Peoria High School - Crest Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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Dedication The Centennial Year has been the theme of this book. The faculty of Peoria High has attracted numerous fine teachers to many years of service during its one hundred years. This book is dedicated to the teacher on our faculty with the greatest number of years service to Peoria High School. She joined our faculty in 1921 and has given Peoria High School thirty-five years of outstanding service. VVe, the CREST staff of 1956, therefore dedicate this book to a JWISS LUCILLE WALTMIRE Page 3

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Then and Now occupancy. This stood on the site of the present Lincoln School, then known as Park School. It was considered quite commodious in its time. It proved ade- quate until l884 when the building on the corner of Monroe and Fayette streets was erected. This in turn gave Way to the present building on North Street in 1916. 1884 - 1916 Page 5