Palatine High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Palatine, IL)

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RlGHT: Queen Jamie Christopher brightening an already sunny homecoming. OPPOSITE PAGE: All highlights this year did not deal with the centennial and bicentennial. Some others werejunior Kevin McKenna scoring the most in the MSL. Dawn Guthrie arranging carnations for distribution on Valentine's day. and choir's big moment June 1975 singing in Atlanta for Kiwanis International. Pictured are Frank McGee and Chris Burbidge standing on the bus on the way back to their dorms. But Mary Santy modeling the cap and gown chosen by the seniors was centennial. Mary. a member of choir and madrigals, was also in council. Both she and Jamie represented Palatine at the January rap session with the school board. Sneak gwtnctlk Plfiikf' For the centennial. this mural, one of three created by art students. was chiefly done by Pete Lowe and shows the wit of a cartoonist as well as the work of an artist. He placed four pieces in the Scholastic contest and one went national. V-show used the past as a major motif. but Steve l-loey and John Crawford picking and strumming and Karen Hetzel applying makeup for an orchesis number were modern in an old fashioned way.

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Village histor reaches the students The name Joel Wood, so closely tied to Palatine High history, came from England through Massa- chusetts and Pennsylvania. The man Joel Wood came to this area in 1846. He bought 80 acres for 31.25 an acre. ln l853 he worked for the Chicago 8: Northwestern railroad constructing 4000 yards of embankement at 10 cents a yard and earned enough to pay off his land. He then bought an 80 acre section along the railroad line and had the railroad build its station on this tract. In l855 he surveyed the village in lots, blocks and streets. The railroad pinpointed the village, but the generosity of Mr. Wood established it. He gave two acres for a cemetery, two lots to the Methodist Episcopal society for a church and parson- age, a large school site, four lots to the Christian church and five acres to Pastor Elder Mullin and a site for a steam grist mill to B. A. Bailey. He also gave away several lots to individuals. Family tragedies wore him down, and he left Palatine in 1870. Palatine's German population came for the most part straight from Germany around 1855. They came in such numbers that German was taught, and the Enterprise had a four page German insert until World War l. Palatine be- came a closely knit community of English and Germans with an occasional other ethnic citizen slipping in until the growing suburban boom of post World War Il. 'X sv r s