Niles High School - Tattler Yearbook (Niles, MI)

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440414 zzwwr Niles has always had good educational facilities but in 1867 the Niles th1s suggestion for school improvement the pupils have to water is by open pails set crowd about these is great and much incon Bes1des during school hours thirsty scholars Superintendent of Schools made At present the only access on the playground At t1mes the ven1ence and impatience results if allowed to drink at all must leave their rooms and the building for the purpose According to each comment by the Boards of Education through the years and teaching personnel for the students of Niles In the followmg pages the changes and progress of one hundred years is pictorially shown m the buildings student body faculty school life cumculum and sports events The c1t1zens of Niles past and present have contnbutea a fine educational program for their children in the past one hundred years 1929 The first Teachers Club play Dulcy 1926 A typical TATTLER class photo 4 each new building was the finest money could supply in construction, facilities,

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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

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-1' 'F'E?l5T' 'T l9l94High School reserves of the first world wcrr 1914 - Domestic Ar! cmd Science Class. 1945- Frog dissecting in biology class. 5