Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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When Milo Stuart was asked to assume the position of Assistant Superintendent, he looked back with pride on l8 years of remarkable growth and progress at Tech. What had once been but a vision of a comprehensive high school with new buildings and new equipment, training the hand as well as the mind, was now a real- ity. Tech had become the physical embodiment ot his dreams and ideals. Vice-president Dewitt S. Morgan, a close associate of Mr. Stuart, was the logical successor as principal in l930. By now Tech was the largest high school in the state with a student population exceeding 6000 students, attending some 900 classes. The Technical of the thirties was a 4-year fully accredited high school offering the preparatory courses for colleges and universities and a vocational program for those desiring intensive training for a specific vocation or for a higher technical school. For seven years Mr. Morgan developed and refined the factors that help build this great institution. including the adapting and readapting of the curriculum and utilization of the 76 acre campus. The creation of the student production, the Sketchbook: a code of behavior, the Tech Way, and the senior honorary, the Tech Le- gion, highlighted his years as principal. DeWitt S. Morgan, our second principal, worked faithfully fo carr Te-chriical's banner of progress to still higher success and acliievenien h Under DeWitt S. Morgan Vtfhen fire destroyed the office building in the center of the quadrangle, it was decided to ccnver t basement of the ruins into a iishpond. The attractive site later proved impractical and was filled with cenieri ll

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Time has no hearing on youth! The teenagers of years past were boldly characterized loy their crazy fads and modes ot dress, their carefree attitudes and independent nature, just as are today's laughing, bubbling teens. Tech Witnesses P Parking facilities were near the East Residence in 1930, with a section for three electrics too delicate to associate with ordinary cars. 10 YJ? ' .' ' .4 z g ..,, -. N - I , Q, wgq - f 'N ' 1 'raft' 1 I ., An impressive sign arched high above the stone-portaled entrance to the school grounds caught the attention of many a passe-rby in 1930.

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Mr. Anderson believed that the difference between education Cillllllilj times of war and peace was largely one of emphasis. Hanson H. Anderson Evolves AWarfimel l 4 l t figs' ,,....-v- '-- 2 it y-, . Sig, Three rnamrnotli caleterias, located in tire Artillery Building, were open four school periods daily. lts enormous trade con- trasted to the days when 10 pies would supply the entire siliool. ln l945 food consumption was measured by bushels. 12 i lr ?,GiLE?i3'i4rE'5JF3Zl