Lyons Township High School - Tabulae Yearbook (La Grange, IL)

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An LT Toorball Team of The '20's . . . 75 years The weaTher was Tair and warm wiTh a ThreaT oT showers as voTers Turned ouT on April I7. l888. There seemed To be no end in sighT Tor The Burling- Ton railroad sTrike. On special evenings aT ThaT Time ciTizens wenT To The Grand Opera Tor enTerTain- menT. When The residenTs oT Lyons Township voTed 380 To 328 To esTablish Their own high school, Illi- nois ConsTiTuTion had auThorizeol compulsory edu- caTionaI TaciliTies iusT eighTeen years beTore. ThaT summer Prof. H. W. ThursTon was employ- ed as The principal and TirsT Teacher oT The school. ThirTy-nine pupils aTTended The Tollowing Tall in one room of a La Grange elemenTary school. NOT only has LT grown in enrollmenT since Then, buT The school has also changed in sTrucTure and size. AT TirsT LT was only a Two-sTory brick and sTone building conTaining an assembly room, Tour classrooms. a laboraTory, and an oTTice. However, crowded condiTions developed as The Tine repuTa- Tion oT LT became known and more Township and TuiTion sTuclenTs enrolled. To provide sTudenTs wiTh beTTer learning TaciliTies, The school board had en- largemenTs made To The original building as con- diTions warranTed. Science labs, manual Training rooms, a gymnasium. and anoTher assembly room were imporTanT adcliTions To LT before I92I. High sTandards have always characTerized schol- arship aT LT. The curriculum was revised in l89O To include manual Training, German, and bookkeeping. A year laTer physical culTure was inTroduced. Only Three years aTTer iTs opening. LT was on The ac- crediTed lisT oT high schools aT Lake ForesT College and The UniversiTy oT Michigan. Besides being ac- crediTed since I905 by The NorTh CenTral Associa- Tion, LT has been named among The Top 44 high schools in The counTry in college preparaTory work.