Waukegan High School - Annual W Yearbook (Waukegan, IL)

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x 'N 1 1 N PV M wy- N lr NY l l x NY' N Y l . P lm 'MN 'W xl iw 1C li -r W gf l V 4 ,I M r i I l V 1 ji li ll I l sf 'Vi . yi I 1 P 1 P 4 il rv. Ny, 5.-. ,Q X- gri1m-41i45aQ'I he weagm fisfsefm 4'gT2r odd students, the question of another building again arose. In 1921 the Freshman class entered a new building, which is located on the corner of Washington and Jackson Streets. This building is known as the Junior School and is occupied by Freshmen and Vocational students. The total enrollment of the Waukegan Township High School is now beyond the one thousand mark, while the faculty consists of fifty trained workers. Year by year the classes have improved upon the Annuals that have been published until in 1922, the Annual received first place in the contest at Illinois University. In the past years several subjects have been added to the curriculum of the school, among these are: domestic science, manual training, military training, rhet- oric, debating and Americanization courses. As the classes increase in number, the time is not far away when there will be a third unit added to the High School of Waukegan. This institution is one that the people of the community should be proud of, as its aim is to produce better citizens and more efficient leaders to carry on the good work that has been started in our city. ,Information received from: Haines History of Lake County of 1877, loaned by C. T. Heydecker. Waukegan City Directory of 1874-.A Waukegan Gazette 'of June, 1875 and 1871. Alumni Annuals of 51892, 1896, 1898, 1904-, loaned by Anna Dietmeyer Sargent, and Hobart P. Yard. The .class of '23 also wishes to thank the following for their assistance: Mrs. Hattie Hallowell Moody, Mrs. Mary Clarke Hardie, Mrs. Fannie Slyfield Farmer, Mr. Jay L. Brewster, Miss Laura Perrin, Mr. E. C. Crawford, Mr. R. B. Conolly, Mrs. John Besley, Mr. John Reardon and especially Mr. R. R. Dunn, whose ac- quaintance with the Alumni and whose interest in the school made this history possible. E izgigfkgfz 5 55 1322531923 ss: 451 5 Z,ili?X2iCif5fi Y 'wenty

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if w 4 MJ wr 'W Nr W v CL V W, l 'K tr tk kiss! 4 542'-45 lg WY 'N 'N l '41 fl ja I , 1 V ' w W ty ll I l 'w 1? if . Ll at 1if31m,:i:?22iaw5t'l he ID aim ffiziwe fisgfirps-sz 5 metic, physical geography, English grammar and analysis, Latin, composition, nat- ural history, reading and spelling. Second year: elementary algebra, rhetoric, Latin, Greek, natural philosophy, elocution and reading. Third year: geometry, physiology, Latin, Greek, chemistry, ancient history, botany and geology. Fourth year: trigo- nometry, surveying, Latin, Greek, zoology, astronomy, political economy, English literature and mental philosophy. Twolteachers taught it all! High School affairs moved along from year to year with no outstanding events until the evening of January 21, 1889, when the Central School, with all contents, was burned. On the morning of the twenty-second nothing was left but three bare walls. This was a calamity indeed. Without books Cexcept those which had been carried home by the pupilsj, without apparatus and without all needful auxiliaries for efficient school work, the High School was re-established in the basement of the Baptist Church. Mr. C. L. Sawyer, then principal, enlisted the Alumni in helping to replace the library and apparatus. The incidents of the year in the Baptist Church are always recalled with enthusiasm by the students of that time. No newspapers can be found containing the story of the burning of the Central School. Work on the new school was immediately begun and the present building was finished and occupied in January, 1890. It was thought that the High School rooms were large enough to accommodate the school for years. In an assembly room which seated all the pupils and in the separate recitation rooms which easily accom- modated all classes, pupils and teachers worked with much enthusiasm. The first Alumni reunion was held on June 20, 1882, and with the exception of a short interval they have been held annually since. In September, 1893, Waukegan was most fortunate in obtaining for the principal of the High School and superintendent of the city schools, Frank H. Hall, an educator of national reputation, who had been Superintendent of the State School for the Blind at Jacksonville, Illinois. Under his guidance the High School became ac- credited to the University of Illinois, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, having been placed on the accredited list of Lake Forest in 1891. The first Baccalaureate sermon ever given in Waukegan was delivered by Rev. Mr. Pate to the class of 1892. This class is also credited with having the first Class Day , enthusiastically celebrated by all the later classes. Literary societies flour- ished in the High School in the decade of the 90's and the programs given by the A. E. I. and the Belles Lettres Societies were of high order, and there was great and stimulating rivalry ther. In 1896 the attendance at the High School was one hundred and sixty-seven and was increasing so rapidly that the assembly room and the class rooms were overcrowded, and the building of a new school became a necessity. The matter was agitated for several years, especially after the High School became a Township High School in July,'1905, and was then no longer a part of the city system. A bond issue was voted on, and work on the Waukegan Township High School building was started in 1908 and the school opened in September, 1910. . In 1904- there were two hundred and twenty students in the school and eleven teachers, in 1920 there were five hundred and forty-seven students and twenty-eight teachers. As the school that had been built in 1910 accommodated only four hundred 2515 5 382' fi? GK fffk Z 1 92 3 .SQ ZYQAZFCSV? QA za fiD3i2gfi2Q'Q Nineteen as fl Q5 FIV Ver 'SM' Vi 4 4 V l li i ff YN! Xl lsr Tir' Lu .iv is-Nr ii Nr NM Wi jr rl W 1 w w '-rr W , I rf Fl' Rr' if VV? 4, KY! fig, W lg :W

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