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I'n.gm Ten JAQATMCHIAD To the Classes To the Seniors The work and the fun of high school are hehind you now, and as time goes by the memories of these past six years will heeome more and more dear to you. Ilere's to the good times that are eomingr and remember-life In-grins in '-IU. To the Juniors Our hats are off to a peppy ulass that shows promise of leadership in the eoming year. Next year you will he at the top of the ladder to take our plan-e, and it will be your duty to live up to everyone's expectations. To the Sophomores This has heen your first year as inemhers of senior high, and you have tasted the first drop of the wine known as upperelass superi- ority. These drops will grow and be added to until in 19-L2 your cup will be filled to the hrim. lVe seniors wish you all the luek in the world.
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FfAaATllClllFll'l affiliated with the national organization and became known as the Non Pareil chapter of the National Honor Society. The awards were given originally at commencement and only the seniors received them. Athletics were introduced in the high school in 1898 and for a while all boys were automatically members of an Athletic Association. The boys must have been good, for on a memorable day in 1900 C. H. S. defeated Wabasli in a track meet. Two years later a girls' athletic association was organized. Other clubs and social activities were added until Crawfordsville High School had the well balanced system of class room and extra-curricular activities that it possesses today. Journalistic and literary societies sprang up and in 1923 the first issue of the Gold and Blue was printed. 1902 marked the beginning of the senior class efforts to set down a permanent record of school activities. This first effort was called the Utopian which was followed in 1904 by Ye Yeare Booke. Once upon a time C. H. S. had test exemptions-the only catch was the necessity of having an average of 90 or above. Exams, if taken, were different, too. The schedule corresponded to that used in colleges. It wasn't necessary for the student to go to school unless he had a test, and each department was allowed a half day in which to give exams. Chapel programs were sometimes held as often as twice a week and were conducted by the students themselves. A program might have gone something like this. Hymns sung by everyone and led by the mixed quartet, devotionals, a reading or a speech, a number by the eleven piece orchestra, and finally the Gold and Blue which everyone sang with much gusto. As the enrollment of the high school grew and educational facilities expanded, it became necessary to build an addition to the building. 1910 marked the first step in the construction of C. H. S. as it is seen today. The front hall and two rooms on the east and west corridors were built first, but Old Central was still used for some classes. Later in 1915 two more rooms were added on each side. By this time the old building was almost completely surrounded. When the remaining rooms were added in 1919, Central was torn down to make room for the auditorium. The fourth and latest addition was begun in March, 1939 when the base- ment excavation began to take place near the tennis courts. Slowly tho building grew-from a mass of concrete and steel to a finished production, another step in the progress of C. 'H. S. Besides a magnificant gymnasium which will seat over 2300, the building contains twelve classrooms each having complete and new equipment, two gymnasium floors, one for boys and one for girls with shower and locker rooms for each, and several band practice rooms. Classes in commercial, agriculture, biology, mechanical drawing, and physical education work are held in the new building. Thus is the school history brought up to date and what a colorful history it has been. The class of 1940 is adding its work as a stepping stone toward an even greater future for this, our school. CThank you, Mrs. Wilhite, Miss Guilliams, Miss Bowers, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Kritz, and others who so graciously gave us the information needed for this history and for other bits of history that are scattered through the book.- JEAN AND WIN'1'oN.J Page N inc
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