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

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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-

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COQUILLARD SCHOOL, CORNER COLFAX AVENUE AND NOTRE DAME STREET. WI: LAFAYETTE SCHOOL, CORNER LAFAYETTE AND MONROE STREETS.