Belleville Township West High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Rainy days and fair Winter, spring, or fall Our campus showed them all!! 1. During the fall, the trees dripped , but our spirit did not sag. 2. The Main Building is the oldest and most prominent building on campus. 3. The quadrangle and mall is Tilled with stu¬ dents every hour on the hour. 4. The snows this winter never got above an inch or two. 8 Campus scenes

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Our school is seventy years old In February of 1917 the high school class of 1916-1917 moved from Central High School in the third block of South Illinois Street to their new campus and Belleville Township High School was born. The Main Building and the Cafeteria-Shops Building held open house on the third of February. An enrollment of three hundred and forty-eight students and a faculty of sixteen, under the leadership of Principal H.G. Schmidt, met for the first time on Monday, February 12. TWenty-seven seniors graduated in the first BTHS class in June of 1917. The philosophy written in 1917 still stands in District 201 — “The construction of a thousand buildings fades into nothing beside the construction of a single mind.” Campus 7 10 .

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1. On a glorious spring day, the red, white, and blue flew proudly in front of our school. 2. Students trudged across the campus in one of the few snows during the winter. 3. Even though the leaves were falling, we still had to have P.E. classes outdoors. 4. We spent our thirty-minute lunch period in the Cafeteria Building, built in 1957, to eat and socialize with friends. 5. The west end of the campus was beautified with shrubs, flowering trees, and stone benches last summer. Campus scenes 9