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Post by John on Sept 11, 2004 11:25:08 GMT -6
For many of us, growing up in Streator meant attending Streator Schools. As children, the schools that we attended were like a second home. We spent more time there than anywhere else besides home. Our classmates were like family and the teachers, our parents. This is where we made our friends. Some very longlasting and close friendships have been made with classmates. Even today, when we see people that we went to school with, we give them that friendly "hi". These are people that we grew up with. We went through all the childhood memories with them. They are not strangers. Anyhow, this is how Northlawn looked when I attended it for 9 years. Yes, 9 years. Back then it was Kindergarten through 8th grade.
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Post by toshiko on Sept 13, 2004 7:33:44 GMT -6
Thanx Butch, ;how timely.I just had this conversation this weekend. I was just trying to exlpain what it looked like back then. It was for a new teacher in town. He will apperciate this. thanx again Am I right when I say this pic is looking from 1st street? just want to be sure.
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Post by John on Sept 13, 2004 10:01:30 GMT -6
Yes, this is the view looking north from First St.
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Post by toshiko on Sept 13, 2004 10:41:53 GMT -6
Thanx, much appreciated.
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Post by DumDave on Sept 26, 2004 13:51:15 GMT -6
My parents were soo steamed at the grade school admin. We lived at the corner of Blooming ton & Bronson. & they moved there so we three squids could go to the "New" Northlawn School. But the district boundries were such that as a 5 yr old I have to walk by myself back & forth to kindergarten at Greeley. They complained til the day they died. We moved & later I attended NL for 5th (too crowded for 6th I was sent to Grant) & then Jr. High. I really liked that school. -Dave
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Post by John on Oct 16, 2004 9:26:17 GMT -6
Oakland Park School was always Northlawn's "sister school". They were the only 2 public schools in Streator that were Kindergarten thru 8th grade. Anyone who attended one of Streator's other public grade schools went to Northlawn or Oakland for 7th & 8th grade. I believe they were both built at the same time, mid 50s. wind2.home.mchsi.com/Streatorland/oakland1950s a.jpg[/img]
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Post by Zahena241 on Oct 16, 2004 18:48:09 GMT -6
Someone has mentioned that Oakland Park School is celebrating 50 years that the school has been open.
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Post by OldStuff on Oct 17, 2004 7:59:43 GMT -6
Does anyone remember or have a old photo of the one room school house that used to be on the east side of town? It was about 1 block east from Otter Creek on Elm St. I believe it was called Center or Central School. It was near a family grocery store called Plimmer's?
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Post by John on Jan 12, 2005 21:13:18 GMT -6
Does anyone remember or have a old photo of the one room school house that used to be on the east side of town? It was about 1 block east from Otter Creek on Elm St. I believe it was called Center or Central School. It was near a family grocery store called Plimmer's? That was called West School and was located at 1502 E. Elm St.
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Post by JobGuest on Jan 13, 2005 8:22:58 GMT -6
Butch:
Do you have any pictures of the old Heenanville or West Mackey School? It was located on the north side of Richard's Road about a mile west of Route 23. It was the last one-room rural school house in the county. Its closing in 1962 is described in Memoirs of Heenanville.
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Post by John on Jan 13, 2005 21:07:08 GMT -6
No, I don't. But next time I'm down at the museum I will check. Margaret Wultzen, who lived in Heenanville, married Herman Mackey. Could this be why the Heenanville School was also known as West Mackey School?
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Post by JobGuest on Jan 14, 2005 5:31:45 GMT -6
Butch:
The Mackey and Morgan families came to LaSalle County in April of 1833, and settled along both sides of today’s Richard’s Road. Both families were surprisingly literate for the time, and both families contributed teachers to the area schools throughout the 19th Century. The first Mackey school appears to have built in 1840 on the west side of Route 23, near Norton and Sam Mackey’s sawmill on Otter Creek. In later years, there would be two Mackey schools. The East Mackey School was located on the southwest corner of Richard’s Road and Route 23 while the West Mackey School was located on the northeast corner of Richard’s Road and 5C.
Although the West Mackey School was renamed the Heenanville School early in the 20th century, it was still commonly referred to as the “Mackey” School. A number of people who became prominent in Streator and elsewhere attended the old West Mackey School including: Clyde Tombaugh, Howard Fletcher ( football coach and athletic director at NIU), Albert “Swede” Lundberg ( popular coach at SHS), and Dr. Fredrick Munson.
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Post by John on Feb 1, 2005 7:09:13 GMT -6
A friend just reminded me that February 18th will be the 75th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto. The ninth planet, Pluto, was discovered on February, 18th 1930 by Streator native Clyde Tombaugh who graduated from Heenanville Grade School and attended Streator High School.
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Post by JobGuest on Feb 1, 2005 17:18:23 GMT -6
Butch:
The colloquy below is from a interview with Tombaugh in 1991. The teacher referred to, Susie Szabo, was also my dad's favorite teacher. The school referred to is the old Heenanville School. My dad went to school with Tombaugh.
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What teachers inspired you?
I had one teacher in grade school named Susie Szabo when I lived in Illinois. She encouraged me to study science and so on, and she appreciated my interest in geography because she loved geography also.
How did she encourage you?
She talked to me about what I had seen in the telescope the night before, and she was just a marvelous person, a real teacher.
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Post by toshiko on Feb 2, 2005 7:15:07 GMT -6
Susie Szabo!!!! OMG I had forgotten about her. She was rather mean, I recall. Didn't she have a sister teacher, too? I remember Mrs Blazick(sp).She was my 2nd grade teacher. She had long gray hair she wore in bun. My sister said she let her hair down once and it was to her butt. Mrs Blazick was a wonderful woman!!! Sr.Agnes Mary inspired me when I was younger, too She would dance for us in class. She made me realize that nuns and teachers were people, too. I wonder where she is now and if she is still living.
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