Neponset High School - Zephyr Yearbook (Neponset, IL)

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THE ZEPHYR HISTORY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL ♦ ♦ ♦ The first graduating class in the old Neponset High School was in 1878. For many years it was a three year high school. It is now an accredited four year institution. The present building was designed by Grant Beadle of Galesburg and constructed by William McKinnon Sons of Monmouth. The opening of the new building was celebrated by a play entitled “The Goose Hangs High with a cast including Carolyn Studley, Edson Smith, Clarence Lyford, Harold Pickering, Verna Kemmerling, Esther Pettit, Helen Russell, Kenneth Blake, Lottie Robinson, Bruce Whaples, Cora Smith and Claude Stabler. The play was advertised by a publication similar to an annual which older Neponset graduates will cherish. It contains a list of all of the graduates and principals from 1878 through 1925. Copies are hard to find, but one of the known copies belongs to Bradley Berry. The Neponset High School has been supervised by thirty-one principals since 1878. They are as listed since 1924: 1924-1927 A. Edson Smith 1943 C. C. Clapper 1928-1939 J. D. McClary 1943-1946 W. C. Ott 1910-1943 Harold Scott 1947-1948 Claude H. Ammon The Board of Education serving at the time of the new building was: President, John E. Pickering; Secretary, A. E. Stetson; William Golby, W. A. Burnett, Charles Norton, S. W. Scott and Charles K. Stuart. This Mge sponsored by . . . Pfisrcr Hybrids, Victor Lyford, Neponset