Mr Samuel Plumbs bank building UIOW H1 Dart the home of the Free Pressy to a brlght day m June 1919 vhen more than seventv equally 'tmbltlous young people 1 ave the halls of the flnels equlpped blg butldmg of the present And the end of the honorable a hlevement 19 not vet Our h1gh school has the dlstmctlon of bem the thlrd one ln the state estabhshed under the townshlp system The organlzatlon was ln tru h an accomplxshment ot such leaders against the 1S st ll andlmmed The membels of the flrst Board of Lducatlon were F 'XI Rxon XX H Luklns A B Nloon and VK H Pllchel The bank bu1ld1ng quarters of as embly hall and two recltatlon rooms were left ln 1878 fo tho e of the old Nlethodlst Church on the spot where the Paptlst parsonage now stands Fw entu ally there were owertlow classes ln the Baptist Chulch dtlj0lIlll'lg' and Joyful was the feeling of the semors trusted to stloll across the lawn to tlus annex and teclte ln nts dlm lnterlor all ln rvulte college fasluon But 1n 1SS the school was permanently housed In tl1e present 1l'!1DOS1Ilg mam bulldmg on 1ts block square campus both the genexous glft ot Col Ralph Plumb who ln the days when Streator was called Hardscrabble was manager ot the Xernnlllon Loal Company hat opened the flrst mme The Slope -6 . . Y . , ' ' ' v . . ' . l 1 . ' . . ,. Y . . vt , opposition as Col. Plumb, Dr. Evans. and Mr. H. N. Ryon whose interest in Streator's prosperity 3 , .. T , V . ' , .. . ' . . . 4 ' ' - . . . . D - , U, , - -L v , - . V '