Elwood Community High School - Crescent Yearbook (Elwood, IN)

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HERBERT NEICE GYM 'ASIUM G A. PLATT BOOK-KEtPlNG OLA EDITH SHEETS GYMNASIUM EDWARD MORGAN MATHFMATICS ESTHER ERWIN MUSIC

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fjcsturg nf lElhuwft itjiyh rluml The Elwood High School was commissioned in 1892, but high-school work had been done by various students for twenty years previous to that date. There were but twenty-five or twenty-six students at the time f commission, five being in the senior class, nine in the junior, and eleven or twelve in the freshman. The building which was used for high school purposes at that time, was located on the site of the present building and contained but four rooms. Mr. T. F. Fitz-gibbon was sole teacher and principal, besides being the superintendent of the public schools, for several years before the commission was granted. That year, Mr. Chas. Meek was appointed principal, thus relieving Mr. Fitzgibbon, who, however, still retained his position as teacher. Finding that another instructor was necessary, Mr. Pierce was added to the faculty in 1893. The course, as mapped out in 1892, included english and general history, latin, physical geography, rhetoric, algebra, geometry, science of discourse, botany and physics. There were but three years of high-school until 1900, when the course was changed to four, years, as it is at the present time, there were no graduating classes that year. in June, 1893, the high-school was moved to the present Linwood building, where it remained until 1898, when the central building was completed. In it were provided handsome and commodious rooms for the use of the high-school students, which are occupied at the present time by them, and which bid fair to serve for many years to come. There have been sixteen graduating classes and a total of one hundred eighty-three graduates. Of this number, six are dead and over one-half are manned. The first graduating class was composed of five members: Jennie Cox, Stella Hunter, Cora Boyden, Lulu Groff and Frank Snively. Miss Cox and Miss Hunter have since married. Miss Boyden has been a teacher in the city schools for several years. Miss Groff’s present whereabouts and occupation are unknown, and Mr. Snively is doing journalistic work in New York City.