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

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in themselves, they took her for a hilarious ride over grassy meadows to the north,-- a ride--' whic this teacher probabg has never forgotten. N another April Foo ' Day the bosys sud- denly caught up Dr. Nightingale as was walkumg down the ll and earned him outside the school. 'Ihe weather had been fieakish ihatyear and great drifts of' snow lay' all about. Into one o these huge drifts the-2 boys dumped him headforemost. Asham battle followed in which the snowballs flew thick and Fast. After a moment or two, Dr. Nggthtinz gale called 'Tltatls all bo s brushed e--' snow from his coat, and, tbsilloyved bsy the 1215911- u students, entered the budmncke OMB fifteen minutes later began a .11 fiantic search through his pockets, alljovi- altby erased from his Faee . He said quiegy, uboys, I am not averse to fun, but inthe sc - le I tave lost my glasses. Cro out and look For- them and dont come back without them. as Melt the drift if necessary. The bigys under- tookthe taskasdifficult as anyo thoseof Hercules-- and atier a diligent seareh return- ed triumphamr' LOKIOU5 was Lake View that decade ofgreen parlor rugi and ornate-' antimaeassars known as 'Cfasy Nine- It was the 'Speed Era, the Aqe oPFiam- ing Youth, the last eontribution ofxiheetie y- lustorical century. BICYCLE5 were thelvgue. The bony Withzs l T

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the school. N 1916 the old two-stony whichstood on the corner of Ashla and lrvirkq Park, was raised. A new fbur-story section, containingthe present assembly hall, was constructed. AJ: this same time there was addedto the northend ss another large section which the boyslgyntnasium now occupies. Lake View at the present time is-' Ligt as it was then after the remoclelinghad sq en completed. PHIL first was, in the calendar of Lake View- ites, the daby oi' daze, more Elgortant than either Christmas or the Fo of Jul . On this date members ofthe factgv and stiiih-it body hied their way to school w' hearts Fullof trepidation, fear' ,yet looking forward to, the-2 mansy praeticalllrgzes that were certain to be play ed on them. ' hese pranks were always inac- cordpwith the spirit ofsqood fun whichniled the day, and were so received by their unluclta vie: rims. No one, teacher or upiL,was over oleed. On one occasion Dr: N' whose ihlibroixs head was as smooth asigw well-known b' ' d ball, was presented with a giant bottle oP'Hai1-' Restorerl' A1 another time, Miss Cochrane, an., English teacher, was Pound in a rockigg- chair lzytggroup oPboisterous students. W' a whoop, njleseized the chair, Miss Qochrane and lllting it to ir shoulders marched victoriously' through the halls and out onto the C3?7Il5. I-Eere the set the chair with its tlustere occu: pant' in are back oiiawajong then, clintbig'

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out a- bicycle have beenthe boy without a country for allthe girls cared. Asyounig speecl demon who could push his tandem, alo at-J fifteen miles an hour could be - atmleastr in the heat oF11he blusch-irq damse on the from: 59311 AKE VIEW was infested wilh c clists ofx all descriptions. Rotund ow who could barely be sustainedgby ir fragile ve: hicles alwaysnjgeseruiecl at humorous s ectale- especially to ir slimmer sister pedalgts. Dim: inutive males had a to htime oF it, For that-' was befbre the da ofdigtwenty-sbc inch wheel. Ta:llnClEllows hafdythe advarlaje allthe way-J rou . HE Homeless Garrige was as et held to- gether with safety pins, men still, wore re - movable cuffs and striped trousers, the-' curlew ral? at nine o'cloch, md homework, .14 was abu arrt. Wotta Liiiz! N 1669 the town ofialee View was incor rar ed ihto the ciao? Chicagog as a result, Last?-I View H' h Sc ol became amember oFthe as China?-in .ghool Systems. E neyd' ear, after a quarter of a century' OP Faithfull, 'fruitful labor, which he-f saw the school he had R9 grow Rom a little country school with a student' bocg oiregtqhtto agtreat' bustling hiqh school, rt Nig re ' ed, later becoming 3r55l5TZ3ill ' superin1'er1den1:'oF schools. IQ fill the vacanc.y+, thus caused, Mr. Charles W. French was appoimecl.