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

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E LL Ess P11 XVOUNG CLANCY HACKMAN w 4 1 1 EH- . - 2. DIMOND CARUS KliliGAN Board JOHN YOUNG, Oglcsby, Prefident. . W. CLANCY, L11 Salle ,..,,..,., H. E. HACKMAN, Peru ...,....,. XuNCENTJ.IhMOND,LdS8HC .,.. EDwmRDI1.CARUs,LaSaHe ...... Of Education KATHERINE KEEGAN, Peru, Serretmj' ..., Pxlkqt' Tuwzty 1921 1917 1917 1931 1931 1924 1935 1936 1936 1934 1934 1934

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ELL Ess PE tional authorities. But all these requirements have raised the standards of teach- ing in the hi h school. The Junior College is housed in the top floor of the new high school Building. The common element: of all trades and professions, of all vocations of life, are taught, and it is conceived that if these are thoroufhly learned, success in every fiel through the experience of that field is assure . The people of the township in their support of the school have been 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 ex- ample 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 thousands dollars worth of high school bonds, contributed the building lots and money for the erection of the social center building, gave the property and building of the Hygienic Institute, donated the athletic grounds of 11 acres, the outdoor swimming pool, gave money for additions to the Recreation Build- ing and for the reconstruction of the main school buildings, donated the fine library of the school, established the Bureau of Educational Counsel, which is designed to give expert attention to the individual needs of the students, pre- sented many valuab e 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 iunior college structure on the west side of Chartres Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets. To this imposing list of gifts, Mrs. Eda Matthiessen added an Aeolian pipe organ and a Steinway grand piano and two original oil paintings. Numerous minor gifts have been made by individual citizens, but especially to be recognized are the gifts of the graduating 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. The Social Center, which is supported from the township high school funds, aims to extend the advantages of the high school equipment to the general pub- lic and especially to the youth of the community. The social center department is conducted by a director and a man and woman assistant. To its activities several members of the faculty contribute part of their time. The athletic department of the school is designed for the health and recrea- tion of the students. It is the aim of the department to bring physical education to all, to make health and sport and recreation a means to an end, and to con- sider it neither as an end in itself nor as that feature about which an educational institution should be organized and to which everything else should be sub- ordinated. It endeavors through football, basketball, volleyball, swimming, tennis and scores of other indoor and outdoor activities to bring to all the stu- dents the social values, the civic values, the psychological values, and the rec- reational values of life. Page Nineteen

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