Park Tudor School - Chronicle Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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ACADEMICS - PAGE 7 PRESENT SENIORS-PAGE I5 CONTENTS FUTURE STUDENT BODY- PAGE 29 PAST ATHLETICS - PAGE 55 ORGANIZATIONS - PAGE 43

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fbehcalfaon . . . As the final days of our senior year fly by and we are involved in the busy closing functions of our years at Park, we seldom are able to find time to stop and think about those who graduated before us. The fact is, the class of 1956 is not the first graduating class but the thirty-sixth. The members of those earlier classes are the ones largely responsible for establishing the stand- ards and traditions of Park by which we have benefited and by which our successors for years to come will benefit. Our class is well-prepared academically, physically and morally to face the world and uphold our alma mater because there were those who went before and broke the trail for our own education at Park. Only in the past eight years has an annual become an established part of Park School. The present seniors therefore dedicate the 1956 Panther to those earlier graduates who have never been accorded adequate recognition for their very con- siderable part in building the school as we know it today. lt is our hope that the pages of this book will serve to recall to them the experiences of earlier days at Park.

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BS THE OLD RESIDENCE The institution we know as Park School had its beginnings in 1920 in a three- story brick structure at Central Avenue and Fifteenth Street. Established by a group of Indianapolis fathers who wished to provide for their sons -and other young men of the community a program of college-preparatory studies and carefully super- vised athletics, it was called Boys' Preparatory School until 1923, when the Board of Directors purchased for the school the twenty-three-acre Carl Fisher estate. The original buildings of Blossom Heath-the name of the Fisher property- were skillfully adapted to school use, Mr. Fisher's house becoming the main build- ing, his mother's smaller dwelling the headmaster's cottage, a five-car garage the science building. Little boys began to burgeon in what had been a glass-topped greenhouse, the Middle School plunged into an indoor swimming pool lafter it had been coveredl, and the Fishers' indoor tennis court became the gymnasium. From its founding the school has insisted upon mastery of the basic disciplines. lnformal but orderly, it has encouraged-in small classes-a close student-teacher relationship. Park owes its present estimable academic standing to countless loyal parents and boys and to dedicated teachers and administrators, among them Mr. Page, headmaster during the difficult period of the thirties, Mr. Miner, long the beloved Latin master, Mr. Palmer of the mathematics department-happily still with us, and Mr. G. M. Garrett, master and headmaster, who since 1952 has seen the school become affiliated with the Secondary Education Board and the Cum Laude Society and has worked, with the Board of Directors, to initiate the Development Program. The alumni remember these and others-and of course the school itself- with advantages. And so shall we of the class of 1956. 4