Jac Cen Del High School - Touch of Class Yearbook (Osgood, IN)

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School Corporation The student body of Osgood and Napoleon submitted their ideas for school song, school colors and school mascot. A special committee of students, representing each class, and faculty members, including a music teacher and basketball coach, met to decide on our colors, song, and mascot. A three-fourths majority was needed to win the vote. The Eagle was chosen as mascot. The Indiana Fight Song was the chosen school song, and Columbia blue and scarlet were the school colors. After fifteen years many changes have taken place at Jac-Cen-Del. We have expanded not only in size but also in new teaching methods and ideas. The enrollment is now 506. Enrollment in the classes are: 7th- 85: 8th- 103: 9th- 74: 10th- 88; 11th- 89; 12th- 67. There are twenty-seven faculty members. Sherman Lemen is superintendent and Charles Miller is principal. We have a Junior High Coordinator. Alan Clarkson. Jeraldine Humphrey is our school secretary. The school board members for 1975-1976 school year are John Grieshop- President, William Meyers. Howard Rohlfing, Henry Westerman and Leslie Swinney. In 1972 our school building was enlarged by 3 new classrooms, school board room and a Guidance Counselor office. Some of the new changes we now have are Phase-Elective English, an expan- ding Business Department and a new girls athletic program. Jac-Cen-Del is a school to be very proud of! 5

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History Of Jac-Cen-Del On August 1. 1956. Center. Delaware and Jackson Townships con- solidated as Jac-Cen-Del Consolidated School. The Jac-Cen-Del School Board purchased 25 acres of land from the Irving Schroder farm for the new Junior - Senior High School. On January 25. 1961, the students of Osgood and Napoleon High Schools were united under one roof as Jac-Cen-Del. There were 416 students enrolled at Jac-Cen-Del. Enrollment by grades were as follows: 7th- 78: 8th- 76: 9th- 80: 10th- 62: 11th- 58. and 12th- 62. The first Jac-Cen Del School Board members were Fred J. C. Meyer, secretary-treasurer: Collins Wildman. county superinten- dent: Donald Mink, president: Robert Behlmer, treasurer: Elmer Kestler. secretary and Norman Hoyer. Sherman W. Lemen was the first superintendent and Charles R. Miller was principal. The school secretary was Thelma Roberts. Twenty-one teachers made up the Jac-Cen-Del High School Faculty. Robert Ice of Osgood was the first varsity coach and Louis Wolter was his assistant. Dedication ceremonies for Jac-Cen-Del took place on Sunday. April 30. 1961 at 2:00 p.m. The ceremony was in the gymnasium with Don Mink. President of the School Board, presiding. 4

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“Stand Your Ground . . . If They Mean to Have a War, Let It Begin Here. ” Capt. John Barker 1 Capt. -John Parker uttered those words as the colonial militia under his command prepared to meet the British troops at Lexington. Those works and the painting—Spirit of '76—exemplify the dedication and determination of the American patriots in their fight for independence. The colonies had organized to express their grievances in an effort to resolve the differences within the framework of the Empire. Several of the colonial legislatures had instructed their delegates to the Con- tinental Congress in Philadelphia to oppose any move toward in- dependence. The movement for independence was gaining strength and following the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense. which argued for colonial sovereignty, a resolution was adopted and a committee of five appointed to draft a declaration of independence. 21 General Washington, who had been appointed commander-in-chief of American forces by the Second Continental Congress, was a brilliant military strategist. It was his decision to take his Continentals across the Delaware River on Christmas night which resulted in the first ma- jor colonial victory. That victory at Trenton over Hessian mercenaries gave the ragged army renewed vigor. Supported chiefly through the printing of Continental currency, the colonial army also went through the personal fortunes of many American patriots—among them Washington, Jefferson. Richard Henry Lee and John Adams. These fortunes were donated to the cause of liberty—a cause supported by about one-third of the American population which was near 2,000,000. Another one-third remained loyal to the English crown and the remainder were apathetic. Despite many defeats, the colonies managed to keep an army in the field as a symbol of American resistance, to guarantee a negotiated rather than dictated peace.