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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1874 4 + 1949 jArougA flue mam The school convened as usual the following Monday, but met at the little Evanston Avenue, now Broadway Chapel, which had opened its doors to the students. ln the auditorium of the chapel were four long rows of tables which consisted of pine boards placed on wooden horses. These were the desks. Back of the platform which ex- tended across the front of the auditorium were two rooms divided into smaller recitation rooms by heavy curtains. This proved most confusing while recitations were going on. As there were no drinking facilities, two pails of water were placed upon chairs on either side of the front vestibule, the one on the right for the girls, and that on the left for the boys. The graduation class of 1885 was forced to find less crowded quarters for its exercises, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church on School Street came to the rescue with the offer of its auditorium. This Church, although large, was filled to capacity. The student body was seated in the gallery, and lest their voices should not carry, the music teacher called in a few alumni. The combined voices made the audito- rium resound to the melodies of Italia Beloved and the Anvil Chorus. There were ten graduates in this class. Fully realizing the value of a high school, the community floated a bond issue for twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum, when added to the insurance from the old building, made possible the construction of a new building, twice as large as the old, and more modern. Built at a cost of forty-five thousand dollars, it had accommodations for two hundred and fifty students. The grounds surrounding the new building were attractively terraced. A bell weighing seventeen hundred pounds, was placed in the tower, its warning at eight- thirty, and again at nine, could be heard as far as the toll gate at Clark and Addison Streets. School work was begun in the new building in March, 1886, and on May 28 a thousand citizens were crowded into the auditorium to celebrate the opening of the school. Life progressed at a rapid pace for the next five years. The little town of Lake View suddenly began to expand, and in 1889 it was incorporated into the City of Chicago, as a result its school became a member of the Chicago School System. Stu- dents accepted the change with comparative indifference, life was too full of more important things, such as the election of Beniamin Harrison to the presidency. A num- ber of pupils cut the afternoon school session in order to celebrate the event with a gay party at one of the boy's homes. Of course, they paid the usual consequences at school the next morning, but there was not a one of them that did not agree it was worth it. Neither did anyone ever forget that day in the Latin Class when an irritated teacher told Hod Chase, the class scamp, to hold his tongue, which he promptly did -between his forefinger and thumb. The accustomed teacher cheerfully said, That's fine, Hod, and continued the lesson while the girls took refuge behind their Virgils, and Hod stubbornly kept hold of his tongue. How could any of those students forget the sight of Miss Lord leading the daily hymn, her bustle keeping accurate, lively time to the music, or the Girls' Shinny Club, twenty-five years ahead of its time, or finally, Madame Appleby appearing Monday morning at the assembly room door to demand with a rapid, excited accent that she vanted to know vhy her French Class had not been sent down? No, those wonderful happy days of growth and laughter form a never-to-be forgotten era of Lake View history. 1. ADDITION TO LAKE VIEW, 1925 7. PIRATES OF PENZANCE 2. R.O.T.C., 1921 8. MR. ROTHE 3. THE SCHOOL, 1925 9. MR. SMITH 4. THE BOHEMIAN GIRL 10. MR. DICKERSON 5. MY MARYLAND 11. MR. HOCKE 6, MY MARYLAND 12. SWIMMING TEAM, 1926 21