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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Ripple Bell Symbol Of Tradition Students, faculty Rededicate Themselves To ' The American Way Of Life ' by ANN BOWMAN JUST AS the renowned Liberty Bell has long been a revered symbol of patriotism in America, the Ripple bell is a symbol of the high standards of this school. On November 7, this year, Ripple ' s original bell w as rededicated. This was a significant occasion as well as a timely forerunner of American Education Week because school bells are symbolic of the American belief in the freedom to learn. The main objective of the rededication was to emphasize the bell as a concrete symbol of The American Way of Life for which Broad Ripple strives. Li the spring of 1883, the bell was hung in the belfry of the year-old Washington Town- ship School building, where it was rung for many years to call pupils to classes at eight o ' clock, announce recess and lunch, and dismiss class every afternoon. In 1948, when this early Ripple building was torn down to make room for the east wing of the present building, Mr. K. V. Ammerman, then prin- cipal, had the bell saved. Last summer Mr. J. Fred Murphy, principal, suggested that the bell be refinished and rededicated. At the special rededication auditorium in the fall, Mr. Harvey Jacobs, program director of the International Rotary Clubs, gave the keynote address. Dr. Herman L. Shibler, gen- eral superintendent of education ; Mr. Mur- phy; Mr. Jack Rosebrough, president of the Association of Parents and Teachers ; and Bill Kilgore, Student Council president, also spoke. With liberty and justice for all, Mr. Life exhibit in the school library. J. Raymond Hall ' s History I class studies The American Way of THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE

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