Southwestern High School - Shield Yearbook (Shelbyville, IN)

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Our New World Began Our new world began - long before opening day - with a dream in the minds of a few people in Washington, Hendricks, and Jackson townships. These people realized that their small high schools were inadequate and that individual financing of new buildings wasimpractical. The dream stage soon passed, and people began serious discussion of consolidation and building. SOUTWJE X After the defeat of a proposed consolidation with two townships in Barth- olomew County on June 7, 1955, Trustee William Drake of Washington Town- ship arranged a meeting in the Shelby County Court House with Trustees Wil- liam Hill of Jackson Township and Lester Dine of Hendricks Township, together with their advisory boards and Mr. Thomas Fogarty, Superintendent of Shelby County Schools, to discuss the possibilities of consolidation. A few weeks and several meetings later, preparations were completed for the circulation of petitions among all legal voters of the three tovmships to ascertain public sentiment regarding the proposal for consolidation. These petitions were accorded almost overwhelming support by the voting citizens, so on November 2, the trustees and their advisory boards met again and unanimously adopted a resolution of their intention to consolidate the three townships into a single school district. Members of the advisory boards acting with the trustees were Carroll Muck, Leonard Bland, and Paul E. Clark, Hendricksg Walter VanGorden, Otis Wasson, and Myron Emerick, Washington: Carl Sanders, Carl Ka- brich, and Paul Eberhart, Jackson Tovmship. On November 16, 1955, the Joint Resolution which was adopted November 2, stating that the consolidation of the three tovsmships would become effective August 1, 1956, was Filed according to the law of Indiana and published in the newspaper. It was then that some of the residents of Hendricks Tovsmship, exercising one of the freedoms we enjoy, filed a remonstrance asking that this action be delayed until all of their legal voters had an opportunity to ex- press themselves in a formal election. This election was held on Tuesday, December 27, and resulted in 76 percent favoring the consolidation. -ff' On December 28, 1955, educational history was made in Shelby County when Trustees William Drake, William Hill and Lester Dine, together with the three ad- visory boards of each township, County School Superintendent Thomas Fogarty, and tion. Charles Wetzel, Superintendent QW Dale S. Rafferty, attorney for the trustees, adopted a final resolution for consolida- First School Board, August 1, 1956 - January 1, 1957 Lester Dine, OtisWasson, Charleswetzel, Supervising Principalgwilliam Drake, Carroll Muck, William Hill

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Long Before Opening Doy The action taken on that day creat- ed a new consolidated school system that began operation August 1, 1956. The final resolution, as adopted, stated that the consolidated school board should be composed ofsix members con- sisting ofthe duly elected trustee of each township and a member from each town- ship to be elected at the first general election in each township after the con- solidation became effective. To fill the interim between August 1, 1956, and January 1, 1957, when such elected members would assume office, each trustee was to appoint one member from his advisory board to serve on the con- solidated school board. Those appointed members were Mr. Otis Wasson, Washington Township, Mr. Carroll Muck, Hendricks Township, and Mr. Paul Eberhart, Jackson Township. The elected members who took of- fice January 1, 1957, were Kenneth Cortelyou, Jackson, Thomas Swinford, Washington, and Floyd Jackman, Hend- ricks. The new district was named the Southwestern Consolidated School Dis- trict of Shelby County, and as of Aug- ust 1, 1956, all school township assets and liabilities of the three townships were assumed by the new corporation. fi ,coz Directors of Holding Company Seated: James Matchett, Attorney, Russell Cherry, Kenneth Gor rell, Warren Comstock, Paul McCain. Standing: Carl Sampson, Wellbourne Snepp, Carroll Muck, Carl Kabrich, Paul Main. School Board January 1, 1957 - January 1, 1959 Lester Dine, Charleswetzel, Supervis- ing Principal, Floyd Jackman, William Drake, Thomas Swinford,William Hill, Kenneth Cortelyou,