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Page 17 text:
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CHAFFEE'S FIRST SCHOOL The first school established in Chaffee was a two- room frame building on Gray Avenue. This was in 1905. However, the first successful school year began in Sep- tember, 1907. School was held in the wheat granary and in a frame building across the street from there. Miss Ara Finley raught the first grade, Miss Blanche Hicks, the second, third, and fourth; and Mr. Emerson of Morley, the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth. There was an en- rollment of one hundred and thirty four in the first grade that year. In the following year this increased to one hundred and fifty-seven. This number was so large that the pupils had to be divided into two groups. One group attended school in the morning, the other in the after- noon. There were no library books, references, charts, or blackboards that first year. Portions of the walls were painted to serve the purpose of blackboards. In the following year Miss Finley and Miss Hicks secured public subscriptions to begin the first school library. Another teacher was added the next—Miss Mattingly of Charleston. Mr. Ford was principal that year. There was also a small school on Helen Avenue. In
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CHAFFEE'S FIRST SCHOOL 1909 a brich building with four rooms and one office was erected on tne cornet of Fourth Street and Elliot Avenue. In 1910 a one-room frame senool was built and used for the primary grades for three years. In 1912 an addition was built to the bricn school which made an eight room school. Austin C. Walling was the first student to com- plete the four year course. In 1916 a three-story brick high school was built on the cornet of Yoakum Avenue and Fifth Street. In 1920 all of the building was crowded so a two-room frame building was erected on Fifth «.venue at a cost of approximately $3000. This building is used at the present time as a primary school. In 1921 the High School Gymnasium was built on the High School campus by public donations. The cost of the building was about j.6000. Judge J. V . Heeb was the first president of the school board and served for nine years in succession. He has been a member of the board for Id years. An addition was built to the present high school and on June 24, 1922, at 5:30 P. n. the cornerstone was laid. In the same year a Commercial Department was established c.nd in 1931 a Home Economics Department was added. Due to the influence of Superintendent Charles Scott, a night football stadium was erected in 1930.
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