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

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1874 4 4 1949 .7lwouglz fAe Mara At first an old bus was pressed into service, but that had severe drawbacks, daily the driver would discover that some part of the machine was about to give away, and excusing himself politely, he would start out along the route for help, a little too eagerly to be believed. An hour or so later he would sway gently toward the bus, hammer in hand, and tinker abstractedly with the engine. Meanwhile, his pas- sengers had been frozen literally and figuratively into silence. Finally, the indomitable Miss Cochrane came to the rescue. Using all her in- genuity and wit, she secured from a friendly neighbor the use of his sled, and each student paid the fee of five dollars in advance for the rest of the winter. Packed three deep in the hay-filled bobsled, the students had many a iolly time as they rode to and from school, but the bitter wind that blew across the prairie often robbed the trip of all its pleasure, for it usually resulted in frozen fingers, ears and noses. The sleigh made only two trips, one in the morning and again in the afternoon. If one missed the sled-I! Yes, cruel hardships of nature were abundant then, but somehow the happy- go-lucky spirit of youth managed to prevail. In the calendars of Lake Viewites there was no more momentous, wonderful day than April first. On this solemn date every- one hied his way to school filled with trepidation, fearing, yet looking forward to, the pranks that were certain to be played upon him. There was no limit to the reign- ing impishness, and no teacher or pupil was overlooked. On one occasion Dr. Night- ingale, whose head was as bald as the well-known billiard ball, was presented with a giant bottle of Hair Restorer. At another time, a group of boisterous students found Miss Cochrane sitting in a rocking chair. With a whoop they seized the chair, Miss Cochrane in it, and lifting it to their shoulders marched victoriously through the halls and out onto the campus. Here they set the chair with its flustered occupant in the back of a wagon, then, climbing in themselves, they took her for a hilarious ride over grassy meadows to the north-a ride which that teacher probably never forgot. On another April FooI's Day the boys suddenly, caught up Dr. Nightingale as he was walking down the hall and carried him outside the school. The weather had been freakish that year and great drifts of snow lay all about. Into one of these huge drifts the boys dumped him head foremost. A sham battle followed in which the snowballs flew thick and fast. After a moment or two, Doctor Nightingale called, That's all, boys, brushed the snow from his coat, and followed by the laughing students, entered the building. Some fifteen minutes later he began a frantic search through his pockets saying quietly, Boys, I am not averse to fun, but, in the scuffle, I have lost my glasses. Go out and look for them, and don't come back without them. Melt the snow if necessary. The boys undertook the task, a snowy counterpart to finding a needle in a haystack-and after a diligent search returned triumphant. Friday, March 13, 1885, is an unforgettable day in Lake View's history. Pro- fessor Nightingale, seated at dinner in his home on Diversey Street, was startled by the loud clanging of fire gongs. Running to the door, he shouted, Where's the fire? to the men on the apparatus drawn by two galloping nags. He was dismayed and alarmed at the reply, The High School! and ordered, Take me along! Because of the sparse settlement of the district the fire was easily discernible in all directions, and the populace had already gathered to watch the first township high school in the state go up in fiames by the time the old fire engine arrived. Most of the first-floor furniture and science apparatus had been rescued, when suddenly a cry went up from the throng. A man was seen to dash recklessly into the flames. After a few tense minutes, he staggered out carrying on his shoulders a grue- some burden-a human skeleton! The crowd, composed mainly of students who had been late in leaving school, shuddered, seeing in the charred bones all that remained of a school chum. Gasps gave way to relieved smiles, however, when closer inspec- tion revealed that this skeleton was only Johnny, an expensive specimen from the science laboratory, whose bones they had often counted as part of their classwork. When the sun rose the next morning, its rays fell on a heap of ashes and smouldering embers in the center of a large prairie. Delightful memories were all that remained of the proud young high school. 1 BASKETBALL TEAM, 1916 4, 5, 6. SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, FIRST WORLD WAR 2 MR B FRANK BROWN, PRINCIPAL, 1912-1924 7. GINGHAM DAY, MAY 22, 1922 3 FACULTY 1918 8. MISS MARY I. REYNOLDS, ASSISTANT-PRINCIPAL 19121929 I9

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