Jackson Township High School - Blackboard Yearbook (Jamestown, IN)

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19 -:-- THE BLACKBOARD -'- 55 JOHN SPOHR, TRUSTEE Jackson 'rownship Advisory Board: Mr. Kedrick Newton, Mr. Walter Pickering and Mr. Frank Clampitt. Someone has said that the world marches forward on the feet of little children. Yes, the world may stand still, or it may even move backward. It all depends on how we nurture and guide our children and our youth. As they grow irom childhood to youth, they become the absorbers of ideas, both good and bad. Many youth in all parts of the world are being indoctrinated in wrong ideas and objectives to the exclusion of all other philosophies, and a new generation is being prepared for any sacrifice for its cause. Likewise, many young people with idealism and enthusiasm are willing pioneers for dreams that God has placed in the hearts of his followers. There is little value in bemoaning the fact that in our day our generation has made a. mess of the world. There is one chance left to us to redeem our past: that is, to give the next generation and the next such faith, hope, confidence, and eager- ness to act for the things we know to be right, Christian and true, that youth will help build the new world we failed to usher in. John E. Spohr, Trustee BUS DRIVERS Mr. Earl Rav Mr. William Huffman Mr, Laurel Jones Mr. Howard Owens Mr. Bob Owens Mr. Lebert Jackman 5

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19 -.- THE BLACKBOARD -'- 55 YESTERYEAR Advance High School was organized in 1897 and Jamestown a few vears before. Willie and Leo Whorley graduated at Advance in 1900. In 1902 three students from Jamestown, another and myself from Advance had Commencement in Jamestown. In 1896 Charlie Ray drove from one mile west of Advance daily to Jamestown until cold weather came. Granville Wells, a highly respected teacher, taught eight grade stu- dents in the township. But in 1898 no pupil passed the examinations. al- though four of us, including a Jamestown lad, took the second tests at Lebanon and passed. In that day graduates gave an oration at Commence- ment. I whooped it up about Dewey and Sampson, and then on to Lebanon for a second heat. Still in short pants, I got third there and vowed against oratory which oath I have never violated. At that time few students finished high school, consisting of three vears of seven months each. Then the boys and girls were an inspiration. It was my good fortune to be principal at Advance in 1909-10, when the transformation came. The class of 1911 of about ten boys and girls were nearly all twenty years of age and one probably twenty-one. It really warms the cockles of my heart to reminisce upon those hard-working stu- dents, all avid for learning. I coached the first basketball team. There being no contestants nearby we drove by bus to Amo for an afternoon game. On our way back, having lost the game, the boys took spite and fired a fodder shock in the road and overtook the bus before the irate agriculturist saw the bonfire. But at the Jamestown cemetery a shot from a .22 rifle nearby put the pranksters into high gear and the bus did not overtake them until two miles from Advance. Yes. boys of twenty in those days were robust men. Yes, boyish men. fP.S.J Otie Wall applied the torch, and outran the twenty-two. FRANK SPARKS, 1902 Vashon Heights Vashon, Washington Editor's Note: Mr. Sparks' home was west of Advance, Indiana. where Livings Brindle now lives. He did most of his teaching in the State of Montana and is now retired. He graduated from Wabash College, Craw- fordsville, Indiana. 4

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19 -2- 'I' H E I2LA1'KlIOAIiIl -'-- 55 HIGH SCHOOL I+'ACULTY 1' lfront Row tlvft to rightl Mr. Smith, Miss Huffman, Mr. Baylor, Mrs. Westfall Mr. Broshar. Soconcl Row Mr. ldvvrhzirt, Miss Miirtin, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Sornmervillv, Mr Wilson. Mr. Hzivvrknmp was :ibst-nt when tho picture was tlkon. ELEMENTARY FACULTY Win INS-Yi. . Front Row lleft to right? M-Mrs. Young, Mrs. Lucille Ross, Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Hank- ins. Second Row- Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Stephens, Mrs. Harting, Mr. Fletcher, Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Rvvd, Mrs. Mfuldv Ross. 6