Bridgeport Township High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Bridgeport, IL)

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1 J' Also to Miss Ella Dean another senior sponsor, for her untlrlng efforts in our behalf for the ap preclation of the values of true learning and scientific precision her splendid example of moral up FlQhfh888 and for her willingness to give special help we dedicate e r er o I To Miss Catherine Lytle, for her many years of unselfish devotion to the students of Bridgeport High School for her warm and friendly Interest In each of us, for the un splration she has given us to become good citizens, and for her efforts lh behalf of this annual we dedicate t e 'Barker of I 5 -. S 55 1 V 4 . . - iq n 95 . I I I I I I 1 , ' 1 that she has instilled in us, for I I th 'Ba k ' f 955. fir' ,,

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MISS Lytle RCSIQHS Slnce the dedlcatlon page was planned MISS Dean has dec1ded to be wlth us agaln next 'year 1n5tead of retnmg Everyone IS very much pleased especlally suence students On the other hand vxe deeply regret the cond1t1on of M15 Ls tles health that led her to res1gn VvO1dS cannot express what she has meant to the students of ll'llS school 101 the past Thnty two years Sha has becn most actwp 1n the Lxtxacurrlcular pm Iam ID addltlon to her supelb Wo1k Ill the class loom M155 Lvtle 5 A Message From M155 Lytle Thuty two happy 59315 I spent at B T H S lm xuy thankiul 1o1 the hundreds ol rontac 5 l made md lOl the coope1at1on of th. aeu ty and tudents N3 1 y b st xxx has o x tm ll t X e 115 to come , A . I. X 5 5. q 7 ' ' s W' ' 1 . ' ' . A., L. L. , A. . ' . 4 ' . U , K. ,j L f , ' , ' 2. .. ' , . - Q , ' ' ' A. , . , ' A L. . I ' U dearly loved by all with whom she has come in Contact. I ' ' ' ' 'f .' ' .-.. l 7 X ' ' 7 A - . 5' - 1 L 1 e 1 ' n 1 ' l ' s 5 1lj v'11'- ep . g vi l a of you in he .fl E l I '

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Bndgeport H1gh School We apprecxate the fme school plant that has been provlded for us Each year new lmprovements are added to keep lt up to date so that our students w1ll have the best educat1onal opportun1t1es Dr C M LEWIS one of the flrst board members who 1S now 88 years old tells th1s lnterestmg hlstory of our bulldlngs In the year 1908 an elect1on vsas held to vote bonds to bu11d a h1gh school 1n Brldgeport A board of educatlon was elected and they purchased a Slte for the school that had one house upon lt whlch could be used for a one room school It was equlpped w1th school furmture and a teacher was hlred for the begmmng of Brldgeport Townsh1p Hlgh School There were about forty puplls for that f1rst term m 19081909 Then school bulldlngs and a pr1nc1pal and three teachers were employed About 75 puplls attended the term of 19091910 and there was one graduate The attendance grew from year to year and 1n 1917 the north half of the present bulldlng was erected Ten years later 1n 1927 the gym naslum was bullt All bond 1ssues for the bu1ld1ngs were promptly pald w1th1n the allotted t1me Improvements are contlnually belng made 1n the or1g1nal bulldlngs to enable them to serve better the changmg needs of the student body Also 1n 1952 an agrlculture bu1ldmg was placed back of the gymnaslum Our hlgh school d1str1ct has expanded 1n recent years unt1l lt now contalns 1161!2 square mlles, l1'1ClUdlI'1g some terrltory ln Crawford County We are proud of our past and look w1th conf1dence to our future contracts were let for the building of the south half of the present