La Salle Peru Township High School - Ell Ess Pe Yearbook (La Salle, IL)

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ELL ESS PE , X s- was Hx s - - SN A Xwswwc.,s. . . K 1 5 THE MANUAL TRAINING BUILDING The Manual Training building pictured above was erected in IQO3, as a gift to the community by the late Mrs. F. W. Matthiessen. For twenty-three years the building has served the valuable purpose of housing the Manual Training and Domestic Science departments of the school. In this capacity, it was a very center of industry- teeming with the atmosphere of a real factory, and yet pos- sessing the dignity of a school. The students of LaSalle-Peru came to know the building as an old friend, and held a kind reverence for it, as a part of our great institution. The public became familiar with the building through the annual exhibits held by the Manual and Household Arts departments. These exhibits showed remarkable accomplishments on the part of the students and represented a home of real achievement. The old order changeth, yielding place to new -thus Tennyson tells the story which we express in the pictures placed opposite. The Manual Training building had served its time. Repairs were sadly needed, but these repairs would have been very costly and only a temporary solution of the problem. It was then that Mrs. Adele M. Blow and Mrs. Eda Matthiessen offered S4oo,ooo for the erection of a new school unit that would rival the best in the state. The community, however, was to raise an additional K200,0CO by taxation, which was accomplished in a spirited manner, thus assuring the erection of the new building and necessitating the destruction of the old. During the summer of IQ26, the old building was dismantled, while the actual tearing down was begun on September 27, IQ26. The pupils, although delighted at the prospect of a new building, saw with regret the old disappear. Neverthe- less, sacrifices must be made-it is the price of progress. ARTHUR SEEPE f PAGE 19

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ELL ESS PE These pictures, taken February IO and March 28, 1927, show the beginning of construction and progress on our new High School and Junior College building. With these views in sight, our mem- ories of the old Manual Training building are dimmed. GE 18

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ELL ESS PE BOARD OF EDUCATION G. VVILSON, SR., Pre:ident+LaSa1le . . . . . . 1897-1899, IQO5-1928 W. CLANCY-LaSalle .... ....... ..... . . 1917-1927 H. HACKMAN-Peru. , . . . 1917-1927 C. SNVIFT-'LHSHHC . . . . 1925-1928 JOHN xvOUNG-Og1CSbY .....,1 . . 1921-1929 KATHERINE IQEEGAN, 'Secretary . . . . 1924-1927 4 1 I 1 , - . GE 20 G. A. XVILSON, SR. W. LI. CLANCY