Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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THE FACULTY CHARLES C. WELLS, A. B., Principal. Blessed with the ability to make a successful church, educational, and society man. MARY ELLEN TAYLER, A. M„ Sciences. A recognized authority 011 all useful subjects, from the sciences to art. MARY A. HUGHES, A. B„ English. She considered it a pleasure to help 11s in whatever good we attempted. EMMA PONZER. A. B.. Languages. Her intellectual powers are made attractive by something so human in her relationship with 11s. BEULAH McGLINCH, Music. So kindly sympathetic; comforting to talk with.

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week or more in advance. Mr. Smith was blessed with a fine voice and led the choir. Mr. Smith was an active, energetic, and aggressive man. well educated, and familiar with the problems of secondary education as they existed at that time. Possibly no better man could have been chosen for the work. Ilis radical ideas soon created a hitter opposition and he was compelled to leave at the end of two years. The course of study. We smile as we read it. Though, to be taught by one man. it was even more extensive than the course today with five teachers and four years in which to accomplish the work. There were two years of Latin and two years of Greek, Harkness’ Latin series and Bullion’s Greek hooks being used. Davies’ Elementary and Davies’ Advanced Algebra, commonly called Davies’ Bourbon. Davis’ Legendre, and Trigonometry. Young’s Civil Government, ells’ Chemistry, W ells’ Natural Philosophy, Greene’s Analysis of the English Language. Quackenbos' Rhetoric. Burritt’s Astronomy with the big atlas of the heavens. Goodrich’s I’nited States History. Weber’s Universal History, Jarvis’ Physiology. Wood’s Manual of Botany McXalley’s Physical Geography, and Ray’s Higher Arithmetic. The second year. Miss Abbie Summers, who had been educated in Massachusetts, and who had come west for the purpose of teaching. was employed to assist Mr. Smith. Miss Summers wore curls and was very neat in her dress and precise in her pronunciation of words. From this time on until 1890 the entire work in the High School was done by the superintendent and one teacher, usually a woman. In that year two teachers were employed in the High School, and one of them may be justly called the principal. The first class was graduated in 1868. It consisted of five members. They were Isabelle Roberts, Addie M. Lancev. Imogene Up-degraff. Anna Snodgrass, and Sarah A. Pillsbury. During the forty-four years that have passed, forty-three classes have been graduated, having a membership of 577. During the present year fifty-two of them are attending higher institutions of learning. Many of the older graduates are holding important and responsible positions in life. They are judges and legislators. teachers and preachers, lawyers and doctors, bankers and business men. manufacturers and farmers. They are found in every trade and profession, enriching them with their energy and intelligence.

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CHARLES C. WELLS, A. R. MARY A. HUGHES, A. B.