Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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r WO s were George Marks. l -w» Steinbach. Floyd Anni . Deane kalkrr, Itan Shafer, ►'rank McLane and Russell Rohrer After onsolidalkm of all the school in the county the office of County iipmntendent of Schools was closed Ort. 1, 1964 There were nun dedicated teacher» vi ho served the children of this area It is believed that Henry White taught longer than anyone else in our township schools. He began hts teaching career at Twin Lakes School in the fall of 18« and taught there and at Sligo in West Township until the spring of 1900 Then he taught four years in Culver. at the Wilderness School from the fall of 1904 until it burned in the spring of 1931 The following nine years he w ax principal and taught the 7th and 8th grades at Inwood, a total of 49 years THE ONE-ROOM SCHOOLS — - WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Many of the one-room schools burned down, some during school time, but we have no record of anyone being injured In any of these fires Others were abandoned The Stockman School was abandoned in the spring of 1920 Cyrus Ntfong. a first grader that year was the only boy in school which, as he recalls, had a total of IS or 1« Elsie Rocninr was the teacher The land reverted to the original farm and the building wax sold to Henry’ ►Toyman lie moved it to 407 E Cairo SI. in My mouth and operated a store there for a number of years It has been completely remodeled and now belongs to his daughter .Mrs Pearl Klein The Oakdale School was abandoned in 1938 and in 1938 the building was sold to Mr. Apple (Gerold’s father1 who moved it to 12th and Hawthorne Roads south of Inwood and remodeled it into a dwelling The brick Twin lakes School building still stands at 13th and Peach Roads, it has also been converted into a dw elling HUGO This ia the name of the place situated in West towmhip at the outlet of Twin Lakes, where was situated the first grist-mill built in the county about the time it was organized in 1138 by Timothy- Barber. and also the old iron forge, a description of which will be found elsewhere in this history It had stores and shops and other conveniences of a neighbhood village, but It did not have siificient business attractions to make it grow to be a town of any size It Is in the center of a good community of farmers, and will always probably remain about as it is at present At the time of the organization of the county this place was known as Ononodaga ” It had a post off ice of that name, und there was a mail route from Plymouth to that point until It was Asconlinued a few years later. It probably got Its name from fkionodaga county. New York, from which place thr original proprietors came »MS 1876-1976 —27—

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hill with a seat mu capacity of over two hundred pupils, five recitation rooms, and two laboratories In 1943 a fourth year was added to the High School course, and the credit system of promotion introduced A credit is given for a grade of 75 per cent or above for one semester Thirty-three credits are required for graduation The advancement of educational affairs has necessitated a change in the course of study from time to time. In the fall of 1907 a Commercial Department was introduced, and has proved to be one of the moat valuable features of the High School Chirac “Two courses of stuefc are offered, one preparatory to college, the other arranged far those who do not intend to continue in scholastic study The two courses ore identical for the first and second years Election of studies la open to pupils of the Fourth Year, and so far as passible the pupil is advised to elect those studies which will beat fit him for his vocation after leaving High School Special students desiring to take ig commercial work only, should file w ith the superintendent a written request to that effect. counter signed by the parent or guardian For the completion of this work a certificate of attainment will be granted Because of the growing tendency of bwiness men to employ High School graduates and one of the minimum state law requirement that all new teachers shall be high school graduates, the regular High School course is recommended If the commercial work is desired, it may be taken in the Third and Fourth years after a good foundation in the fundamental branches has been established Special work should be taken only by those pupils w ho find it impossible to take a High School course ' From thr beginning of its career the Plymouth High School has occupied a prominent place among the secondary schools of the Hate In I«73 the Board of Truestees of Indiana University adopted the following resolutions: “In order to bring the University into closer connection with the High Schools of the State, re recommend the following plan A certificate from certain High Schools tto be named hereafter by the Slate Board of Education» of a satisfactory examination sio tamed In the preparatory course will entitle the bearer to admission to the Freshman class At a meeting of the State Board, in the following August, a circular letter was sent out to High Schools to ascertain what schools were qualified to do preparatory work High School commissions were prated and in the spring of I«74. 21 schools were commissioned, among them Plymouth In April 187S. the Board of Education placed Purdue University in affiliation with commissioned High School Since that time all State Institutions have been placed on the some basis as Indiana and Purdue University and from time to time denominational and private schools have been added to the list, until now all schaob of Higher Education in the State receive graduates from commissioned High Schools without examination Recently the Plymouth High School has received additional privileges from Higher Institutions, and now has the same ad- vantages ad the besl High Schools of the State. In May, 1908. Plymouth High School was admitted for the first time to the ac- credited list of Universities of the west The High School was again admitted in April, 1909 The graduates may enter such institutions os the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin without examination Further recognition was given in .April 1909. when Plymouth was placed on the affiliated list of the University of Chicago This gave (in addition to the privileges of being a member of the aerredrted list) graduates of the High School, scholarship advantages and an opportunity for High School teachers to pursue post graduate cotrses at little expense School inter»! has been much stimulated throughout the County, due to competition in athletics and oratory Plymouth High School has belonged to the Indiana High School Association since the time of its organization It is also a member of the Northern Indiana High School Association In the fall of 19« the County Oratorical Association wo organized and in the three contests which have been held since that time, Plymouth High School has won first place The following are statistics showing in a brief way the development of the High School Ml School Yoer Enrollment Iff . K.S. E nrtSnoil 1 1 isn T4 3 no dot 0 3 1 10079 14 74 k 1 1 7 IMS 44 M 1 s 7 7 IMtt« 41 19 s 13 3 3 irvj S3 1 M ♦ 3 3 it i 4 H s IS 3 1 HQ OS S3 s 14 3 7 HQ 04 m M 4 S 1104 OS no 11 4 S 11Q5 01 i» 11 S 4 110 01 179 IS 7 IW 0« l«3 n SI • IMS CO a i« » Includes enrollmont M who 1 Music teedter included S s THE RURAL SCHOOLS OF CENTER AND WEST TOWNSHIPS IN THE EARLY 1900 s Ry MAE USHER By the beginning of the 20th century the log cabin school hs hern replaced by more substantial and comfortable building! UHialy of frame construction and painted white though a fei were made of bock Since I be children were transported to «hoi there were not so many school bouses needed as when the rhildrr were expected to walk to school As a rule the teacher w» expected to arrive early and stoke th fire and stay latr to clean the room and bank ’ the fire As late as the 193) s the rural schools had an eight month sea» so the children could help with the harvesting in the fall and th planting in the spring Before 192D most of them were sever month terms Among the memorabilia in the Marshall County Hntorici Society Museum is a copy of the August id» issue of the Marshs County f armer which contains a feature article. “Manila County s Schools. Past. Present and Future” by Floyd M. Anal then County Superintendent of Schools He reports that cat solidat ion of the Center Township Schools began in 19» and i West Township in 1910 In 1907 Center Township bad 13 one rooi schools awl West Township 10 By 1920 Croter Township had onl 4 one room schools and one consobdated school. Inwood F« vehicles were i ed to transport 83 pupils, the rest lived net enough to walk West towiishiphad 7 one room schools, one tw' room school at Donaldson and one four room school. West Fti vehicles transported 70 children AU the one-room schools were heated by ordinary stoves c “jacketed stoves which looked like a coal burning furnace was reported that in one school during January 19» when t! temperature out of doors w as zero, the seat nearest the dove wi 7) drgrrrs the seat farthest from the stove was XS degrees Thoe were the good okl days”! Janitor work was done or paid for by the teacher whose averof salary was »3 77 per day The school term was seven or etgl months Teachers in the consolidated schools were mere fo tunate They averaged $4 14 per day and were not responsible fi the janitor service. Some of thr parly schools were named for their location such, Twin Lake, or Maple Grove but many bore the nam» of the ear settlers It was customary fora land owner to deed an acre cr tw of his land to the township for school purposes, with the provisit that if or when it was no longer put to such use it would revert the farmstead Except for thr Plymouth City Schools all the schools of Cent and West Townships were under the supervision of the Coun Superintendent of Schools The men holding this position m 0 PHS 1876 197 —26—

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DONELSON tPreaewtly- DONA LD80N) The original plat of Donelson was laid out October 25,101 by D. W Taft. Cornelius Tuttle and W J. Richardson It Is located In the comers of sections 29. 90, and 91 and 32. township 94. north of range I east, on the line of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne 4 Chicago railroad, and ts one mile east of the Starke county line It contains twenty-two lots, their size being M feet wide by 132 feet In length On the 14th day of September. 1875. D W Taft laid out Tail's addition to the town of Donelson.” containing twenty-one lots of the same size as the lots in the original plat and lying north and west of the original town, and on the 14th day of Sejptember. UTS. Cornelius Tuttle laid off “Tuttle's addition to Donelson. com- prising twenty-two bis, being of the same size as the original bis. It is a quiet Ultle village and probably will always remain so. as most of the farm products raised in Its vicinity are marketed elsewhere It has two stores, a drug store, a gram elevalor. a blacksmith shop, one doctor, a good schoofhouse. church and all the conveniences and evidences of civilization common to villages of Its size Robert J Evans C'Jons Evans, as he ts familiarly called), who lives near Donelson. is the oldest settler in West township, having settled there In 1835. the year before the county was organized, and has lived there almost continually ever since The Pottawattamie Indians were numerous there when he came. Of them he says: 'Their relations with the settlers were of the friendliest character. WEST ELEMENTARY AND HICiMHCMOOL By Mae Fisher The history of West Elementary School Is long and varied dating back to the year 1899 West High School was established in 1907 and made use of the frame building biilt In 1899 and used as an elementary school A new two-story, four-room brick building was completed In 1910 and in mi the first class of three mcmbei graduated from it In 1922 an equal amount of floor space wi added and in 1999 a gymnasium and four more class room Although the elder taxpayers felt that farm youths had enoug exercise a rather colorful athletic program developed over tl years In 1968 five classrooms for the growing elementary aeho and a music room and shop were added In 1962 by public referendum West Township )otried tt Plymouth Community School System The consolidation toe place in 1964. but the West High pupil continued to attend We High until the spring of 19(5 During the years 1907 through 190 seven hundred eighty s students graduated from West High School The smallest cl was in 1912 when only one boy graduated: the largest, the class 196S. numbered 33 Since then the high school pupil have be transported to Plymouth High School and West Is an elemental school Shortly thereafter the junior high students also began attendit the school in Plymouth and West became Marshall County's on rural elementary school The enrollment in recent year ha tie approximately 200 students In 1975 a 1900.000 remodeling and renovatbn project wt completed to enlarge the facility to accommodate a maximu enrollment of 375 students. Among other things, a new gyr nastum, a wastewater treatment plant, a heating and at conditioning system, administrative areas and additum classroom space were included to makr the school one of the mo modern in the area Presently the school serves children in kindergarten throtg grades five and several special education classes T1 educational program of the school is designed to meet the needs youngsters as they prepare to live in the 2UI century This I eludes academic, social and physical experiences that will alk them to develop the maximum of their abilities. To this end tl faculty and staff dedicate thetr service WEST HIGH. WEST TOWNSHIP. —28— PHS 187 6 10