Union City Community High School - Successus Yearbook (Union City, IN)

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szS SUCC'CSSUS it! jj I d I nil «n5oi80h0?i did not have the a vnntp.ge cf an auditorium; ail public, gatherings had to be held in the study hall. :ur basketball team was at a disadvantage because of a gy..,.:asium greatly resembling in shape the main '' rrjdcr cf °ur present building. • 1 lA55, due to increased attendance, the South Gide '■arol was built, it was used for many years 1 rrtly as a scnccl shop and home economics department. the high school building and contents were tctal-„Ld®f!,rryed Jy fire; The following year tried the ingenuity and citizenship of the faculty, civic organizations, and i ens. Naturally, the South Fide was used to capacity, xiie elementary grades met in the Lutheran Farish Hall, the Fresbyterian Church, and the City Library. The (Kindergarten !? U8eddn the Atlas Btate Bank building. The seventh and eighth grades were located in the Methodist Church, and the high school in the Christian Church. Alter the housing problem was solved, there remained an e en more potent problem—that cf constructing a new school house. Many difficulties were met in raising money for the +vV’ aa:i ldln But by strenuous effort it was possible for the A-iumni Association to raise a large sum which, combined with insurance and three issues of bends, made the money available for constructing and furnishing the building. The board cl education consulted many authorities and traveled -lar+ tl ?S?ect sohools that the Union City school might be nest ;itted to our needs. Cur present school is the result oi careful research. Today we have but two reminders f the old building the bell mounted in front of the school and a stone tablet over the Walnut Street entrance. The tablet is in the shape cf an op n bock and on the pages are the Latin words Quails Gchola Tails Civis -as tr.e school so the oltizen. The image of the book has been placed on the school seal which appears on the certificates of recognition and vario-us objects produced in the school or made specifically for the school's use. These two tangible objects from that former school are held in deep respect by the Union City high school students today. They stand for education, achievement, endeavor, and success. May we of today and those who follow live up to these standards as have those who preceded us Education is one of the most important phases cf oUr JVfiS' ea f-nd women have do voted the.tr time and effort to ' 1935

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ss succ-essus The four decades following the Revolutionary War marked many changes in the school system. Local autonomy gradually gave way to st-te supervision. Nearly all the states now have laws making educ tion compulsory. Today we recogni ze three main types of public schools: (1) The city elementary and high school, (2) The centralized school which includes a hi h school and department, and (3) The rural district school which is fast disappearing because of greatly improved methods of transportation. However, we are most interested in the history of the Union City school system—and an interesting story of endeavor and true citizenship it is, too. The first school in Union City was a private one. It was opened in the fall of 1853 by Miss Mary Ensminger. About a yea.r later the first public school was opened on a site near the railroads on Columbia. Street. When the school was first opened, George W. Brainard and his wife, Emily H. Brainard, the teachers, had seven pupils. The building was destroyed by fire. A new building was erected on the site of the present West Side high school building in 1858. This was a two-story, brick structure with three rooms. Three groups of rooms were added at later times to the building. There were then eight regulation class rooms and an office. In 1882 the school system wa.s composed of four years of primary work, two years of intermediate, three years of groan-mar grades, and three years of high school., making a total of twelve years in all. At that time only one child in every one hundred v ho entered the first grade finished high school. But before we advance too far, another word about that first school on the present location. In 1872 the first high school class was organized by Walter B. Page. From those thirteen people came the first graduates of the Union City High School, four of them in the year 1876. The school built in 1858 became, after • time, inadequate for the increased educational demands of the Union City population. So, in 1891 the building was demolished and a larger and much better-one was erected at the same place. There were about three times as many rooms including a large study hall and science laboratories. Another valuable addition to the new building was the Stone Library adjoining the study hall. At least two thousand volumes wore in the Stone collection. . = 1935 5

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i V[ • i •;!i t; | 3UCCC5SUS research and study that the people in the mcdern schools mifcht receive the best available education. And the Union City ic.hool has never been behind in offering to its students the best in the way of instructors and scholastic rating. Thus three hundred years of Secondary Education have proved that Pcgnitic Non Ferit (Learning ices Not Perish), the mottc of the Boston Latin School, is as applicable today as when that school was founded. Much credit is .also due to the students who have followed our school motto, just do your best)’ to become the best cf whatever they are. r If you can't be a pine cn the top of the hill Be a scrub in the valley—but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass, And some highway some happier make; If you can't be a muskie then Just be a bass— I But the liveliest bass in the lake .' I We can't all be captains, we've got tc be crew, There's something for all cf us here. There's big work t-o do and there's lesser to do. And the task we must do is the near. If you can't be a highway then Juct be a trail, If you oan't be the sun be a star; j. It isn't by size that you win or fail— Be the best of whatever you are —pouglas Mailoch I j