Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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INTRODUCTION ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES SPORTS GRADES CLASSES ADVERTISING AND HUMOR Cnnfenlffi Foreword ..... Dedication ...... In Retrospect .... In Prospect . .. s5i1b'51'i35Afd'Q1IQ'.IIII'.QQIIQ. Administrative Personnel Instructive Personnel ..... Maintenance Personnel 15565 'af' 'isisdiisiii ' I IQ Annual Staff ....... Latin Club ....... H1-Y ' ............................ Tri-H1-Y ........................ Future Homemakers of America Future Farmers of America .... Band of Present ................ Bands of the Future ........... Junior Band, Beginners Band .. Santa's Vacation ............... It's a Date .................... That Crazy Smith Family .. Cheaper by the Dozen ..... Chorus ................... Butler Follies .................. Academic ....................... Assembly Programs ............. Assembly Programs and School Life .... .. Social Life ...................... Social Life Con't. ............. . Windmill Breeze Basketball 1950-1951 Injuns ................... Junior High Basketball Track .................... Baseball .... Intramural . . Kindergarten, First Grade, Secon Third, Fourth, Fifth Grades Sixth, Seventh, Eighth Grades .. Memorial .........,............. Freshmen . ........,.. .. Sophomores .............. Juniors ................... Seniors-Class History Autographs ................. Senior Activity ............... Class of 1950 in Washington .... Advertisements and Jokes .. Index of Names .......... Firemen ................. Acknowledgements . . . -3- d Grade Page ...2 .,.4 ...5 ...6 .. . .8-12 8 ff19 ...io ...iz 13- 36 14 16 17 18 ...19 ...20 ...21 ...22 ...23 ...23 25 26 27 28 29 ...31 ...32 ...33 ...34 ...35 36 37- 44 37 40 . . . 41 42 43 . . .44 45- 48 ...46 ...47 ...48 48 49- 60 50 51 ...52 ...53 ...58 ...59 60 61- 92 ...61 ...87 ...87 92 l 4

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Ifl, Qtl 05l56Cf The citizens of Butler and the surrounding community early showed a praise-worthy interest in education, and have continued to do so through the years. In 1842 Norris, Egnew, I-Ianes, Tomlinson, and Cherry erected a schoolhouse on the land of George Egnew, on the north side of Main Street about opposite the present IVI. E. Church. It was large for a building of its kind and had on each side a long narrow window made of part of a section of a single log. The first teacher was L. Harding. As there is no picture extant of Butleris first' schoolhouse, Mr. Ashby has drawn a log building representing it for this book. In 1855 this log schoolhouse was supplanted by a frame structure erected on East Main Street on the lot now owned by Richard Schimpf. Mr. Ashby has drawn this building as it was described to him by Mr. Gehring and his sister, who re- membered it. Some of the early teachers in this school were John A. Campbell, Hamlin Fay, Mrs. Wood, and Mrs. Butler. As the years passed, this frame building be- came inadequate to meet the needs of the grow- ing community and by 1866, Butler had over one hundred pupils crowded into a schoolroom twenty- four by forty feet. In 1867 work started on a three-story brick building on the site of the present school. Dexter Ladd Thomas was the first teacher in the new school. In the first regular school held in the build- ing, Mr. James Ghreier Bowersox was the first principal and four other teachers were also em- ployed. The total enrollment of the school was three hundred fifty with sixty-six students in the primary department, seventy-nine in grammar school, seventy-nine in the intermediate depart- ment and one hundred twenty-six in high school. Five years after the school was built, it had its first graduating class, which was four in number. The enrollment steadily increased with the growth of the community and the schoolhouse was soon too small, hence in 1876 a two story annex was built, the lower room being used for primary work, and the upper for high school grades. A The Butler Public Schools gained a favorable reputation as a teachers training school through- out the northeast counties of our state. The period that teachers were trained in Butler was from 1868 to about 1880. In the year 1890, the seating capacity being once more insufficient, a frame structure large enough to accommodate another grade- was built in the rear of the main building. I In 1905 the three story brick building was torn down and replaced by a larger building which is still in use today. This was the first Butler School building to be heated by a furnace. As the school continued to grow, it was neces- sary to erect a separate building for the high school, including the first gymnasium provided by the school. The enrollment continued to rise and by 1929 the high school had one hundred forty-three students. In 1930 the school was granted a First Class Commission by the State Department of Public Instruction and was admitted into the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which is the highest accrediting agency in the north Central States. The band was organized in 1930 by Lida Stage and in 1935 brought recognition to the school by winning first place among the high school bands of the state. It was also in 1935, that busses were first used to bring rural students into the school. In 1936 a new gymnasium was built by the aid of a P. W. A. grant. H wrncur -W , ' N 'II E Q -- orThi5H E E 5 sl-if ' 5 If S lf' E -D--.