Borden High School - Echoes Yearbook (Borden, IN)

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In 1933 Mr. George W; Robb remodelled thebuilding and installed a water system in memory of Mrs. Robb; and in 1933, Honorable James W. Dunbar, into whose possession had come the unseum Building and adjoining field, donated this valuable property to the township for school purposes and a playground for the school children. These donations have meant the savings of thousands of dollars to the taxpayers and great opportunities for the young people of the community. The alumni of Borden Institute is found in all parts of our country, and some reside in foreign countries. Their successes are general; their failures few. The majority of the alumni have entered the professions of education, law, and medicine; others are engaged in every useful employment. In the field of education we find them occupying all positions in the public school system and higher places in our great universities. In law and government, we see theminCongress and in our state legislatures. In the medical world we find them as successful doctors and dentists. If the worth of Borden Institute can be measured by the quality of manhood and womanhood it developed in this great bodyof men and women who received their training here, it deserves a high place. The last of his race, he is, in truth, not dead; but alive in the hearts of his fellow townsmen. How fitting, then, that it is New Providence no more, but Borden in commemorationcf the noble deed and thainspirational thought, together with the far reaching vision of William W. Borden, who built even better than he knew. Wilson, W. E. 5 Histo 23 Borden Institute. 9 g Catalo ue 2g the Borden Tuseum, 9O William W. Borden Founder of Borden Institute

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150 J359 forced to transfer their advanced students to high schools inother townships. wood Township was in this group. By request the management of the Borden Institute provided, in the fall of that year, a complete high school course for the graduates of the township district schools. The trustee of wood Township constituted the high school department a part of the school system under his supervision, and all graduatesciftownship schools were entitled to admission. For a few years after the closing of the Borden Institute in 1906, the opportunity of pursuing a course of study beyond the elementary school was not very encouraging at Borden. A three year high school, however, was then maintained through these years, housed in various buildings in the town, and under the capable leadership of such teachers as Beorgia Bellows, Harrison Toney, and David La Duke. By a special act of the.state legislature approved March 2, 1911, the township trustee was given the right to use the Borden Institute building for a high school although it was privately owned and located in an incorpo- rated town maintaining its own schools. In the fall of 1911, the school was opened with an enrollment of twenty-five pupils, as a four year certified high school which gave graduates the right to enter the Normal schools for Class A training to become teachers. During the first three years after the certification of the school, the length of the term was seven months. With the opening of school in the fall of 191h, a term of eight months was maintained; and the school was placed on the basis of commissioned high schools. The commission, however, was not granted until 1919. Much of the credit for the establishing of a commissioned high school should be given to Professor Clem Jordan, whose able leadership and untiring efforts during his seven year tenure as principal, did much for advancement in the educational opportunities of the young people of the community in whom he was always interested. When the school was finally commissioned, the graduates were given the recognition equal to that of.graduates of any other high school in the state and enabled them to enter the state universities without examination. This rating has been maintained through the intervening years to this writing. If the school term should be extended'kinine months and some other improvements made, it is possible to raise the rating to a continuous commissioned school with some improvement in the educational opportunities offered. On the occasion of the annual commencement exercises in 1929, Mrs. Emma Dunbar Borden Robb, widow of Professor Borden, donated the school building and ten acre campus, which had been the home of the Borden Institute and the beginning of the high school, to the citizens of wood Township for a high school. The name was changed to the Wh. W. Borden High School as a living memorial to the generous spirits of the two individuals who have meant so much to the young people of the community. In 1931 the seventh and eighth grades were transferred to the high school which was then organized as a six year high school and the work was departmentalized giving the students the advantage of instruction under teachers who had special training in each subject.

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