Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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TA TLER 3 ior his health, prosperity, and happiness. R. B. C. RICHARDSON, the new principal of the Alton High School has long been familier to the pupils of the High School, and to the citizens of Alton. Born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, he received his early education in the Academy at Mexico, New York. After a year’s experience as teacher in a country school, lie entered Syracuse University and there received the degree of A. B. in 1893. He became a teacher in the Alton High School in 1895, was made assistant principal in 1900, and has since been identified with the school and its interests. His familiarity with the school and its methods, his long acquaintance with the pupils, and the respect and affection entertained for him by all the members of his classes, have made it possible for him to perform successfully a difficult feat—to succeed a man like Mr. Turner, who, during a prineipalship often years, had made himself almost indispensable, to carry on the work without friction or hindrance, and to make the present year one of the most successful periods in the history of the school. Mr. J. E. Turner, whose years of service in the High School will long he gratefully remembered by the present students and by the Alumni who enjoyed the benefit of his instruction, counsel, and sympathy, carried with him, upon his departure from our city, the heartiest wishes of all the pupils They felt that the present high rank of the Alton High School among the schools of the state is largely due to his intelligent supervision and to his wholesouled devotion to the interests of the school. They have transferred their allegiance to Mr. Richardson and are ready to support his efforts to raise the standard of the school and to make it more efficient than it has ever been before; but loyalty to the new and highly esteemed principal does not forbid an affectionate recognition of the long and valuable services of his pre-lecessor.

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“TH E T A 'I T E A C II E KS IN T II K A L I Carrie G. Rich (111. State Normal).. Bertiia VV. Ferguson, A. B...... Helen A. Naylor, A. B........... Carolyn M. Wempen, B. S......... E. Carl Watson, A. B............ J. Horace Kraft, A. B........... E. L. King, A. B. B. S........ Josephine (I. Gilmore, A. B..... Lucille T. Burnail B. S......... Minnie M. Boals................. Katherine Hack.................. LER '5 O N II I ( II SC II OO L. .History and Civics. . Latin and German. .Commercial and Mathematics. . .English and Mathematics. ..Mathematics and Physics. . Biological Science. .English and Mathematics. . English. . Latin and English. .Supervisor of Music. ..Supervisor of Drawing.