Spiceland High School - Yearbook (Spiceland, IN)

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transferred to the Academy for instruction. The transfer of the public funds enabled many parents to send their children through the full course. This change and the really excellent normal course initiated by Geo. W. Neet attracted a large number of students to the Academy. The outstanding Su- perintendents of the decade were ITos. Newlin and Geo. W. Neet. Among the teachers, Murray S. Wildman and Claribel Gardner perhaps were two who most influenced the character of the pupils who attended their classes. A hasty glance at the roster of students of the decade shows that the teaching- profession was the favorite of the young people of the day. Among those who were students but did not graduate are some who are well known in that pro- fession today. H. B. Roberts, our present County Superintendent of Public In- struction ; Dr. Irving King, Iowa State Normal ; and Edward Wildman, of the Wm. Perm High School, Philadelphia, Pa. Among the graduates of the period were forty-three who have taught one or more years. Most of those living have entered other vocations, leaving but ten men and four women now engaged in teaching and one of this group is teaching but temporarily. It is interesting to note that one man and three women are now grade teachers, two men and two women are high school instructors, one man a city superintendent and four are instructors in colleges and universities. Of the ninety-seven who graduated in the decade following 1890, eighty-nine are living. It might be of interest to note what part these people of middle age are taking in the world work. In addition to the fourteen teachers noted above, • ' ourteen 1 en are farmers and fifteen women have married farmers. Merchandis- ing in various forms has proven of greatest interest to twelve men and four women have nra-ried merchants. Pastors, paitors ' wives and various callings have claimed one and two persons each. Graduates as well as students who did nut graduate are scattered from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. It is this scattering abroad of the old students and alumni of the Christian secondary schools that is such a valuable asset to the Church. Fully ninety per cent of the Christian leadership of church and community have come from this class of students. Many of the old students and alumni of this decade have their children in the Academy now and it is the hearty desire of these parents to see the old Academy take on new life and provide the means to give still higher ideals of life and service to the present generation of pupils. May she live long to instruct and inspire our youth to develop the best that is in them. — A Member of the Class of ' 85. 1900-1910. Murray S. Wildman, M. S. Woods and H. H. Cooper were the superintend- ents during this period with the following assistant teachers, W. N. Timmons, Mrs. Isadore Wilson, Miss Laughman, Miss Anna Moore, Mr. Weir, Miss Maude Taylor, Miss Nellie Hodson, Mr. William Austin, Miss Emma Kendall, Miss Ethel Pierson, and Miss Ethel Publow. Conscientiously and with Christian love these teachers fulfilled their duties. Into the minds of their pupils was instilled not only knowledge, but that which was even more valuable, a noble purpose and a high ideal. The spirit of class loyalty and school loyalty was strong. During the first half of this period interacademic contests of recitation and oratory stimulated de- velopment along these lines and unified the school. Basket-ball was introduced but not played extensively. Tennis, foot-ball, and base-ball were the main sports culminating in the grand finale Field Day. While good times are of necessity the inheritance of youth, such sterner matters as Latin, Mathematics, Science, History and English were not neglected. Of those who graduated, nine have since been called beyond — Jeannette Rif- ner, Carroll Mills and Cora Charles-Carson, all of 1900; Walter Byers, ' 02;

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■ Mattie E. Brown, Teacher of literature in Daytona High School, Daytona, Fla. Richard Broadbent, Lawyer, Elwood, Ind. Elbert Griffin, Lawyer, Elwood, Ind. Alonza Hodson, Noted farmer and hog raiser, New Castle, Ind. Russell Ratliff, Marion, Ind. 1887 Herbert T. Baily, Retired banker, Spiceland, Ind. Chrence Beard, Lawyer, Indianapolis, Ind. Anna K. Bogue-Shaffer, Housekeeper, Benton Harbor, Mich. Lindlev Compton, Supt. of an Indian school, Tomah, Wis. Elizabeth S. Hiatt-Geneaw, Housekeeper and teacher in Omaha ; also a writer cf some distinction, Omaha, Neb. Abraham L. Miller, Minister in the Advent Church, Birmingham, Ala. Bert Smith, Farmer, Zionsville, Ind. 1888 Rhoda Ballenger-Cunningham, Housekeeper, Indianapolis, Ind. Orynthis Brown-Jester, Housekeeper, Payton, Iowa. Clara G. Edwards-Knight, Housekeeper, mother of three boys, St. Louis, Mo. John C. Cook, Working in the auto factory at New Castle, Ind. Elva Elliott-Compton, Wife of Lindly Compton, and matron of the Indian School of which he is Supt., Tomah, Wis. Achsah E. Ratcliff-Ratliff, Housekeeper but for many years a teacher m New Castle School, New Castle, Ind. Harmon Rayle, An Academy trustee, Spiceland, Ind. Chas. Stubbs, Teacher in Indianapolis High School, Indianapolis, Ind. J. A. Greenstreet, Once county Supt. of Schools, Farmer, New Castle, Ind. Harry H. Ratcliff, Supt. of Connersville Schools, Connersville, Ind. 1889 Laura Benedict, Teacher at Cedar Falls, Iowa. Blanch Braddock-McNew, Widow of John McNew, class of ' 86, has traveled much in old country, spending much time at Rome, Greenfield, Ind. Frank Copeland, Lives in Tower House at Dunreith, Ind. Estella Deem-Kennedy, Teacher in Greensburg, Ind. Gertrude Gordon-Geneaux, Housekeeper, Lovell, Wyo. Sue Griffin-Evans, Housekeeper and mother of two daughters and one son, Spiceland, Ind. Otis Stubbs, Farmer, New Lisbon, Ind. May White, Charge of a Japanese School and Home in Pasadena, Cal. — By a Member of the Class of 82. 1 890- 1 900. The years between 1890 and 1900 marked a great change in Spiceland Aca- demy as to its relation to the school-township and school-town and as to the per- centage of the enrollment completing the course of study. At the beginning of this decade the Academy furnished the educational facilities for Spiceland Cor- poration and all the high ' school work for the township. The town contracted with the Academy trustees for a lump sum to furnish the house, play-grounds and teachers for the common school grades. All high school pupils were charged tuition. As the time went on in the development of the school system of the state, laws were enacted which took the grade work from the hands of the Academy and placed it in the hands of the township and the high school pupils began to be

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Elsie Bell Applegate and Herbert Seaford, ' 04 ; Arthur Rifner, ' 05 ; Edna Kellar ' 06; Hazel Seaf ord- Winan, ' 10. The rest are located as far east as Washington, D. C, as far west as Cali- fornia and in a dozen states between. Just as varied are the occupations they have followed. Among those who served overseas during the late war are the following: Walter Bundy, ' 06 ; Vice-Consul to Switzerland, now a professor at De Pauw ; Flgar Pennington, ' 09, of the engineer corps, now in Colorado to regain his health ; Dr. Walter Harvey, ' 01, Pittsburg, Pa., and Dr. Walter Wright, ' 03, New Castle, in the Medical Service, and Miss Jessie Reece, ' 05, California, a Red Cross Nurse. , Others who have chosen nursing as a profession are Nellie Beckett, 03, California; Berneattia Smith, ' 04, and Hassel Williams, ' 07, at Muncie, Inch Some of those in the educational world teaching at a distance are: Walter Wilson, ' 01, Pasadena; Anna Painter, ' 04, Whittier College, California; Pansy Newby ' Stevens, ' 04, Illinois ; Ruth Harvey, ' 04, and Bessie Sidwell, ' 08, Ohio. Among those in the religious field are Lillian Hayes, ' 01, former secretary of the Young Friends Work, now taking a course in the Hartford Theological Seminary, and Levinus Painter, ' 07, pastor with his wife, Margaret Hardin Painter, 08, at Poplar Ridge, New York. Of the one hundred and forty-six living graduates of this period about one- third now reside in Henry County. Here as farmers, teachers, doctors, lawyers and 1 err e- makers, they are using their bit to make their own county one of the best places in the wcrld in which to live. — Member of the Class of ' 05. ALUMNI NOTES OF THE ' 10 TO ' 15 CLASSES Why hello here. How are you ? When did you come ? And where have yon been these ten years? Sit here on the old church steps and let ' s have a good old- time talk. These steps have heard more than one exchange of confidence. Cupid l;as surely been busy among the members of our class. There ' s Mary Antrim Wilson is chief boss at home while Kerney is now a partner in the thriving grocery store. Minnie Riser Boyd and Nettie Grissom Allen are both living in New Castle. Then there ' s Mary Jessup Smith and William living on a farm south of Spiceland and Mary says only ' one thing bothers them, and that is the Daylight Saving Plan. Helen Bartlett-Pottenger spends most of her time in Lewisville with her mother. Marie Hendricks-Garver has been living in the sunny south land (Florida) for the past two years. And Happy Markle is on a farm ever by Marklesville. Think of that. Clarence Rich is on a farm each of Spiceland and Edith Stiggleman Meffet and Leanna Taylor-McNewi are living on farms near Knightstown and as happy as the meadow larks in their own meadows. Lena Shively-f est and Deac are living in town and Deac is at present Agricultural Agent of Henry County. Ruth May and Ruth Moffet, Bernice Henshaw and Clarence Cartwright have so far escaped the wiles of Cupid, but there are whispers flying around that their defences are weakening. And then you knew that Hazel Seaford Winan went to her reward only a few brief months ago. 1911 Then there ' s the class of ' 11. You remember them, of course? Why to be sure. Wonder if we can locate all of them? Roy Brown still calls Spiceland home. Howard Cadwell is in Indianapolis doing newspaper work so they say. Hazel Cochran-Lane lives in Spiceland and helps with the H. C. of L. by helping her husband in the meat market. Ruby Cochran Symions lives on a farm over by Lewisville. Ralph Evans is connected with the Stiggleman Manufacturing Co. and lives in Spiceland. Decil Fields- Wollam lives in the Friends parsonage at Spiceland. Ruth Harvey and Everett Pennington are dignified seniors at Earlham this year. Howard Harvey is living on a farm north of New Castle. And here ' s