Vermont High School - Comet Yearbook (Vermont, IL)

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'lllli eOM12'1' mio The North School Building 1- W' l HISTORY Une night in the year 187: there was a great disaster in the quiet little village of Yerntont. ln that year it was decided, through the generous efforts of the School llireetors, to put a hot air heater in the North School lluilding. .Xs there was no baseinent in which to install tl1e furnace. excavations were begun. The work was about eonipleted when to the great consternation ot everybody concerned the building. whose walls had been weakened by the mining operations, eollapsed. The rnin was complete so it was neeessary to 'rlan an entirely new building. It was then that work on the present edifice began. The contract was given to ,lohn Sinith. a well known eitizen of Yer- mont. The new structure was finally completed and remains to-day practically the same as when built, barring the ravages of age and usage. The hot air heater installed in IQO4 and an oeeasioual coat of paper and paint represent the improveinents added. Prior to 1905 the school contained all the grades and a lligh school. The grammar grades and the High school occupied the second lloor, the priiniiry and intermediate grades the tirst tloor, while the baseinent was used for heater and fuel 1'OOlllS and a bad-weather play room for the children. Since the union of the north and south districts in IQOS the building has been used for the grades alone. The primary classes use the south rooin on the first Hoor, the hfth and sixth grades the north rooni. The seventh and eighth occupy the south room on the second rloor. while the north room is used for a basketball and play room. N. D. l3.'1I. SEVEN

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HIE COMET 107 The High School Teachers IiUGEN1,x M. B1-31.1, B. S., Principal VERA H. NME. A- B., ASSiSt11' cC?ll't111lgC Collcgcj QUn1vcrs1ty of Chlcagob F. M. CoC14R151.L, Superintendent LU11iversity of llliuoisb NINE