Broad Ripple High School - Riparian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Former principal Mr. K. V. Ammerman recalls his plan for saving the old bell as rededication speakers. Dr. Herman L. Shibler, Bill Kilgore, and Mr. J. Fred Murphy listen. Two of the members of the Freedoms Foundation Committee, Carole Hoshour, committee head, and Pam Partlow, prepare Ripple ' s 1957 entry to be sent to Valley Forge next September. JM- ' m In 1886 a high school curriculum was instituted in the Washington Township School. One principal-teacher and seven students were in this first secondary school program. In 1912 the main build- ing of Broad Ripple High School was built, then the finest rural high school in Indiana. When Ripple became a city school in 1923, its faculty had grown to 20 in number and the student body to 94. Now the facultv and students number nearly 1,800. On the 1956 Freedoms Foundation Pil- grimage, student and teacher delegates from award-winning schools throughout the United States, viewed the Liberty Bell at Independence Hall in Philadel- phia. William Borden, former Riparian newspaper editor, and Mrs. Ruth Marie Griggs, publications sponsor, represented Ripple on this annual tour.

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Society—Past, Present, And Future Ripplites Discuss Inventions, Politics, And Taxes In Social Studies Classes by ANNE WILLIAMS npHE WORLD— its past, present, and future — is the theme taught by the Social Studies Department. Its past is studied in World History and U. S. History classes; its present in Geography, Contemporary History, American Government and Problem classes. Since the security of the United States par- tially depends upon good relationships with the South American countries, Pan-American History is offered to promote better under- standing and appreciation of countries in this hemisphere. Pupils also may prepare for the future by taking Psychology, a course stress- ing the principles of human behavior. Foreign Intrigue International relations are studied by the pupils who take history and government courses, especially Contemporary History. In this course, much attention is given to the present explosive condition of international affairs and to the problems involved in form- ing a sound foreign policy. Campaigns and Chronicles Politics made history this year at Ripple as the members of the Junior Historical Society developed their presidential campaign button collection. This collection was planned sev- eral years ago, but actually materialized dur- ing President Eisenhower ' s first campaign. A History of Broad Ripple High School, 1886-1956 was the project of Jay Wright and Barry Wagner, members of Junior Historical Society, who completed their research and writing last fall. Assisting them were Judy Bredensteiner and Terry Garrison. Copies of the history were presented to the Indiana His- torical Library, the Indiana State Library, and the Junior Historical Society club library. Susie Buchanan, senior, suffering from an over- dose of assignments, studies for future tests- Colorful movies, adding much to education, have taken their place in the Social Studies Department.