Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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n IS The VALENIAN 1924 iiaisiassiissiisiiiiaiiiasiiiiiBiiaBSiiJisigiigiiiisisBiB giiiaiiiiiiiiissiaHSHiisisi Isl m g 1 i 1 M m m m m m a SI m m m p isi m THE STAFF Editor-in-Chief. .. - - Frederick LePell Business Manager George Douglas Calendar Marjorie Tousley Alumni Carolyn Lytle Society Wilma McWhinney History .Martin Wheeler Will Harold Sievers Athletics ...Herbert Douglas Jokes Howard Eschell Music and Drama Isabel Foster Literature Leslie Gaston Prophecy ....Ethel Schrag Photos Lewis Marquardt gjgigiigiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiiaHiiaiSisiiiiaHSiiiBii Page Nine m

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m m The VALENIAN 1924 sisiisiHi®iigiiiiisiigiiiii!SHiigigiiaissiiHsiBisiiigiiiiiiigi!iiasiaigiii@sg)giiagiaiigi[S[agi(agiiiiiBiBiiiH B Is gj m m i I HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY 1 m m A few facts in regard to our High School that we have gathered and ii leave as a legacy to the Ckiss of ' 25 and those to follow, with the hope that IS they will augment it by the annual record of their deeds and progress; and that they ivill make the preservation of High School History, of which there has been no previous written record, a matter of tradition to be car- ried on by the succeeding classes as long as the school itself shall endure. — Editor. i g (The following initial article ivas contributed by a member of the I Class of ' 75.) g a m s m ' - HE ground occupied by our present High School was purchased S from the Presbyterian Collegiate Institute by the city in 1864, il and the school board retained Prof. Benjamin Wilcox, who m was teaching there at that time. He was assisted by James McFetrich and Miss Sofa Louring. Not until 1871 was the public school proper opened. Children from four different buildings were gathered together, with an enrollment of four hundred pupils and ten teachers and Prof. W. H. Banta as Superin- tendent, an office which he held for twenty-three years. He was succeeded by Prof. Wood, who remained for eight years, when he was followed by A. A. Hughart, who served for the next ten years. Then came Eugene Skinkle with three years ' service, and in 1915 Prof. Boucher came to us and is our superintendent at the present time. The first school board consisted of Azariah Freeman, Albert Letts and Tom Maulsby. They have been succeeded by such men as A. V. Bartholo- mew, James McFetrich, A. D. Bartholomew, Mark L. DeMotte, L. M. Pierce, J. R. Pagin, M. J. Stinchfield and other Valparaiso men always with the best interests of the school at heart. Three buildings in all have been erected on the site of our present High School and after fifty-five years we are still occupying one of them, but with the hope of having larger and more modern quarters in the near future, as at the present time there ai-e enrolled 389 pupils in the High i School department and the room for this number is entirely inadequate for their needs. (To be contimied in the Annual of 1925.) ' n iKl „ iiaiKiisissisiisssisisiiiaisiiiiis@iigiiisg;igiiiisiiiig[giaiiKiig@igiiagiaiiiiiii@iaiSMiaiaiai Page Eleven