Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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WE HAVE RECORDED FIFTY YEARS WITH nCaveli incis w These are the three buildings that have been the home of the D.H.S. Ravelings. It was begun in 1910 in the old Central Building that was located where the present high school building now stands. In the fall of 1918 the high school was moved to the new building at Fifth and Adams, now known as Lincoln Building. As the school population grew, and buildings be- came unsafe, Central Building was razed to make room for the present high school building. It was occu- pied in the fall of 1939 as a Junior- Senior High School. An adequate picture of old Cen- tral was difficult to find. The pic- ture reproduced above was on a colored postcard that had been mailed March 2, 1915 by a young lady of Monroe to a girl friend in Hicksville, Ohio. A group of hunt- ers found the card, along with a few others, in an old, abandoned house in Ohio, and brought it back lo Mr. Brown. You see, in this pic- ture, the iron fence that once surrounded the school yard.

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v olden yVL emories The first attempt of the Decatur High School to publish a paper was made about 1897, when W. F. Smith was principal and Miss Mary A. John- son was head of the English department. The paper was printed on four sheets of pink paper, and was called The Aurora. After it was published for about two years, it was dropped and nothing further was done along this line until 1910. Then Miss Clara Williams revived the idea and began a publication called the High School Student. It was published every six weeks. The staff consisted of Clem Steigmeyer, editor, and Lawrence Archbold, business manager. Other assistants were Matie Chronister, Orpha Sheets, Paul Meyer, Lillian Rice, Estella Perkins, Dorothy Dugan and Carl Beatty. In 1911 the form was changed from a paper to a pamphlet, and the name was changed to the High School Booster. That year the last issue was made larger, called the Commencement Number and thought of as an annual. In 1914 it was decided to change the name of the paper. A contest was initiated and the name Ravelings, submitted by Florence Cowan, was se- lected. The pamphlet continued to be published several times a year with the last number the Com- mencement Number until 1920 when the pamphlet went into book form with one large issue each year. That has continued to be the policy to the present time. 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 19118 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960