Georgetown High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Georgetown, IL)

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9-+-L.-SJ giwagfzlia 27 f+ f A 9 eff 9 grounds. The high school and eighth grade moved into this Seminary building and the faculty was increased to nine members. Mr. O. P. Rees took charge of the high school at this time and con- tinued as principal for sixteen years, during which time he did much toward raising the school to its present high standard. At the beginning of his principalship the high school course was outlined to meet the en- trance requirements of the University of Illinois. In 1912 when the new township high school was organized he was retained as principal and he saw the school make a steady growth under his leadership. By the removal of the high school work, the crowded conditions in the grades were relieved for a time but increased enrollment has since then made it necessary to build first an addition to the Seminary building and finally a new building called the Frazier school. In 1921 Mr. Ward N. Black was elected principal of the high school and in 1924 he was put at the head of all the s-chools of the city. Since he became principal the high school has more than doubled in enrollment and the grade schools have continued in their growth. For the year 1927 the enrollment was 225 for the high school and 923 for the grade schools. The high school had a faculty of twelve teachers and the grades had three prin- cipals and thirty-one other teachers. Georgetown has a school system of THE EAST which she is justly proudg the Work done is of high grade and the spirit in town and school is good. ANAISQX CAMPUS The first hundred years have been years of progressg the fu- HOUSE ture should be marked by a contin- ued develop- ment in ev- ery depart- ment of the THE Georgetown Schools. GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL SUN TM PKEYM l 'Tl A l 14 1 it Ui-xx 424 5+ X ' E - iff .Li li I, nnmm .. ....... g .mi-nm' lltl llllll ll .l il gill? - W 5'

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v- ---L9 Ciiwagtzlief 27--to-A----P --H -A GEORGETOWNS SCHOOLS IN 1827 with the beginning of the town of Georgetown, the first school house was built in the public square. This was necessarily a very simple structure, a one room log building in which a subscription school was taught by H. Givens, who was later succeeded by Owen West. This school went out of existence withthe founding of the George- town seminary in 1844 by the Methodist Conference. The seminary under the management of Prof. Jessie H. Moore gained such a good reputation that it became the center of education for the surrounding country. The school was conducted in an old frame building until 1848 when a new, two- story brick building was completed. Prof. Moore SEMINARY was later succeeded by John P. Johnson and the district school became a part of the seminary. SCHOOL While the seminary ASHINGTON was growing and prosper- ing so many young men and women attended that it was hard for them to find board and lodging and many were compelled to stay in farmhouses a long way from town. Every SCHOOL year, in the spring, an ex- hibition of two or three days duration, consisting of essays, declamations, and orations was put on the boards is literally correct because no building in Georgetown was big enough to accommodate the crowds which attend- ed and a platform of boards was built at one end of the seminary building. FRAZIER In 1861 the seminary was disbanded and a publis school was estab- lished in the seminary building. Later a new public school building, which is now called the Washington School, was erected on what was then known as the old lot. New courses were soon added and in 1886 diplomas were presented to the first class graduating from Georgetown High School. A second school building was erected, in 1904, on the old seminary IDX-B T -Q' R TFT :AX S7 I 'E P s g H-ENN iadifagi, . Mi ll Y' 1 fjlmmm ,u,M g i ll lill lillll l K i.i-Vi .lligflf U

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