Pittsboro High School - Progress Yearbook (Pittsboro, IN)

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This is the time to pay modest tribute to our present principal, Mr. Dan Zielinski, who has served well for nine years, maintained excellent discipline, being fair in his dealings with parent and student, heartily endorsing school activities, offering excellent opportunities to students. His competent staff is as follows: Bill Compton, whose success as a coach is well known, Reva Clancy, Charleen Purdy, Betty Leak, John Osborn, Sharon Reynolds, Hartsel Newell, Sandra Clag- horn, Larry Lamb, Larry Sparks, Judith Anderson, Rod Ely, David Morphew, Donna Gentry, Vicky Williams, Robert Lang, Barbara Wilson, Kathleen Brandt, George Curry, Clyde McKee, Principal of Elementary, Wanda Wilson, Shirley Osborn, Becky Patterson, Shari Ward, Barbara Peters, Linda Brooks, Marsha Holcomb, Jackie Sparks, Bill Livengood, Mary Lou Priebe, Doris Martin, Jeanne Weeks, Sandra Ely and teacher's aide, Rosann Zielinski. More than 80 years have come and gone since the first class met in the old hall over the grocery store. We can look back with happiness and pride to those years and we can treasure the memories of this, our school. Graduates which now number more than 1500 are living proof of the quality of education they received in Pittsboro High School, through the lives they have lived and the attainments they have reached. All we can say in conclusion falong with Bob Hopej is THANKS FOB THE MEMORYH. Written by Frances Weaver Fisher Class of 1917 Xl

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The first school room was the hall over the brick store where Larry Lovell had his barber shop. The first male teacher was A.L.H. Miller. The first graduates were Oscar Reynolds, Norman Worrell, james Flaherty, Charles Kress and Maude Hughes Newman. The first graduates from the four year high school were Carroll McDonald and Edwin Terrell. The first graduates from a four year commissioned high school was the class of 1917. The first music teacher was Mrs. Martha Harvey King here in 1914, next was Sarah McClain Money. The first gym was built in 1919-20. The first home game was played in 1920. The first girl graduate was Maude Hughes Newman in 1897. The first Alumni banquet was held in 1912. The first Alumni Scholarship medal was won by Elizabeth Yeager Dillon. The first county tourney played at Pittsboro in 1923. The first sectional ever Won by Pittsboro was in 1922. The first trustee who was an Alumnus of PHS was Edgar Parker. The first Alumnus to become a doctor was Aubrey Pebworth H8981 The first senior play was given by the class of 1917. The first school paper was published in 1903. The first Iunior High School was organized in 1921. The first child of an Alumni of PHS as Blanche Ashby 1915. The first grandchild of an Alumni to graduate was Ronald Montgomery 1944, grandson of Pearl Cowley 1901. The first principal to receive a salary of more than S2000 was j.P. Girard in 1931. The first class to have military training was in 1918 under teacher Leo Fitzgerald. The first superintendent of schools to be employed by the school board was Bruno Lupato. The first school board was elected in 1962. Q The first members from PHS on the school board were Herschel Gentry, jr. and Merle Hendricks. The first husband and wife team to teach in PHS was Glen and Helen Staton. In 1905 school was stopped on account of an epidemic of small pox. In 1918 school was stopped because of the flu epidemic. A play entitled Uncle Dick's Mistaken was a great success, given by the high school and netting 322.550, f1905j A play given by the Alumni Association in the late 1920's was a great success and netted more than 8200. Entitled His Uncleis Niecef' The first senior class play in 1917 was entitled The Varsity Coachf, In January 1904 a big oratorical contest was held at the Christian Church. Here are samples of some of the titles: Napo- lean the Great by Esther Wells McConnaha, mother of Margaret Gregory, grandmother of Gary Gregory and great grandmother of Mike and Teryl Gregory. Spartacus to the Gladiatorsi' given by Blaine Bmmfield, father of the actor, Ion Bmmfield for Bromfieldl. In 1904, Maude Worrell Staneart, recently deceased, wrote a modern version of Women's Lib on The Ambition of Womenn. Quoting directly from her article, If it were not for the ambition of women, society would lose fully one half the development which it has already attainedf, Even years ago ERA had its followers. Along with many other activities in which PHS has always excelled is the fact that it was the first high school in the county to have a school paper. To verify that, consult the january copy, 1904 of the Pittsboro High School Starf' Not only was it the first paper, but it was interesting and cleverly written, the work of the students, containing editorials on current subjects, original poems, lots of jokes, athletic notes, mainly football, many personals especially in reference to boy and girl cases. All the businesses in Pittsboro put in their ads: Livery stable, millinery, physician and dentists, general merchants, horse blankets, farmers and restaurants. Reading these brings information about our town in the good old days, and makes us increasingly proud to be a part of it now. X

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Piftsboro High Srloool fl 897-1915j A Little Rhyme Concerning the Students Who Were .Graduated from That Seat of Learning during the years of 1897 through 1915j Backward, turn backward, Ol Time in your flight,', Make us all pupils just for tonight, Take us speedily back o'er eighteen swift years, The memory of which brings laughter and tears, Back to the first class which honored this school By completing the course prescribed by rule. Four bright boys there were and one splendid girl- Iames Flaherty, Oscar Reynolds, Chas. Kress and Norman Worrell. The girl that was mentioned was Miss Maud Hughes, But as Mrs. Newman she now sends her dues. The same Instmctress for two years had these- A talented woman, then Reynolds, now Spees- VVho established the high school in Iunken Hall, And because of her zeal was admired by all. Of A,L.H. Miller they took the third year- A smiling bachelor, by some girls thought dear, To Sawyer's Hall he wended his way, To instruct those pupils from day to day. Again four boys and one girl were destined by fate To graduate in the year of ninety-eight. They received instructions from Mr. Matheny, The youngest in the class was named Murat Keeney, Thomas Dillon, too, was of the studious mind, VVhile Aubrey Pebworth to his pipe inclined. There was Mary Dugan, true to the very heart's core, And Fred Worrell whose lessons of life are all o'er. To the dear old building they hurried each day- Fourteen more classes have gone the same way- In the west room, upstairs, Caesar's allies they slew And over geometry made quite a stew. Two earnest yoiuig men and four ladies, fine, Composed the class in the year ninety-nine. Patrick Dugan was fond of school work, VVhile Allen Keeney would never shirk. And Mrs. Rankin, then Anna Hession, Was faithful, too, seldom missing a session, Estella Shirley made the figures fly, Stella Titus is the name she now goes by. Carrie Brent was gifted with social grace, As Carrie Stephenson she now fills her place. Nor of Eunice Brumfield could any complain, She now answers the name of Eunice McClain. With Miller, the teacher, there was seldom a clash, Though they sometimes did smile at his stunning mustache. Class number four was composed of four girls- Fond of music and fun and curls. XII Three of these lassies have changed their name, But Miss Ethel Whitsett remains the same. Nellie Waters, though, must have been a good planner, After years of single bliss she became a Danner. Anna Buergelin soon changed to Mrs. Smith, And it would not do to complete the list Without telling how hard the fates did plan To make Hattie Halfaker become a Wehrman. Speaking of work and mischief and fun Brings to mind the class of nineteen-one, Composed of five boys and one thoughtful lass, Merril and Frank Wills belong to this class. Carl Waters was there and Forrest Bradshaw- One is now a teacher while the other doth saw, And Chester Iunken and Pearl Thornbrough, The Latter became Mrs. Cowley, though. At the close of this year, Miller's reign was oier So he left the town to return no more. Courageous was he, strangely free from fears, No other teacher has stayed more than two years. Of happier classes there have been but few Than the wonderful class of nineteen-two. Of the good times We had I could write a volume Though restricted, alas, to one short column. How much of the scolding and courting and fun Was recorded in rhyme by Ethel Iackson- Or Ruth Case whacked Watson's knuckles for a book, Or we laid Miss Schenck's piggie in a seculded nook, How Eva chose to carry it, the one most stout and slow, The one who stands before you by the name of Alice Lowe, Or Iackson turned a basket oier the head of Jessie Walter She struggled to escape as a calf would from a halter. And if Miss Nora Ridgway was less wicked than the rest She was a splendid second as perhaps you may have guessed Now Miss Alcie Ridgway we confess was not so bad Though mischief, let me tell, was with all of us a fad. just the same we earned diplomas, I say that is no myth, If you do not believe it just inquire of LC. Smith, We were so busy weid scarce time to strike a match. Of the nine there still remaineth Four glad maidens and one batch. In the next class were two ladies fair, With charming ways and golden hair. VVhen Florence Booker became Mrs. Cline, Her husband, no doubt, thought her head a gold mine.