Spiceland High School - Yearbook (Spiceland, IN)

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l ' ncttKntftN ' N ? J. Frank Brown spent a number of years in teaching, after leaving Spiceland and is at present with the MacMillan Company, Publishers, in New York City. Arthur W. Jones. Arthur W. Jones was superintendent of the Academy but one year. He was an admirable man in every sense of the term, a strong Latin teacher, also well versed in mental science and pedagogy. At present Mr. Jones is Professor of Greek in Friend ' s University at Wichita, Kansas. Geo. W. Neet. Geo. W. Neet assumed the duties of superintendent of the Academy in the fall of 1894 and remained until the close of the spring term of 1898. He held the idea, recognized by all real educators, that the value of the school depends on the ability and efficiency of its teachers. According to the last account Mr. Neet was head of the English Department in the Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana. Murray S. Wild man. In 1898 Murray S. Wild man was elected superintendent. Mr.Wildman had been a teacher of mental science and history for two years and already had en- deared himself to his students by his kindly disposition and geniality in the class- room. After leaving the Academy he took his Ph. D. at Chicago University in 1904. He has been a member of the faculty of the University of Missouri, of Northwestern Universitv and is at present head of the Economic Department at Leland Stanford University, California. M. S. Wood succeeded Mr. Wildman and successfully carried on the work upon similar lines as his predecessor for two years when, in turn he was succeeded by Homer H. Cooper, w ho remained at the head of the school until 1916, when Joseph H. Blose was selected by the trustees as superintendent. He did good work and endeared himself to the community by his helpfulness and good nature. Mr. Blose severed his connection with the school in 1918 when Chester L. Reagan succeeded him. M. E. F. CHARLES

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multitude, it is but the story of a good and useful life. There is inherent in some characters a certain indefinable force which destines them to become significant factors wherever fate may place them. Clarkson Davis was such a character. Edward Taylor. During the year that Clarkson Davis visited Europe, Edward Taylor filled his place. Mr. Taylor was a young man of force and ability. Knowing that he would, in all probability, remain in the school but one year he worked in such har- mony with the plans of his predecessor that upon Clarkson Davis ' return he found the work strengthened rather than weakened. Edward Taylor had an unfailing fund of humor with which he often enlivened the routine of the class room work. Timothy Wilson. The second time Clarkson Davis was forced to leave the Academy Timothy Wilson was secured as superintendent and very acceptably filled the place. Tim- othy Wilson believed there is good in every person. What he believed he looked ior ' and what he looked for he found. He frankly confessed himself an optomist, believing in the higher things that make life worth living. These things he sought to impress upon his pupils. Thomas Newlin. At the opening of the Spiceland Academy in the fall of 1882 Thomas Newlin, a former student of the school, began his services as superintendent. Without normal training, then in its infancy throughout the Middle West, he began to work out theories of his own and from the first his work was a decided success. He remained two years, then was absent one year, after which he again took charge of the school. Without show or pomp, whatever he undertook was done single mindedly, with earnestness of purpose and heartiness of endeavor. Evidences of this characteristic have been shown all through his career, as one of the important elements of his success. For a number of years he was president of Whittier College, Whittier, California, and later of Guilford College, North Carolina. Mr. Newlin is now living in Pasadena, California. William P. Pinkham. During Mr. Newlin ' s absence from the school in 1884 and ' 85, William P. Pinkham, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as superintendent. Mr. Pinkham was a minister in the Society of Friends as well as an educator. He had a high ideal of scholarship, and expected his pupils to attain as nearly as possible the standard which he set for them. He had an unusual capacity for hard work, but found the two vocations too much for his strength and at the end of the year resigned his position in school to give his entire time to strictly religious work. J. Frank Brown. At the close of Mr. Newlin ' s second connection with the school in 1892, J. Frank Brown assumed the office of superintendent. He was a young college graduate with high aspirations and an optomistic outlook upon life. The following lines seem a very fitting characterization of Mr. Brown: Our lives shall be filled with earnest work, Our hearts undashed by fortune ' s frown, Perseverance shall conquer fate, And merit seize the victor ' s crown, The fight isn ' t always to the strong, The race not always to the fleet, Our aim is not to pluck the stars, But to gather the flowers at our feet.

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A Loyal Friend of The Academy Emily G. Hyde has laid aside her brush and palette to enter the rest that is eternal, and it is with the hope of impressing the reader with happy, living memo- ries of the wonderful little woman that these lines are written. Handicapped from childhood by a frail constitution, she accomplished tasks and overcame difficul- ties that many a stronger woman would have thought well nigh impossible. Emily Hyde was possessed of the true artistic temperament, but, as she often said, was too deeply interested in the people about her and the daily happenings of her community to concentrate all her time and efforts on art. She went directly to Nature for her inspiration and subjects, and nothing was too trivial, provided it was an exponent of some phase of nature to have a place in her work. A flower, a broken twig, a corn shock or a muskrat ' s home built in the edge of the water, found their places in her pictures. She was so interested in the young people of her home town and surrounding- community and believed so thoroughly in the refining influence and educative power of true art that she interested herself in procuring good pictures, besides her own work, for the Academy. Some being given, others loaned for a time. On the walls of the assembly room are the following pictures : The Asters, The Lilacs and The Iris by Miss Wilson ; The Beech Woods and a Marsh Scene by Mr. Seaford ; The Alamo by Mrs. Hyde ; A California Home by Miss Goodwin ; Corn Shocks, loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Cory ; The Madonna, loaned by Ruth Harvey; and the Brook in Winter, by J. E. Bundy. In the Library are : Lady in Green and Girl in Hammock by Miss Wilson ; Loaned, Vase of Flowers, Harvest Scene, Neighborhood Fences, The Ramblers and The Lilacs. Much more could be said of this interesting character, but per- haps enough has been written to inspire someone to emulate Mrs. Hyde in her practical work for the betterment of the community. JENNY E. UNTHANK