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

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l 2 NWNSLUW SCHOOL 1889 TOP ROW-Ped Skinner,Sherm Wright,Hattie Wright, Carrie Stites, Lizzie Stone, Dell Drake, Hattie Eells, Sarah Saucerman, Mamie Taylor, Amy Dietze. ROW 4-Clem Stewart, Nell Stites, Cora Steckle, George Winters, Charlie Gage, Lois Taylor, Maybell Saucerman, Sadie Steere, Cora Hlmter. ROW 3-Prof. Frank, Mattie Black, Cora Wright, Mary Nease, Sadie Taylor, Bell Skinner, Eva Higley, Jenny Sweely, John Wright, Bill Gage. ROW 2-Lottie Wright, Spider Gage, Ed Higley, Louis Smith, Charlie Gearhart, Rolland Stites, Carrie Wright, Sadie Stites. ROW 1-Tom Rodebaugh, Blanche Martin, Maud Deam, Maggie Fuller, Mamie Blair, Lois Steere, Vernon L. DeBe11, Emma Saudy. Although this was technically only a grade school, much that we would call high school work today was taught to advanced pupils who returned after eighth grade graduation for further instruction. The courses taught included arithmetic, algebra, civil government, and rhetoric. There was a large recitation bench in front of each of the two teachers' desks where each class passed to take its turn in recitation. All possible wall space was used for black- boards. Often there were as high as eighty pupils on each floor and to accommodate these large numbers, bookstands, and even the teacher's desk, were drafted into service as study tables. The record has come down to us that opening exercises in this school each morning consisted of group singing with an old organ for accompaniment. On dark or stormy days the pupils would not have light enough to read their books, but then poems would be recited from memory or they would take exercises. This was the Winslow school until 1902 when the first brick building on the present school lot was put into use. The old school was used for a resi- dence for some time and was finally torn down.

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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

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m X1 Qt r, lj . 5 n 1 If 1 ' 'r .ry V, K Sk 1- , . S 2 f .4-rf' ,QQ The Old Brick chool The next school building in Winslow was erected in 1902 on the present school lot. This was a two-story four-room brick structure set well back from the sidewalk. Both grade school and high school classes were begun in this building with Mr. John W. Trafzer as the first land onlyy teacher in the high school and prin- cipal over the entire building. The county superintendent of schools, Winslow school board, and Mr. Trafzer established this curricu- lum for a four-year high school program: 4 years English, 3 years history, 2 years algebra, 2 years geometry, 1 year advanced mathe- matics, 2 years Latin, 3 years science, and 1 year general bookkeeping. During the years from 1902-1921 the principals andteachers of Winslow High School included John W. Trafzer, Chas. G. Wilson, S.C. Brock, F.C. Bennett, Franklin P. Fisher, Robert Morehead, L. B. Reed, Thomas Brew, J.H. Diddle, Henry Merrill, John Par- sons, Mrs. John Parsons, Agnes Ferguson, Henry C. Barton, Mrs. Gladys Barton, and Mildred Adams. Through these years the high school had its ups and downs with state accreditation, it is re- corded, for example, that Mr. Morehead taught a high school class in 1909-1910 without pay and that the students received no credit that year. The school was crowded with students, and a second beginning in September of 1918. In the list of graduates printed elsewhere in this book you will note how the school varied in these years between a two three and four year high school. 6 X of-f V J X4-ihnaa Xi., O sa I , 1 I od ral' 1 J ,.,.. W N- T K , ' gf' 0 I ,V ., 'C ' 1 2 f ' 0. Ji X' 1 ., .N ' G' o A we lv -Q X x I l 2 Q Q I ,g .X Ci 0 ' K cf f 1 RQ 1 1 QV 1. 2 ' high school room was partitioned off on the third floor for use Q iiaxfiffa xl, 2 1 f . f W tc if 1, n ' J I - 7 .,,.2