Bertram School, built before 1870
description: The former Bertram School building is located at 41W488 US-30, Aurora, IL 60506 (NE Corner of US 30 and Bertram Rd.) It has been used as a residence from late 1940's to present. The Bertram School was built before 1870. The building is now a private residence.
creator: Aidan B.
date: July 2020

Sugar Grove, IL, High School Reunion, Class of 1935
subject: Schools Community Members
description: Four class of '35 graduates eating a meal together Tom Frantz, Emily Ravlin Frantz, Frank O'Brien, Nellie McCanno
creator: Beka
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection

Sugar Grove, IL, High School Reunion, Class of 1935
subject: School Community Members
description: Four graduates of the class of 1935 Frank O'Brien, Nellie McCannon, Emily Frantz, Tom Frantz
creator: Beka
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collection

Merle Kinney (Henne), Harold Lye, Winifred Thomas Judd: 1921
description: A picture of students reading and writing excerpted from The Ember 1921.
creator: Beka
date: 1921

Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School, 1875-1905
description: Frank H. Hall, Principal Mrs. Nellie Smith, Teacher of Vocal and Instrumental Music M. E. Petty, Assistant H. L. Norton, Assistant School Burned Down in Jan. 1905 Thomas Judd had for some years favored the idea of an industrial school which would teach agriculture as well as preparatory to going on to other vocations. He was also aware that Frank Hall, then Superintendent of West Aurora Schools, had similar ideas. Thus it was that Thomas Judd, Henry Chapman, Silas Reynolds, Leonard Benjamin, and Lewis Gillette went to Mr. Hall and asked him to take charge of the new school if it could be built. An all day picnic was held in the maple grove on the Judd Farm on Tuesday May 28, 1875, with the announced purpose of discussing plans for the new school. History records that 1,000 people attended and all were seated at a table of 168 feet long, and enjoyed a find meal. The dinner was followed by a program and speakers. One of the speakers was Professor Hall, and at the close of his speech, he called for donations. It took just 15 minutes to collect $1,400.00, plus subscriptions that brought that total to $2,200.00. Subsequent subscriptions and the district tax, swelled the fund to $4,500.00. Mr. Judd donated the land where the apartment house now stands across from the Methodist Church. The school and a horse shed to accommodate 80 horses was build and the Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School opened for classes in the fall of 1875. The average attendance for the first year was 100, of which about 25 were local students. The curriculum at that time included Latin, General History, natural Philosophy, Grammar, Elements of Agricultural Science, Geometry, Bookkeeping, Arithmetic, English Literature and Music. A teaching certificate was one requirement of being awarded a Certificate of Graduation. The original industrial school burned to the ground in January 1905. A brick veneer building was constructed in its place in 1906.
creator: Caleb H.

Denny Standard School/Valley View School: Current Residence
subject: School was established in 1865.
description: The current residence was formerly the Denny Standard School/Valley View School, which was a single room school house located on the south side of Denny Road just east of Bliss Road. It was moved to it's current location on Calkins Drive in the 1940's.
creator: Caleb H.
date: March 15, 2012

Jericho School and Students, Circa 1915
description: The Jericho School was formerly located at short distance east of the corner of Jericho Road and Mighell Road in Sugar Grove, Illinois. This building was torn down after the school district consolidation in 1949. Source: "Sugar Grove, Illinois 1834-1984" by Ruth Frantz and Frank Damon.
creator: Caleb H.
date: Circa 1915 (Based on Mighell Family Photos)

John Shields Elementary School: 2000 Halloween Event hosted by Sugar Grove Township Park District
description: Photos courtesy of: Fred Neiser, Insurance Broker PO Box 662, Sugar Grove, Illinois 60554
creator: Fred Neiser
date: 2000

1886 Class Song written by student Addie Coulson
description: 1886 Class Song written by student Addie Coulson taken from the book, "Sugar Grove and the Class of 1886" available at the following link: https://www.wacots.org/sghistory/z/admin/items/show/29 The class song performed in 2009 can be found on this youtube link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSy32CcyjUY&feature=youtu.be Class of 1886 Video
creator: George Edward Congdon
date: 1886

Sugar Grove High School Basketball Team, 1941-1942
subject: "Little Eight Conference Champions, 1941-1942"; "Undefeated Little 8 Champs 1941-1942"
description: Photo: FRONT ROW L-R: Lawrence 'Bud' Henning, William Healy, Dan Shields, Norman Hankes, Robert 'Bob' Windette, Andrew Watt, Ernest Hanson BACK ROW L-R: John Oster - Coach, Richard Johnston, Robert 'Bob' O'Brien, Dale Polley, Rodney Calkins, Robert 'Buster' Probst Trophies: "Little 8 Tournament 1942 1st"; "Little 8 Champions 1941-1942"
creator: Kaitlin
date: 1941-1942
identifier: 1990-14c, 1990-14b (Accession Number); Framed Varsity Letters Courtesy of Andy Watt, Class of 1942

Sugar Grove, IL, High School Basketball Team, 1935
subject: Community Members School
description: Photo 1935 Basket Ball team, Sugar Grove, High School BACK ROW L-R: Ray Hankes, Oakley Skow, Don Fletcher, Bill Cornell, Deverl Hartman, Coach John Oster FRONT ROW L-R: Frank O'Brien, Don Myers, Wally Thomas, Tom Frantz, John Shield, Chuck Clerkins
creator: Kaitlin
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: 1935
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
type: Photo Collection

1958 Kaneland School Bus Crash: Law Suit and Plantiff's Exhibit Photos
subject: Source: Molitor v. KANELAND UNIT DIST. NO. 302 24 Ill. 2d 467 (1962) Supreme Court of Illinois. Opinion filed March 23, 1962. On March 10, 1958, a school bus of the Kaneland School District struck a culvert, exploded and burned, causing injuries and burns to 14 of the children who were passengers in the bus. Suits were filed against the school district on behalf of the injured children, including the four Molitor children and the other four children who are all plaintiffs herein. Motions to dismiss the complaints which omitted the allegation of insurance were filed by the school district. … The circuit court of Kane County dismissed the common-law negligence counts of plaintiffs' complaints against defendant Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302. The Appellate Court affirmed the judgments of dismissal on the ground that they were based on an accident occurring prior to December 16, 1959… … [The case was then brought to the Supreme Court of Illinois who found the following:] Hence the counts omitting the allegation of insurance in plaintiffs' complaints should not have been dismissed, and the judgments are reversed and the causes remanded to the trial court, with directions to reinstate the counts. Reversed and remanded, with directions.
description: SOURCE: Molitor v. KANELAND UNIT DIST. NO. 302 24 Ill. 2d 467 (1962) 182 N.E.2d 145 NORMA MOLITOR et al., Appellants, v. KANELAND COMMUNITY UNIT DISTRICT NO. 302, Appellee. No. 36588. Supreme Court of Illinois. Opinion filed March 23, 1962. Rehearing denied May 23, 1962. REID, OCHSENSCHLAGER, MURPHY & HUPP, and GIVLER, MEILINGER & CASEY, both of Aurora, (DALE C. FLANDERS, of counsel,) for appellants. MATTHEWS, JORDAN, DEAN & SUHLER, of Aurora, BURRELL & HOLTAN, of Freeport, and CARBARY & CARBARY, of Elgin, (JOHN T. MATTHEWS, DAVID M. BURRELL, and ROGER W. EICHMEIER, of counsel,) for appellee. HAROLD W. NORMAN, of Chicago, for Illinois Association of School Boards, amicus curiae. FRANK R. SCHNEBERGER, DAVID S. KERWIN, and KIRKLAND, ELLIS, HODSON, CHAFFETZ & MASTERS, all of Chicago, *468 (THOMAS F. SCULLY, of counsel,) for the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, and the Chicago Park District, amici curiae. Reversed and remanded. Mr. JUSTICE KLINGBIEL delivered the opinion of the court: The circuit court of Kane County dismissed the common-law negligence counts of plaintiffs' complaints against defendant Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302. The Appellate Court affirmed the judgments of dismissal on the ground that they were based on an accident occurring prior to December 16, 1959 and were, therefore, barred by our decision in Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit Dist. 18 Ill. 2d 11. A certificate of importance was then issued to this court. On March 10, 1958, a school bus of the Kaneland School District struck a culvert, exploded and burned, causing injuries and burns to 14 of the children who were passengers in the bus. Suits were filed against the school district on behalf of the injured children, including the four Molitor children and the other four children who are all plaintiffs herein. Motions to dismiss the complaints which omitted the allegation of insurance were filed by the school district. That there was uncertainty as to whether the dismissal wo…
creator: Kaitlin
source: https://law.justia.com/cases/illinois/supreme-court/1962/36588-5.html https://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2481&context=luclj
date: 1958, 1962
identifier: 1992-59D, 1992-59F, 1992-59B, 1992-59E, 1992-59C

One-Room Schoolhouse: 1884
subject: Photo by L. Sherman, January 17, 2005, F-Stop Camera Club
creator: Kaitlin
date: 1884

Sugar Grove High School Basketball Team, 1940-1941
subject: PHOTO: FRONT ROW L-R: Don Shields, Ben McCannon, Bud Henning, Andy Watt, William Healy, Dick Westphal BACK ROW L-R: Noel Winkle, Dennis Anderson, Robert Windett, John Oster - Coach
creator: Kaitlin
identifier: 2013-04b (Accession Number)

Sugar Grove High School Baseball Team, 1940-1941
subject: PHOTO FRONT ROW L-R: Robert O'Brien, Bill Healy, Dan Shields, Bud Henning, Rodney Calkins, Andy Watt BACK ROW L-R: Noel Winkle, John Borneman, Dennis Anderson, Norman Hankes, John Oster - Coach
creator: Kaitlin
identifier: 2013-04a (Accession Number)

Sugar Grove High School Baseball Team, Year ?
subject: PHOTO BACK ROW L-R: Coach Oster, D. Henning, C. Darrow, R. O'Brien, J. Borneman, C. Claesson, K. Huggins FRONT ROW, L-R: B. Healy, A. Watt, D. Shields, L. Henning, N. Hankes, E. Hanson, R. Calkins
creator: Kaitlin
identifier: 2013-04c (Accession Number)

Sugar Grove , IL, High School Basketball Team, 1933-1934
subject: School Community Members
description: PHOTO: FIRST ROW L-R: Donald Myers, Bob Erwin, Groff Frantz, Frank O'Brien, Tom Frantz SECOND ROW L-R: Chuck Clerkins, Charlie Huggins, John Shields, Jr., Leslie Phillips, Wallace Thomas, Frank Damon - Manager THIRD ROW L-R: Art Johnson - Coach, Oakley Skow, Bill Cornell, Jewll Cearlock, Don Fletcher, Elmer Gordon, Warren Dugan, Ray Hankes
creator: Kaitlin
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: 1933-1934
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo

Sugar Grove High School Basketball Team, 1932-1933
subject: School Sports Community Members
description: SUGAR GROVE HIGH SCHOOL 1932-1933 Basketball Squad BACK ROW Art Johnson - Coach Warren Dugan Elmer Gordon Deverl Hartman Darwin Valentine Frank Damon Leslie Phillips MIDDLE ROW Wally Thomas John Shields Charley Huggins Byron Healy Frank O'Brien Pete Clever Neil Calkins BOTTOM ROW - FIRST TEAM Don Myers Franklin Dugan Bob Erwin - Captain Tom Frantz - Left Forward Groff Frantz - Guard
creator: Kaitlin
source: Sugar Grove Historical Society
date: 1932-1933
rights: Sugar Grove Historical Society
format: Photo
type: Photo Collect School Year Book

Diploma, Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School, 1882
subject: "Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School, Sugar Grove, Illinois. "This is to certify that Nora Seavey has completed the prescribed Course of Study in the Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School, and for literary attainments is entitled to this Diploma. "Dated at Sugar Grove, Illinois this Sixteenth day of June A.D. 1882." Signed by Assistant Principal Lizzie Petty and Principal Frank H. Hall.
creator: Kaitlin

Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School / Sugar Grove High School. Brick Building. Post 1906.
description: Thomas Judd had for some years favored the idea of an industrial school which would teach agriculture as well as preparatory to going on to other vocations. He was also aware that Frank Hall, then Superintendent of West Aurora Schools, had similar ideas. Thus it was that Thomas Judd, Henry Chapman, Silas Reynolds, Leonard Benjamin, and Lewis Gillette went to Mr. Hall and asked him to take charge of the new school if it could be built. An all day picnic was held in the maple grove on the Judd Farm on Tuesday May 28, 1875, with the announced purpose of discussing plans for the new school. History records that 1,000 people attended and all were seated at a table of 168 feet long, and enjoyed a find meal. The dinner was followed by a program and speakers. One of the speakers was Professor Hall, and at the close of his speech, he called for donations. It took just 15 minutes to collect $1,400.00, plus subscriptions that brought that total to $2,200.00. Subsequent subscriptions and the district tax, swelled the fund to $4,500.00. Mr. Judd donated the land where the apartment house now stands across from the Methodist Church. The school and a horse shed to accommodate 80 horses was build and the Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School opened for classes in the fall of 1875. The average attendance for the first year was 100, of which about 25 were local students. The curriculum at that time included Latin, General History, natural Philosophy, Grammar, Elements of Agricultural Science, Geometry, Bookkeeping, Arithmetic, English Literature and Music. A teaching certificate was one requirement of being awarded a Certificate of Graduation. The original industrial school burned to the ground in January 1905. A brick veneer building was constructed in its place in 1906. Source: “Sin-Qua-Sip” Sugar Grove: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois” by Patsy Mighell Paxton.
creator: Lisa