Millington High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Millington, MI)

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Millington School History Fifty Years Customs and traditions of our people are very slowly changed. When we stop to realize that it takes on an average of twenty years for an idea to take root and approximately thirty years to bear fruit, it is amazing how gradually changes are made in our community pattern. In 1884 the front part of the present school building was erected at cost of ,Z2290.00. During the 1886-87 school year, provisions were made to have a four year high school course of study. John A. Chapell was principal at that time. In the secretary records there is the original teacher's contract of E. L. Mills. It was signed on August 19, 1889, whereby he was hired for the 1889-90 school year. Names signed to contract as ofiicials were: C. DeWitt fdirectorj, John A. Damon lmoderatorj, and D. N. Blocher lassessorj. In June 1890 E. L. Mills signed the first diplomas granted by Millington High School. Five girls constituted the graduating class- Minnie Bostick, Etta M. Tower, Grace Crobar, Clara Walterhouse, and Maude Winchester. On September 15, 1903, a petition was presented to the Board of Education to call a meeting for consideration for the construction of an addition to the building. On October 5, 1903, the special election was called and the proposal was defeated by a vote of 39 to 6. The Board of Education consisted of John Eggert, Jud Lane, A. Huston, E. H. Dimond, and George W. Rohrer. Then on January 21, 1908, a similar meeting was called by action of a petition of tax payers, and the proposal was again defeated. The overcrowded condition of the school became acute in 1910, and in April of that year the voters expressed themselves by a favorable vote of 60 to 21. In the records we find the original copy of the bid submitted by Ray Beach to construct an addition for the sum of 54,450.00 -dated June 10, 1910. The late Dr. W. C. Garvin was director of the Board of Education at that particular period. On June 6, 1930, there was a special election of the qualified voters to bond the school district for 530,000 to construct the second addition. The vote resulted in 95 no, and 42 yes. It was not until December, 1936, that the issue became a matter of interest to the voters. We had just awakened from our depression of fContim4ed on page 591 Page Fxfly Eight