Latin School of Chicago - Sigillum Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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AN INTRODUCTION This yearls Sigillum is devoted to celebrating the anniversary of Fifty Years of Chicago Latin. A half century has passed since the School was founded, and today we of the graduating class salute the many classes preceding us. The record of Chicago Latin is a proud one. It has been our objective, within the few pages of this volume, to outline something of the history and development of the School. We have thought it fitting that contributions from alumni should occupy a consider- able portion of this record. To all those who responded to our call for material, our thanks for helping to make this section of the volume possible. With so many sons of Chicago Latin in the ranks of distinguished Chicagoans, we are sorry that more of these alumni contributions could not appear. The book is divided into six sections as follows: Historical Background Contributions from Alumni Faculty Seniors Activities Athletics We hope that these pages will bring back many pleasant memories and that the traditions of the School will always be carried on with the same fealty, standing for only the highest and best in secondary education.

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HIS year's Sigillum, devoted as it is to a record of Fifty Years of Chicago Latin, can make no more appropriate dedication than one to education. Through the ages the torch of progress is carried by education, that one light that leads always, onward to greater heights for civilization. To those through the past half century who shared in the struggle to bring education to Chicago Latin's youths, to that inner drive which kept them pushing forward to greater heights, to mankind's and our present century's only hope, Education, this volume is humbly dedicated.

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History Uf The Chicago Latin chnul The Chicago Latin School had its beginning when a group of Chicagoans in 1888, headed by Mr. and Mrs. VV. W. Blatch- ford felt the need for secondary education so acute, that they sent for Mabel Slade Vickery from the East. Miss Vickery started a group October 6, I888, which met in the Blatchford home at 375 LaSalle Avenue, here Miss Vickery prepared boys for the college entrance examinations and college work. In 1890 the school was moved to the residence of General and Mrs. A. C. McClurg at the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Scott Street, known as the Robert Lincoln house. When General and Mrs. McClurg built a new home at 125 Lake Shore Drive two years later, they devoted the third story to the classrooms of the school. It was then that Robert Peck Bates also from the East came to assist Miss Vickery. AN EARLY GROUP OF THE SCHOOL N. HENROTIN, D. CUSACK, D. W.ALL, R. SILSEEE, H. ARMSTRONG, MR. MCLEOD, STRONG, NIXON OTIS, R. P., THOMAS, BROOKE. G. FISHER, L. BODMAN, POMEROY, SHOENEERGER, SIIELDoN, STREET, MCFADON, RICKCORDS. A. KING, C. DEANE, HOOPER, LAFLIN, P. WHITE, C. MATZ, MAC KING, S. BLAIR, H. BODMAN, J. MATZ HOWLAND, CLARKE, S. WHITE, J. WAITE.