Montpelier High School - Spartan Yearbook (Montpelier, IN)

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TRANSPORTATION Bicycles carry many students to M. H. S. Here the cyclists are taking oif for lunch. 2 Most of the students living in town walk to school. A fleet of seven buses carries the coun- try students to school in fair and foul weather. Page three Y T' i 1 V-1 vi:

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.., ., ?.Y . X., fwfx - i i J' H ' . Q-111.21 mir HHH! m eI1rmunlmfmmunumnu mmmm i Page two Race Reminiscences - Montpelier is known far and wide for its harness races and for its half mile track, which, for four years, held the world record of 4-M, for pacers and 2.5 for trotters. The track was built in 1902 by William Harley, county surveyor, and was organized in 1903 as the Montpelier Fair and Driving Park. Its first president was H. Zigler, Montpelier's first mayor. C. L. Smith was the first secretary. This organization operated the races until 1913, when the track was demolished by a tornado. In 1915, however, the track was rebuilt by subscriptions from business men, who formed a new association with Dr. Atwood Buckmaster, president, and H. L. Kelley, secretary. In 1916 the track was again taken over by the Montpelier: Fair and Driving Park Board, only to be destroyed in 1917 by a second tornado. After that it lay there until 1924, when H. L. Kelley bought it at the receiver's sale and formed a new association, H. L. Kelley and Family, which operated until Class of '36, and the of '38. 1944. The treasurer was Helen Kelley Elzey of the secretary was Margaret Ann Kelley Miles of the Class ln 1944 the Montpelier Racing Company was formed and still operates the track. Of this company, Foster Maddox of the Class of 1908 is the president, and Earl St. John, the secretary. The Class of '49 salutes this home town institution, which supplied the name for our basketball team, the Pacers.

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OFFICE SCENES Page four .loan Clamme runs off the attendance slips, while Betty types and Mr. Morgan works at the desk. Smiling P0p,' Wil- son and one of his efficient student typ- isis, Charlene Fisher. Miss Rea has able assistants in the li- brary Workshop: Jeanette Williams, R0- berta Russell, and Leona Holsten.