Litchfield High School - Licohi Yearbook (Litchfield, IL)

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Clan of 1902 FRONT ROXV: Left to Right: Mary QGr.1dyj Neville, Kathryn Motherway, lilizzibetli Ranisey. SVCOND ROW: Mabel Qllosej Zapf, Iidna fSCl1llll1.lCliCfl Russell, Cieneia Lllobertsj McKinney Clara QHolderre.idj Doyle, Lena Qlwlalluryj Parker, Annu Davis, Selma qlirellj Nunnellcy. 'I'HlRl7 ROXV: -Iesse iliuscher, David Oller, Clinton Fcnnessey, Lawrence Xwnuster, Vlfilter Halford, Albert Kane, Roy Fisher. TOP ROVV: -Iessie fliurnerj Case, George Snaxlmif, Harry Handy. l.inna lMasseyl Hulet, Annv Qiilynnj Mast. 1860's the school term was six months, and private schools filled out the three or four additional months of each year. In 1864 the city council determined to erect a two-story brick building to cost not more than twelve thousand dol- lars, for a grammar and a high school building, and the council deemed it ex- pedient to dispense with the grammar school for the term of 1864-65. Since the city council was slow in going to work on the new building, it was left Twenty

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C lass of 1901 w . vu V K H A ' at ' 'lr hw Xb TOP ROW: Left to Right: Laurutra fI.ewisJ Salzman, Grace Qliirklnndj Padfield, W. Lynn Settlemire. MIIJDLIC ROVU: Lena OVilliamsJ Berry, Frank Lloyd, Nellie Qwayncj Wilmann, Harry Bumann BOTTOM ROW? KI. Hallie Mclilvoy, W'illiam Berry, Jennie QDui'fyj Homrighous. central school for the district of the grade of an academy or grammar school, and one primary school in and for each Wardg that each school should have a principal and an assistant teacherg that there should be one male Cthe principal of the gram- mar schoolj and Hve female teachersg that the principal of the grammar school should receive S50 a month. Rooms were rented for the schools. In January, 1861, the city purchased a building on jackson street which be- came the grammar school, building for four years. During the period of the Nineteen

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Clary of 1903 TOP ROXV: Left to Right: Dora Bumann, George Cox, Uscar Schalk, Stella Van Sandt, Anna Neuber. N1'X'1' ROXV: Roger Studebaker. lidna Taulbee, Maude Qlirossfieldj Nelson, Mabel lieeman. SICONID RUXY: Nlyrtle ll,.1llL III1 1 Tl Immlxm l wvnv n. Reba lSnellD XVhite. Cie sml' ge O'l1rit 'x1, Glen Beveridge, le 11.1 Qllaxisj Uhlenhop, Hattie gllaineyl Watkins. l'lil1N'l' RK7XY': Mabel llicplingcrl Wils Lll1, Miri. lI11 lil rrlln 'sj Reid I!1n' icr, Virgie Ytillwell. for their successors the next year to make a beginning. The year 1865 was a time of inflated prices and inflated prosperity. The city council, instead of following the design originally chosen, formed a new plan which called for a building costing three times as much. The contract was begun and then abandoned, leaving bare walls with openings unclosed and the roof partly covered. The city council elected in the spring of 1867 took hold of the work and completed it in time to open school the following September. Litchfield. lll.. Sept. 24, 1867 Dear Cousin john: . . . Mr. Blanchard has great hopes of me he says. He called yesterday and said he should look to me for most of the help. He was speaking of the smallness of the salary offered to the lady teachers, and in connection with it he was lament- ing that the board here had not let him choose Twent y-one