Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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 THE SPIDER WEB.” MACOMB HIGH SCHOOL, MACOMB. ILLINOIS lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.Illllllllll..... Pasre Eight ffitstmiral krtrli of (!)lii anil 2mu Umliiuuj HE High School movement had scarcely begun in Illinois at the outbreak of the Civil War, but after this great struggle the cause of secondary education was again taken up by some of the most influential men. From 1865 to 1870 there was at least one high school established in most of the counties of the State of Illinois. In the summer of the year 1865, a movement was set on foot to erect a modern school building of eight rooms, to establish a high school, and to employ a comptetent educator who could teach in the high school and also organize and systematize the grade schools in the other wards of Macomb. The building which was erected is the old high school building in the second ward. Some of the men who were foremost in establishing this high school were; Jas. L. Anderson, Joseph K. W ne, William E. Withrow, C). F. Piper, Joseph Updegraff, and Horatio Bartleson. On September 1. 1866. school was begun in this building and continued until the year 1915. The number of students attending the school increased each year and this building was not large enough to properly accomodate all who wished to attend, neither did it have modern equipment necessary for an up-to-date high school. In the year 1913 the question as to whether Macomb should have a new high school building was voted upon, but there was a great deal of opposition and the vote was not carried. The next year the school building in the fourth ward was condemned and torn down. At this time the question was again taken up and it was decided that a new fourth ward high school building should be erected. The new building was begun in the year 1914. The building committee were; J. H. Millsom. k. B. Gorbach, S. C. Stremmel, and A. Fisher. The architect contractors were J. Grant Beadle and P. H. Tiernan. It was hoped that the new building would be ready for occupancy by the beginning of the school year in 1915, but there was a great deal of delay in the transportation of some of the materials used in the construction of the building and two months of the school year passed by before the moving from the old building to the new could be accomplished and school properly started in the new. At the present time the new school building presents an example of manifold activities. ith the new building so properly and modernly equipped and everything concerning either social or school activities organized as completely and thoroughly as it is, the present high school is entering upon a great opportunity.