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Ground Breaking St. Teresa H. S., St. Teresa Academy, Convent Building, and Auditorium Spectators at First Basketball Game in 1956.

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Photograph of Nun breaking ground for new high school. Photographs of St. Teresa Academy, Convent, High School, Auditorium first basketball game.

Professor Glen R. Smith's Oral History

This is the oral history of Professor Glen R. Miller. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell. The interview covers his career at Millikin University.

Photograph of the Agora Society

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Photograph of Decatur High School's Agora Society, a literary society, taken in the west end of Fairview Park in the spring of 1914.

Photograph of William F. Smith

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Photograph of William F. Smith. He became track team coach at Decatur High School in 1910. He was also a physics teacher.

Photograph of the Jacob Henry Coonradt Memorial Tablet

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Photograph of the Jacob Henry Coonradt memorial tablet. This tablet, which had resided in Decatur High School, was given in appreciation of the long teaching service Coonradt had given the school. He taught there from September 5th, 1881 to December…

Photograph of the Class of 1950 Reunion

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Photograph of the Class of 1950 forty year reunion taken during alumni weekend in June of 1990. Names listed left to right.
Row One: William M. Tangney, Merril Cameron Dees '48, Mrs. Staley, Alice Jones Lambrick, Bill Dickinson, Marian Anderson…

Photograph of a Decatur High School Postcard

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Photographs of a Decatur High School postcard from an unknown date. This is the first high school building, built in 1869 at Broadway and North Streets in Decatur before the second high school was building was built on N. Franklin Street in 1911.

Photographs of the Interior of Decatur High School

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Photographs of the interior of Decatur High School including the gym, auditorium, the girls locker room, a science classroom and the music room taken around 1940.

Photographs of the Exterior of Decatur High School

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Photographs of Decatur High School taken shortly before it was demolished in 1977. The High School was built at 400 N Franklin St. in 1911.

Photographs of the Exterior of Decatur High School

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Photographs of the exterior of the Decatur High School main building taken at an unknown date and Kintner Gym taken in 1940.