Niles High School - Tattler Yearbook (Niles, MI)

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'J CONTENTS Centennial Introduction 2 Faculty 16 Seniors 24 Events 46 Groups 62 Classes 83 Sports 92 Iunior High 108 Ads 131 910

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r -zf -.15 -1 sf. 1- ' LUJDFI' . .. e ,fqiggti my , l , 6 A 1 Y IJ., U... 1-f-5.7-w This school year not only marked the opening of our new three million dollar high school, but it also marked the anniversary of the first one hundred years of public education in Niles, since the opening of the first new Union School in September, 1856. Historically the Pottawatami Indians ceded Southwestern Michigan to the white people in 1828. Berrien County was formed Oct. 26, 1829, and named after Iohn MacPherson Berrien, the Attomey General of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan. The plot of the village of Niles was laid out that same year. The first school in Niles was taught by Titus B. Willard in 1830 in a log house on Main Street, but the first school building, called the Union School, wasn't opened until September, 1856. It had 3 acres of land, gas lamps, eight teachers, and 420 students from grades 1-12. . . where sexes are educated together they are more ambitious to be in order, and prompt in their recitations: are more easily governed, and make better progress. In contrast our new senior high school has 32 acres, neon lights, 36 teachers, and over 900 students from grades 10-12. Comparing the English and Scientific course of the 1870's with courses of today, note changes in courses of the curriculum- 1870 1956-57 Physiology Agriculture Band English I-iieIClil11'e English Orchestra English Grammar Hgmemqking Gym Alqebfd Algebra Spanish P-1'iU1II1eiiC Mathematics Latin Botany Biology Mechanical Drawing GGOIIISUY Geometry Auto Shop Rhetoric Bookkeeping Physics NGNIG1 Philosophy Typing Government AI1CieI1i HiSi01'Y World History Salesmanship M0deYI1 Hi-SYOIY American History ASUOIIOITIY Blue Print Reading Physical Geography General Shop CheI11iSiTY Chemistry Mental Philosophy An Geology Vocal Music 3