Central High School - Interlude Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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The South Bend Schools , In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of 1816, ar- rangements were made in 1843 for the erection of a county seminary. This institution was to hold a position midway between the common schools and the state university. On the ninth of November, George Matthews was commissioned to receive subscriptions for the building. llarris E. Hurlburt was also authorized to receive donations for the erection of the edifice in Mishawaka. There was a healthy rivalry be- tween the two towns for the location of the seminary. Roth men re- ported at the same term of the county board, and, as a result, no action was taken on the matter at that session. The next term, however, definite steps were taken. A contract was drawn up with Cassius Caldwell, G. M. Matthews and A. M. La Pierre for the erection of the building at South llend at a set price of fifteen hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty cents. As first payment on the sum, the board tendered a lot belonging to the seminary fund, valvued at one hundred and fifty-eight dollars, and also the sum of eight hundred and fifty-four dollars donated by subscribing citizens, amounting in all to ten hundred and twelve dole lars. The county paid the remainder. The St. Joseph Valley Register for September 26, 1845, contains the following account of the edifice in course of construction: 'fThis building on the north side of Washington Street. west of town, is rapidly nearing completion. lt is of brick, two stories high, and is to be surmo-unted by a cupola. 7 The seminary stands near the center of an acre and a half lot, which belongs to it, and which is to be inclosed and improved. There will be two rooms in the building, one below and the other above. The one in the second story is to be the full size of the building, undivided at present by any partition, and the two rooms will comfortably contain all the pupils of the institution for many years to come. The principals of the seminary were, in order, Mr. XVheeler. with Miss L. C. Merritt ak assistant, Professors Wright, Coggswell, Smith. Sperbeck, Mclzafferty, 'Miss Barrett, Miss Bacon and Professor Wilcox. During the six years of its existence, the institution won such ap- proval from the citizens of South Bend, that, when the policv of keeping up county seminaries was abandoned, they purchased it for the city. The bargain was made for fifteen hundred and sixteen dollars, payable in ten installments. Under city control, the institution retained its name, although it was now used as a high school. The attendance, however, outgrew the size of the building, and in 1872 the structure was torn down, that a larger one might be erected. The South Bend Tribune of April 2oth, in an editorial by Alfred ll. Miller, said: 'Nothing remains of the old seminary building on XVashington Street but a pile of debris, and in a few days it will have no trace left. The South Render now absent will miss, on his return, the familiar structure, which, homely though it was. has been identified with our place since its earlier years. Daniel VVitter, Alvin S. Dunbar, Mark McClelland, D. R. Sample, and R. B. Milles are mentioned among the nrst pupils of the Seminary. When first built, the seminary was surmount- ed by a tin-domed and pillared cupola, in which the boys used to take delight in lodging balls, when playing 'anti-over,' that they might have some cause for 'shinning' up the lightning rod, and playing havoc with the nests of pigeons that made their homes there. lint the lightning knocked all the beauty and utility out the cupola one afternoon in IS47, and in course of time it was taken down entirely, and since then the structure has been familiar in outline to all our citizens as it is seen in the excellent photograph Mr. Bonney took just previous to its destruction. Although to be replaced by one of the handsomest school buildings in this part of the state, there are many, particularly absent South Renders who received their education in it, who will not hear of the destruction of 'that old seminary' without a pang of regret. During the year that elapsed between the tearing down of the old building and the completion of the new one, the high school took up its abode in the old Madison building. The structure erected in 1873 now stands as a part of the eighth grade building. . Since that time the growth of the school has been rapid. The orig- inal building was enlarged by the addition of a four-room wing, con- taining a physical science room. and a chemical laboratory. In 1898, two large rooms were subdivided into four small ones to increase the number of recitation rooms, lint additions of this sort could not provide enough space for the accommodation of the students, so a grammar school building, used at present by the high school, was erected for higher edu- cational purposes. In 1907 it contained fifteen recitation rooms, a study hall, and an assembly room. Since the building of an annex it has twenty-seven Page I2

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class rooms, shops. kitchens, laboratories, otiices, etc. .-X 11ew high school building' is being' pla1111ed to relieve tl1e present overcrowded conditions. and to provide for the future 11eeds of the rapidly growing school. The courses of st11dy llllll the curriculum have also grown through tl1e years to keep pace with modern needs Elllil requirements. In tl1e beginning one course met tl1e needs of all tl1e students. by 1876 three courses were offered, while at the present time. the entering student may elect the Classical l'reparatory course. the Scientific Preparatory course. tl1e -l8llQ'lliCCl'illg' llreparatory course, the Commercial or Business Pre- paratory course, the Industrial course. or the Teachers' Preparatory course, which are various combinatioiis of the 59 subjects offered in the t'l1l'l'lt'11l1Il11. Tl1e library. loo, ll1l5 kept pace with the onward 111arcl1. ln 1887. there were one hundred and forty-eight volumes. This number. by 1907. had increased to two thoiusand, not taking into consideration the files of twenty-one periodicals. Tl1e library now includes 2950 selected volumes. .Ks a cause of these various improvements and cnlarg'e1nents, has been the constant increase in the attendance. Fifty students constituted the lirst four classes ill the South llend high school. Today the enroll- ment is eight llllI1tll'Cfl Zllltl Iifteen. To tl'2llll properly so large a student body. tl1c nmnbcr of teachers ll2lS been increased from two to thirty-tlirce. The entire school system of the city has had a parallel growth, and now' comprises, including' the high school. eighteen large buildings ill which 251 teachers are daily at work with 7688 children to make them i11to useful. enlightened citizens. The increase in enrollment of 1021 pupils since October of this year is an earnest of the continued growth of Olll' schools. in its forty-four years of existence our school has been served by twelve principals and eight superintendents as follows: Sl'l'liRl N'l'liNlJlCN'l'S. Daniel liyer. . years. . . . .I867-l86 j l.. li. Uenslow year 1869-1870 XV. K. Kidd .. year 1870-1871 David .-X. lfwing years 1871-1876 .Xlfrcd TCIIIIIIIICI' years 1876-1870 llzunes ljllsllllllti years 1879-1801 Calvin Moon . years 1891-IQOU john .X. W'ood years 1909- Page I3 llenjamin XVilcox . james lJllSllHllC .. .-Xlfred Kunimer .. Charles H. Bartlett Eugene F. Loehr. Stuart Macliibbin Mary L. Hinsdale .lohn M. Culver .. Dumont l,otz .... Charles ll. llartlett Calvin O. Davis .. Isaac IE. Neff .. lfrederic L. Sims . Sflllllll. 4 --3 ..l ...II ..2' ..2 ..l H3 ..2 ..l ..f1 ..l l'RINl'Il'1Xl.S. years... .. years. . . . . . year . . years. . . years. . years... ... years. . . year . . . . . . years. . . ... years. . . year . . years. . . . . . year . . DANIEL EYPTV1 l SUPERINTENDENT OF SOUTH BEND SCHOOLS. l867-IB69. 1871-1875 1875-1878 1878-1879 1879-1890 ISQO- 1893 1893-1895 1895-18117 1897-1898 1898-1901 IQOI - IQ03 19034904 1904-1910 1910-