Muncie Central High School - Magician Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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of an old street car with its dummy engine, and of a modern bus are used to show two stages in the solution of the city’s transportation problem. The crossed torch borders which are found predominant throughout the book, and the torch design on the cover are decorative interpretations of the torches which dotted the city’s streets in the busy days of the boom. The fly leaves show six stages in the development of Muncie from the Indian village of Munseytown to a thriving city of about 52,000 people. In the first stage, the white man in his covered wagon invades the village. In the second stage, after settlements were made, transportation by railroad is shown, with a station in a hollow tree trunk. In the scene at the time of the gas boom the countryside is dotted with derricks and tanks. The next phase, which deals with education, shows an old time Hoosier school house. The modern city on the horseshoe bend of White River is the scene of the fifth stage, while the sixth scene is a visionary image of the future Muncie. All of the art work in the book has been based on the general theme of progress. We wish to express our thanks for suggestions, for pictures, and for the use of valuable books: to Miss Gertrude Schwab of the Muncie Public Library, to Mr. Tate Wilson, a dealer in antiques, to Mr. Frank Claypool, who was the president of Muncie’s first Commercial Club, and to the school board of the city of Muncie.

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DEDICATION JO the future Muncie High School we dedicate this year book. It is our hope that the growth of Muncie and her schools will be as distinguished in the future as her progress in the past has been.