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

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When it rains it pours Continentals, the Hi-Y — Tri-Hi-Y Homecoming float, colorfully commemorates Indiana ' s Civil War Gorvernor, Oliver P. Morton. Other floats and festivities also centered around the State ' s 150th birthday. Past becomes Present as Ripple joins Turning flax threads into beeswax can- dles, Ellen Fischer and Pam Matthus represent Ripple at the Children ' s Mu- seum ' s Sesquicentennial Exhibit. 6 — Opening Reflections of Indiana ' s Past . . , Having harvested the crops and chopped the wood, pioneer teen- agers of Indiana enjoyed the straw- berry festivals and corn-husking contests popular during the 1800 ' s. Old Dan Tucker was the number one song and Post Office ranked as a favorite social game. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, teenagers participated in the Underground Railroad as they helped hide fugitive slaves in Bacon Swamp near Broad Ripple Village. And although altered by the past 150 years, the youth of 1967 still reflect this same vitality and heritage. Downtown Indianapolis, designed in 1821 by Alexander Ralston to include the original mile square, radiates growth and activity as seen from atop the City-County Building.

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Eighty-year Ripple heritage finds roots Broad Ripple is not only a school but also a community. For just as the village has grown in past years, BRHS has expanded through subsequent additions in 1913, 1935, 1939, 1949, and 1960 to encompass its present 15-acre campus. Alma Mater to Ripple ' s first 26 grads, the original BRHS with its four class- rooms served the Ripple community until the school burned in 1896.