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

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1874 4- 4 1949 jkrougfr due Mani Final examination papers were sent in a sealed envelope by the State authori- ties. The principal opened it in the sight of pupils and teachers, and immediately, the students began the test, working under an honor system which required them to sign a pledge that they had neither given nor received information. After the papers had been carefully graded, the awards were given. The girl receiving the highest marks received the gold Kerfoot medal worth twenty dollars. The boys had their choice of a gold Saint Andrew's Cross or books. There was also an award for those outstanding in botany and mathematics. Beniamin Franklin McConnell, sole graduate in 1876, was the first alumnus. Two years later Ella Mead, a very beautiful young girl, who was one of the eight graduates of the class of 1878, became Beniamin's bride-and the first class bride of Lake View. Graduation Day was a momentous event requiring weeks of preparation and planning. For several days before the ceremony the boys, after wheedling permis- sion from Dr. Nightingale, would take every wagon and buggy available, and drive merrily into the nearby woods lForest Preservesl where they gathered spruce, ever- green, hemlock, and arbor vitae to decorate the halls and auditorium. The fragrant boughs were deposited in the basement, and there the students fairly fiew when- ever a moment could be spared, the boys cutting the branches and the girls weaving wreaths or sewing arbor vitae on the cardboard letters which were to fashion the school motto, Ad astra per aspera. The week before graduation the Seniors were given a gala party by the Juniors. Unlike our proms, it consisted of games and dancing, the games proving so hilarious that dancing was always forgotten. Commencement night found almost the whole town thronging into the auditorium to admire the nervous graduates-the girls in starched white dresses and the boys in high collars, and always tight new shoes. Dresses and collars wilted visibly as the students awaited their turn to speak, for each one was required to give a thesis of a thousand words. In addition to these, the two ranking students had to present the valedictorian and salutatorian addresses. Between 1876 and 1884 there were sixty- seven graduates-forty-one girls and twenty-six boys, of whom, about forty per cent entered college. The remaining sixty per cent took courses in manual training and bookkeeping which were offered even in those early days. The enrollment gradually began to increase as did the faculty. Former students began to return as teachers-Miss Flora B. Andrews of the class of 1877 became sec- retary to the principal and an instructor in mathematics, while Miss Emma Johnson came back to teach art. Miss Eleanor Larrison was elected to teach English and his- tory. During this period members of the faculty also included Miss Clara Clemm, Miss Helmuth, and Mr. Martin Anderson. Laura C. Hills, class of 1878, joined the faculty as a teacher of French in 1882. At the same time James H. Norton took charge of the Science Department, and a few years later romance entered Lake View, for Miss Hills became Mrs. James Norton. lt was around this time that one of Lake View's immortals, Miss Mary T. Cochrane, arrived on the scene. She was a combination assistant-principal and teacher of English. Although she is remembered for many outstanding accomplishments, the mention of her name often brings to mind one amusing, yet almost tragic, incident. It occurred during the winter of 1883, the most severe in the history of the school. That the pupils had to struggle through the biting cold and freezing wind was bad enough, but when the dummy car was abruptly re- moved, it became necessary to take drastic measures to provide some means of transportation, since three-fourths of the faculty and student body lived too far away to walk to and from school. 1. MR. B. F. BUCK, PRINCIPAL, 1900-1912 3. GIRLS' BASKETBALL, 1-904 2. BASKETBALL TEAM, 1903 4. FOOTBALL TEAM, 1908 l7

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