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

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this is completed, the school year is about to end. Year by year new students come in and out of the classroom. From teacher to teacher, year by year, the students gain more useful informa- tion to better themselves, hopefully to have something to show by the time graduation comes around. Planning, selling and raising money, group by group, the organi- zations secure support for their ac- tivities. Progressing with knowledge on how to organize and run things is an asset gained by being a part of some organization or group. Bit by bit we, the staff, try to raise money, not only to pay for the year- book already bought but to better our yearbook for the years to come: for you to be able to have the memo- ries of happy times stored up in pages of the year’s happenings. It enables all of us to see how we have progressed as a school and a united group through the years we ' ve spent together growing and learning. ANCH on! . ... 152 5 76 3

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in35fi7fl a =5 a We Progress Progression takes place day by day at Hanover in many ways. Student life is probably the biggest area. People gradually progress in their own way as they grow older and as they grow in experience U and knowledge. From day to day we learn new things about others mak- ing us either grow towards or away from them. Season by season describes the way in which our sports are run: spring baseball, wrestling, basket- ball, cross-country, track, fall base- ball and golf. The coaches and stu- dents progress in their knowledge of the particular sport they coach or participate in. The records of the school prove that gradually we are progressing. Step by step the classes begin to grow each year. It starts at the be- ginning of the school year with the teachers trying to get everything or- ganized just exactly right to suit each individual class, by the time 2

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Hanover Schools Go Back to 1838 One of the first log school houses was built in 1838, Pictured is Mrs. Mary Meyer, John Horner, George Gerbing, and John Geisen. With the bicentennial on every- one’s mind, Key Staffer Becky Wornhoff prepared this report on Hanover school history with the grateful help of Cedar Lake ' s histo- rian, Mrs. Peter Horner. Ball Log School, built in the sum- mer of 1838 is claimed to be the first school house in Lake County, not that it was established by virtue of authority of law and supported by taxation, but that it was a common meeting place for instruction and improvement under the guidance of Judge Harvey Ball and his gifted sons and daughters. In 1839 Mrs. Jane A. Ball began conducting the first boarding school. This school continued during the following 16 years. It sent six stu- dents to colleges and seminaries and fitted many for everyday life. The Civil War caused a delay in an orderly development of a school system but after the conflict ended, there was a growing demand for ele- mentary schools. The nex t school in the area was built along what is now Morse Street on the east side of Cedar Lake and known as Red Cedar School. There, early teachers Mary Jane Ball and Mr. Mrs. Andrew Cutler taught quite a roomful of pupils as the years entered the 1860’s. With John Binyon acquiring the land on which this school stood, the name of this school was changed to the Bi- nyon School. In this up-dated school, each child had his own desk in contrast to the backless benches used in the earlier schools, A pot- bellied stove with its long line of stove pipe was centrally located and a strong woodbox stood nearby. The earliest school in the Brunsw- ick area was built on the Echterling farm just south of Brunswick. It was replaced in 1875 by a new two-story Brunswick School which contained high school classes on second floor. Other early schools included a one- room school on the Henry Piepho farm and another on the Chris Brands farm, both north of Brunswick. The Zion Evangelical Church lo- cated north and west of Brunswick set up a small parochial school which was connected closely to the German teachings of the parishio- ners who had migrated into this area from Hanover, Germany. When the Hanover school system began to take care of educational needs by setting up district schools, the paro- chial school was discontinued. Children in the southwest area of Hanover Township were educated in Klaasville Public Schools from about 1880 on. In 1916 a severe tor- nado tore down many buildings in Klaasville and at that time the little one-room school house blew away. Catholic children who were mem- bers of St. Anothony’s Parish of Klaasville were taken to the newly- built St. Martin’s School in Hanover Center and public school children rode in horse-drawn bus to the Brunswick School and Schiller School which had been built in 1912 on the same site of the one-room school that had stood on the Brands’ farm. It housed several .classrooms