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

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During this year, 1935, America is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birthday cf secondary schools. No school is too large to be uninterested or too small to be able to help in the celebration. Plans have been in formation since 1928, when a naticnal committee was appointed to begin collecting material and informing schools. By means of radio, newspapers, and magazines, the public is learning cf America's Tercentenary. This special issue of the annual 1935 Guccessue, is one of the Union City School's activities in keeping with the national celebration. .But education has not always been available for people all over the United States. The first public school in this country was established in Boston in the year 1635. It was named the Boston Latin School. It has had continued existence even to the present day. With one school leading the way, many such schools were establiched in Massachusetts. In the year 1647, twelve years after the founding of the first public school, a law was passed in the state cf Massachusetts requiring every town of fifty householders to maintain a master to teach reading and writing, and every town of one hundred householders to maintain a grammar school. The wages of the master were to be paid by the parents whose children took advantage of the instruction. In most of the New England colonies education was considered a public responsibility. New York, Pennsylvania, and the Southern colonies, however, did little in connection with schools preceding the Revolutionary War.

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tfflKHB k ':?r «' «or w a swsisEsESK « i» kiHSXSHBHXi» « a xissBR5f». gfa% :t iamsaBBasagmaamami ie« Tt : ! s NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPENED! Sept. 10 U. C. H. S. welcomes her wandering sons and daughters. Oct. 6 The seniors have a “swell” time on their County Civics Trip. Oct. 8 State Teachers’ Convention. Nov. 27 The Puritan Style Show. Nov. 28 Mr. James Adams delivers a talk. Hurray! Thanksgiving vacation! Dec. 11 A talk on “Health” by Dr. Thurman Rice of the State Health Board. Dec. 18 First social hour. Dec. 20 High School Christmas Party given by i the Mothers’ Club. Dec. 21 Alumni Program. Dec. 24 At last! Christmas vacation! Jan. 8 Back to school again. Jan. 9 Religious assembly by Rev. Clark. Jan. 17 Another social hour—Freshmen initiated. Jan. 19 The Home Economics Class entertains the school board. Jan. 21-22 Woe is us! Final Exams. Jan. 25 New semester begins. More hard work. Feb. 6 ' Religious assembly by Rev. Heald and Rev. Cutler. Feb. 7 1 Social Hour. Feb. 15 Juniors and Seniors go to Indianapolis. Feb. 26 Patriotic Banquet. No eats, though. March 1-2 Basketball Tourney. March 21 “Black Beauty” film in auditorium. March 28 Hollywood Party. Wasn’t it fun? March 29 Hi eh School Concert. April 3 Religious assembly by Rev. Leatherman. April 19 Hot dosr! Spring vacation. April 30 Public Speaking Program. May 6 Musical Festival in Muncie. May 10 Musical Moments. A nice program. May 15 May Breakfast for the Juniors given by the Seniors. May 17 Recognition Day May 21 Barton Reese Pogue, poet, speaks. May 22 Religious Assembly by Earl Lantz. May 27-28 Senior Exams. Poor kids! May 28 Junior-Senior Reception at the Country Club. May 29 Class Day. June 2 Baccalaureate. June 2-3 General Exams. Will this never end? June 4 Senior Class Play—“The Lucky Break.” June 6 School’s out! School’s out! June 7 Comm encement. June 8 Alumni Banquet. :::: Mil:: a a aa a a a a a a a a a a a a aa a a a a :fa a a a a a :

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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