Dupo Community High School - El Tigre Yearbook (Dupo, IL)

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Foreword The D.C.H.S. Tiger is introducing the first graduates, Mrs. Esther Dyroff Barrett and Mrs. Hilda Dyroff Dodson, class of 1919, to Rita lvy and Gregg Groce, class of 1969. This year our book, with pride in our school, commemorates the graduation of the fiftieth class from D.C.H.S. This class continues the story of progress that started on May 29, 1919, when the first two grad- uates, Miss Hilda Dyroff and Miss Esther Dyroff, received their diplomas from Mr. Arthur Goley, presi- dent of the board of education. We will attempt to relate our achievements in many areas: the academic, the athletic, and the social. Through the past fifty years hundreds of students have attended D.C.H.S., studied in its many class- rooms, participated in its various activities, and enioyed the warmth of friendship. Each one has contrib- uted in his own way to its history, while growing in knowledge, understanding and maturity. We hope that our future graduates will attempt great things, achieve great things, and that the world will be a better place because of them. 4

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Dedication We, the class of I969, wish to show our appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Daugherty for making such a valuable contribution to our school. For the past four years, we have come to understand and appreciate their remarkable leadership and outstanding characteristics. Mr. Daugherty graduated from Knox College in Galesburg. He also did graduate work at the University of Illi- nois and the University of Iowa. Mr. Daugherty started officiating at football and basketball games and finally reached the goal of all high school officials when he was appointed to officiate in the Illinois State Basketball Fi- nals at Champaign in I 938 and I939. His officiating continued until I942. In I943 Mr. Daugherty came to Dupo as principal of the High School and served until I956 in this position. When Unit District I96 was formed he was appointed superintendent, a position he held until the end of the I967-1968 school year. Mr. Daugherty belongs to Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Delta Kappa, which are professional honoraries. He is listed in Who's Who in the Midwest and Illinois Lives. He has served as president of the St. Clair County Teachers' Association and the St. Clair County Administrators' Association. He has served in Kiwanis, Rotary, and Lions Club. He is also a Mason. Mrs. Daugherty received a diploma from Chicago Musical College. After teaching at two different high schools, she then decided to enter the Library School at the University of Illinois. In l948 Mrs. Daugherty was hired as the Dupo High School librarian, and held this position for twenty years. Included in the many organiza- tions in which Mrs. Daugherty participates are Federated Women's Club, Dupo Women's Club, Zonta Club, and Volunteer Service Organization of Christian Welfare Hospital. In I 959 Mrs. Daugherty received the International Service Roll Citation from Gamma Phi Beta, and in l968 received honor for more than five hundred hours of service as a pink lady at Christian Welfare Hospital. y 3

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i'No more teachers, no more books . . the Dupo Grade School children shouted with tradi- tional glee as they faced their sum- mer vacation one afternoon in May, l9l5. The last day of school held no significance for the members of the eighth grade class for it marked the end of formal education. There was no high school, and entrance into college meant a stiff examination for which few were qualified - to say nothing of the cost which few could afford. This was the situation that warm evening in June when the Board of Education convened for its regular session. Times had changed, and now more and more education was being required for the better iobs in which teenage boys and girls could gain greater advancement. Tiger Tales l 9 l 9- l 969 i 4 F 5 ROW ONE: left to right: Melba Vallowe, Adela Reichert, Ruth Hamilton, Alfred Muskopf, Elizabeth Hume, Isabella Watkins, and Mr. Frank Wildy. SECOND ROW: left to right: Opal Kysor, Grace Cun- ningham, Esther Dyroff, and Adele Kruse. Members of the board, including Principal F. R. Wildy, President H. W. Schwartz, and Secretary F. G. Fischer, resolved that higher classes of learning were essential for the welfare of Dupo's children. Wildy was then authorized to proceed immediately with Dupo's first two-year high school. The first classes of Dupo High School were held in a room on the second floor of the old part of the Dupo Grade School. The high school and seventh grade shared this room, which contained twenty-five seats and a stage built ' CICFOSS One COFFISF. When classes began the next year, the board's enthusiasm was not completely shared by Dupo's citizens, for only fourteen students enrolled in the newly established high school. In l9l 7, the third year's work was added, and Dupo High School neared the Board's goal of a full-fledged, full- accredited intermediate school. ln two more years, the enrollment had grown to thirty-one, and the Board of Educa- tion was proud of the fledging high school they had nourished. On Moy 29, l9l 9, Dupo's first two graduates received their diplomas from Mr. Arthur Goley, School Board Presi- dent. lt became apparent at this time that the high school was too limited in its facilities. Yielding to the demands of progress, the board decided that establishment of a community-wide high school district would provide the correct answer to the financial problems. Such a district would make it possible to raise more funds, serve more people and pupils, have a better building, and offer a larger variety of courses. lt was a great day - then May l5, l92O, when a petition signed by 56 legal voters was presented to the county superintendent of schools, W. A. Hough, and an election was called for June 5, l92O. 5