Elston High School - Elstonian Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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MILO C. MURRAY, A. B., A. M. Milo C. Murray, principal of the Michigan City High School, has very successfully administered the affairs of this institution since the fall of 1905. Mr. Murray prepared for college at Valparaiso, Indiana, in the academic department of that university and completed this course in 1890. Two years later, he entered Olivet College, from which school he was graduated in 1902, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the spring of 1903. Mr. Murray enrolled as a post-graduate at Indiana University, spending the spring term there. During the summer of 1905, he studied at the University of Michigan, and during the summers of 1900. 1907 and 1908. he attended the University of Chicago, taking graduate work with a higher degree in view. In the summer of 1909. he received the degree of A. M. at Olivet College. In 1911 and 1914. he again spent his summers at the University of Chicago. Mr. Murray was principal of the High Schools at Du Quoin and Hoopeston. Illinois, before coming to Michigan City. During the ten years of his service as principal in our High School, he has proved himself an efficient, capable and loyal leader. 171

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A GLANCE AT THE PAST (By Mildred Blair) The last of the merry voices floated up to me as the Class of 1915 passed from the High School, forever. Heavy silence reigned throughout the dimly lighted halls, broken only by the lonely ticking of the clocks,—clocks ticking out the passing of another year and the graduation of another class. Why did I linger? It was all over: class day, Junior reception, graduation,—every thing. And yet I lingered on our commencement night to say farewell once more to the High School building, with its endearing school-day associations. I wandered down the lonely halls, peering first into one and then into another class room, once teeming with life and enthusiasm but now dark and forsaken. Everything seemed strange in the semi-darkness and my echoing footsteps startled me. I paused at the landing and became lost in meditation. The four years of our High School course passed slowly through my memory. The first three years were filled with development and expectation for the crowning Senior year in which all our hopes and desires were realized. My thoughts then turned back to the classes that had gone before, those which we, as underclassmen, had admired, and the other numerous classes which now belong to the past but have given the present age a high standard to maintain. I wished to know of the past of our High School. I gazed fixedly before me, lost in reverie, when slowly I became conscious of another presence. From out of the monotonous shadows, gradually emerged the loose-robed figure of an old man with a flowing white beard. His eyes were fixed on an hour glass in his hand. “Ah, this must lie the Spirit of Wisdom,” I thought, “The old man fabled to roam about the school on every commencement night from eleven to twelve, to recall the past and to leave inspiration for the coming year.” “From out of the dim past, I can recall the first graduation from the High School of Michigan City.” He was speaking in low musing tones, and I crept closer that I might not lose one word of that which I had so long wished to hear. “ ’Twas forty-four years ago. in 1871,” he continued, that the first three young ladies. Mary F. Behan. Alice Brett, and Sarah Farrar, completed the two years’ course and proudly received their diplomas in the old Congregational Church, where the first exercises were held.” I almost piped up from the shadows. Virgil’s ancient maxim. Dux femina facti ” (the leader was a woman) when I held my peace, for the old man was adding [»J