Palatine High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Palatine, IL)

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a, -,Lk S Z? Village history became important as these pictures show. Florence Parkhurst. who has held the historical society together in cardboard boxes, and Averry Wolfrum riding in Palatine High's homecoming parade as a pioneer woman at her spinning wheel and a village policeman. The costumes and props belong to the society. and they were advertising the need for a building. The three story brick building known as the brick block stood on the site of the.First Bank and Trust company. lt was built in l884 by H. C. Batterman. The Patten bank and stores were on the first floor. The upstairs halls were used for plays. dances. concerts and roller skating. Reading the library's microfilm of the Enterprise is Kurt Conway of the Spotlight staff. Ellen Konsbruck sketched from a painting the Winkelman farm, which was in the vicinity of Fremd high school. The dark study hall is Palatine high school in the grade school building with principal Butler in the back. and a continuation of that building's influence is seen in the call letters of Palatine's TV camera.

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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

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Although the space in front of school and cars have changed drastically in the past I5 years, the attraction to them hasn't. RIGHT: A car in 1960. as well as today, was often a necessity for getting to work or going places with friends. BELOW: Last year brought lengthened lunch periods, and shorter days forjuniors and seniors. The main entrance was often cluttered with people taking advantage of a sunny day to go out to eat or leaving early for home or work. BOTTOM LEFT: Students relaxing on the large stretch of grass in front of the school, now covered by the newest addition. The tranquil scene of 1966 would be upset the next year by construction. BOTTOM RIGHT: The centennial logo. t t , R kv .HH 4 . . .f -.rx t X ' , - . . I., K f. , v , I -, k x 'Yi X ev f .fi i if t' 551- x 2 . i 1 t 1 , . ' .. NX ,M ',x , x t J? t . , I N