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

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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

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