Ithaca High School - Ithacansian Yearbook (Ithaca, MI)

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I l l w w ' Your guess is as good as ours. 1883 a gym and afhlefic field: hof lunches af noon: a new -1F!33Tt4- Programs for the First Annual Commencement at l. H..S. and for the Alumni reunion two yealfs later. - -Ol THE A ' gTl7occ gclpool '6hiu.'Lof1i '11 Kihei Co life-4,4A cj aaa, --ose- Fridag Evening, June 24, l887 MPX'-,igfumni 47,,ffqez1nionHPk- -0F- thauza so igll 4- Qschmml Jifofef ,Qefan ggarkrs C5la,lufLf3n?, 'Cgfzxen4ln.?, june 22, Compliments of-- T E -v-fllfha Glass of '8'Zf-- 'L' 'f ?i.l6I A IGHT P. M. 4

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W., .M . ,I . I I lf' AIIIQ IFN 'Fl ' M! if ' -'U .'T'7L'! The village of Ithaca, 1879, looking west from the i-ntersectiorn -of Main and Center streets. The building on the corner is still being used, located one block south of the stoplight. ln the background. at right IS the Graham home, .now the Bar-den Funerlal Home. From 30 fo 826 sfudenfsp from one spori fo seven wlfh As we, the Senior Class of I. H. S., look about us We see the many changes which have taken place in the compara- tively short time we have been here. If we look over the history of the school, from the time the school district was formed, we will see that tremendous changes have been made. The school district was organized as a common county district' in 1857. There were about 30 children of school age with- in the limits of the district. T h e first school was taught in the old log court house near the present site of the Metho- dist church. The first actual school building was erected in 1858. It was a one story frame building, 28 by 36 feet. It burned down in January 1861. Another school was built on the same ground as the old one. This was a two story one, and an extension was added in 1873. The basement iof the Bap- tist clhurch was used for the infant depart- men . 3 H. R. Pattengill

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The first principal of Ithaca Public Schools was Mr. H. R. Pattengill. In 1884 after serving for seven years in this capa- city he declined a reappointment and later became Superintendent of Public Instruct- ion at Lansing. Pattengill Junior High School in Lansing is named for him. A Ithaca High School Faculty - 1910 the present school. The corner stone was laid in 1883 and the building was completed in 1884. This structure cost 823,527.49 In 1909, the east wing was built and in 1911 the west part was added. The enrollment has grown from 30, in heaiing planfp and bus fransporfdfion for fhe rural sfu- monument was later erected to his memory on the site of the old school near the Vil- lage Hall. During Pattengill's administration the wooden school built in 1861 burned down. Plans were then drawn up for a brick building which is now the center section of 1857, to 481 in 1883, and to 826 now. The first graduating class in 1887 had 6 mem- bers. This group too has grown until this years graduating class will be composed of 79 students. This will be the largest in the history of I. H. S. Ithaca High School . Six footers - 1910 Left to Right -- Kenneth 1 Smith, Howard Mathews, Dean Waldron, Keith Kel- logg, Perth Pressley, Tim Thum, Ray Kerstetter, Ralph Waldron, Miles Nelson, Cash Beechler, unidentified. 5 r I