Lane Tech College Prep High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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radiant symbol ,eww WP Guiding Hands Student Leaders On to the Future Our Daily Activities Military Science and Tactics Gym and Field Six Thousand Laneites ite,

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to become a Frologuc Advancement Through Achievement When one walks along a long road, there is some strange force which is present at each marker. This unexplainable force causes the traveler to turn his head, to look back at the long ribbon of dust behind him. But the wanderer never stop, he simply turns his head to see his footprints in the dust and to see the past which was at one time the future. Lane has gone on that trip, and with it on every step of the way went the Lane Annual. At each step Lane progressed, the Annual progressed with it, for the sublimation of a school is the sublimation of its output. The real products of this school are the boys made men through their years well spent here, but this Annual is also an output of the institution because it is by the students, about the school and its students. Lane is looking back at the road, that long obstacle-filled ribbon of dust, for it has reached a milestone. ln a sense, each year is o milestone, but the one just reached is the largest marker yet passed. So too reflects this pu'blication, because it has reached the same milestone. Lane Technical High School is fifty Years old, but it is not celebrating fifty, it is celebrating a hundred. Why? The institution, the efficient, productive organization, is fifty years old, but the most important thing about it has reached the centi mark: the class of graduating men. The thing that makes Lane such a good school, the thing that makes it literally the School of Champions, the thing that makes Lane what it is now, is celebrating its hundredth anniversary. The Annual is also looking back, it sees the same footsteps. lt knows that Lane has been made better through the years, its foundation is stronger. lt knows that it itself has also been made better, Each tim.e an issue rolls off the press, it is as good as it can be made, yet each time it is better than the last. The reason that it is 'better is because its subject matter is better. lts subject is LANE ....

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along the LANE TECH - 1908 Dwight H. Perkins, Chief Architect Ground Dimensions, 331 ft. by 174 ft. Five stories center, three stories, wings CAPACITY AND EQUIPMENT OF BUILDING 'I8 classrooms, with capacity for 864 pupils Shops with 400 benches 7 laboratories with 220 tables Drawing and drafting rooms with 300 tables Study hall with 286 desks Gymnasium accommodating 48 pupils Capacity of school, 1,800 pupils Cost of Building ....,fA.....- 5500.000-00 Cost of Equipment ,cn fffffff --'l50,000-00 TOTAL S750,000.00 As our Society became more and more mechanized, the .need for scientists and technicians grew at an enormous rate. ln addition, with the decrease in the per- centage of farm dwellers, youngsters were learning fewer and fewer mechanical skills- To serve this double purpose, it was decided in l905 to build a school that was more than just a vocational school: the Lane Technical High School. Vocational schools merely instruct in manual skills, whereas the technical school relates these skills to engineering and m.athematics, and provides courses which prepare the student for college courses in engineering and science. Lane Tech was named after Albert Grannis Lane, an educator born in Chicago in l84l. He was a member of Chicago's first high school graduating class in l858. Soon after his graduating, he was appoint- ed principal of the Franklin Public School, which was located at Sedgwick and Division, the later site of the first Lane Tech building. After ten years of service, he ALBERT G. LANE SHOPS AT LANE have changed over the years, as shown by this l9lO machine shop in the old Lane. GIRLS once decorated the classrooms of Lane - an evening class of advanced stenography in l9l 6.