Litchfield High School - Licohi Yearbook (Litchfield, IL)

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Clan of 1898 l BOTTOM ROW: Left to Right: Frances fDunnJ Brock, Harry Conrad Stuttle, Nellie fMillerJ Zink. SECOND ROW: Blanche fDavisj Crabb, Harriet 1Gabyj McCord, Nellie QI-lolderreadj Buel, Winifred QAllenJ Rose. THIRD ROW: Eva fFisherj Nail, Jessie Brister. TOP ROW: Clyde Lloyd, Frank Hooper, john Eagan. the funds for a first class house shall have been raised in due course of law. In April, 1858 a school meeting in the district north of the Big Four Railroad was held at which the school directors were instructed to purchase the Disciples' Church for a school house. Preliminary steps were taken in April of the following year to complete the organization of the Litchfield school district and to place it in possession of the several funds Which belonged to it. In the charter the City Council was declared ex-officio trustees and directors of schools. The first city council acted as school directors, wielding the power of selecting teachers, offering contracts a month at a time, and desig- Seventeen

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Clan' of 1897 STANDING: Left to Right: Edith fGabyj Finney, Minnie QMcWilliamsj Behl, Myrtle fRobertsj Sweeney, Eda Krumerich, Mary Ollfoodmanj Miller, Regina Davis, Allie Anderson. SEATED: Lizzie Hopkins, Mabel QCochranQ Deering, Alvena QGeorgeJ Doyle, Estella fMastersJ Biedler. cation, at low rates, should place themselves under the Professor's in- structions. Persons from a distance can be accomodated with board on reasonable terms. Even before the Litchfield school dis- trict was incorporated under the same charter as the city of Litchield in 185 9 there were spasmodic attempts to form a district school. On August 5, 185 7 the Litchfield Journal published the notice Sixteen It is presumed that no school house for this district will be erected this season. The tax voted in the spring will not be collected until next Winter and the sum which the trustees can legally borrow is too small to justify building this year. So operations will be delayed until

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P s 'Q a Clan of 1899 fx, 4 W, . ,, , , Q.. 'ts .,..., we ,X 'ir 5 as Q 3 . ia , S, 'K 2 'M EN ,mx ,y Wm if 4 .. V , ', . 4 ' .c gqisiii i i ii, 'S 3' UPPER LEFT: Bertha Thorpe. FIRST ROVV: Left to Right: Helen fHolderreudj Maxey, Mary QBringhurstj Stutrle, Josephine QHoodj Schutt, Mr. Shellenbarger, Tillie Qlirumerichj Ayres, Mae fknippl Linney. UPPER RIGHT: Alice Kirby. SECOND ROVV: Anim Qlirokawj Pyfer, Virgi nia Harrington, Eva QMartinj Kinder, William Schutt, Viola Harrington, Elgin Tuscher, Mary fMcElligotj Burson. BOTTOM ROXW: Bertha QCoxJ Killum, Ellis Ollcr, Nellie fHoodJ Schnlk, Coral Owrightj Telford, Lillian CBrirtonJ Ellcdgc, Mercedes fRobertsJ Holland. nating three ungraded schools, Numbers 1, 2, and 3 each with one teacher, namely: H. A. Wells, Miss Julia P. Palmer, and Miss Hannah Skillman. In the second year, August, 1860, Alderman H. H. Hood, as chairman of the Committee on Schools, reported a resolution establishing a system of graded schools, which was adopted. This reso- lution provided that there should be one Eighteen X., SWK ix .ggi