York High School - Duke Yearbook (York, NE)

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ur ilitar mpanxg... WHICQIS for llbresent lpear. HOLLANI7 lV1LDMANfCaptain AR'FHlTK BKCTNVNE4-FlFSt Lieutenant CLIFFORD WVII,liINSfS6CO11d Lieutenant BL'RIJPl'l 1'E LJROVOST-FlI'St Sergeant CHARLES BROWNE--SQCO11d Sergeant DON HCJl'KINS-Tlll1'tl Sergeant JAMES IIOLSTRUMfF0ll1'tl1 Sergeant ELMER VVooD+Fiftl1 Sergeant BI,iX1NE WVILDMAN-FirSt Corporal .TOE RUNNERfSGCO11tl Corporal CHARLES SHI-IECK-frlllllfll Corporal ADAM BHEHNI-fF0l11'tl1 Corporal RAI,l'PI FALKINBURG-Flftll Corporal IDALE lVICL,0NALDJSlXtl1 Corporal FRANK PiXt+E7BllglGl' Nffxcers for the Coming year HoLLAND W1I,IDNIiXN-Llkllifalll CHARLES ISROVVNE--Fll'SlZ Lieutenant BLASINE VVILDMAN-eSeeond Lieutenant JESSE RUNNER-Pll1'St Sergeant ADAM BRE!-IMJSGCO11il Sergeant RAL1'H FALKlNBURGfTlll1'd Sergeant VllALE lNICL,UNAL11-F0ll1'tl1 Sergeant lNlIEKLE ARNoLnA-Fifth Sergeant LRAYMUNIJ' CoXfFirSt Corporal Rev lVILKINSJSL3COI1Cl Corporal EMMET1' CJSBOKN-Tlllfil Corporal I,JExrER KINGIL4l0lIl'tl1 Corporal JOHN KUNSvFiftl1 Corporal .lor-IN NPlI,SC,JN-SlXtll Corporal WILIJIE NIEAD, VVENDALL Faoin-Buglers Wliile military drill in the High School iS not compul- Sory, nearly every boy takeS part in it and enjoys it. The Company is orlieered and drilled exclusively hy High School Students. One-half hour on Tuesday and Wecliies- day mornings when the Weather permits iS devoted to the drill. One batallion of the Counpany iS Supplied with guns, and it is hoped that next year the remaining members will be Similarly equipped. Un Decoration Day the Company marches in form to the Cemetery and take spart in the eXereiSeS there.

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be '98 Team 43.1 W 1i,.,,,1 , WL, , 'fli VVhat might be called the iirst football team of the York High School was orgzinizecl anal coiuuieiicecl prac- ticing on the High School groumls ez11'l vi11 the Fall of WPS. Professor B. J. Nvilliztms, who haul formerly playefl oil the llozme College team, was l70QlClllIlg his iirst year as Ibl'lIlClIJ2l,l of the High School, :tml to him is wzzlly clue the cremlit of the C0lIllIl0llClIlg1f of il series of successful football teams sent out by the lligh School each succeed- ing your. The team of ISHS wus, you might say, the fllllllililflilll for athletics on the football iiehl in the York High School, Allen Sedgwick was chosen cziptzzill, :tml llllllill' him mul l'rofessor Williams :Ls coalchor, the team mzulc rztpifl progress and succeeclcml in Wllllllllg ovcriy gillllti they plzzyecl. The schcclule wats IlUCOSS2ll'll'Y small, owing to the fact that it was our iirst year, :mal High Schools easily accessible to York as zz rule cliclult have football tezmisg also iiiexperieucc in that line helped to cause s0 small zz schedule. The success of the team was largely clue to steady practice and unbounded interest by the plziyers.

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I 7 little TD1 Ntqrly IIE BEGINNINGS of the High School can he traced to 1871, when Judge lilontgoinerlv tziught the first school in the county, in the old County House di- rectly opposite the Blodgett House. The next .VL'2ll' at new school wus put up on the site of the present lligh School building :ind Miss M. A. llill presided within it. ln two years the school outgrow its rpun'ters and the clUllg'l'0g2LtlUIl2ll Aeudeniv was rented. llon. N. V. Hur- lztn, J. il0Clll'2LIl. T. A. l':Lrkinson und Miss Kute Keck- ley are znnong the teuchers connected with the School :Lt this period. A new brick building was erected just hack of the little frzune school house in 1881. l'rof. li. M. liridges who wus elected at this time was the first :nun to he dignified with the title of Superintendent. llnder his direction the first three gruduuting clztsses of the school, those of 1884, 1885, and 1886, held their I'4nnnienceinent Exercises. llnder the zidniinistrution of Prof. U. S. Iidwzirds, who succeeded Prof. Bridges, the school building wus declured unsafe and hoard sheds were constructed on the grounds for teinporztrlv use. These were the Meow sheds fznnous in poetrlv and song for nutny years, under which the class of 1888 completed its school life. Supt. F. U. McC'lellztnd the next 'vein' had the honor to grziduzlte the first class from our present High School building. ln 1890 Supt. H. R. Vorhett, who ztfterwurd held the position of State Superintendent, cznne to the school, re- maining four years and graduating ns niztnlv good classes. During his ztdniinistration the school grew rapidly and niuny new features were introduced into the work. 1,l'0lI1lIlCIlt znnong these was the inusicul instruction given throughout the grades by Prof. Parks. VVhen Mr. Corbett assumed the State Superintendency, Prof. Moulton who had previously served as Principal of the High School succeeded him. Supt. Moulton has the longest terni ot service in the High School up to date to his credit. He worked faitlifully for six lvezirs, during which time the school grew so rapidly that the ilentrztl Building und the two wards could not hold all the pupils and at rooni wats rented at the Le Grand Hotel. lVith the :id vent ofSupt. C' . li. Atkinson in WHO, the Cen- tral Annex, sonietiines known as the Boyer Building, he- C2lfIl102II72tl C of the school sqvsteni and this year the old Gernnni C'hurch wus fitted up as at honie for the Eighth Grztde under the nunie of the Wllittitii' School. The room fornierlvv occupied hy the Eighth Grade is now used for High School recitation purposes and with an zidditionzil teucher in the Iligli School it is possible to look after the two hundred pupils in the four grades in the niost thor- ough zind sivstenuitic nntnner ever known in the School. 1. O..L Superintendent elect W. W. Stoner, who will zissunie the duties ut the heatd of the York 'V City Schools for the coming ,-, 5' year, needs no introduction to A the people of York. Ile acted inthe cztpztrccity of A 1'rincip:il of the High School from 1891 to 18518 and resigned p his position to accept the sup- erintendentship of the Seward Schools, from which place he - returns to York. v lfVe feel assured that the high standzn'd which the High M School now enjoys, will con- tinue under his direction. , We Welcome him heartily.