Bedford High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Bedford, IN)

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These, working with the native Hoosiers, have developed a city that is known everywhere as the home of the line building stone. Thus the city has rounded her first cycle. She has lived through a century that has witnessed more changes than any other four centuries since the Christian Kra—the century of the steamship and the steam engine, the telegraph and the telephone, the automobile and the air plane, the motion picture and the radio, the sky-scraper and the war memorial. Another man of vision, the organizer of our American school system, saw that “National safety, prosperity, and happiness could be obtained only through Free Public Schools, open to all. good enough for all. and attended by all.” Since the essence if Americanism is constructiveness, and since the only aristocracy in this country is the aristocracy of achievement, could lied ford more fittingly commemorate her hundredth birthday than by providing, as she is doing, for the children of Medford an opportunity to prepare for Service, in adequate buildings made of her chief product— The Nation’s Building Stone ? New View of Bedford

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Old View of Bedford FOREWORD As the country approaches her sesquicentennial, Bedford enters her centennial year. As the City Council of Philadelphia, as part of the plans for the celebration of the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, approves the erection of a $2,000,000 municipal athletic stadium, designed to be the largest of its kind in the world, so Bedford greets her hundredth year with a new gymnasium,—second to none of its kind in the country— another unit in the educational system of the city. This building exploits in its construction Bedford stone. This is as it should be for now it stands as the connecting link between the old and the new. From' the beginning the foundation has been here. The pioneers huilded no better than they knew. The early citizens were men of vision, who saw the future greatness of the city in the development of her rich natural resources. This industry has drawn men from other sections of the country—even from the Old World. i. ; • ' 'V 0 lit J

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 ORDER OF BOOKS Views Around the Building School Departments Athletics Jokes and Snaps Senior Corner