Lena Winslow High School - Win Nel Yearbook (Lena, IL)

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L UUHI H6 BHCHIUHHDS ' i l 4 The lasttin a long series of anything is always a little sad and sentimental. This last Win-nel, marking as it does of a beloved institution, is

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0 Ong J Y X GQQa.....f , A chool History The history of public education in Winslow is a long one. More than a century ago, in 1849, in the loft of Edward Hunt's cooper shop Qnow the Gust Rockow residencej , Mr. Pym conducted Wins1ow's first school. In the following year a one-room school building was erected on the school lot fnow the Nettie Bartelt propertyy. When in 1872 this building became too crowded, school was held for one year in the basement of the Presbyterian church, while the old school building was being torn down. In 1873 the school board consisting of John Barr, Alex Stewart, T ,t if A fn f 9' Wi 7 , 4 I. 3 x x X I M 1 - 1 and Isaac Gage opened school in a new two-story frame structure 2 E7 erected on the previous site. There were no windows on the south X K side and but few elsewhere, and heat was furnished by a wood- Q burning stove. There were two teachers employed in this school, s one on each floor. The higher rank of students were sent upstairs, and the others were taught downstairs. It is interesting to note that some of the pupils were men with beards. Teachers in this school, which ran from 1873-1902, included Thomas Hunter, Adam Crape, 1 Q., C. W. Franks, Renaldo Wilburs, E. R. Shepherd, Mr. Thomas, 5 1 I Alice Leonard, Kate Moran, Rachel Richardson, Lydia Wohlford, tsp ' I If o Howard Auman, Mr. Klontz, Mr. Elsesser, Mr. Cornell, Mr. 'N V it I Hotchkiss, Mrs. Hotchkiss, Frank Soule, and Orpha Palmer. X, Z t I u L! A if 4 te f Y I, V rl ' ff vggf A NX. -x J 45490 9:9 1 , H H-ss-.ma - 45 ' br- me' OO :Q