Janesville High School - Phoenix Yearbook (Janesville, WI)

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Page Six TO JOHN ARBUTI-IN OT, Teaclvcr whose painstaking, conscientious, and splendid efforts in our behalf have won our respect and love, we gratefully dedicate this book.

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4 A JANESVILLE I-IIGI-I SCHOOL-Front Door

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MR. ARBUTHNOT LOG SCHOOL 1864: Mr. Arbuthnotls par- ents came from Scotland and settled near Mount Hope, X17is- consin. 1868: John Arbuthnot was born. The family moved to a farm near Boscobel in 1871. Here Mr. Arbuthnot attended a little district school made of logs. It was 14 ft. by 16 ft. t'Life as it was at that time would now be considered very primitivev said Mr. Arbuthnot. For transportation we had only the farm wagon. For er- rands we often rode horse back or walked. In the unfinished attic where the children slept, the breath of the sleeper would cause the bed covers to be frosty on cold m o r n i n g s. Clothes were home made. Shoes were made by grandfather who was a cobbler by trade. Mother knit hosiery for the family in the evenings, but the young folks did not use footwear in the summer? 1886: Entered Boscobel High School through which he worked his way. There were live in his class, but only two are now alive, Mr. Arbuthnot and Mr. Graves, a lawyer of Prairie du Chien. After graduation from High School, Mr. Arbuth- not taught for five years. He then attended Platteville Normal School one year, graduating in 1895. There were between forty and fifty in his class. He was on the first football team organ- ized there and played end. In the fall of 1895 he entered the University of Wisconsin. He grad- uated from the University of Wisconsin with the class of 1897 and in the fall he came to Janesville to teach. He had charge of the football team, although there were no coaches then. 1898: He married Alta M. Higgins. They have three child- ren. Wfhen Mr. Arbuthnot came to Janesville, the first house in which he set foot was that of the superintendent of schools, Mr. D. D. Mayne. The house, located at that time at the corner of Main and Racine streets where the flagpole now stands.. was moved in the winter of 1922 to its present cite on Racine St., across from the school. During his University course Mr. Arbuthnot was asked by Dr. Birge to read a paper be- fore the Wisconsin Acadamy of Sciences. He has been presi- dent of the Rock County Teachers Association, Treasurer of the S o u t h e r n Wisconsin Teachers Association, and has been chairman of the Physics section at the Wisconsin Teach- ers' Association. He has been local examiner for the State Civil Service, now known as the Bureau of Personnel, ever since it was organized. about 1901 S MFG HOME OF SUPT. MAYNE Page Seven