Bluffton High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Bluffton, IN)

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History of Bluffton High School The Hhitftoii Higli School was organized in Se])teinl)er, ISSl. On the opening day of school the new sni)erintendent fonnd a group of seventeen young people in Kooin I) of the (Central building in¬ terested in a high school for Hlnffton. Out of this material a class of nine graduated from a three-year course in June, 18 ' S3, some having had a little Latin, Algebra, History or Science at some time in school. This graduation i)roved a lied Letter Day in school affairs. The course was changed to a four-year course in 1885. In 188b the State Board granted the High School Commission. This was the highest standard at that time. Another signiticant step was taken in 1918 when the high school was accredited by the North (Vntral Association of Colleges and High Schools. This relation is renewed each vear after a sea.rching and ex- haustive (piestionnaire concerning the material conditions of the school and the i)rofessional (pialitications of the teaching force. It is of interest to notice how the high school has been housed in the past forty-six years. The tirst nine years it occnined rooms on the upper door of the old Central building. In September, 1890, it was housed for a few mouths in the Curry Opera House l)lock. On December 9 of that year the new high school building was formally opened. Pres¬ ident David Starr Jordan, of Indiana University, making the address. Soon this building was crowded and the entire basement of the new Central building was occupied by high school classes. This condition was relieved in September, 1923, when the P. A. Allen High School was completed. The Class of 1927 is the drst class to have all of their work in the building. Including the Class of 1927 the total number of graduates of the school is 1312. The records show that the average of the drst ten classes was 11.1 i)ercent, that of the last ten, 02.1. But numbers do not tell all. The value of a high school education is recognized in the hundreds of our graduates who were insjured to take college and university courses; and otlier hundreds wlio, through tlie juactical nature of tlie studies ])rovided, have been able to ai)ply their high school education in offices, sliops, and other avenues of activity. It is the earnest wish of the Class of 1927 tliat the future of Tlie P. xV. xVllen High School shall be as glorious as the past has heen. P. A. ALLEN, Sui)t. Emeritus. (Page Nineteen) of 1927

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PKAHI. HFFF TJATITHOLOMRW Indiana University, A. B. Oliio State University Chicag- Univei ' sity Georg-e Wasliington i I niversity Kmory University ' 05 EIAZAIIKTH PATTON Valparaiso, A. B. University of Chicago, Pli. B. EUN!CE MoGRAW Earllmm College, A. B. ’26 Butler College AVELTHA AGATHA SIIIV’EUY Indiana University, A. B. ’21 HARRIET C. GEIGER DePauw University, A. B. ’23 VII,UIAAI C. RATLIFF Indiana University, A. B. ’16