Park Tudor School - Chronicle Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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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

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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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Pres ent... The life ofa student at Park is rarely the same from one day to the next. Boys cram for College Board exams, work on history projects, draw maps for Latin and history, construct solid geometry models, and grow plants and molds for biology. On the academic side, then, it's a new world every day. Every student is included in the regular athletic program. If he is willing to put in a little extra work at his favorite sport, he is almost sure to make the team sooner or later. What with full schedules in football, basketball, baseball, tennis, and wrestling, almost every boy can find in the gym or on the playing fields some- thing he genuinely enioys. The Student Council, the Upper School governing body, sponsors a series of social activities involving the entire high school enrollment, among them the Christmas dance and the Carnival. There are four activity clubs on campus, open to all students in the Upper School. Oldest is the Varsity Club, for which a boy becomes eligible by earning a letter in any sport. To qualify for the second, the Prompters Club, a student must either fill a role in a school play or serve on Cl backstage crew for such a produc- tion. The highly popular Glee Club and the Ten Ring Club, the latter consisting of gun fanciers, complete the picture. Three publications-the Red and Black, the Panther, and the Pen-afford experience in writing, makeup, and business management. SAME BUll.DlNG, NEW SIGN fa. wja' aff' ij-Kbkw . ,A 5