Bryant High School - Hoosier Owl Yearbook (Bryant, IN)

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The new building was ready for the second year, and the same program was fodlowed except that now two years of High School work were given and the enrollment encreased to about 16, the Vtn and 8th still being under the same teacher.. Gne student came down from Portland and one strong student, who had taken extra work, were graduated, this year but an outbreak of the measles, almost closed the school and spoiled all plans for a commencement, the principal being among tne number who suffered an attack. ! The first game of Basket ball was played on Christmas Day on the school ground. Students and teacher had raised a fund and bought a ball. As no one knew now to play, although all had pored over the rule book for many anxious hours andlgdid learn enough to put up the baskets, the principal invitedJohn Milligan a Portland High School student to come down and bring a pick up the score team to show'our boys how to play the game, I think was about 50 or 40 to nothingfin Portland's favor of course. D Many extra corrioular activities were endulgedin from the beginning of the school, espedially of a literary nature. The naturer students did much debating, mock trials, recitations, and they put on a very good play, the second year. The second floor of the Williams wagon shop was fixed up the play wasca splendid sucess winding up colored lights being made by lighting special which almost strangled the spectators. for a hall, and with a tableau colored powders After this year the high school had a room of its own, room 7 of our present building and a fourth teacher was added to the staff. The scnbbl continued to grow schools were being abanded and in l9 when was trustee, the building was enlarged, the built and the teaching staff further enlarged changed-from a three to a four year course,al commissioned during Jones' term of office. commission was issued the school has never renewed, but as at present, only for one year as the country Freeman L. Jones east half being The school was o the school was Since the first failed to get it at a time. The next step will be to get a continuous commission. ' J. C. L. WHITEMAN

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.E ,ei X A .fr-W , A' I' V - v' Ah, Q , jf' of T 4-an 'ff M, pi Gbfsff, W f' I ,. In about the year l8Q3, Philip Stolz became trustee df Bearcreek Township. He first suggested the idea of having a high school in this township and chose J, C. L. Whiteman, who had been attending school at Ada, Ohio, for the position of teacher and principle. E After conferring with the county superintendent, Kr, Francis L. Crowe, Mr, Whiteman made out a course of study, and began talking to the eight grade graduates and others who were still interested in school work., At the opening df school in the fall of l899 eleven students presented them- selves to enter upon the pursuit of higher education, Needs less to say, all were freshmen, but the students were older and more advanced than freshmen, today. Almost all were pre- paring to teach, some had already taught a term or two of school. H The subjects taught' were English, Latin, Elgebra, and General History, The methods of teaching followed closely, those used at the Ohio Northern College. Students were en- rolled and given a grade every day in every subject and every student made pa special effort to make good, if not a perfect recitation in every subject, Of course, it was a pleasure to teach in that kind of a school, In addition to the high school students the 7th and Sth grades Ccombined in most sub- jectsb were taught in the game room and the work of the ai- vanced students seemed to set the pace for the grade students and make them work harder than the average class. The room where the first classes met was a building west of town, a two room two story building in bad repair, only the upper room being used, Fortunately, it was a mild winter, and the school and teacher escaped freezing but endured consider- able discomfort. The lower room had no doors or windows intact and wind and rain and snow had free access. The lower grades met in the Bonifas building. Miss Ivy Beohm Know Mrsi W. J, Siskl taught the primary room for the first half year, then she entered the high school and another student of the freshman year took the room for the rest of the year, So the enrollment remained eleven until the end of the year. Mr, Ephriam O'Hara taught the upper grades, sth, 5th, and 6th in the upper room of the same building.

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