Negaunee High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Negaunee, MI)

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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

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The month of December, 1900 was saddened by the untimely death of Superintendent Krogman, who introduced the athletic program and was known as the father of ath- 1etics . Succeeding Mr. Krogman the board appointed as Superintendent, Mr. Orr Schurtz, who at the beginning of 1902 added the elective course which increased the selection of courses by pupils from two to seven. A very well attended night school was started. It needed but one election in January 1907 to decide the city should be bonded for the cost of a new high school. Immediate action was taken and by January 1909 the building was completed. 5 Succeeding Mr. Schurtz as the head of the public school system was Edmund Den- nison who remained here from 1918 until 1922 when H. S. Doolittle, Calumet High School faculty member, was named superintendent. To Mr. Doolittle goes the honor of having served the longest term as superintendent in Negaunee's educational history, for he occupied the position from 1922 until he de- cided to retire in .Time of 1948, a period of twenty-six years. During his tenure, changes were many, as it was the transition period in education and both schools and curric- ulum were modernizing. i--.