Rockville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Rockville, IN)

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m- Memories --h--- c-$ . SCHOOL The citizens are justly proud of the fine school building erected and thoroughly furnished at a cost of over $36,000; and are in full sympathy with every effort to make our Public Schools second to none in the state. The above statement appeared in the Rockville Public School Catalogue for the 1875-76 school year, the year in which Rockville High School held its first graduation exercises. Ella F. Coffin, Jessie B. Mulhallen, ahd Louis H. Whipple were the members of the first graduating class. In 1875 Rockville had one of the few high schools that had been organized in this part of the state and for that reason several of the students came from a distance and secured room and board in the community during the school term. The course of study consisted of two years' work in literature, mathematics, history, rhetoric, Latin,physiology, and geography. In 1886 a third year was added and drawing and physical exercises were introduced. The course was extended to the present day length when four years were required for graduation in 1896. In the early years of the twentieth century Indiana passed a compulsory school attendance law. This law resulted in an increased enrollment in high school and in the modification of the curriculum so as to care for the needs of students who did not wish to take a college preparatory course. The increase in enrollment necessitated the construction of a new high school. This class of 1909 was the first to graduate in the present high school building.