Spiceland High School - Yearbook (Spiceland, IN)

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To the Classes of Spiceland Academy From the Class of 1919 ADMONITION The days of youth are fading fast, As thru the toils of life we pass. But just one lesson we would teach To those, who great success would reach, And that the motto of our class Excelsior. Although the world be dark and drear We must enter in without a fear, For happy thought and cheerful smile ; Will lighten burdens all the while And help us all along to sing Excelsior. Often times our hearts have yearned When in deep fancy our thoughts have turned ; To the happy days in old S. A. As we listened to what the profs did say, This was ever their message too Excelsior. Those gladsome days are gone at last, And just one mile stone we have passed. Since through the halls of old S. A. We sang with voices loud and gay. Singing ever as we worked Excelsior. To future classes we would say, Whene ' er discouragement comes your way And you are sorely tempted to fall Just glance at the motto on the w all. The motto of the class of nineteen-nineteen — Excelsior.

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tion from Spiceland Academy and at the present time she is a very competent stenographer at the Hoosier Manufacturing Company, of New Castle, Ind. Mr. Robert Grau, having proven himself a motor mechanic at the Maxwell factory, decided to complete his education. He is at Wabash College. Beatrice Boyd, since moving to Indianapolis, has taken up a business course and we feel sure that a girl of her size will make good in anything she undertakes. At the time of our class play we were almost positive that Gertrude Chandler would make a movie star, but instead she equally qualified, keeping a country borne and now we are more certain that she will make an excellent farmer ' s wife. The following year after our graduation Price Griffin Was in the S. A. T. C. and we thought he would become a captain in the army, but he decided that Sherman was right about war, making his escape for home as soon as possible. Since then he has been a very much at home man. Of course w e all 1- new that Robert Hinshaw would at some time be an athletic director. He is making his start at Earlham College, having made good in the foot-ball team and now is doing equally well in basket-ball. Park Kirk, presi- dent of the class, long ago abandoned the idea of giving religious instruction to movie actresses seeking divorces and is very sedately studying at Earlham. Edna Painter, whom you all know was never afraid to undertake anything, took the responsibility of keeping a home for her father and brother until she was no longer needed and is now filling the capacity of stenographer for the L. O. Draper Shade Factory. Eikewise Pauline Pickering took a stenographic course and for over a year she has steadily been making advances as a stenographer at the Maxwell factory with better prospects in view. Opal Jackson was always the musician for the class, and since leaving school has determined to train her talent but until she is ready to leave for a conservatory she is making the best of her time by studying the mechanism of pianos at the Jesse French Sons Piano Company. Arland McNew has moved to California and after making such a hit on the stage in our class play, it is now a puzzle to his friends whether he is going to study with the movie stars or pack oranges to send back to his old school friends. Ruth Pierson has been employed at the Filing Dept. of the Maxwell Motor Companv for several months, but we feel sure that this is not her calling, so beware. Although we had the reputation of being the worst class in school we don ' t think we were very mischievious when we put our colors on top of the school house, and playing bookie is only a thing that is expected. These things only add to the happiness of your school days. However, we don ' t want you to think of this class as always up to mischief for they were not, as the Juniors once said, Although the Seniors have a bad reputation, we ' ll have to own they ' re not the worst in the nation. Every member of the class looks back to the days he spent in S. A. as the best time of his life and in every heart an ardent flame burns for the success of the school. — Member of the Class.

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A Short History of Spiceland Academy and Its Superintendents Spiceland Academy was incorporated in 1870, but for several years before that time it was recognized as a school of superior merit. Pupils came from other States as well as from the surrounding counties of this State. An old catalogue for i864- ' 65 shows sixteen pupils from Ohio, two from Iowa and one each from Kentucky and Kansas. During this period the school was under the supervision of a committee ap- pointed by Spiceland Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends. This commit- tee was devoted to the interests of the educational works and was very successful in the management of the school and in the selection of superintendents and teachers. Martha Hunt and Oliver White were the first teachers in the new building which was built in i860 to replace the first one. The next school was taught by Eli and Mahala Jay. From 1862 to 1863 Oliver and Martha Ft. Bales had charge of the school. Oliver Bales was a man of sterling character and of broad culture for that period. He was the sympathetic friend of every student and every pupil, no matter what his difficulty, felt that he could go to him with his trouble and receive comfort- ing words and advice that would enable him to overcome the difficulty. Oliver Bales, pupils were not afraid but ashamed to go to his class room with poorly prepared lessons. They know he expected good work and his evident disap- pointment that they should have done less than the best of which they were capable, was punishment enough. in the fall of 1863 the services of Clarkson Davis were secured as head of the school and he gave many years of hard work to the upbuilding of the institu- tion. Mis broad association with the leading educators and school men of that day, and his intimate acquaintance with educational work in general, brought the school more closely in touch with an enlarged sphere of activity. At the close of the spring term, 1867, Clarkson Davis asked for a year ' s leave of absence in which to recruit his health, which had given way under his arduous duties, and to travel in Europe. He again took charge of the school in the fall of 1868 and proceeded to work out his plans for the incorporation of the school as an academy which was completed in the winter of 1870 and the first class, a class of two young men, graduated that spring. Throughout his connection with the school he gave to each student his per- sonal interest and sympathy. To him the pupils went freely for advice and erit- ticism and always found a wise counselor, a just and kindly critic. In 1874 Clark- son Davis, was compelled to sever his connection with the school on account of his health. After traveling for Harper Brothers three years his health so far improved as to enable him for the third time to take charge of the school. This time he remained until the close of the spring term in 1882, when he left the school room for the last time. From that time till the next spring his health de- clined until May 26, when the final hour came. There is nothing in this brief life historv to command the attention of the