Hemlock High School - Huskie Yearbook (Hemlock, MI)

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FRESHMEN MOTTO: “Knowledge is the key to success.” FLOWER: Lily of the Valley. COLORS: Yellow and Blue. OFFICERS MONROE SMITH ..........................................President CASSIE GLENN...........................Treasurer and Art Editor DELIA W OLEG RAM.......................................Secretary DORIS STENZEL ............................................Editor Inez Champlin Anna Graham Selma Beier Oscar Bauer MEMBERS Willis Wright Thomas Phelps James Ault Helen Raucholz Beulah Thomas Herbert Preuss Francis Emeott FRESHMEN EDITORIALS It was when the Freshmen were asked to contribute their his- tory for the annual that we realized that the school term was nearly over and that soon we would no longer be Freshmen, and that now, having had our share of the title, we are willing to give it to our successors. At our first meeting we elected our officers and at several later meetings selected our motto, flower, and colors. When school started last fall we numbered twenty, but a few have dropped out because they have either lost their ambition or are working, so that now we have only fifteen in our class. It is our hope that when nineteen twenty arrives our class will be the largest that ever graduated from this school. Summing up everything that has happened in our Freshman year, we find that it has been spent very happily, altho there has been plenty of work mixed in. DORIS E. STENZEL.

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HISTORY OF OUR SCHOOL On the third day of March, 1866, John McMullen, then clerk of the Board of School Inspectors of the Township of Richland, ad- dressed a note to Mr. Philo Thomas, stating that the first meeting of School District No. 4 would be held in his home on the 26th day of the current month, and Philo Smith returned the notice with the statement that he had notified by personal and written notice the following gentlemen: Amos Abby, Andrew McForta, E. C. Curtis, Thomas Mould, Sr., Thomas Mould, Jr., Cuyler Morice, Geoi'ge Stokes and H. D. Smith. At the meeting on the twenty-sixth, E. C. Curtis was elected moderator; H. D. Smith, director; T. Mould, Jr., assessor; and the meeting was adjourned until the fifth of April. So began the pres- ent school system of this township. At the meeting on the twenty- sixth the site for the school was established on the corner east of Mr. Thomas’s one-half acre lying in the northeast corner of south- west one-quarter section 28, town 12 north, range 2 east. Mr. Cuy- ler Morice agreed to sell said land to said Discrict for three dollars. On motion of Abby that we buy the said one-half acre, carried. It was voted that the amount be put into the assessment roll that fall and it was also voted that we have three months this summer taught “by a female teacher.” (So runs the records.) “The work of building the school house was sold to the lowest bidder, J. M. Smith, for $118. Ten thousand shingles were sold to the District by Philo Thomas for $3.75 per thousand. The haul- ing of the lumber was sold to H. D. Smith for one dollar per thous- and, from the mill to the school house site; the District then voted to raise $112 for the purpose of paying for building and furnishing material for said school house. Dated this ninth day of May, 1868.” That was the way in which our predecessors took care of the de- mands for better school facilities. The site chosen was located on the Midland road, opposite the present home of Dr. Rinehart, and the building stood there until it was removed to make room for the third building, which was erected on the same site, and still stands there. They moved the old building to what is now the site of the Hotel National, where it was burned down. We could continue to dig into old records, and fill this book with their quaint spelling and old verbiage, but space forbids, and but the briefest peeps into the old record book are given here. Here is one glance at these entries which gives a vivid