Forreston High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Forreston, IL)

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History ofthe New School It has been no secret for several years that a new school bulldmg was needed at Forreston The hlgh school has never hadaseparate bu1ld1ng When the hlgh school dlstrxct was organlzed ln 1937 the board rented space from the grade school Two years later the hxgh school erected the gym ag class rooms and commerclal rooms adJo1n1ng the grade school bulldmg Smce the grade school owns the major part of the bu1ld1ng and smce there are 50'Z, more students than the bu1ld1ng can safely accomodate xt became apparent that the renter would have to vacate In fact the grade school board made such a formal request of the hlgh school 1n a letter dated Aprll 13 1953 Room mother groups and the adv1sory councll became acutely mterested durlng the 1953 54 school year The guldmg genlus for the advxsory council 1n its early precarious days was the chalrman George McDonald He was later succeeded by Kermit Mlller who also d1d a f1ne Job leadxng thls lmportant group Each portlon of the entlre dlstrlct was represented on the large commlttee and smaller commlttees were chosen to make pertlnent studles The most lmportant of these study commlttees were the currlculum chlld census s1te hot lunch wut d1str1ct bulldmg and flnance They all turned IH valuable reports On the questlon of new bu1ld1ng or un1t d1str1ct the entire councll debated the matter serxously for some tlme and voted 18 6 to recommend a new bu1ld1ng rather than a un1t d1str1ct The Ill1no1s Bond Servlce was employed June 17 1954 and four weeks later f7!15y Ray Orput Rock ford was employed as archltect Mr Posorske of Illmols Bond Servlce helped varlous commlttees organ xze to get necessary mformatlon to the people pr1or to the election The electlon was held October 17 1954 The vote was favorable for both the S590 000 bond ISSUE and the Weegens sxte at the east edge of town It was 633 375 for the bonds and 536 462 for the Slte A total of 1034 people voted The 20 acre slte was purchased from Slmon Weegens shortly after the electlon for S20 000 Blue prlnts for the bulldmg were completed early IH May and blds were opened June 3 1955 Con tracts were awarded to low bldders as follows General Contractor John Gustafson 8zSon S395 472 00 Plumbmg Rockford Plumblng and Heating 45 000 00 Heatlng Nelson Plplng Co 77 776 00 Electr1c Berg Electr1c Co 40 196 00 S558 444 00 Three weeks after the blds were opened Gustafson had the dlrt flylng June 24 1955 Progress has been satlsfactory slnce that tlme and lt now appears that the school w1ll be completed and ready to use by September 1 Another unportant development has taken place 1n that the German Valley area has been added to our hlgh school dlstrlct and the terrltory east and south of Florence Statlon IS petxtlonlng to enter Thus the d1S trxct w1ll be 4096 larger than It was when the bulldmg program began Many of these students were already attendm here The board of educatlon has planned well 1n preparing for 250 hlgh school students 1n the new bu1 d1ng 166 were enrolled thls year The heatlng plant IS ample to care for slx add1t1onal rooms lf such need to be added The school IS located at the east edge of Forreston on the south Slde of Route 72 It IS a one story structure with the mam part extendlng east and west parellel to the hlghway To the east IS the qulet or academlc sectlon llbrary English hlstory math science and commerclal To the west IS the vocatlonal wing Home econornlcs vocatlonal agriculture lndustrlal arts and draftlng The admmxstratlve sectlon IS between these two wmgs at the north entrance Extending due south beyond the front entrance IS the physlcal educatlon plant and audltorxum Flne fac1l1t1es w1ll be afforded for regular P E classes For basketball games the floor IS the same SIZC as any large hlgh school floor m Ill1no1s and there w1ll be seats for 1100 people Just west of the gym lS a f1ne cafeterla that w1ll handle 200 students at a t1me and a spaclous kltchen adjolns lt on the south Beyond the kltchen IS a dellghtful muslc room wxth rlsers for better practlce facllltxes practlcc rooms storage and lxbrary space The muslc room IS just 0pp0Slt8 the large stage that IS located at the south end of the gym There f1ne musxc programs and class pla s may be antlclpated In short a f1ne bulld 1ng IS about ready to serve the communlty and lt IS a buxldmg o whlch the communlty should well be proud O All Contractors were from Rockford except Berg Electric Co. of Rochelle. h

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