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

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softly, “The first lives here still, the second is married and gone, and the third has passed to the great school beyond.” He remained silent for a few seconds looking far out over the sleeping city. “These three girls attended High School in the primitive little Elston building on the corner of Fourth and Pine.” he continued. Following that first class, there have been forty-one classes graduated. Only twice have I returned to realize the disappointment of no graduating class. That was in the years of 1874 and 1885. Each class has increased in number until the present one consists of about fifty boys and girls.” During this long and successful period of forty-four years only five superintendents have guided the school interests. The honored and loved S. E. Miller was the first leader to whom the people of Michigan City entrusted the education of their boys and girls.” It was Mr. Miller who organized the High School as a separate department in 1859, and it was under his successful supervision of twenty-one years that the old Central building was built in 1876 to accommodate the increasing number of students. J. C. Black succeeded him. While Edward Boyle was superintendent, the old Central was very badly damaged by fire in 1896. School was resumed in Barker Hall and other places until the present Central building was constructed. J. G. Moore and P. A. Cow- gill succeeded, followed by L. W. Keeler, our present well known superintendent. During the office of Mr. Keeler, the Central School was outgrown, and our modern Isaac C. Elston High School was added to the schools of Michigan City in 1910 as a High School proper. This school surpasses all others with its manual training, domestic science, music, and physical training departments. and its auditorium and reception hall. Side by side with these superintendents, have gone strong principals and untiring teachers, who have helped greatly to make the schools of Michigan City what they are today.” He paused. The sands in his hour glass were nearly run out. Oh. the past.” he continued, “was inspiring, the present is glorious, and the future—” At these words, a glad smile illumined his strong face, and his uark eyes, in which all the joy and experience of ages seemed to lie gathered, were fixed on the distance. The clock on St. Paul's began to toll twelve. He ceased speaking. His body gradually became a part of the enveloping darkness, his face with its happy prophetic expression alone standing out. At the twelfth stroke, a film of light passed across his face. The Spirit of Father Wisdom had fled. With an etTort, I aroused myself from my meditation. Reverently. I passed down the silent halls, still seeming to breathe of the presence of Father Wisdom, and slowly out of the school to join my classmates in the wide world. [10]

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HELEN SOUTHGATE. A B. University of Illinois, Champaign. Illinois. Instructor in Science, Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, Illinois. Instructor in Science and Algebra, High School, Michigan City, Indiana. ARTHUR J. PARSONS. A. B. Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Student at University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Instructor of History, High School, Freeport, Illinois. Instructor of History. High School, Michigan City, Indiana. ALICE L. VAIL. A. B. University of Michigan, Ann Arl or, Michigan. Principal of High School, Walkerton, Indiana. Instructor in English and Latin, High School, Michigan City, Indiana. [121