Negaunee High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Negaunee, MI)

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Educatzonal Hzstory of Commumty Taken from Iron Herald November 27 1953 Issue1 Although Negaunee dxd not become a v1l1age untxl 1865 and a clty unt1l 1873 the educatlonal hlstory of the communlty dates back a century as there LS ev1dence that the f1rst 'teacher came here 1n the early 50 s Th1s was shortly after the dxscovery of lron ore ln 1844 and evldently the pxoneers wanted the1r chlldren to master the fundamentals of the 3 R s for Iron Herald f1les show an ISSUE marklng the dedlcatlon of the Negaunee Hxgh School that accordmg to older resxdents a Mr Colvs ell taught school 1n the 50 s on the sxte of the E S Green home now owned by Captam R1chard Roberts Toward the close of the Cxvxl War a man named Watters who was the local teacher was drafted and went to the front However he returned a fevs months later when h1s mllxtary servxce was cut short as a result of losmg an arm 1n the confl1ct Accordmg to the dedlcatxon lssue the fxrst teacher ln the bxg school as the or1g1nal high school buxldmg later used as a Fxnnxsh Church was called was Mxchael Healy who IS sadly recalled to many Negaunee busxnessmen as hav1ng been enough of an athlete to soundly Vxhlp the best or worst of them Great progress must have been accomplxshed under Pr1nc1pal V B Cochran for xt was under hlm that the f1rst graduatmg class left school He was preceded by Messrs Eugene Ketcham .T F Healy and S M Mclntyre respectwely Mr Ketcham bemg the f1rst prxncxpal The t1tle pr1nc1pal was of greater s1gn1f1cance than It IS nova the lncumbent of the offlce performlng all the dutles of a super 1ntendent For practxcal purposes we can therefore date back four years from 1879 and say that the hlgh school began ln 1875 The School Board at th1s tlme consisted of Messrs T J Houston J E Maas W C McCamber .Tohn McKenna Txmothy Donohue and N1cholas Laughlm There were but two courses the Englxsh and the Latln vuhxch 1n general features were the same as they are now No such advantages as exxst today were offered then how ever physlcs and chem1stry were taught vuthout any apparatus The faculty cons1sted of but two teachers besides the prmclpal Thls brxefly IS the germ out of which our present hlgh school has grown The reslgnatlon of pr1nc1pal V B Cochran 1n .Tune 1881 marks the f1rst mmportant change above the ordmary development of a new school Mr Cochran reslgned to be come Super1ntendent of Publlc Instructxon for M1ch1gan He had gxven good sat1sfact1on and the board on h1s departure extended to h1m a vote of thanks for the eff1c1ent man ner 1n wh1ch he had helped place the school on a secure foot1ng Indeed Judgmg by the record of the graduat1ng class of 81 the xnstructxon must have been thorough or the students very br1ll1ant for the class of seven had an average of ninety three and four sevenths per cent wh1le two of the members of whom one was M1ss Steele averaged mnety exght Mr Cochran was succeeded by Mr M J Wh1tney Wxth the com1ng of Mr F D Dav1s 1n 1884 as Mr Whltney s successor the hxgh school was recogmzed Prev1ous to thls the school had not been graded Graduatxng classes were therefore xrregular Three new subjects wh1ch as dlstxnct studxes are not taught now geology psychology and pedagogy were added ln 1884 condxtlons necessxtated a fourth teacher for the hmgh school The fall of 86 seemed to herald actlon for a new h1gh school A feel1ng of the necesslty for one had been steadlly growxng In add1t1on to crowded quarters Ln the old bumldxng classes were be1ng kept xn very poorly heated and ventllated apartments ln the town hall bulldxng I 1 I K , , 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 in 1 11 ' 1 1 1 1 1 15 1 1 V 1 , 1 1 1 1 1 1 v 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 v r 1 1 1 gl 1 1 1 1 v v 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 1 1 , y 1 1 1 1 1 1 v 1 1 1 '- 1 1 I 1 1 V1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , g 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 , 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , - - 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 y 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 -- , . 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 1 1 1 1

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Mxss Carle M Blakeslee later Mrs J M Edgerton was therefore the flrst prmclpal Two classrooms only bes1des the assembly room were 1n use by the hlgh school The English and Latm courses contxnued to take flr st rank but there was at thxs txme a tendency toward the Scxent1f1c as f1ve years later m 1893 the fzrst students were graduated from the Scxentlflc course The year 1892 wxtnessed a movement beneflclal to schools when the Umversxty of Mxchlgan mspector was fxrst asked to V1S1t them In 93 after the fxrst class grad uated from the Scxentlfxc course further d1v1s1ons were made mto Engl1sh Latm Eng lxsh French and Englxsh German courses The comxng of H B K1-ogman as prmclpal 1n 1894 f1rst aroused a spxrit of interest ln athletxcs Before thls the school had shown lxttle mterest ln athletxcs not because of lack of materxal but because of lack of an orgamzer and tramer To start the splrit that was then latent Mr Krogman proved just such a man Orgamzatlons were xrn medxately formed and unxforms and the supplles purchased Football was gwen fxrst attentlon and a champxonshlp team was put out ln the following fall Fxeld sports outdoor and xndoor baseball and basketball each followed ln 1ts turn Dur1ng the w1nter of 94 95 there was also further advancement of a purely school character The exghth grade whlch had been part of the high school was barred Smce the regular vxsxts of the school xnspectors the faculty and board had learned how our hzgh school stood C-hemlstry was agam resumed and a number of successive addxtxons to both chem1cal and physxcal apparatus were made Muslc had been dlscontmued ln 92 The board was now petxtloned to restore It but only granted the free use of rooms It IS worthy of consrderatxon to note that the pupxls were mstructed at thelr own expense The last of the 90 s was also accomparued by 1mportant changes and addxtxons Debating was started and great mterest was shown ln oratorical contests In May 1898 Mr Davxs res1gned and was ably replaced by Mr Krogman The prlncxpal sub Ject of d1scuss1on was free textbooks from an expense standpomt Mus 1C was xntr oduced m the fall of 1900 and w1th xt came another zmportant ln troductxon shorthand and typewrxtlng By 1905 the commercial course had been ex tended to four years 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 , 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 , 1 . - 1 11 111 1 1 1 1. , - 1 1 - - , 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 04 v - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1 . 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1, .1 1 I 0 1 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1