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

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1896 1897-1898 1898 1901-1902 1902-1903 1903 1907 1914 1913-1914 1915 1916 1918 1919 1920 1922 1923-1924 1923 1924 1926 1926 1228 1929 1932 Page .fixtecn ELL Ess PE Chronology La Salle-Peru Township High School, organized April 11. Main High School Building erected. School first opened. CSept. 121 Manual Training introduced. Domestic Science introduced. Erection of Manual Training and Domestic Science Building. CGift of Mrs. F. W. Matthiessenj. Establishment of Lunch Room. QFebruaryD. Recreation Building dedicated by Governor Dunne. CMayD. Donation by Mr. Matthiessen. New Boiler House erected. Donation by Mr. F. W. Matthiessen of the present athletic grounds. Erection of Stadium by popular subscription. Building of outdoor swimming pool. CGift of Mr. F. W. Matthiessenl First Addition to the Social Center Building. CGift of Mr. F. W. Matthiessenl Remodelling of Old Main High School Building. CGift of Mr. F. W. Matthiessenl. Installation of the New Library. CGift of Mrs. Eda Matthiessen and Mrs. George P. Blowl. Oglesby Branch High School started. Building of second story to Recreation Annex: five recitation rooms for junior College. CBuilt by the Townshipl Establishment of the Bureau of Educational Counsel. CGift of Mrs. Eda Matthiessenl Establishment of junior College. CSeptD. Demolition of the old Manual Training Building. CSept. 273. Work started on New Addition to High School Buildings, Audi- torium, and Junior College, on the site of the old Manual Training Building. COct. 212. New Building Completed. CAprilD. Aeolian Organ. CGift of Mrs. Eda Matthiessenl. Installed QMayD. New and elaborate fire escapes on Old Main Bldg. Ccompleted janj. STATISTICS HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENT AND SIZE OF FACULTY Year Enrollment-October Number in Faculty 1898-1905 200 CApproximateD 11 to 13 1906-1914 300 15 to 16 1919 400 19 1924-1921 600 29 tO 32 1928 822 39 1929 944 51 1930 1080 53 1931 qFeb.5 1205 59 1931 QOct.j 1236 61 1932 QFeb.Q 1249 60 1932 COcc.D 1481 eo 1933 CFeb.D 1500 60

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ELL Ess PE History of the La Salle-Peru Township High School 44 QQ ar as THE first session of the La Salle-Peru Township High School was held in September, 1898, the construction of the original main building having been started in 1897. There have been four superintendents: Mr. Stratton D. Brooks, Mr. C. A. Farnam, and the late Dr. Thomas J. McCormack who was super- intendent from 1903 to 1932. Dr. McCormack has been succeeded by Dr. Fred Gray Stevenson who formerly taught at the University of Michigan. Mr. T. C. Kohin has been assistant principal since the foundation of the school. There were six teachers on the faculty in September, 18985 in the second year the faculty was increased to nine. ln October, 1932 the faculty numbered 58, exclusive of the superintendent and the ofhce staff. The oflice staff consists of the secretary of the board of education, the registrar, two clerks, and the bookkeeper and stenographer. One of the distinctive features of the instruction of the ,school is the employment of student assistants in oHice practice work. The number of students so employed is 61. Eight of these students are also em- ployed part time in the social center as assistants. This creates a flexible and con- tractible staff of employees for a vast number of activities. The janitorial staff, with firemen consists of six people. The increase in the attendance of the Township High School has in recent years been notable. At the start, as with all new high schools, the attendance remained stationary. The establishment of township high schools in Granville, Spring Valley, Tonica and other places for some years kept the local attendance almost stationary. But from 1917 to 1923, the attendance increased 72 per cent and from 1915 to 1923 the increase was 100 per cent. ln the last three years the increase has been very rapid, one hundred students or more having been added each year to the school roll. In September, 1929, the enrollment was 946, and in October, 1932, it totaled 1481, in March, 1933-1500. ln 1924, in response to urgent solicitation on the part of the public, the Township High School Board of Education established the La Salle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College, an institution designed to give to the young people of the local community the advantages of the first two years of college or university train- ing. The entering class numbered 32, the total number of students now enrolled is 266. There are training classes for teachers and preparatory classes for nearly all the various vocations and professions taught in the universities. The col- lege has been signally successful from the educational point of view, its graduates have done well at the universities which they later attended, and the report of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools compli- mented the institution upon its high standards, its careful work, and the success at the universities of its graduates. The establishment of the Junior College meant a considerable increase in the number of teachers in the school for the reason that the number of classes and hours taught by Junior College teachers is limited by the State and Na- Pagz Eighteen