Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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Vk HISTORY OF OUR SCHOOL There have been many changes in the Casey High School since it was organized in 1892 and graduated a class of three. Little by little it has become better organized, with a larger attendance, larger teaching force, better buildings and better equipment. The Casey Township High School was established in December, 1915. Its territory is composed of all of Casey Township in Clark County and Districts 4 and 5 in Cumberland County. The Board of Education was elected in January, 1916, and bonds to the amount of seventy thousand dollars were voted in March of the same year for the construction of a building. Work on the new building started in March, 1917, and proceeded as rapidly as could be expected considering the abnormal condition of the times. Some delay was experienced in getting labor and material. However, the building was fully equipped and ready for occupancy in September, 1918. The Casey Township High School is located four blocks east and three blocks north of the intersection of Main street and Central Avenue, which is the business center of the city. The grounds, consisting of thirteen acres, furnish ample room for an athletic field and any practical work in agriculture that may be desired. The high school building is a beautiful structure of brick and stone and it adds materially to the beauty of the city and surrounding country. The study room will accommodate approximately 400 students. The gymnasium is one of the best in this section of the state, being seventy-two feet long, fifty-four feet wide and eighteen feet high. On one side is a gallery where three hundred spectators may sit in comfort and on the other a stage sixteen by twenty feet. When the gymnasium floor is filled with chairs, it makes a room with a seating capacity of approximately one thousand. This offers exceptional advantages for community gatherings. On the first floor are the principal’s office, library, six class rooms, two cloak rooms, and two toilet rooms. On the upper floor are three laboratories—physics, chemistry and biology; also the science lectur room, two class rooms, Dean of Girls’ office, three rooms for the commeiv . department, and a teachers’ rest room. In the basement on one side is located a locker room and shower for the boys. Also a large Agriculture room with solarium and a large, well lighted manual training room. On the other side are the girls’ locker and shower rooms, a kitchen, modern in every way, fully equipped, with a dining room adjacent. Opening into the dining room is a sewing room. These two rooms are connected by folding doors and can be thrown into one large room when necessary. The building is steam heated and ventilated with the fan system which insures an abundance of fresh air at all time. Gongs throughout the building, regulated by a master clock in the principal’s office, ring automatically. Each room has a telephone which is connected with the principal’s office. In fact nothing has been left out that would add to the efficiency and convenience of the school. Thirteen