Streator Township High School - Hardscrabble Yearbook (Streator, IL)

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HARDSCRABBLE S, T. H, S, W D WALDRIP A B Unrversrty of Indrana Prrncrpal In a book that reaches as may homes as does the Hardscrabble rt seems proper to con gratulate the patrons of the Streator Hrgh School for the magn1Hcent support accorded our Hrgh School for the past years and especrally rn the recent Hrgh School electrons The Prrncrpal Fac ulty and Student body 'rs a whole wrsh to express therr thanks for makrng rt possrble for our Hrgh School to marntarn rts place among the better Hrgh Schools of Illrnors The average per caprta cost of marntarnrng the better Hrgh Schools rn our state rs about S140 whrle IH the past srx years the per caprta here has been reduced from S119 srx years ago to S104 the past year Thrs rs a line showrng for our school as we are ranked by the Unrversrty authorr tres near the top of the Hrgh Schools of the state So any charge that vse are an evrtravagantly run The best reward we can grve to the frrends of our Hrgh School for therr many krndnesses rs to contrnue rn the future as we hare donc rn the p st shox the same sweet helpful communrty sprrrt and ard rn every vs 'ry we can to make Streator a better town rn whrch to lrwe Hrgh Schools rn general are rndrc rtrve of the sprrrt of the commumty and so I wrsh to con gratulate the communrty of S reator for the excellent sprrrt shown as rs ewrdenced by the support grven the school and for the fine school sprrrt shown Here we solemnly pledge ourselr es to strrxe more and more to repay our communrty by gn rng more serrrce and dorng all we can to burld up a stronger and better communrty W D WALDRIP Page Nrne . . , . . ll H ' l . . , . - , . . ' , ' .. 1 '. ' . S - . X I . . ' X ' ' . c High School seems to be utterly unfounded. A1 l ' ' ' x vc v L 1 - 1 s I ' ' v . . ky . U , ' . . 2 . B . . - ' IL w I -I ' v' 1

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HARDSCRABBLE S T H S Soon the orlgl nal bulldlng of the Streator Townshlp Hlgh School one of the many glfts to the cltv from the la e C o I R a l p h P l u m b Wlll make way for the new and modern hlgh school for whlch the people of the townshlp have bonded themselves It IS remarkable how fast he hlgh school has grown from 1877 when seven students graduated untll thls year when the class of 22 has reached the centuly mark T h e growth was so rapld that ln 1902 lt wa s neces annex adjolnlng the maln bulldlng mak lng the school large enough to convenlently ac commodate about three hundl ed and fifty stu dents The enrollment has now passed the SIX hundred mark but the students are assured re llef by the constructlon of the new hlgh school Wlth the razlng of the old structure and lts re placement by the new comes the deslre to com memorate the work of the man who made thls hlgh school posslble Wlll the memory of the great phllanthroplc work done by Col Plumb the donol of our hlgh school and one of the founders of our clty be lost wlth the demollshlng of thls edlficel Col Plumb cast ln the mould of other great men of the C1Vll war perlod such as Llncoln Grant Summer and other Tltans was a com mandlng figure ln the antl slavery battles and when the ClV1l vsar came he was one of the Hrst to JOIU the Unlon forces He served durlng the vlar on the staff of Gen Garfield and upon the latters death was made a colonel At the close of the war he came to Streator then known as Hardscrabble at the head of a company ln terested ln developlng the coal fields He pro moted thls great lndustry lald out the town bullt rallroads connectlng the vlllage wlth the outslde world and dld much to encourage fan Page Ell.ht COLONEL RALPH PLUMB to les and to ad xance 'ull other worth whlle clvlc projects W h e n Streator be c a m c lncorporated h e w a s elected a the hlst mayor and IH 1884 was elected to Congl ess where he sel ved as a repre N8lltc1l'.lV9 f 0 r t w o telms Alcxandcr P 0 p e Yllll TIS educatlon folms th e common n nd IU s t as e ly., lb b 1. n t tlcc s lllcllned us lcmember that It was Lol Plumb who bent the twlg ln oul msc by bulldlng' the Ollglnal hlgh school What trlbute too great to the man xx h o plomoted 1 n the early days of our clty the opportunlty of hlgher educatlon that we mlght be of the com mon mlnd It was thls man who ln hls ambl tlon to see the clty grow encouraged all pro grams worklng for the advancement of the town and lts people and who had the vlslon to see that no town could be successful wlthout good educa tlonal facllltles As a mark of our appreclatlon and esteem fol thls benefactor we suggest that some flttlng tl lb ute be left ln honor of the great work for Whlth Col Plumb was responslble Thls mlght be accompllshed by a formal mem orlal such as a bronze tablet placed IH front of the new school bulldlng wlth a shoxt sketch of Col Plumbs llfe etched upon It Ol we mlght establlsh a more llvlng remlnder bv dedlcatlng a small room ln the new bulldlng to hls honor thls room to contaln a hlstory of the maklng of Streator and her dex elopment The latter would not only provlde a memorlal for Col Plumb but would lncrease the students knowledge of the clty as well Whatever our trlbute be to Col Plumb let us always remember that he was a fllend to our cause and let us be loyal to hls name EDITOR IN CHIFF . .- , v F. h 1 ' - ,. 1 , l: A 'V .. u' - ' b l , ' . s t . l ! I ' a S ' ' l , - - 3 I ' K I 4 A , f I . U , . ' . Q .. , ,L ' . . t A . , ' li 5 f th , ' - . l tw' -' 1 , the ' Let . U . t hx . 7 n Y i I V . . sary to construct an - - V f- -'-e - -W-J from u s could be . . . , - Y v y . ' 1 . - ' , ' ' u Q . . ,, I . . . .- . . . . , y ' ' 1 ' D , w I . Y l I , . . ' Y I . 7 Y ' l 1 y - ' - . n , . . D . 1 -9 - - 7 Y - r r ' , . . . , , ' 1 Y 1 ' I ' 1 y '. ' 1 ' ' J .

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!l'l'VlA M WOOLLEY B A LOUIS R PINCHAM Ll:.l'A B SOUTHWORTH A B Bnlmt Normal Stout Inst tute Belolt Englnsh Manual rl dll'IlY'lL Engllsh Bl-RTHA M ROGLRQ li S DLLLX LEWIQ MARFARE1 MAC CALI UM A Ii Household Alt-. Bool keeplm., Flvnvh 4 Page Ten RUTH C ROBB VERA I LARGENT B A MARIE J HONEYWELL A B Streator Hlgh School Knox Beloxt Secretary Latm Englxsh and Hlstory . ' ' ' . 2 ' r . . ' . ' ' ,. , ' l I . ' ., . F. ' I . I ' . . , . Millikin Gregg: Business Schuul Northwestern J - ' .' c ' ' f ' 1 . Q4 I ' f l