Kiel High School - Triad Yearbook (Kiel, WI)

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Kiel High School, Kiel, lUis. gg mm mm mm mm gg Historq of the School ln I85 7 the first district school was built on the present site of the graded school. lt was a one room, frame building. The pioneers found it very dif- ficult to secure an instructor to teach in this little outpost in the wilderness. Finally the sister of one of the founders came here and she, Miss Johanna Schlichting, a fourteen-year old girl, became the first instructor. She received a salary of 518.00 per month. The pupils were: Dora Barth, Charles and Louis Best, Pauline Burmahln, Bertha and William Edens, Mathias Feile, Maggie and james Queen, Henry Ruppenthal, Balzar and Charlotte Stark. Some of the people had tried to have the Indians of this vicinity come to the Kiel school but not one Indian ever took a course here in the district institution. They preferred to be instructed by their tribe leader Yellow- bird, who was well educated and exceptionally beautiful. Settlers said that it was because of her influence that the indians and pioneers lived so peace- fully. Some time later a one-story, brick building of two rooms was built. About I879 a second story was added. The school enrollment was about seventy-five pupils, and all these pupils, in the eight grades, were taught by three teachers. The settlers desired to give their children a better education, so in I885 a three-year high school course was introduced. Mr. Patrick H. Hewitt was the principal at this time. He took charge of the high school and left three lklgt' Six

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Ka Kiel Hiqh School, Kiel, lDis. mm mm mm mm of SN FOREIDORD The Senior class of l928 presents this volume of the 'Cried to the student s, friends, and patrons of the Kiel High School. May it preserve the memories of this year's school life for your future enjoyment. ef 'll

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mm Kiel High School, Kiel, 'lDis. mm mm mm mm mW teachers for the grades. ln i888 the first class graduated, the members were: Clara Heins, Edmund and Frida Krieger, and john Muenster. Because a four-year course was installed there was no graduating class in l903. The graduates of l904, the first graduating class of the four years' course, were: Louise Arnold, Laura Dumke, Fred Ciese, John Giese, Cornelia Krieger, Richard Nlarkem, Emma Meyer, Arno Milhaupt, Elda Neumann, and Emma Stark. From the beginning of the high school, New Holstein sent many pupils to our institution. Until about 1906 New Holstein was represented in nearly every class. Feeling the need of more room and better accommodations, the local school district, in 1906, decided to construct a new building costing Sl 5,000, which would include only a high school. This served the community for twenty-one years, until once more the need for a more adequate building was felt. Several years ago, a new site, in the heart of the city, adjoining the city park, was purchased, and in the summer of i927 construction of a combined high and grade school was begun. The junior High School system will be adopted, putting the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades in junior high and the rest of our present high school as senior high. The next school term will undoubtedly start in the new building, creat- ing a new epoch in the history of our school. With the advent of the new structure most pupils will forget the old building, but to the alumni of former years, this building will live in their memories. Ihgc Ser: n