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

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Jllllllllllllll PRINTING- In me all human knowledge dvvellsg The Oracle of oraclesg, f Past, present, future, I reveal, Or in oblivious silence seal. What I preserve can perish never- What I forego is lost forever. I speak all languages, by me The deaf may hear, the blind may see, The dumb converse, the dead of old Communion with living hold. All lands are one beneath my rule, All nations learners in my school. Men of all ages everywhere, Become contemporaries there. JAMES MONTGOMERY, 1776-1854 l ' l I i 1 T 5 v lv, . . . 5 . 1 , . ll all 1 3 4 lvl is J

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AND ACHIEVEMENT HE local Township High School is what is called in professional circles a cosmopolitan high school, offer- ing all the courses of secondary education. It has been found that in cities of the size of La Salle, Peru and Oglesby vocational -or technical education of the intensive ty e is highly unpractical. With the exception, therefore, o the commercial department, which is vocational, and some aspects of the manual training department, the curricula of the school are purely educational and aim to prepare the pupils for home-making, citizenship, appreciation of the values of life and for right ethical attitudes,for success in life, and for earning a living. 11 The common elements of all trades and professions, of all vocations of life, are taught, and it is conceived that if these are thorou hlv learned, success in ever , S . , Y held throu h the ex erience of that field , d B P is assure . fl The people of the township in their support of the school have een very generous. Many citizens, and especially the members of the Board of Education, contributed lavishly of their time and services to the perfection of the standards, the efficiency and the equipment of the school. But the most conspicuous example of the generosity of the public has been that of the Matthiessen family, which, in 1903 gave to the school the old manual training building, cancelled many thou- sand dollars worth of high school bonds, contributed the building lots and mone for the erection of the social center buildi ing, gave the property and building of the Hygiene Institute, donated the athletic grounds of 11 acres, the outdoor swim- ming pool, gave money for additions to the Recreation Building and for the re- construction of the main school build- ings, donated the fine library of the school, established at a cost of 36,500 a year the Bureau of Educational Counsel, which is designed to give expert attention to the individual needs of the students, pre- sented many valuable oil paintings and etchings, and in 1926-1928, through the late Mrs. Adele M. Blow and through Mrs. Eda Matthiessen, culminated its munificence by the donation of S400,000 for the erection of a new model high school and junior college structure on the west side of Chartres Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets. l17l ll To this imposing list of gifts, Mrs. Eda Matthiessen during the last year has added an Aeolian pipe organ and a Stein- way grand piano and two original oil paintings. ll Numerous minor gifts have been made by individual citizens, but especiall to be recognized are the gifts of the gracihat- ing classes, which for thirty years annually have devoted all money gained in their activities and plays to fine gifts of various kinds for their alma mater. fl The Social Center, which is supported from the townshi hi h school funds, aims to extend tllie advantages of the high school equipment to the general public and especially to the youth of the community. The social center de- partment is conducted by a director and a man and woman assistant. To its ac- tivities several members of the faculty contribute part of their time. 11 The athletic department of the school is designed for the health and recreation of the students. It is the aim of the de- partment to bring physical education to all, to make health and sport and recrea- tion a means to an end, and neither to consider it an end in itself nor as that feature about which an educational in- stitution should be organized and to which everything else should be subordinated. It endeavors through football, basketball, volley-ball, swimming, tennis and a score of other indoor and outdoor activities to bring to all the students the social values, the civic values, the psychological values, and the recreational values of life.

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About :seo A. D. Intqglio Press of the Renaissance Period ADMINISTRATION I-Iere you Find the great workshop ot printing planned and organized by our Faithful Board oi: Directors. They offer the oId and the modern styIes ot printing. Year after year they install new machinery enaIJIing us to carry on our great work oI: printing. The Superintendent, and the Assistant principal, with the help of the two Foremen, the Dean ot Boys and the Dean oi: Girls, work with these many apprentices who strive to do the perfected styles of printing. These apprentices cause them much worry and otten Fear at overworking them. The apprentices are afforded an op- portunity For reading many Famous books that have been reprinted time and again on Conduct, Art, Literature, Music and Science.