Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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J' 1 ELKHART HIGH SCHOOL Since the completion of the present High School building, which was accomplished in 1912, the student enrollment in Elkhart High School has risen by leaps and bounds. In fact so rapid has been the increase that the accommodations, once considered entirely adequate for the needs of a city of this size, have been proven totally insufficient, and each year the school heads have been forced to Find some means of making more room to take care of the growing influx of Freshmen. Correspondent with this growth of enrollment has come increased effi- ciency in the instruction and supervision of pupils. Vlfhile E. H. S. does not hold any records for scholastic achievement nor does she have an unduly lengthy honor roll, she still ranks well with the preparatory schools of Indi- ana, and the great majority of her graduates have been a real credit to her. And in athletics, a division of student activity not entirely necessary but nevertheless very desirable in any High School, Elkhart has kept her Blue and Wliite colors fluttering in the breeze, sometimes soiled and torn by the heel of the conqueror, but undeniably fluttering. There is practically no form of interscholastic contest, whether it be athletic or forensic, into which Elkhart High has not entered with the roar- ing volume of one thousand students closly packed behind her. Of late years the insistent demand for an auditorium, a really big gym- nasium and a High School athletic Held has arisen from the student body, and this Ask and you shall receive policy has at last been vindicated by Page Eight

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act of the city council providing for the construction of the two former and the acquisition of the latter within a very short time. As each class goes forth from H. S. after four of the happiest and brightest years of their lives have been passed there, the school itself visibly improves as it gains in experience and wisdom. It is useless to prophesy, for wild imagination does not hold to its credit many great achievements. lt is real work and study that brings results. But it is inevitable that Elkhart High School shall go on growing and grow- ing, improving and improving until the ultimate perfection is reached, which at present seems a long way off. Next year grammar school graduates, as yet uninitiated and unschooled in the world of experience will take the places of the hundred students who this year join the ranks of E. H. S. Alumni, and in four years, they, too, shall be looking back upon their prep school days as fond memories, dimmed and blurred by the inexorable march of Time. But let us return to affairs of the present. Some forty teachers, under the direction of Principal John W. Holdeman. now make up the educational corps of the school. Elkhart High is an accredited institution conferring upon its graduates the right of entry to any mid-west college or university without preliminary examination. In the last four years three men have held the principalship of the school. S. B. McCracken, now head of the Science Departmentg B. VV. Kelly and J. W. Holdeman. On an average of one-third of the teachers change every year. Although some of the instructors are firmly established here. The curriculum of the school provides an education for almost any type of career a boy or girl, starting out in life, may desire. The tremendous affluence of the College Preparatory Course has of late years been greatly lessened, and now the Commercial and Industrial courses are of almost equal importance. It is needless to say that the ideals and ideas of life which are formed in the four years of High School attendance are of inestimable value to every student, and E. H. S. is doing its part nobly in the work of moulding charac- ters, as well as minds. ' ' ,jdfg-xiikg ' ' ua 'xv HQ! ' Q2-Ariz DAHYKXXYRZNJ xaflga-XA .Lb Qc 04 vm 35,3451 . , N I' 'QT iff' 'I -r N Page Nine