Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-12-20
Phelps School System
Making Good Progress
PRINCIPAL hovGEN OF THE
PHELPS HIGH sEHooL TELLS
or TOWNS SCHOOLS

Or TOWN. SCHOOLS
The new Phelps Union Free High
School and STATE Iraueu school DuIAd
ing was dedicated last May. It's COM
pletion marked the beginning OF a
new era in the education OF Inee chill
dren and young people OF the commun
ity For many years the people of
Phelps township felt the need of a
better graded school and the organi-
were housed in the old building on
top of the hill overlooking the town
and two years of high school work
were taught in the town hall which
was not at all suitable for school pur
poses. Under these unattractive and
announcement conditions, very few of
the people qualified to go on with
high school work cared to do so.
Those who did take the two years of
high school work had to complete
their course elsewhere.
About two years age a number of
the progressive citizens of Phelps saw
the folly Of continuing with this in
adequate system. and plans we're
made. which finally resulted in he
purchase of the site overlooking Big
Twin Lake and the erection of the
new school building.
The building was built according to
the latest plans of the State Depart
Ement of Public instruction. All the
lsschool rooms are on the first floor.
There are five rooms occupied by the
State Graded School, the high school
assembly room having seating capac-
ity for about fifty students, two reci-
tatiOn rooms and science laboratory,
the principals office and library. The
gymnasium, which many Of the stu
dents feel is their favorite part Of the
building, is one of the largest in this
part of the state.
There is a fifteen horsepower motor
which furnishes power for the auto
matte water system, the electric gen
orator, and the fan for the heating
and ventilating system.
The building faces south thus Civ
ing the rooms plenty of natural light.
There are two wings extending back
toward the lake, one housing the high
school department and the other the
gymnasium. In the basement beneath
the high school are three rooms, two
of which are to be fitted up for man
ual training and domestic science.
The grade school district comprises
the entire town of Phelps. In addition
to the state graded school, there are
five rural schools. The Union Free
High School district comprises the
town of Phelps and part Of the town
of Conover.
That all the people OF Phelps want
ed the new high school, is showA by
the fact that twenty five graduates Of
the, graded school and rural schools
entered high school last September.
The present enrolment is thirty-fiye
including twenty-four freshmen, five
sophomores, three juniors and three
seniors. The three students who ex-
pect to be the first to graduate from
the new high school are William Case,
Waino Jaaska, and Ethel Petersen.
The district also completed a new
two room rural school last summer,
the Burman school, The members of
the school board which controls the
high school district and the grade
school district are K M. Thompson,
director, O. G. Chaplin, Clerk; and e.
NJ. Anderson, treasurer.
The school board paid great tri-
butte to the State Normal School of
Stevens Point when they chose their
entire teaching force from graduates
of that school. The teaching force are
as follows:
HIGH SCHOOL -
Harvey L. Principal
Marion F. Hougen-Assistant
STATE GRADED SCHOOL
Doris L. Crofoot- Principal
Anne Anderson
| Caroline Hanson
Hattie Morgan
Eunice Newton
RURAL SCHOOLS
| Irene Sarb-Burman school
Luella Gale-Burman school
Margaret Hamman-Twin lake school
Mrs. E. Kopf-Long Lake school
Frank Grandy- Camp One school
Irving Davis Camp II school
school
HARVEY L. HOUGEN,
/ princinaI of the High School