“The Letts Consolidated School has as good a building as there is in many states. Its site could not be better. It is only about two blocks from a main branch of the Rock Island Railroad, between Chicago and Kansas City. Nearly all the passengers traveling through here remark on the wonderful building. But how many did you ever hear remark on the “beautiful campus?”

     A per son who did not want to be convinced of the need of improving the grounds, would ask, “Well, how could you make them any better than they are? They are as good as you see at any school.”

     Here are a few suggestions: First – The school yard is a place for the smaller children to play while not at their lessons. A special portion of the ground should be set apart for the play ground. In it should be the equipment we have, and of course other things could be added later.

     Second-A good athletic field is badly needed. Do you remember what was printed in the Muscatine Journal last fall following the Letts Muscatine football game on our field? It read something like this: “The local (Muscatine) team was handicapped by playing on a recently converted pasture on a considerable slope.” The Muscatine boys offered to play a return game on Eisle’s Hill. Of course we know that was “stretched” greatly, but just the same, let’s not give another team the least chance to regard our field as such. The southern end of our campus is an ideal place for the best athletic field in the state. Bleachers should line the sides of the field for the accommodation of the onlookers.

     We have a good tennis court which we owe to some of the business men of our town, and all we ask for it is that it be used constantly during the summer months.

     Another thing that would help greatly in the school would be an agriculture experiment plot. This could be placed of the eastern side of the grounds ad would occupy that space during the growing season.

     The remaining part of the grounds should be made as beautiful and attractive as possible. The sidewalk would be more convenient if it branched at the old well, one branch going southwest and the other northwest, to meet the street walk. These walks could be edged with a low hedge of Japanese barberry. There is an excellent place for flower beds between the building and the walk. Shrubs trees could be artistically placed and as there is in park in Letts, it would not be a bad idea to include a fountain and benches.”

     L.M.K.

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Do You Remember?

    The “Toreaders’ of the 1920’s?

     The “L” Club, whose members were students earning a school letter for participation in band, chorus, drama, speech, cheerleading, and sports?

     At one time sports teams at Letts High were known as the COMET’S?

     LETTS was the last name of seven graduates over the years?

     The school newspaper was titled “The LETTS HI-LITES?”

Other Notes

    LITERARY SOCIETIES of the 1920s in the Jr.-Senior High School were named: Irving, Athenian, Philo, and Crescent. The object of these societies was for the general improvement of members in regard to speaking in public, and a knowledge of parliamentary law.

    Home Economics was once known as the Domestic Science Class.

    On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1919 all Letts Consolidated School students celebrated the singing of the World’s Armistice. The pupils, let by Uncle Sam, America, and the High School orchestra, marched up town to the Band Stand to attend a program appropriate to the occasion, of brief talks and selections played by the L.H.S. orchestra.

    In September of 1920 two hundred five pupils enrolled in the Letts Consolidated Schools. Of this number eighty-eight are in the Jr. and Senior High Schools.

    The school colors were purple and old gold. In later years these were changed to black and red, and then to black and gold at the formation of the Louisa-Muscatine Community Schools.

    1952 was the year of the first Letts Homecoming. The winter event took place during the basketball game.