Dakota High School - Talebearer Yearbook (Dakota, IL)

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F!!!MV5!'!HQ?W?5WWWWWTWWWNfdwwfhhwwwwfanew?wwewa Wwhgiggg wmgfift I 1--' Z M4 :Sr A -is QR -'-f-'- X .,xx-fx '--.f x THE SEHUDL EEXDMS . The community of Dakota has had a tradition of educational achievement rarely equalled by other mid-western areas of equal size and population. Dakota claimed its one hundred-sixty acres of land devoted to school purooses by the Northwest Ordin- ance of 1787. Thus, this ordinance was the ear- liest legislation affecting our school history. Since the beginning, D. G. H. S. has changed greatly. The first high school was in the old white frame Drimary school which was located in the northwest corner of the nresent school lot. This space was well described by a of that tins when she said, uve only by a six-inch board partition slates through which the more da mary students ceehed at their ol sisters. primary teacher were sebarated of chicken coop ing of the ori- er brothers and There were many-changes, the first in 1919 when the high school was -moved upstairs. Again the rooms were separated from the lower grades, this time by a cartition of thin boards through whose knot-holes boys would fire caper wads at one an- other.. - f ' ' In 1920 the present brick building of District 55 was erected behind the old frame school house. This time when the high school moved they did not even have desks but in their placed were vtables and chairs. In 1938 the high school moved into the new annex built to the west of the grade school building. At the oresent time the high school occupies this annex which includes a gymnasium, the uoner floor of the grade school building, and a new agricul- tural building which was built in 1949 on the UOPUI -end of the athletic field, Before the gymnasium