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

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WASHIUGTUH EDGEWOOD We wish to show you at this time four other school buildings not shown on the two preceding pages. These are our grade buildings known as Wash- ington, Edgewood. Osborn, and Linwood. These four buildings, enrolling pupils in grades I to VI, together with the Central School grade building shown at the right of the Senior High School and the Gymnasium comprise the Elwood school system. These grade buildings are important because many of our high school students received their early school instruction in them and later enrolled as high school pupils. The approximate enrollment at the present time in our schools is as follows: Washington, 125g Edgewood, 1653 Osborn, 1403 Linwood, 2853 Central grades I-VI 300-Junior High, 300g and Senior High, 600. This makes a a total enrollment of over 1900 pupils. OSBORN L 'NWQOD

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OUR GYMNASIUM Mulford fMuff1 Davis will now speak concerning our gymnasium. Thank you, Dortny. In 1891 Dr.Naismith originated the game of basketball because he wanted to make a winter sport for his physical education class. Ever since that year there have been hundreds of gymnasiums built all over the world. These gymnasiums are built primarily for basketball and physical education classes, but the gymnasium is used for many other purposes too. Gymnasiums are used for political rallies and for school and community gatherings, so that a gymnasium is a very important building in any community. Like thousands of other towns all over the world. Elwood has a gymnasium of which its citizens are proud. Nearly every gymnasium is built on a different pattern. We see some gymnasiums with two, three, four, or even five doors. We see some with windows on two, three, or perhaps four sides of the building, but, no matter how they are built, the one purpose of the gymnasium is to take care of the crowds which attend the dif- ent activities. Our gymnasium is a brick structure with cement pillars around the top of the bricks and, also, over the four entrances. We have two sets of doors at each entrance. Our gymnasium is built with bleachers all around the floor except on the south end of the floor where we have a stage fifty feet long and twenty-five feet wide. We have a regulation size floor. We have our school letter painted in the center of the floor. The steel structure overhead is made up of right and forty-five degree angles. On these structures we have pennants of other schools of the Central Indiana Conference. We have two large press boxes on the east side of the playing floor. We have ticket offices at three of the four entrances. In the southwest corner of the gymnasium we have an ele- vator which is used in lifting articles from the basement up to the main floor. I have been in the dressing rooms and basements of many gymnasiums all over the state,and I have not seen any that are better than ours. We have six or seven fine dress- ing rooms. They all have windows opening to the outside. They all have showers which can be run very easily. We have a hall which goes all the way around the basement of the gymnasium. We have fourteen rooms which open into this hall. We have equipment rooms, coaches, and janitors' rooms. We have four entrances to our basement. Our gym- nasium is connected to our school building. We can reach the gymnasium through the shop room. This is very nice on rainy or cold days, when we have to go to the gymna- sium from the school building. ,L h .

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Mr. C, C. Hillis Mr. William F. Smith Principal Superintendent OUR SCHOOL OFFICIALS We wish to present to you the members of our school board, our superintendent, and our principal. These people are important because back of each school there must be a governing' body. The members of our school board are Mr. Tom D. McCarty, presidentg Mr. E. W. Drake, secretaryg and Mr. Ray .I. Nudingr, treasurer. The force of these men, who are especially wide-awake and progressive, is behind every worth-while school project. Two other men who are very capable and who exercise direct authority over us are Mr. C. C. llillis, principal,and Mr. William F. Smith, superintendent. We feel that these men have wisely directed us during our high school career. We are fortunate in having them as officials of our school. Mr. .Tom D. McCarty Mr. R. J. Nuding Mr. E. W. Drake President School Board Treasurer Secretary 9 SCHOOL OFFICIALS