Harter Stanford Township High School - Harstan Yearbook (Flora, IL)

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History of Harter Stanford Township High School On May 29, 1875, when the pressing need for higher education had voiced itself, the voters of Flora agreed to respond. In one of the finest buildings in the State Flora's first high school was organized by C. C. Hutchinson early in December 1875. Four years later, live students made up the First graduating class. Through the years up to 1912, incomplete records show that at least two hundred thirty-one students graduated from the Flora City High School. The City Hall and the Library furnished rooms for the first classes of the 1-Iarter Stanford Township High School in 1912. Ninety-two young people assembled there under the leadership of 0. A. Towns and four instructors. The schoolboard was composed of: W. C. McCauley, President, N. W. Bowman. Clerkg Franklin Valbert, john A. Brainard, F. D. Graham, VV. A. Karr and John F. Borders. Deal and Ginzel, architects, and Wm. C. C. Kuhne, contractor, col- laborated with them to build the new high school building. A group of 128 with 8 guides gathered there for the following year. A normal department trained 13 special students to teach in rural schools. In 1919 Rex W. Dale joined the faculty as a coach. The next year Mr. Fogler and Mrs. Gibson began their teaching duty here. Mr. Dale became principal in 1921. The building was en- larged to double its original size in 1922. Mrs. Duff, at that time, Miss White- ford, became an instructor here in the same year. In 1923 Miss Graham took up the duty of teaching mathematics. The years from 1927 through 1938 brought us the teaching services of: Mr. Dancey, Mr. Booker, Miss George, Mr. Conley, Miss Bunn, Mr. Mann, Miss Moore, Mr. Schrodt, Mr. Hunsaker and Miss Pritchett. Because of increasing enrollment, crowded conditions, and state regulations, another addition arose in 1939. There and in the rejuvenated old building , Rex W. Dale and a team of 17 leaders, including, Miss Greenlee, Miss Lloyd, Mr. Reynolds, and Miss Drexler, carried the torch for an enrollment of 510. Let's not forget Mr. McGrew, Mr. Koontz and Harold Cox, who have less conspicuously added to our smooth working school system. To most of us this high school is one of the best, but yet there is much to add to bring it up to a better standard. Such things as, emphasizing vocational work, shopwork, agriculture, keeping cultural and classical subjects and adding an art department along with more extensive physics and chemistry equipment and seeing that the music department gets attention and less negligence, will make our school a bigger and better institution. LEATHA MILNER HARTLEY PFEIL. Page Sir

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Education is cm ornament in prosperity and a 'refuge in advevsityn

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Dedicated to the Athletic Department Page Seven Athletics has for a long period of years been the most outstanding extra- curricular activity of this high school. The department has gained recogni- tion by other schools due to its coop- eration, sportsmanship, and line school spirit. We, the class of 1940, take this opportunity to pay tribute to this de- partment, and we sincerely hope that this will always remain one of the major activities of this school.