Edwardsport High School - Power Blazes Yearbook (Edwardsport, IN)

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1951 - 1952 SCHOOL YEAR These facts are given as a matter of record for future years. We know now what we have been doing but time erases a lot of things, and facts become eroded from the best of memories. This school year has been different due to the fire on November 10, 1951, and that catastrophe may have far reaching effects either good or bad. Only what has happened can be judged. The twelve grades of school were split into three divisions but were able to maintain their separate identity and to preserve their name as the Edwards- port School. The high school held its classes at Sandborn, and there also the basketball games were played and most of the school programs were given. The Sandborn and Edwardsport schools, in the same building, were entirely separate and op- erated as if they were miles apart, but with a cooperation that was magnificent. The Junior High School went to Westphalia and several of our teachers taught there in shifts to meet their classes. Harry Chickedantz worked there all day, and also coached the basketball team. Clair Dean taught there in the morning and came to Sandborn for afternoon classes. Joy Holmes and Harley Disque commuted to Westphalia for their vocational classes and back to Sandborn to finish the day. Paul Lawrence drove down for an afternoon class and returned for his other work at the high school. Jack Seargeant taught music at the Brick school in the morning, arrived at Sandborn for lunch and band, and then went on to Westphalia for music to complete the day. Grades one to six attended the Brick school south of Bicknell, and the teach- ers were Lucille Bunte, Agnes Drinkuth, Fredith Trebuchon, Agnes French, Robertine Atkinson and Mildred Hudson. The Brick school had been renovated, and that division of the three, probably enjoyed the most solitude and was the least affected in its regular work routine. All children rode busses to school, and most of them were on two different ones, making a transfer at the American Legion Home in Edwardsport. The hours were early and late for the boys and girls, and through rain, sleet, ice, snow and sun they carried on, and with no complaints. Many families had children going to two different schools during the day, and there were a few who had children in all three schools at the same time. In the evening some of the busses picked up the children at Westphalia and took them to Edwardsport, then backtracked to Sandborn to bring the high school to Edwardsport. The process was reversed in the mornings. Some things were unhandy, but they could have been worse. Everyone was thankful that there were three good schools to go to. School went along splen- didly, but there is no place like home. Where to in '5Z?' That is the slogan now. As this is written, May 7, 1952, the final decision has not been made. May it be for the best interests and the most successful futures of the students, parents, teachers, and alumni of the Edwardsport School. -- F. E. Ward AR

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CONGRATULATIONS . . . This Company is proud of the fine spirit in which the Edwardsport schools, despite handicaps, are carrying on their good American educational program. It is the some courageous spirit that enabled our forefathers to make thiscounty strong, despite all obstacles. And it gives us confidence that our children, and our children's children, will be able to keep the nation free, as they found it! Wm. F. Nelson, Supt., Edwardsport Station, and the Station staff PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF INDIANA