Lew Wallace High School - Quill and Blade Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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GARY, IMMAW. A G04111 l»LA4 K TO LIVB Cary was founded on the southern shores of Lake Michigan in 1906, when myriads of shacks rose, mushroom-like, slAlter the incoming throngs who were to build the foremost steel city pjkmBL ocId, A Today, Cary is the youngest city of it opuiation in vuorldrAjntil 1906, its site was merely a waste of barren A s and marshl d JoV) the United States Steel Corporation, directed b4jJu gpE iHR H Cary, decid. d to build a city midway between the iron ore eds a I fields of Indiana and Illinois, where cheaa knoWq were available. An area twenty-eight rnjfi at the extreme end of the lake, seemed for Cary, which was destined to be the future steel cerlft of the world. Cary now has an area of forty square miles. The phalanx of stacks against the northern sky seems to beckon visitors to the city where they find a metropolis boasting over 1,500 acres of golf courses, parks, and playgrounds; hotels of metropolitan size and equipment; ten moving picture theaters, and one legitimate stage. But, if one seeks a place to build a permanent home, he expects more advantages. The mills of Cary afford working opportunities for thousands of men; there are over hundre chujrjhes and sixteen public libraries. public schools, organized under an internationally- the late Dr. William A Wirt, Cary now has a -Study-Play school was based on the principle of |um facilities for education, manual work, and linique conditions governing a mill town popu- (immigrants, sought to establish a child-world Cary has benefited immeasureably by this great man ' s ideal and his unselfish, incessant effort to make it a reality. Cary is not lacking in beauty. On entering the city by way of the South Shore or New York Central lines, one finds a civic gateway featur¬ ing the classic City Hall and County Court House of twin design, facing a beautiful plaza opposite one of the city ' s great industrial plants. Of great interest also, is the lovely dunelandipark dedicated to Father Marquette and located on the shores of Lake Mic|iigan about five miles east of the city ' s center. It offers golf cours ttidle paths, and picnic grounds in the summer, and ice skating, tobogganing. atKmknng in the within the school center. winter. A beautiful dancing pavilion over gleaming lagoon. Its popularity is rivaled facilities along the beaches in front of the Thus Cary in its short span of thirl founders had envisioned a city worthwhile ' the ideal and that we have inherited a city in which it is good to live. —Marjorie Akers Page four |es and a bathing

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ui m i f IS ! V; We present here a kaleidoscopic view of Cary—the bright lights of the business district; the principal “focal” point of the city at Broadway and Fifth Avenue; the calm serenity of the bronze figure of Father Mar¬ quette, the Jesuit priest, overlooking the beautiful lagoon in the park which commemorates his crossing from the Mississippi to Lake Michigan in the seventeenth century; the new Clen Park library so recently opened to an appreciative public; the arched facade of the Memorial Auditorium built through the efforts of the school chil¬ dren of Cary in memory of those sacrificed in the World War: and the City Hall which together with its twin, the county building, faces the great steel mills to form the gate¬ way to Cary. J ' !i v. 1 I ■ 1 ■ JLSJUJt r . . ■ ■■ 1