Benjamin Bosse High School - Legacy / Spirit Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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'7'waAallffinaa4aafq- ' Nw I 'L A' fax 'L -' px ev fl, vpn-5, . . ,RR . .Rx lf: I .,,.t.....,s we .1 X r to I I ll .' I - r WIIEN THE FORTY-NINERS first appeared at the portals of Bosse, she was just coming of age, she was twenty-one. In her first score of years she saw many changes. She grew, she developed, she changed and she gained tradition. As a unit' Bosse tirst existed as a school within a school under the roof of her intercity rival, Central. For an entire semester Bosseites attended separate classes and assemblies. Then on lanuary 29, 1924, the iirst class at Benjamin Bosse Memorial High School was called by the principal with the blare of a hugle. Although the structure was incomplete the history ot the East-siders began. IN THE FIRST formative year, the faculty and the student body endured many hardships. Classes were carried on with a background of carpentry noises. Bosse was reached by wading through a sea of mud, because at this time Washington Avenue was paved only as lar as Kentucky. The first pep assembly, chapel, was called for February 8 in the Community Room. The auditorium was incomplete. Both the boys' and girls' gym lacked flooring. Basketball uniforms were purchased by a generous com- munity man. The faculty as well as the students learned by the trial and error sys- tem. Blue and White were adopted as the school colors, but their simil- arity to Memorials made a change necessary. And thus the Scarlet and Gray were born. A prefect plan was adopted with which to govem the student body, but later a monitor system was developed. NOT ALL THE INSTITUTIONS that were established in those first years have been abandoned. The School Spirit was born in 1924. It began as a three column, four page paper and grew into a seven column giantg then due to war shortages the familiar junior made its appearance. The permanent homeroom system, which was the first inaugurated in Evans- ville, hcrs remained much the same as did the single report card for all subjects. During the lour years the class of 1949 has been at Bosse, many things have changed: many others have remained the same. The Forty-niners have seen ECA clubs born and others disappear. This group helped spring sports gain prestige and followed other athletics through ups and downs. They revamped some old methods and introduced new ideas, but through it all the Forty-niners have become steeped in rich tradition - tradition that is BOSSE. L A