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

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wind that blew across the open prairie olten robbed thetripofallits pleasure as it usually resulted tn frozen lingers, ears, and noses HE sleigh made only two trips, one inthe-' aigaininthe afremoon. IP one nussed sle .... !! RIDAY, March lj, Lobj, was a red Letter .14 day in Lake Views histog .... Professor .14 seated at dinner in his home on. Diversey Street, was startled by the loud of the fire Songs. Throwing open the door, he shouted to the firemen on the apparatus drawnn by twdogalloping nags, 'Where's the fire? He-2 was ' matyed and alarmed atthe repl , The ' h schoo ! Take me along ! he ordllred. NE fireman lent him a hat, another help edhim intoaeoat, forhewas wea' a smoleinigtiieket when he dashed our1l:1ofl'tlie house. Awag Fy elanged up Clark Street , ECAU5 o the sparse settlement ofthe dis, trict the fire was easily discernible in all diree: tions and the populace had alreadys-gathered to watch the first townshipiwh sehoolinthestate o up in flames. 051' OF the first-floor Furniture and as science apparatus hadbeen rescued when suddenly a cry went up from the throng. A man was seen to clash recklessly into the-:J flames. After alfewtense fearfulminuteshestag: gered out, carrying on his shouldersvgsqruesome urden...a human skeleton! The cro , compose. ed. mainly of students who had been laieinleavz Twenty-fbf

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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

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ing school, shuddered, seeing inthe charred or bones all that remained of a school churn. v Gasps gave way to relieved smiles however when closer inspection revealed that this skeleton was-' only 'llohnnyf' anexpgnsive specimen fiomthe sci: ence laboratoirgy, w se bones they had often count ed as part o their classwork. EN the sun rose the next mornin3,i1's rays tell on a heap of ashes and smoulder inguembers inthe center of adlagge prairie. This was that remained ofthe pro young' high school HE Lake View Telephonef the township paper, published a special edition to inform parents and students that school would convene as usual on Monday but would meet at the little Evanston Avenue now Broadway Gha Chapel which had opened its doors to the school. N the auditorium ofthe chapel were fbllf long rows of tables which consisted of pine boards placed on wooden horses. These were the-' desks. Back ofthe platform which extended ae cross the Wont ofthe auditorium, were two rooms divided into smaller recitation rooms hy heavy+' curtains. This proved most confusgg while re: sitations werexgoinvg on. 5 there were no facilities, two pails of water were placed on chairs oneith: er side ofthe front vesftlfule, the one on., r' ht for the girls anclthat onthe lefrforthe boysf HE qraduatirgg class of 1665 was rbrceclto find less crow ed quarters for their exercises T f