Hanover Central High School - Key Yearbook (Cedar Lake, IN)

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of children until it was torn down in about 1956. Brunswick’s two-story school was moved eastward and became the Perfection Musical Instrument Co. owned by George Einsele. When this building was moved, a small building was erected on the same spot to accommodate the lower grades coming from Klaasville and the Brunswick community. It was used as a school until 1970. In the meantime, the rest of the township was also becoming popu- lated with one-room schools. At the corner of Parrish Avenue and 117th Avenue we find the Gerald School. The Roettgen School, located on land belonging to Phillip Eberle, Sr., was in existence from 1885-1912. Schutz school was located on land of pioneer families, Valentine Schutz and Henry Meyers, on Par- rish Avenue, south of the present Jane Ball School. This school closed down in 1910 and its children went northward to Armour School. Ar- mour school property was deeded over to the township by J.H. Meyer in 1885. It was located directly east of the first Ball School. St. Martin’s of Hanover Center originated in the Mathias Geisen log cabin home in 1880. A frame build- ing was later purchased and used. The familiar red brick building school, torn down in 1974, housed classes for many years, beginning in 1913. The present Holy Name School was built in 1949. Kindergarten was opened in the township in 1968. Prior to this time private kindergartens had been op- erated by Mrs. Neil Jackson, south of Cook, two miles, and one by Mrs. Adam Schafer, a former teacher in the Piepho one-room school. With the building of the Lincoln School in 1912, there was only a one-room school in the Brunswick area for the lower grades, which closed in 1970. Schiller School, used from 1912-1956 and St. Martin’s Parochial School, later changed to Holy Name, in use from 1908 to now, within the township. High schoolers were transported to Crown Point, Lowell and Dyer High School. An- other elementary school was built in 1956 and named after that pioneer in education, Jane Horton Ball. In 1974 the middle school was added to the high school and the sixth grade moved up from Jane Ball, making the school the Hanover Central Middle and High School with the enrollment of 934 in grades 6 - 12 . Freshman and Sophomores High School stu- dents at Hanover Center ' s Lincoln School are: Back Row, Walter Ludwig. Robert Tthomas, Richard Howkinson, Lawrence Turnquist. Front Row, Martin Mager, Nelson, Loretta Ludwig, Sara Ruge, Herbert Meyer and teacher, Mr. Hill. . . . Adam Shafer is standing beside the school bus that he used to pick up the students for school.