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SKETCH OF SCHOOL By Henry Wamsley. 'o». The first time that the present High School was occupied was during the first week in January, 1872. Only four men are living that were on the school board when it was built, O. B. Attherton, Rice Irvin, Dr. Real and J. S. Williamson. 11 four live in Tuscola at the present time. W. Loggert, Adolph Coffee. and Trownsell are deceased. Adolph Coffee was the man elected on the board, but he resigned and Trownsell took his place. There was at that time a library of more than toq volumes, and in 18 )2 there is a record of 200 volumes. Whet] the public library was built, nearly all of the books were moved to it from the school library. When the High School started only a three-year course was offered. but a regular four-year course was soon established. Tuscola was one of the early schools on the accredited list of the University of Illinois and Illinois Wesleyan University. In 1908 it was put on the accredited list of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. This is a tribute to the excellence of our school, as only about twenty-five schools in the state outside of Chicago are in this list. Bridges was the first superintendent. He taught a part of the first term in the new school. William Broomfield finished that term and taught several terms after it. He was followed by Hoenshell, Starr. il-son. W. B. Owen, A. O. Reubett, F. J. Thomas, Albert G. Owen, Charles S. Earl, Charles Ammerman, G. F. Arps, J. P. Gilbert, E. E. Giltner and Lewis R. Hoover, who began in 190(5 and is the present superintendent. There were four in the first graduating class in 1875: Lillian Daggy, now Mrs Watt Conover, who lives in Springfield: Emma Wyeth, now Mrs. Geo. Callaway, living in Tuscola; Tennyson Daggy, a printer now in St. Paul, Minn.; John C. Russell, who died in Hannibal, Mo. The second class was composed of three members, but no class since that time has had less than four in it. The class of 1907 was a record-breaker, having twenty-one members. The class of i9°9 vv' also go on record with twenty-two members. The history of the school shows it to be an important educational factor and we hope the Tuscola High School will always exert an influence that will be of. benefit to the community. 6
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FACULTY Gkohck Van Burex—Until April 1. principal and science teacher, now living at New Auburn. Wisconsin, had his college preparation at Cornell College, Iowa, with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
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