Oneida Community High School - Mohawk Yearbook (Oneida, IL)

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'( $ i 1 f pI h i 'i K i TJ o a 7. SCHOOL BUILDING Oneida's red brick school building has changed g -eatly since that first class left its doors in 1091 to become a part of the great outside world The building, which was erected in 1870, has been repartitioned until there are now four rooms on tho first floor and seven on the second floor. The seating arrangement ha3 been changed in several rooms and the building has been repainted several times. On the first floor are four rooms which are used by the grade school pupils and teachers. The southeast room is given over to the first and second grades, the northeast room to third and fourth grades, the northwest room to the fifth and sixth grades, and the southwest room to the seventh and eighth grades. The second floor is occupied by the high school. Tho office is regarded as the principal's domain. The history room which occupies the north- west portion of the building, is adjoined by the room in which English, mathematics, civics, and economics are taught. In the southeast corner of the building is the shorthand and bookkeeping room Opening to the west of this is the typing room. The science room occupies the southwest portion of the second floor. Here are found all those instru- ments and conveniences necessary for the complet- ion of laboratory experiments in physics, general, science, and biology. In addition to these rooms there is a study hall at the south end of which is a combined stage and library, the latter contain- ing 1078 volumes. In the basement is a music room to which both grade school and high school pupils have access. During the school year of 1934-35 the piano in this room was repaired and made adaptable to both chorus and orchestra work. The grounds surrounding the building are kept in shape by the janitor, Mr. Charles Yfeech, who has filled this position for the past two years. 3 i

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TK i GYMNASIUM In 1926 the members of the Oneida Congregation- al church donated their church building to be used as a community meeting place with the understand- ing that it was to be under the jurisdiction of the high school board. Soon after this, remodell- ing was begun to transform the building Into a gymnasium suitable for practicing certain athletic activities. The present building has a balcony on the east and one on the west side of the main room. Three back rooms are provided for the convenience of athletes and officials. During the summer of 1934 the building was mads more modern. In the northeast back room cupboards, for storing dishes belonging to Oneidab organizations, were installed. In the back room to the northwest a partition was inserted making a small private room for officials and a place in which to lock the team’s clothing and athletic equipment. In the basement showers and lockers for athletic clothes were installed. In this building the basketball teams of the grade school, high school, and town do their pract- icing in preparation for their games of the season. Here also the high school girls' physical educat- ion classes are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week during those months when weather condit- ions make out-door athletics inadvisable. The building is often used In the Dresentation of various programs, for political meetings, for organizations meetings and activities. A piano, newly purchased during the 1934-35 school year, stands ready to provide music for any of these public assemblies. n