Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Mr. A. Philip Smith was president of the class which was graduated in 1887 from the Central High School, which was housed in what is now known as the Old Building, a re- sult of the consolidation of the East and West Side High Schools in 1884. At the time Mr. Smith was graduated, there were six teachers who taught approxi- mately twenty subjects including astronomy, Greek, and rhetoric. Among many amusing and interesting in- cidents recalled by Mr. Smith was his lunch hour always spent in the gym , an unused room, that was equipped by the students themselves. He remembers also Study Hall 320, then used as an assembly room, to which the students marched daily for morning devo- tions and singing. After graduation, Mr. Smith attended Be- loit College and is now one of Rockford's best known lawyers.

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AGNES BROWN B. S. Lake Forex! College Agnes Brown, Science Department Head and teacher of Botany and Physiography, is always ready with advice and assistance for her teachers and students. Miss Brown, with forty-two of her forty-four years of teaching experience in this school, has contributed greatly in helping main- tain the distinction and in furthering the prog- ress of Rockford High School. WILLIAM H. HAUPT B. S. D. Mifmzzri State Teazclaem College William H. Haupt, because of his outstanding personality and his helpfulness to students, has long been a favorite with the boys in his mechan- ical drawing and architecture classes. Mr. Haupt has taught in Rockford High School twenty-nine of his thirty-nine years of teaching experience. Since his arrival here in 1908, he has never been tardy. Page 15

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