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Page 21 text: “THE SPECTATOR STAFF Editor-ir -CHicr.......Roberta Bowman Assistant EdiTon,.•••••••••••Maxine McCartney Circulaticn Manager .,0„ 0........Stanley Cady Assistant Circulation Mgr...........Irene German Joke Editor....................••••••Harold Montgomery Assistant joke Editor ...............Thomas Day Literary Editor ...,„,............. wDorothy Weidner Assistant literary Editor...........Donald Hayes Art Editors...............Mary Louise Speck Charles Carson Margaret Drickner Joan miller Calendar Edi tor. • Pew i tt y.'yc or Assistant Calendar Edi tor............ Ruth reed Activities Editor.. ., ...a.. ..»«.«• -3etty Pcijk'ns Assistant Activities editor........J0H;, Babcock Alumni Editor.......................Ruth tucker Assistant Alumni Editor..............Margaret Reinhart Athletic Editor., (boys).............Paul Mulv ney Assistant Athletic Editor...........Donald Corney ATHLET IC ED I TOR. , (Gl{ LC .Rl'TH Ceeney Assistant Athletic Editor ,.......•••Helen Pjllen Typists........................... .Arlene Plack Keith Savage Assembly Editors Lucille McDonough ”
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Page 22 text: “Of?IMF I ELD TO’.VNSH' P HI bH SCHOOL Hi) H n a S IN 1339 3EFDRE CHARLESTON DECAME Hn IMF IELD, ILLINOIS, A pCHOOL HOUSE WAS BUILT FOR THE FIRST TIME WITHIN THE DDUNDARICS OF THE SMALL FRONTIER TOWN. IT WAS CF HARDWOOD AND LOCATED NEAR THE oeoroe LaFollette place. Later an academy was guilt and operated GY THE PROM INERT CITIZENS AS A SELECT SCHOOL. THIS GUILD I NO, WAS GOLD TO THE METHODIST CHURCH, AND IT WAS RUN AS A SEMINARY CUT LATER 30UGHT SACK OY THE SCHOOL GUARD, AND IN THE LATE FIFTIES IT WAS DEMOLISHED DY A TORNADO. ThIC DUlLDING WAS REPLACED DY A FRAME GUILD!NG OF TWO FLOORS, THE FIRST HAVING TWO ROOMS AND THE SECOND ONE LARGE ROOM AND A SMALL ROOM FOR RECITATIONS AND TO SERVE AS AN OFFICE FOK THE PRINCIPAL. EACH ROOM IN THIS GUILDINC CONTAINED A STOVE AND THE JANITOR RECEIVED C-3.0C PER MONTH. The OLD SCHOOL 0UILDIN3 WAS MOVED TO WHERE THE TOWN HALL NOW STANDS AND WAS USED AS A FURNITURE STORE UNTIL IT OURNED SEVERAL YEARS LATER. The PRESENT GRADE 'UILD»NG WAS C'JlLT IT; 1877 JUST NORTH OF THE OLD SCHOOL SITE. THE COST OF THE DU ILnI NO AND FURNISHING WAS ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE UUILD»NG HAS TWO FLOORS AND SIX DEPARTMENTS, FIVE OF WHICH WERE USED UNTIL i9!C WHEN THE INCREASE IN STUDENT BODY PUT THE REMAINING RO M INTO USE. IN 1894, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF G, V. ETTITS, A TWO-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL COURSE WAS ESTABLISHED. PREVIOUS TO This, THE IDEAL GOAL OF THE STUDENT WAS A CERTIFICATE TO TEACH. In 1399, A THRGC-YEAR COURSE WAS SUPPLEMENTED FOR TWO-YEAR COURSE AMD IN 1903, THE COURSE DECAME THE FOUR-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL COURSE. FROM TIME TO TIME SINCE THEN ADDITIONAL COURSES HAVE DECN ADDED TO THE CURRICULA TO MAKE IT COMPLETE IN EVERY LAY. UNTIL l9ll, ONE TEACHER DIRECTED ALL OF THE STUDENTS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL. AT THIS TIME A SECOND TEACHER WAS FOUND NECESSARY AN.” IH I9l6, WHEN THE SCHOOL BECAME A TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL, A THIRD TEACHER WAS ADDED, ALONG WITH A LABORATORY MAKING THE SCHOOL A RECOGNIZED INSTITUTION OF LEARNING DY THE UNIVERSITY OF iLLlNClS, WHICH INFORMATION WAS OFFICIALLY GIVEN TO DR IMF I ELD ToVfNCHlP HIGH SCHOOL, ApRlL 2, 1918, Until I9i7, the high school v as a pant cf Pist nct 15, gut at THAT TIME IT DECAME A SEPARATE DISTRICT KNOWN AS Cl ST ICT 157, OUR NEW HIGH SCHOOL GUILD INC WAS STARTED AS A P.W.A, PROJECT IN THE WINTER OF 1935. FORTY—FIVE PERCENT OF THE COST WAS RECEIVED from the Federal government. the remaining cost was provided FOR GY A LOCAL BOND ISSUE WHICH CARRIED 12 TO 1, The NEW BUILDING AFFORDS AIL THE FACILITIES OF A MODERN HIGH SCHOOL, INCLUDING SCIENCE APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT AS WELL AS HISTORICAL, LITERARY, INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE ARRANGEMENT. V E RELIEVE OUR BUILDING T. RE ONE OF THE FINEST FOUND ANYWHERE IN A TOWN THE SIZE OF BR1MFI ELD. ■JGaI© ”
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