Montello High School - Granite Hilltopper Yearbook (Montello, WI)

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OUR TOWN HALL The 161 students who are attending M.H.S. this year are working in building units erected in IQ28 (the main (wilding) and IW (gymnasium and agriculture shops). TKeir town hall meetings are spread over twelve classrooms and six other centers used lor study, luncheon, library, activity purposes. These high school citizens are offered courses of study emphasizing college preparatory, commercial, vocational agriculture, and homemaking work. Their school is an accredited institution in the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges. OUR TOWNS L. A. Kiqer Principal Math OUR EXECUTIVE BOARD Varied indeed are the community occupations of the members of the M.H.S. Board of Education. Mr. Henry Orienti, director of the (ward, is head man at Montello Products ( ompany. The c lerk. Mr. Herbert O. Scharenherg. is busy the year round at popular White Like Beach Resort, while Mr. William Bartlett, (ward treasurer, has full time work as one of Marquette County's famem. Our treasurer is also a graduate of the school on whose board he now serves. Aclive in chuc h work, city and county service groups such as Chandler of Commerce. Rotary Club. Boy Scouts, these busy men also find time for such group social activities as league bowling, trap shooting, folk dancing.

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[ own V V' , ° AvA v v f vc y U I-ronard. grocer: McDonald, lumber dealer; Norton, planing mill; Ward. jeweler; William , furniture dealer and undertaker; Steven , manager of a flour mill owned by the Montello Milling Company; Chit- tenden. farm implements. There was also a large woolen mill. In 1862, the Montello EXPRESS, whose first edi- tor and publisher was Dr. S. A. Pease, moved into our town from Oxford, where it had been known as the Marquette TRIBUNE. Seventeen years later it was produced by Bissell and Cogan. who boasted that their paper had no patent insides and outsides, but was printed entirely at home in a steam-powered office It was only in recent years that the Montello EXPRESS became the Montello TRIBUNE. The possibilities of one of our town's most colorful aspects, the once unsightly pile of granite in the cen- ter of its business heart, were not thought of until 1879. when Claude King, a newspaperman of Chi- cago, began the movement which ha since resulted in establishing the reputation of the community throughout the nation. For a time in the 1880 . it was joined with the granite company at Berlin, and at that time from 80 to 100 men were employed and the firm in Mon- tello did an annual business of $85,000 to $100,000 in quarrying, manufacturing, and handling the stone. And now the churches were built: the Methodist in 1865, the Catholic in 1876, and the first Lutheran in 1878. Moreover. 1879 saw the first graduating class from the Montello High School - four young people: L. S. Pease. Sarah Cogan. Mamie Perkins, and Charles Kelsey were the products of this first at- tempt to offer secondary education. Seven time county residents voted on changing the county seat, a hot issue in local elections always. With the construction of the first county court house in Montello in 1864. the problems were settled. Ever since 1866. our town had had high hopes of a rail- road. and they were real ixed in 1882 when the Mon- tello Branch of the Wisconsin Central Ijne. from Packwaukee. a booming railroad town in those days, was completed and put in operation. Montello then became the terminus of a spur of this road, a railroad line running through the center of the state, north and south, to Milwaukee, and on to Chicago. Connections with the outside world were being made, and the residents of the little community were reach- ing. not only toward the fast approaching turn of the century, the 1900 s. but reaching also to touch the magic world outside, in order that they might, as loyal sons and daughters of their little Hill River, bring part of that magic back to take root in their home soil. I)i n ami Paul at Freitag s l.(r.A. Montello State Bank Staff

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OUR STUDENT LEGISLATORS Sealed: Belly Bliefnick. Robert Schuwtz. Donna Toepper, Larry Czeskleba. Mary Atkinson. Charles Barton. Row 2: Patsy Kusick. Ricluird Ross, mly Metcalf. Tom Eck'erfr. Mary McMahon, Mr Kigs‘r. Advisor. Absent: Jack Steinhaus. COUNCILS OUR FACULTY JUDICIARY Montello faculty would carry considerable weight in terms of tlirir Reparation for their jobs all together, our town’s teachers have put in V» years of college work, all in college and universities in the Wisconsin. Illinois. Iowa. Minnesota area. They re husy all the time too - in the classroom and around school ns class, rluh advisors, and as directors of such special activities as music, speech, athletics. In many community and professional activities, they also often voluntarily and always willingly find time to lend a helping, friendly hand. You’ll see them in church choirs and rluhs. Boy and Girl Scout work. Red Cross. Cancer. Polio drive work, on athletic conference committees. They have hohhies too. special interests which make them especially and personally interesting hohhies like music, cAntping, fishing, photography, swimming, sewing, gardening, stamp and coin collecting, traveling, knitting, rug making, writing |»oetr . es. our faculty judic iarv has a really important place in our town, for it is their wise counseling and friendly interest in their school s young citizens that make going to the MHS Town Mall each c l«y a worthwhile exfterience. Jack V. Whirry Aqrit allure Malcolm imnq ( ommen ial