Calumet High School - Temulac Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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MR. GLENN C. WORST Principal

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permission to start planning the new building. After long months of careful preparation, he submitted tentative floor plan sketches made by the schools mechanical drawing depart- ment for a building which would meet the re- quirements of the district. After being carefully examined, these plans were accepted as the basis of the school which We are now in. The district southwest of 79th and Halsted was not built up until after World War l. Even though the last of the Hollander truck farmers sold his land about l908, real estate companies and individuals alike held their property, hop- ing that prices would go up. ln the early '20's, two sub-divisions-Chester Highlands and Chester Highlands Flats-were opened up. The five years between l923-28 saw one of the most amazing building programs ever wit- nessed in Chicago - whole blocks of bunga- lows and two-flats went up almost simultane- ously from Green to Damen. And along with the new homes, the new high school building was erected at 8 lst and May. ln the fall of l926, it was not quite ready for occupancy but the freshman divisions moved in and classes were held while the car- penters and electricians finished the interior. lt was a bleak, dull day in November of l926 when the remainder of Calumet's 800 pupils tramped the mile between the old and the new school. Arms loaded with books, drawing boards, sports equipment and as much of their belongings as they could carry, they presented an unforgettable picture, trudging to occupy their new and beautiful school. Not only did the district grow rapidly but students from all over the south side sought permission to attend. By Tune l933 Calumet enrolled 4700 students, a 550 79 increase since moving into the new building. Fully half of these students were housed in one room port- ables which crowded the court and filled the athletic field. With their coal stoves and cor- rugated iron roofs they were anything but com- fortable. Following the economy reorganization by the Board of Education, students were required to attend school in their own districts, and Calumet opened in September with ll00 fewer students than when the school closed in Tune. Old Calumet tWestcottl was used as a branch and Calumet's 26 portables were soon re- moved, World War ll changed Cal's history again. She sent l,954 alumni and students to war, of whom 95 did not return. At home the enroll- ment dropped, and in September '42 the branch was closed and its students and teachers were moved to the main building. Until l9ll4 the school was on a double shift with the shops running an extra period, 8:00-4:25. At that time the enrollment dropped to such an extent that the school could go back on single schedule. At present Calumet's enrollment is about 2,500, the number for which the building was originally planned. COMPOSITE I-IGROSCOPE AS wAs POPULAR IN THE EARLY TEMULACS LEWIS EIUGER EONA OLSON LHEINLEINJ NILDRED BECKER CRAHNJ EVELYNLARSENCRAPKA A DOROTHY TULNERINUELLE v DARLENE SPENCER X DISCOVERED WAY TO MOON GOVERNMENT SERVICE DRESS DESIGNER TEACHER AT CALUMET GYM INSTRUCTOR RANCH OWNER LANGUAGE TEACHER HAS GONE TO JA RAN SQIENTIOT JOHN BOYLE KM? NURSE IN CHINA HNETTE WASKAIHAIESTROMT v COACH .AT CALUNET GEORGE BOYLE 'QM LOST UOGCONRANION HELEN VALENTINE CDAVIDGE RIANIGT ETHEL IVIEALIEF I CHORUS GIRL MARGARET ROBERTSON G XWEALTRY EARLIER RUBY EREMONT qw HELEN R WE '- Q sit EI Ir NIRIAM MOORE IROBERTS MOVIE ACTRESO V 'U DOROTHY GORDON iw- A It

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l MR. EDMUND B. DALY Assistant Principal Mr. Glenn C. Worst this year celebrated his tenth anniversary as principal oi Calumet. During these troubled years the school has had to adjust to war time pressures as well as to post war problems. Only two other principals have served longer than he has. Mr. A. S. Hall organized Calumet as a town- ship high school, and then saw it admitted to Chicago and housed in the Au- burn Park Grammar School to which two additions were added in l897 and l9U3. Under him the enrollment grew from 48 to about 600. When Mr. Hall transferred in lQl3, Mr. Grant Eeebe succeeded him as principal. Foreseeing a rapid growth oi population in the Calumet district, he began making plans tor a new building. When the Bos rd ot Education purchased the two-block site at 8lst and May he had the mechanical drawing classes make the blue prints lor the building. lt was Miss Genevieve Melody, however, who moved Calumet into the new building in the fall oi 'ZS She also had the distinction ot being the tirst woman principal of a co-educational high school in Chicago. During her administration, Calumet experienced a phenomenal growth. Following in quick succession after her death in '33, came Mr. Tower, Mr. letfrey, Mr. Bartky, and Mr. Downey who served from l to 3 years each. PRINCIPALS 889 l9l3 ,... .... A von S. Hall l935-l936 . ,, .... Robert G. Ieffrey l9l3 l924 .. ..... Grant Beebe 1936-l937 . .. .,.. Iohn A. Bartky 24 l925 . . . . . . , Willis E. Tower 1937-l94U . . , ..., Elzy F. Downey l925 l933 . . . . . . Genevieve Melody 1940- . .,.. Glenn C. Worst 933 l935 .... . . . Willis E. Tower