Madison High School - Trojan / Madisonian Yearbook (Madison, IL)

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m THE MADISONIAN JMsitorp of tf)e JWabtSon 5|tg;f) cljool The Madison High School was organized in the Fall of 1903. The flood of June 7, 1903 had destroyed the homes and belong- ings of many of the people so that the school was organized at a very poor time. The first enrollment was fourteen and the school was in the recitation room and front hall of the W. T. Harris School. The two teachers were Miss Megowen and Mr. Baer. The attendance had increased to twenty at the beginning of the second year, due to the enrollment of some of the students who had been attending school in Granite City and East St. Louis. Miss Harris was added as the third teacher. At first the school was not accredited, and other schools got some of the pupils because of this. So in the spring of 1905 the Illinois High School Inspector came, but, because of the in- completeness of our library and laboratory and the smallness of our school, he refused to accredit it. The next year the library and laboratory were greatly enlarged, and the periods were chang- ed to forty minutes, which they have remained. Again the In- spector came and this time fully accredited the Madison High School. Miss Frances Ulffers was the first graduate in 1904. She gave an essay on “Music,” as her part of the exercises. She little thought at that time that music appreciation and study would develop as it did. Music was taught in all the grades of our public schools and the High School. In the spring of 1926, Miss Megowen the music supervisor was added to the High School Faculty. She resigned at the middle of the year, and is greatly missed. In 1905 Madison High School joined the Madison County High School Association, an athletic association, which disband- ed in 1909, but athletics have been carried on since that time. It is now a member of the Southwestern Illinois Conference. In the middle of the winter of 1911 the High School was moved into the new addition of the W. T. Harris School, but due to the increase of enrollment of the grade school, and the lack of room, it was soon crowded again. In 1913 it was learned that a new high school was to be (Continued on page 22) Page eighteen

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THE MADISONIAN we dislike to close our happy high school days. Our Junior activities were all successful, as they had been during the other two years, due espe- cially to our sponsors who have cooperated splendidly with us in every- thing that we have undertaken. Our Junior officers are: Gene Swigert, President; Mary Skender, vice-president and Bertha Fraundorf, Secre- tary-Treasurer. “Watch your step, the stairs are slippy”, This the sign that met our stare, When as Freshies bright and frisky, We dreamed dreams of castles fair. Sophomores, ah, one step was taken, On those dreadful slippery stairs. With Geometry we must reckon, Oh! those solids, cubes, and squares. Now we’re Juniors, and we’re learning How to watch our step with care. And we hope that when we’re finished, We’ll no longer fear those stairs. Gertrude Bilyeu ’28. Junior Class Poem Clara Bucher ’28. Page seventeen

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