Englewood High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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i V 4 0 4 I Ky. l .. r. tr C ' fx fi if-f P ': city Q. e, In A .,,,., . ...., , ,,..,, l 1 A ' A 1 1 4 , V I A DAYTON C. ATKINSON FLORENCE B, MANLEY EVA MITCHELL Second Year Fourth Year Third Year I V V Grade Principals N 1In flbemoriam MISS IESSIE M. LIVERMORE Miss Livermore was a member of the faculty of Englewood high school for nine years, from 1926 to 1935. She was born in Chicago in 1870. She graduated from the old Dearborn seminary for girls with honors, and next entered the University of Chicago, where she majored in art. After college Miss Livermore opened an art studio, and was commissioned to do stained glass windows for several Chicaqo churches. In 1898 she began her career as a teacher in the public schools and spent the remaining thirty-seven years of her life in this field. She taught art and English at Medill, Wendell Phillips, Crane, and Englewood. In each she made friendships with both the faculty and student body which lasted through the years. She was a member of the Chicago Women's Club, the Chicago Geographical Society, and the Central Eleanor Club. After a short period of illness, Miss Livermore passed away at the home of a friend on December 17, 1935. Services were held at the Hyde Park Baptist church. As a final gesture of farewell, music was supplied by the boys' choir of Englewood. Page Fourleen

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1 MISS MILDRED WI-IEELOCK ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

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.., -ay , rf Among the Absent The passage of the Teachers Compulsory Retirement Bill last lune meant a loss to Englewood of many of its valuable and loved instructors. They have left vacancies that will never, it seems, be filled in quite the same way. l Among those who retired was the former Head of lunior Hall, Mr. Walter S. McGee, Before coming to Englewood ifl 1896, he was the principal of a grammar school in Champaign, Illinois. Between 1899 and 1910 he taught at Hyde Park, returning to Englewood in 1910. The subjects he taught were historyg botany, zoology, physics and algebra. Coming to Enalewbod in 1890, Doctor Albert L. Smith, affectionately called Doc Smith, was absent only three,days from school in forty-five years. He taught physics, chemistry and mathematics, and was 'the joint author of Essentials of Chemistry, a textbook used widely in high schools. He belonged to the Collegiate Club and The American Chemical Society. The History Departm nt lost Mr. Frank C. lacoby, who came to Englewood in 1918. He had formerly taught in Cleviland, Ohio, and was Superintendent of Schools in Enid, Oklahomag Lyons, Kansas: and Sterling, Kansas. He also taught English and wrote A Handbook in English Grammar. Twenty-seven of Mr. Archibald Paterson's teaching years were spent at Englewood where he came in 1907. He had tbught at Whitchell High School and Glasgow University. German, French, English and mathematics were the subjects he taught, and tn the latter he was a wizard. l Mrs. Lillys R. Geer, Spanish teacher, came to Englewood in 1893 and left tn 1900 to teach at Lindblom. ln 1935 slie retumed to teach at Englewood. She has written some poems and a number of them have been published. Miss Lillian W. Thompson, one of the leading history teachers at Englewood, retired on Decem- ber 20, 1935, after forty years of active service. She attended the Lewis-Champlin Grammar School and Englewood. Land returned here in 1895 to teach Latin, English, and history. Taking rr great interest in her s ool sorority, Gamma Phi Beta, she has served as Grand President, and delegate to the Pan-He enic Conventions. A number of teachers have been made principals or transferred to teach in other schools. Mrs. Lois C. Morstrom,l former Head of Senior Hall, is now the principal of the Betsy Ross School. Before coming to Englewood she was the principal of the Kenwood Loring School for Girls. In September, 1923, she carne to Englewood where she taught Spanish, Latin, and mathematics. The principal of the aven and Armour Schools is now Miss Rosa G. Maddock, former zoology teacher. While at Engl wood, Miss Maddock was the sponsor of the Biology Club. Miss Iettie Conlan, teacher of history at Englewood for four years, is now the principal of the Sherwood School. 1 Mrs. Hazel P. Stelnfellldt has been transferred to Fenger High School where she taught before coming to Englewood in 1932. While at Englewood she taught music and is remembered for the successful operettas she directed. Coach Charles W. Palmer, who taught gymnasium and civics here for eleven years, has been transferred to Fenger also. He attended Englewood and during his athletic career earned ten E emblems. ' Mr. E. Howard Marshall, who came to Englewood as a science teacher in 1930, ts now teaching at Calumet. Mr. Gustave F. Schubssler, mathematics teacher, has transferred to Calumet where he is teaching chemistry. , . Miss Helen F. Stanton of the English Department has transferred to Sullivan. Miss Ramah I... Guthfie, business training teacher, and Miss Agnes Drever, English teacher, have resigned. 1 Teachers on Sabbaticdl leave are: Miss Ella L. Campbell, English: Miss Inez E. Ostberg, Spanish, land incidentally a cousin of Colonel Lindberghlp Miss Katherine B. Cole, stenography: and Miss Adele A. Hedeen, English, who is studying at Columbia University. Miss Lois F. Ketcham, substitute stenography teacher, who became Mrs. Harold M. Davidson, died at Little Rock, Arkansas, on October 15, 1935, after an appendicitls operation. Miss Iessie M. Ltvermbre, who retired last June as an English teacher, died on December 17, 1935. Before coming to lEnglewood fifteen years ago she taught at Medill High and Wendell Phillips. She had specialized in art work before teaching English. Page Fifteen H m