Chanute High School - Elms Yearbook (Chanute, KS)

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CI-IANUTE FLYING FIELD, RANTOUL, ILLINOIS Official Photograph, U. S. Army Air Corps Published by Permission of Chief of Air Corps DEDICATION To Octave Chanute, the civil engin- neer who surveyed for the Santa Fe lines through this town which bears his name and whose Great Beginnings are responsible for that marvel of modern civilization, aeronautics, we gratefully dedicate the 1928 Elms. We hope that this annual, in pictur- ing Beginnings in our city and our school, will inspire us to utilize our Beginnings for the advancement and progress of the world of today.

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yfn, jfzbeginnin The first public school in Chanute was held in 1870-71 in a small carpenter shop on iwhat is nowl North Highland. In '72 the Pioneer School, a four room, brick building, was built on land donated by John Wimer, father of Mrs. C. T. Beatty of this city. Additions were built at two different times later, and the build- ing, before lt was burned in 1913, was a. nine room building as shown above. The next year after the fire, the present high school was erected on the site of the first 0116. BUILDINGS WNW