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Scans of Commercial Record newspaper clippings about schools, school building, graduation or commencement, staff changes and reports on education. Also a 1976 profile of the Douglas Union School.
cr1877071301ReportOnTheSchools.jpg; Report on township schools that mentions Saugatuck Union School staff Warner P. Sutton, Mrs. Annesley, E. Ensign, Lizzie Shore, attendance figures; Douglas Union School staff James Warnock, Flora Porter, Mrs. Thomas Gray, attendance figures. Blackboards and uncomfortable seating could be improved.
cr1869011603WoodHouseForUnionSchool.JPG; Contract to build wood house for Union School awarded to lowest bidder George E. Dunn cr1871041503DouglasStartsSchoolLibrary.JPG; Douglas Union School gets a larger shelving unit for books built by Robb and Graham cr1880091701AdvantagesofOurUnionSchool.jpg; Saugatuck Union School looking for more students. cr1883110201SchoolHouseChaseRd.jpg; Chase school built 1883 cr1896052901-96Commencement.jpg; Saugatuck High School Class of 1896 commencement held at Upham's Opera House. Eight pupils Bessie Bandle, Jason Dick, Joseph Zwemer, Harry Newcombe, Edith Brown, John Schumacher, Pearl Phelps and Bina Annesley cr1896052901SchoolhouseStillStandsFrmCivWar.jpg; Mrs. C. Whitney, Mrs. Benjamin Colf cr1896080701UnionSchoolLoss.jpg; Saugatuck Union School replacement after fire cr1896100201BidsOpennedForSchool.jpg; Bids for new Saugatuck school building cr1896102301GoodProgressOnSchool.jpg cr1896112001GoodProgressOnSchoolHouse.jpg cr1896112701BrickAndSlateOnNewSchool.jpg; brick work cr1896121801NewSchool-SteamPlant.jpg; slate roof, lathing, steam plant, plastering cr1897012901NewSchoolInterior.jpg cr1897021901CarpentryDone-PaintingNewSchool.jpg cr1897022601NewSchoolComplete.jpg cr1897030501NewSchoolAccepted.jpg; Prof. Calhoun, Supt. Humphrey, Barber, Lindsay, Prof. Flannegan, Prof. Brown cr1897030501ScholarsAdvocate-SaugSchoolHistory.jpg; cr1897100101ProfLattaTakesCharge.jpg; Professor Latta cr1900060101Graduation.jpg; 1900 commencement, article starts at bottom of first column Class of 1900 William Tisdale, Blanche Bandle, Russell Knox, Edward Winslow, Arie Koning, Laura Miller, Elsie Vork, Ethel Baker, Charles Upham, Florence Updike, Ella Brown, Bessie Newnham, Gussie Barber, Worth Durham, Mae Belle Hayward cr1901052405GraduationCeremony1901-1.jpg cr1901053105 1901Commencement.jpg; Class of 1901: Jennie Veits, Howard Coates, Clarence Halverson, Marie Upham, Olive Ludwig, Lewis Knox, Florence Miller, Lottie Hancock, John Blink, Mame Schumacher, Clarence Winslow, Faith Kirby, Louise Walz, Robert Olson, Ethel Winslow and Mattie Hirner. cr1905052604SHSCommencementWeek.jpg; 1905 commencement, Dan Inderbitzen cr1930050908CommencementSpeaker.jpg; Dr. S. Arthur Cook speaker for 1930 commencement cr1930053001SHSHonorStudents.jpg; Helen Kreager and Betty Stillson honored cr1930060601SHSClassNight.jpg; 1930 class including Lawrence Chambers, Helen Kreager, Nina Howard, Genevieve Wright, Alfred Gilman, Aurelia A. Partridge, Betty Stillson cr1930061308CommencementExercises.jpg cr1931060501HSGradClass.jpg; Class of 1931: Ellsworth Bartholomew, Cleta Kiernan, Eleanor Koning, Roxie Mize, Robert Robinson, Willard Prentice, Lillian Drought, Lucille Kelly, Opal Lighteart, Bud Edgcomb cr1939060208SHSGraduates.jpg; Class of 1939 Alice Baker, Robert Brackenridge, Jane Bird, Margaret Bell, Betty Davis, Ethel Ekdahl, Johnson Fox, Emma Jane Gerstner, Marian Heinze, Celia House, Jack Kreager, Riley Leach, Donald Moore, Josehine Monique, Ruth Newnham, Catherine Padbury, John Peterson, Betty Powers, Olive Reeks, Lucile Slater, Edward Sandtner, Harry Sundin, Mary Jane Troutman, Carl Wicks cr1945061508AlumniAnn52nd-MrsHeathGivesSecretaryReport-2.jpg; 2nd half of article about 1945 alumni event - Dale Crow toastmaster, Kay Douma, Donald Sessions, Edna Barr Wright, Helen Hutchins Ash, Alta Vork Grevengoed, Margaret Vork Waldyk, Douglas Bryan, Marie McDowell Walkey, Jeanette Walker Barr cr1950101309LettertoEditor-JerryBale.jpg; 1950 appeal by Jerry Bale to rebuild the school after fire. cr1957053101Classof1957.jpg; Class of 1957 - Bee Ann Johnson, Stanley Goshorn, Harold Whipple?, Victor Mayer, Claudia Hartman, Larry Jones, Frank Lovejoy, Joyce Jacobs, Ted Nielsen, Sherry Smith, Carl Jacobs, Harvey Slotman, Janet McKamey cr1976040101OldSchool-1.jpg; Bicentennial feature about Douglas Union School part 1 cr1976040102OldSchool-2.jpg; Bicentennial feature about Douglas Union School part 2

2024.01.38

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Winthers, Sally

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Yoder, Chris

Donation, unconditional

These Commercial Record newspaper clippings — scanned by Chris Yoder in the 2000s — had been available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to this online catalog for safekeeping. Publication dates are indicated in the year/month/day/page file name. For example "cr1938102801Description.jpg" = Commercial Record, 1938, October, 28th, page 01

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Chase School District No. 5Douglas Union School 1866-Saugatuck Public School 1897-1950Saugatuck Union School 1866-1896Dunn, George E. 1835-1903Sutton, Warner Perrin 1849-1913Warnock, James 1851-1899Skinner, Edmond 1832-1906Bandle, Elizabeth "Bessie"Zwemer, Joseph Benjamin 1879-1945Brown, Edith 1882-1954Schumacher, JohnBrown, Pearl (Phelps)Whitney, Johanna Clara (Burns) 1855-1918Colf, Ellen Elizabeth (Lamoreux) 1841-1920Barber, Daniel L. 1840-1909Dickey, J.W. 1848-1916Leland, Jessie S. (Morrison) 1851-1911Latta, Prof. P.A. c1838- 1911Tisdale, William Graham Jr. 1882-1933Bandle, Blanche HazelKnox, Russell AllenWinslow, Edward WebsterKoning, Arie James "Ira" 1883-1975Vork, ElsieBaker, Ethel LouiseCartwright, Florence Belle (Updike) 1882-1956Brown, Ella Maude 1881-1959Newnham, Bessie LenoraBarber, Gussie MaudeHayward, Mae BelleCoates, Jay Howard "Ward" 1885-1947Halverson, ClarenceKnox, LewisMiller, Florence ElizabethBlink, JohnSchumacher, Mame HelenaWinslow, Clarence Morton 1885-1958Kirby, Lois Faith 1884-1970Walz, Louise (Pfaff) 1862-1933Olson, Robert GustavisWinslow, Ethel ElouiseHirner, Helen Matilda "Mattie" 1884-1975Bradley, Helen (Kreager) 1912-2002Howard, NinaCoatoam, Genevieve (Wright) 1911-2006Bartholomew, ElsworthKoning, Eleanor 1913-1992Mize, Roxie Ann 1913-1996Robinson, Robert "Bob" R. 1913-1979Prentice, Willard Jenison 1908-2000Drought, LillianKelly, LucilleEdgcomb, William Burdette "Bud" 1913-1980Lighthart, OpalBrackenridge, Robert E. 1920-1996Van Dis, Jane Ellen (Bird) 1921-2017Brackenridge, Ethel M. (Ekdahl) 1921-2006Force, JoyceFox, Johnson 1918-2009Fosdick, Josephine (Monique)Newnham, RuthDorr, Betty Jane (Powers) Strampel 1921-1980Sundin, HarryWicks, Carl Edgar (1921-2010)Allen, Celia Martin (House) 1921-2007/8Crow, Dale John 1899-1935Sessions, Donald Douglas c1926-Wright, Edna Paula (Barr) 1900-2005Grevengoed, Alta (Vork)Bryan, Douglass C. 1901-1977Barr, Jeanette (Walker) 1902-1979Bale, JerryGoshorn, Stanley 1939-2005Nielsen, TedLovejoy, Frank Sr. circa 1939-Jones, Larry Paul 1939-Johnson, Bee Ann

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