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

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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.

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in four-room schoolhouse Reflections of Ripple ' s Past . . . With only seven pupils and one principal-teacher, BRHS proudly opened its doors in 1886 complete with modern furniture and out- house. Twenty-minute classes, conducted seven months each year, included courses in surveying and rhetoric. Lunch periods lasted an hour as Ripplites bought food from a neighborhood bakery truck and played rousing games of London Bridge. Other extra-curricular ac- tivities revolved around horse races and ice skating on White River — constant temptations to truancy. Even today one sees re- flections of this past in the present Ripplite, although he has replaced London Bridge and surveying with billiards and Calculus. Loudly creaking floors and the leaky ceiling of Study Hall 322 become a part of Broad Ripple ' s past with the replacement of the 1913 unit. Soon to be replaced by a new addition, Study Hall 219 (left) and Old Hallway (middle) echo the footsteps of busy Ripplites. Across the hall, math teachers pre- pare lesson plans in BRHS ' s original main office (right). Opening — 9