Lake View High School - Red and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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qirl, become benjaminis bride and the lirstclass bride of' Lake View? we T was always a coveted privilege to ride into the woods surrounding the school to 'gather so spruce, evergreen, hemlock, and arbor vitae-1 in the lovely une mornings to decorate the halls and auditoriums. After havinghgvheedled per-2 mission from Dr. Ixliqhtingale, boys comman: deered eveuky biqgz and wagon available and set out ear y in mornimzwto return laden an with the fragrant boughs. W never a moment could be spared the students fairly flew to the-' basement: there with mergequips and much., laughter they worked on decorations, the boys cutting the boughs and the weaving wreaths or sewing ar or vitae on cardboar letters which were to fashionthe school mottd Ad astra per asperaf' HE .week precedinowjraduationtheyjuniors fetecl the seniors. T party, unlike our as proms, consisted of qames and as the games proving so hilarious that dancing was alwa s forqotten. OMMINQEMENI' the halls ands: the auditorium were orged with parents friends, and graduates-thefgirls in starch- ed white dresses andthe bozs in ia? collarsand Hin? shoes. Dresses and co lars w' ed visibly as t excited students awaited their ILIYIL to speak, For each one was required to xqive a thesis of a thousand words. In addition to their r ular speeches the two rankiio 'students l13i.?fO ss

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This practice was begun with the inception of the first class and continued for many years' sc 0 assem in itornim a sf foil tim me endif the naarks of each pupil with the low est and ending withthe grades were sl read from the latforms. mall wonder that failures were agnost unheard of and that grad: gs. were carried out to Fractions to instu'e absolute airness. HE final exalnainations from which the-J winners of the awards were determined, were conducted in the followijg manner: The state anthoritiessentthe ques' nsinax sealed envelo' e which the principal opened in the sight of the pupils and teachers. Immed .1 3? 55fv3O3fQU39aoiHi'Le,?af2efri3nSlB?li?v'?fed Linder an honor system, beirggg-egnired to sign a HZQfL?5Q5E?23lX?E',.?',3nifTfy 'wm9Wen HEN the marhslwere dtil recorded the awards were receivedfyfhe girl olx taining the marks receivedthe gold Kiu-foot' medal worth twenty dollars. The oys had their choice oF a gold .Saint Andrews Gross or books. There was also an award for' those outstanding in botansy and mathe matics. ENJAMIN franklin Nl9Connell,q11:aduaf inq in 1876, was the first aliunnus. wo sa years later, Ella Mead, one of the eightsgradz dates of the class 1878, a very 'beatitiriil .young-r'

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present the valedictorian and salutatorian....J addresses .X HE winter of' 1865 was the ntost severe in the oPthe school. It was bad as enotxgh or the to struggle to school oighthe cold, but whenthe dummgy car was abruptly removed, it became necessary to take drastic measures to provide-e some means oPt1'a11s1ao1'ta1:ion. The loss was sr keenly 'felt because eelfoimhs OPIhQ123:Qh2l3' and student body lived too far away to walk. to and iiom school. N old bus was pressed into service, andthe faculty and student bod were packed close? into the vehicle. lguteventhc-1 bus had its rawbacks Rur daily the driver would discover that some part of' the machine was az bout tilgive way and excu.-SQ9 lnnvelfapeolitely. he wo start out alog 'the route For a little too eagerly to be be ved. N hour or so later hewould sway to' wardthe bus, hammer in and .aa tinker abstractedlsy with the ezgine. .14 Nleanwlule his passengers had been rozen liter: all and figuratively into silence. 'I' last Miss Cochrane came to the rescue. 5hc seciued From afniendly neiqhbor the use ofhis sledandeach studentfpaidthefee of five dollars in advance For the rest 0 the winter: ASKED in the haby- filled bobsled three.. deep. the students had many ajoll32gtin1e as' they rodeto andfiom schoo , but -two