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

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F H BAILEY R C OSBORN LOUIS NATLR IIOYD PAINFPR T 'VI QUINN I I' MORRIS Townshlp Treasurer E H Balley Presldent of Board R C Osborn Secretary of Board Louls Nater Building and Grounds Commlttcc Teachers and School Managcmc nt I' MOFTIS Lloyd Painter T WI Qulnn Iouls Nltel J F MOIIIS LOUIS Nite To the School Board and the Tounshxp Trustees who have durlng thelr long serwlces plo moted the educational f3CllltI6S of our School we the class of 1997 wlsh to express our slncere appreclatlon for the new lmprowements and remodelmg of he hlgh school fox thexr efforts 1n obt lnlng the new hlgh school that we mlght remam an accredlted school with colleges and um XCISIIIQS that we mlght haxe an equal chance W th other schools to show our scholastlc ab1l1t1es that we mlght study under safe and healthful condltlons and thereby become better Amerlcan Cltl zens, and agam for then' cooperatwn ln the publlcatlon of thls Hardscrabble Page Seven . ' . lx I L n X x 4 J. I. ' ' . I . ' , z ' Supplies Committee I 'z !' -, y - v 9 V 1 Z-1-1 xi - v ' Z w : - Ia Y . A 7 v . . , - , . , V . V i i . 5, . . , - I . . . . . . . ,,

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,af Streator Townsh1p Hlgh School Streator Illmols TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES George W Graham President Chas J Elllott Thomas M Hoarty S NY- - 'I - . 1 W S' 1 . . 1. - . . . . 7 ' 9 . . .

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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 .