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Happy 100th Birthday. Milbank! From the time of the “Old Mill”, to the formation of American Legion Baseball, to a four million dollar high school, the people of Milbank have been, and still are, working toward the improvement of their community and a better environment for the generations to come. Education has changed greatly in a century’s time. There was a time when the entire school system con- sisted of a one room shack, one teacher, and a handful of students varying in both age and size. The first public elementary school doors were opened in 1880 on the northwest corner of what is now 3rd Street. High school instruction began nine years later; and thus, a time-honored tradition was begun in Mil- bank with the first graduating c'ass of four students. From that time to this, Milbank has had eight different school buildings, one of which was destroyed by fire in 1943, and has turned out over 4.500 graduates. The town now has two elementary schools-Koch School, with grades kindergarten to sixth, and St. Law- rence Catholic School with first to eighth grades. There is also a separate public junior high school which con- sists of grades seven and eight. The two year old high school, which looms over the east side of town, has been rated as one of the state's finest educational facilities. Social problems, world events, changing wants and needs, and thoughts of the future have all played an im- portant role in the changing of the community. These factors, likewise, have in themselves changed with the times. Standards, morals, and values that were strictly followed by our forefathers have gradually grown more casual and less demanding. The Old Mill, which was once an essential to the farmer, now stands only as a monument and a memory. The importance of the mill has been replaced by such things as the desire for a good education which is necessary today to pursue a ca- reer as farming is no longer the number one source of employment. This annual has put together both facts and trivia from the past year and the past century for the purpose of preserving these previous momories. 2
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