Dakota High School - Talebearer Yearbook (Dakota, IL)

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JS S-aa, X-'r l' ' - 'Z hfafieff N1?7T5mf ...vxyt-A: I. Xgltllffjx he l. X A 1 , I.,-' H 1 ., . it - - fr, H. EI fi 'Afxm 1 XLR Nix -5f.'gI,:,' my P, :NN .- Vi fri . ., .1 it-,X xxx k - Z 1 F, -'JI -cs ,.5?'-- ' - 2f!XNnH'!?4ml V?Z','s: H l . . Q . I., i 5, ll., at Xl sis, O U R S C H 0 G L The community of Dakota has had atradition of . educational achievement rarely equalled by other mid-western areas of equal size and populationg Dakota claimed its one hundred-sixty acres of land devoted to school purposes by the Northwest Ordin- ance of 1787. Thus the Northwest Ordinances! 1787 was the earliest legislation affecting our school history. I The high school has changedin1nany ways. The space first used.was granted itby the primary room located in the old white frame school house of 1918, which was situated,in the north-west corner of the present school plot. This yspace was aptly described by a primary teacher of that time when she aside Uwe were separated only by.a six-inch ' board partition cf chicken coop slats through which theMmoretdaring'oQ5the primary students peeked at their 61dertbr0fhers.and sisters.n There wap'a'aucoeae5on of moves, the first in l9l9 when' the 'high ebhool ,was paved upstairs. Again Mthei were.separated fromi the lower grades, this t1m?'oy at partltlbn of thin boards through whoaerknot-holes enterprising boys-would fire paper wadswat one another? - - p' It was not until l92O that-the present brick building ar District aeiwas' builp beuinahuhe are frame school houses This bime when the high school moved they did not havg eyen seats to useftbut 'ig their places tables .la an, chairs. Ng The high school was housedjn the grade school building until 19535 the 'firstg year in the annex