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

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,'lw ' Qlulnnrl Ilialph Illumh Emtnr nt' thv man hmlhmg nf thr Etreatnr auwxtahip Hugh Srhnul The daw of the dedlcatlon of the new hlgh school burldlng xx as a memorable one ln the hls ton of Streator Col Plumb sald ln lus plesentatlon speech It IS nn cheerful contrlbutlon to the a1d of that sw stem ot popular 9dl1C'1IlOI1 controlled and conducted under state laws on sshxch the people ot the repubhc must largelv depend for the perm menu of our mstltutxons N A P Vvflghi who aCcepted the gltt 1n behllf ot the toxxnshlp expressed the teellng ot the people 1n the words Happv IS that COIllIllllIlltj xxhlch numbers tmong lts cltlzens those who possess both the mlnd and the means to do good Governor tullotn saxd 1n the oxatlon ot the OCCBSIOH The far reachmg consequence ot tol Plumb s benehcence none of us are able to toresee At the Song Banquet whrch closed the dedrcatlon cetemomals the toastmastel was Nlr J T Nlurdoclc orchestra muslc was IlllIllShOd by the xxelllcnown btreator l'llllSlLl tIlS the XX ood fam 112 'incl The l-lover Song XXIIIIQII tot the oc 351011 bx lll X P XX rlght was sung to music composed bs Nlr I F XXIUIZUIIS U1 l'dNNll1 Exans uho ts PIQQIGEIII of the Board ot Trustees tecened the kexs ot the building bcque lthed to the school lll 18m hls xeu complete collectlon By 11409 the growth ot the school mule nec ssan the bondlng of the l0NYllShlD d1st11ct for the hlllldlllg ot the generous uddltxon -Xml '1dJ1t1on1l sptce N111 probxblw soon hate to be pro uded tot a gI'OXNlllg enrollment xxluch 'tt ple elt IS xpproulnng tue hundred The fnst cltss gl'lllll2lftd ln the Omni ll Hill June I td 18 6 Its members were sexen Nlx 0 B Rwon the dlSI1I'lglllShGll ltgxslxtnc etpext ot the N ttlonal Board of Plre l ntlerullters who is a DI'1Wll9gt'd senlox rn the du ot nh us tl to 'lttl tct 1 clrcle about htm bx hrs spnlted rexdlngs trom Nlfuk Tualn 8ND9CllllN 'llle .Iumpmg PHIL, Nlxs Inez Pades Strlte whos seruces to Streator Hlgh as a skllled texcher 0 Ill'lIll9lll'lllCS extended through thlrtx xears and whose present 'lCll'vlt19's ln Stlextol nd almost es eu helptul pllblltl' cause Nlrss Dorothw Baker whose broad helpfulness radutmg txom hex central loc mon ln The B1g Store causes her to be sought as consultmg tdusor on mmm matters bw an nnazlng number of Streator CIIIZQHQ Nlrss Nlwrtle S Pnlcher deceased whose 'lbllltj as an lnstructor ln German nn our school has rarely 7 Q , i, I l ' ' v U . . V Y . I 1 ' . . . 1 Q 7 .4 ' tv v , ' ' . ' ' ' at N , - ' . . . V V A . s' . . 5, . n.' . 5. ' . 'S , 1 , , w sg 7-I J. v - . - V 1 ' . . H .' , . . , . ' . ' . . . ' Y - ix. - ' ' ' , ,Z K.. ' CC' 'B - . . - ' of Zoological and geological specimens. 1 ' -I , , V ' B. , Z V SSA.: .bv I ' v L, ' .' . , A ' ' ' , . L. 2 ' ' V A I , ' ' 2 K. 2 , -' 1 if L. 1 V I ' -L. . iss .1 , - , .' , 2 . L3 . ' S7 'V S ... . S I Y I A .I . D V- ' 'S ' , , 'sz ' . , I . ' .'z ' I 1' ' . .' B. ' z s ' : ' zjs ' ' .2 . 'z' 1 ' ' j : , 2 ' . -. A I .V . - v I. ,-2 b, .t s ' Q. ,Hz A .M I B. L ' ' . sf, . . ,' , . . ' I : .' l , I S I I ' A ' -, .. . , . , C ' ,' ' 3 ' . 2 . 2 ' I B - .J ' ' A. 1 A ' .s. . -. , - . . 1 . 1 '. ' ' . 1 . .1 ' ' '4 ' 1 s , 4 . -. 1 ' 2 v's Z -v -v Z r' ' ' L: A ' B A iv ' ' ' 5 , , As 4 ' ' v ' . s ' ' s

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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 '

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IUUFUQ 'MLB HARDSCRABBLE M 133 been equalled Nlrss Carrre S Ryon deceased daughter of Dr Ryon of Amboy Nlrs Cora An derson Frres to whorrr rs the double drstrnctron of berng presrdent of the school board of Arcadra Nebraska and wrfe of Ex State Senator Ifrres and Mrs Ida Fleshman Barrckman now of 'Xian kato Mrnnesota who has rarsed nrne chrldren to young womanhood and manhood rn the way they should go Dr Robert Barrckman 10 berng one of the srx sons Of course these of the Class of t6 had therr commencement salutatorron and valedrctorlon and indrvrdually delrvered essays from the platform on such thenres as We are not our own and Srmon says Thumbs up Just as we of 94 stood up strarght rn our reallv srnrple graduatrng frnery and proudlv read our efforts on W estward the course ot emprre takes rts wav and Pussy wants a corner our labored lmes berng lrberfrlly helped out wrth quotatrons from Danrel Ny ebster and Lucy Larcom all rn the approved way of the days of 76 S6 And who shall say rt was not a good wav The musrc for that frrst comnrencement was furnrshed by the schools own male quartette and glee club srngrng Away o ex the frelds X achtrng glee etc Among the many worthres of other earlv classes who made thrngs rnterestrng along erthel socral or scholastrc lmes or both were Long John Maher 78 Mrs Sadre Atherton Haste 7 Nlrs Susan froswell Moore Harry W Lukrns and fharles E Ryon of 79 Elmer F Ames and Iohn Purcell of 81 Mrs Wrllre VVoods Welch 82 Charles Sawyer and Mrs Ida Moon Thompson of 84 Dr Rov Sexton Q5 Robert Fmley 87 and Nlrs Josre Ellrott Krohn 88 All of us would probably accept as true what George North Taylor of 90 has sard that a school's usefulness rs measured by how well rt frts rts young people for the ordrnary walks of lrfe Measured by thrs yvrse standard Streator Hrgh s roll of eleven hundred alumnr rs a satrsfy lrlg 0110 'Nlost of the young women have gone rnto homemakrng partnershrps and the young men are known to be rndustrrously laboring for brgger better thrngs rn the home crty and state and rn near and far away states To some alumnr has come the call to do the more unusual thrngs Frank Hess 89 rs called the Freak Metal Man rn the Unrted States Survey Wrll Wrarth 90 rs superrntendent of the Internatronal Smeltrng and Refrnrng Company at Toele Utah a branch of the Anaconda Cop per Company of Montana Charles Anderson 83 has retrred from a crowded lrfe as ranchman and rallroad promoter rn Montana Calvm French 82 recently presrdent of Huron College South Dakota IS now travelrng extensrvely as lecturer for Presbyterran college extenslon Mrss Florence Kerby 90 rs wrnnrnga hrgh place on the stage rn New Bork Crty whrle 'Nlrss 'vlora Nlurdock 03 and her srster Lerta 06 are talented performers rn concert work rn Chrcago Volney Croswell 05 now of 'Slew Jersey rs one of the trusted men of the Hercules Powder Company belng superrntendent of the plant producrng T NI T the hrghest explosrve known to the world Davrd Anderson 84 was for years county superrntendent of the sfhools of Lrttle Grundy and lS now a drstrngurshed lawyer of Jolret Glenn Plunrb 85 who rs an author of natronal reputa tron on labor adjustments rs attornev for one of the four great rarlroad brotherhoods wrth head quarters rn Washlngton D C Lreut Commander Nlrel Xvrrght 1900 Annapolrs 1914 formerly executrve offrcer of the Chattanooga rs now commander on shore duty rn the capacrtv of navv e pert rn 011 land rnvestrgatrons rn Washrngton D C Ireut Dr Srdney XVolferman 05 follow rng hrs vears of tralnlng at the St Lours Hosprtal was recommended by government authorltles for specral servrce courses rn plastrc surgery and rn the treatrrent of troplcal dlseases Thurlow Fssrngton 02 showed as the frrst busrness manager of our hrgh school paper The Revrew the hrlrty to accomplrslr thrngs whrch has recently landed hrm rn the State Senate 'llrss Lllllan Crrggs 0? VSelleslev 07 frrst edrtorrn chref of The Reyrew has had charge of the Barr branch of tlre St Lours publrc lrbrarv but rs at present wrth the A L A at Newport News 'ylrs Margaret St Clarr Davrson 91 has traveled around the world three trmes rn comrng to see her Streator frrends from her far home rn Bombav Indra Roland Ellrott 12 a menrber of the lnternat1onalComm1ttee of X 'XI C A s rs Secretary for the Southern Drstrrct wrth head quarters at San Antonro Texas hrs work berng wrth the college students of that wrde stretch of terrrtory The hrgh school has been fortunate rn the type and the length of serylce of the crtr7ens who have been wrllrng to assume publrc responsrbrlrty on rts Board of Fducatron and Township Board of Trustees 'ylr F ll Barley has served tlrrrty two years as Townslrrp Treasurer Mr O B Ryorr served srx consecutrye terms as '1 board member untrl hrs dutres as an rnsurance offrcral caused hrm to dwell largely rn Sprrngfreld and fhrcago Mr lorrrs Nater has deyoted an equal 8 1 1 r A5 , rf rQ 1 -:W 'L' -gin! 9' ' 1: VL' .. , , ..r . , .. , , .. ,, JL .J+ J , J+ Y, , ., .,+ , 0 ' V U ' v 1 s ' 1 , . . , , . , 1 .. , - - Y ' .' 1 ' . . 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