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

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 j J The Yearbook of Isaac Elston High School Michigan City, Indiana . C

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The Senior Class, Under. the Editorship oe -Jean Robinson, Business Management of Raymond Robeson, and Art Direction of Rose Neid — Presents T1HE 193J3

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Mr M. C. Murray, superintendent of city schools Three students graduated in 1871; over two hundred, in 1935. This year, 1935, marks the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Boston Latin Grammar School, the first American high school. Since that time im-provements have been made continually, until we now possess a secondary school system unioue in the educational history of the world. In 1871, three girls, Mary Behan, Alice Brett, and Sarah Farrar composed the first graduating class of Michigan City High School, located at Fourth and Pine Streets. Mr. S. E. Miller was the first superintendent. Central School was built in 1876, and Mr. J. C. Black became superintendent. He was succeeded by Mr. Edward Boyle, during whose term the building was destroyed by fire in 1896. During the reconstruction, classes were held in Barker Hall. In 1904, Mr. L. W. Keeler became superintendent. The second Michigan City High School, (now the junior high school), erected in 1909 over an old cemetery at Detroit and Spring Streets, was named in honor of Isaac C. Elston, a worthy pioneer of this city and the donor of the land for the school. This building served until 1924 when increase of enrollment necessitated building the present senior high school.