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ILLINOIS
2
VALEY
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940
NEWS
Valley School System Constantly Growing
FROSH (( LASS OF 1911), KERBY HIGH SC HOOL, DURING INITIATION WEEK
a law passed by the 1939 legislature,
placed certain county officials, in
each county in the state, upon a com-
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From One
Youngster
To Another..
You fostered a new industry on
a “frontier” three years ago
when you began publication of
the Illinois Valley News in Cave
Junction and the Illinois Valley.
We’re happy to note that in
three short years you’ve become
“A Constructive Factor in
Southern Oregon.**
WE PIONEERED the “Motor
Clinic’* business in Grants Pass
one short year ago. We realize
that it take« time to build a
business of our nature but we
are mighty tickled over the num­
ber of SATISFIED customers
we have developed in Southern
Oregon.
We’re on our way!
We like immensely the people
of the Valley, many of whom
are numbered among our pat­
rons.
So best wishes to them,
their business growth and their
newspaper.
Schools Become
Civic Center of
Community Life
By H. H. WARDRIP
County Superintendent of Schools
The school system of the Illinois
Valley is comprised of the Kerby Uni­
on High School and a group of twelve
grammar schools. The Union High
School district hus an assessed valu-
tion of approximately >1,000,000,000
—>998,560.01 to be exact. The high
school tax is 11.6 mills.
This is a standard high school
whose graduates are admitted to high­
er institutions of learning on par
with graduates from other standard
schools of the state. Kerby provides
high school facilities for the gradu­
ates of the group of twelve grammar
schools which are situated on a net­
work of good roads. The program of
building, equipping and providing
well trained and experienced teach­
ers, places Kerby high school fully
on a par with any other high school
of equal size in the state.
Kerby high school has an athletic
record covering a number of years
of which she may well be proud.
The rapid growth of the Illinois
Valley and the consequent increase in
high school enrollment have made
necessary an almost continuous build­
ing program. Almost immediately
following the completion of a fine
gymnasium it became necessary to
provide additional class rooms and
equipment. The enlargement and ex­
tension of the heating plant and the
construction of a new unit to house
the shop and trades classes are among
the most recent additions.
The high school is very definitely the
community center for numerous ac­
tivities. Adult volley ball and bas­
ketball teams alternate with high
school teams in the use of the gym­
nasium. The Rod & Gun club and oth­
er groups hold their meetings in the
high school. These “growing pains'*
have kept the board members and pat­
rons busy using their pencils to fig­
ure ways and means of providing
funds.
The very harmonious and coopera­
tive relationship existing throughout
the entire group of Illinois Valley
teachers is really outstanding. Work­
ing with such a group is a pleasure
and a privilege. The Illinois Valley
Teachers’ Association meets each
month to discuss matters of profes­
sional interest, coordinate their work
and activities and enjoy informal and
recreational programs.
Each of the twelve grammar school
buildings is a center for its own com­
munity. Most of these have existed
as school units for a generation. It
is possible—even probable, in fact,
that the parents and, in a few in­
stances, the grandparents of some of
the present school children attended
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the civic and, in a number of in­
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munity are centered around one spot,
that spot is revered and is not read­
ily abandoned. This was demonstrat­
ed in a very definite manner, when
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