Wabash High School - Sycamore Yearbook (Wabash, IN)

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THE FACULTY The fall of 1911 saw more changes in the faculty of the High School than are usual for one year. After eight years of faithful service, as superintendent of the city schools, Miss Baylor resigned to accept a position as general assist- ant in the office of the State Superintendent of Education at Indianapolis. Miss Baylor ' s experience and education preeminently qualify her for this position. It was only liy rare fortune that the Wabash Schools kept h T so long. After careful search, Orville C. Pratt, of Clinton, Indiana, was elected by the school Imartl to till this vacancy. Per- haps no man could conu ' sii nearly tilling Miss Baylor ' s place as Ir. Pratt. Mr. Charles H. Bi ' ady, tor three ycais the capalile and congenial principal I ' l-tircd IVoni teaching to take up a dil ' - ferent line of work in Stryker, Oliio. .Mr. )wen J. Neigh- boiu ' s, A. B., Ph. JL, has efficiently taken ilr. Brady ' s po- sition. Mr. Neighbours received liis A. I!, from Western Mai-yland College, in 1W) ' an l his i li. M. iV.nii the I ' ni- vei-sity of Chicago in 1910. Air. Xeiglihoviis has i)i ' ove(l himseir a mcst capalile [n-incipal. In the JUinnal Training department, Mr. Jolm E. Rad- cliffe has succeeded Mr. Carl Crabb, who resigned to aeee]it a similar position in the Indianapolis schools. Mr. Kadclitt ' e has been for eight years the Supervisor of ilanual Training at Greenfield High School. He is a very efficient supervisor. i ' .el ' oi ' e seliool closed, Mi.ss Agnes Seineke was elected to tile head of the German department at Champaign, Illinois, with considerable increase in salary. This vacancy was filled by Jliss Jean J. Anderson of Louisville, Kentucky. iliss Anderson is of German descent and speaks the lan- guage well. She graduated from the Indiana University in 11)11, with A. B. degree. Air. L du, head of the Chemistry and Physics Depart- ment last year, was elected to an advanced position at Calu- met. Michigan. Air. Grover Nie, of Warren, Indiana, now has charge of the department. Air. Nie is a jolly, whole souled .vouiig man who makes his work both interesting and practical. After si.K years as head of the Commercial Department, nniing hich time he refused many flattering offers, Air. K. (.u Ammerman accepted a similar position in the Alamial Ti ' aining High School of Indianapolis. This is one lit ' the best commercial positions in this section of the coun- fi -. Air. Ammerman was not only popular in the school, Init also in aifaiis of the community. His successor is Air. C. E. Hostetlei ' who came from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. All-, llestetli ' i- is a native lIo( siei-. During the summer he teaclii s in the Willi na Summer School. He is a congenial and eiiter]iiisiiig young man who thoroughly knows his bus- iness. Ali.ss Ina Wornick, who resigned to be married, is now li iug in Kt. Wa.vnc. Her successor is Miss Alaurine Bragg of Shelbina, Alissouri. There has been no more popular or efficient art supervisor in our schools than Aliss Bragg. For several summers Aliss Bragg has taught art at Northwest- ern University. Till se members of the faculty who have been here for one or more jirevious years are. Misses Moore, Zeis, Todd, Krai ke. ISIayney, Baer, Peterson and Small.

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' t.CrhA ' V. We. till ' Kilitofiiil StnlT, Inlsc plcai nro in pi ' csoiiting to tlic piililic. tlu ' Aiiiiiiiil (if 1!I12. Ill Joins;- sn ' c reiilizf that the over eritieal may tind imperlVttions, luit we lie- lieve that the indulgent i-cador will fiid inncli ol ' inti ' i ' cst and profit in its jiernsal. We thd ' clore send it fortli. with the stamp iif our lii ' st etfor ' ts upon it. llO])ing that it will lie i ' ee( ived in the spirit in which we send it. We wish to aelniowledge oni ' indelite iness to the pnhlic i ' oi ' its lihei-al suhsri ii)ti(ins t(i the Annual; to tlie liusi- ness men for their generous advertising; to the eontrilint- ors of the nuiterial for these pages; to the faculty, and othei- fi ' ii-nds, and especially Jliss Zies, for their syuipa- thelic and kiniUy s iggestions. And to any otliers who liaxe in the slightest way Indjied us. we thank you.

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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL lU ILDING Ever since 1894 Wabash has hccii the pi ' diul ])()ssessor fan, clt ' ctrically niu, into every room in the Imihlino ' . The of a High School building whieli from the standpoint of I ' lpes cai ' i-yino- tliis air to tlie rooms ai ' e arranged with a durability of material and beauty of (h-sign is hard to loul)h (himper — one pai-t foi ' (■h)siijg the eonneetion with match. the hot aii- cliaiiiber at the same time that tln ' other chiiiiper . . . . . t ,■ , ■ t ■ 4-- (-1 opens the ei.inicctiiiii with a i-oolei- ail ' ehainlier. At the time ot its eonsti ' uet ion the interioi ' of tlie ' Imihling was in harmony witli all demands foi- eoii -eni- These (himiK ' s are connected by compressed ail- with eiici ' ami sanitation. an adjustable thermostat in each rocjm. liiit during the brief interval betwi ' cn 1SI)4 and 1111 1 | ,y setting the thiMiiio.stat at the temiierature desired there has been siicii a unix ' ersal awakening in matters the degree of heat of thi ' room is automatically regulated I ' claliig to the ' ilucatioii of the pliysieal nature of tlie while fresh air is coiistantl, ' ])Ouring into the room — child that the Superiiiten leiit and School Trustees found warm if neeiled. but alwa, s frc sh. it necessarx ' to impro ' e tlie interior of till ' scho(d building. , .- . +i t i ,;,. +i, f .. . .1, ' In each I ' oom is an exit tor the stale air. As tlie tresli In rcsp.onse to this demand to l;eep tin- Wabash High air is forced into the n oms the air alicadx ' in the rooms is School in the front rank with the high schools of the State. for ' ced through iiijies to the tower and thence out of the Trustees s]ient about twenty-eight thousand dollars iluoi-s. Thus pei-fei-t ventilation is produced. inside the school buildiim duriny the past summer. ... 4 i ■ n 11,. ,. ., , f,,,. ., r,.„- - I ]t ].s necessary to be 111 the assembly room t(U- a lew : Iost notable of these improvements is the heating minutes udy. when this room is crowded, to f. ' cl tlii ' su- plant. ])ci-iority id ' this present heating and ventilating system ,, ., ,, , ,. ,, 1 I 1 1 I 1 i oM ' r that id ' most ijublic buildings. ( 111 the southwest cm ner ot the selloi l Int has been ereet- ' ed a neat and convenient boiler ]-oom communicating with The space left vacant after removing the eleven old the main building. Two sixty-hoi ' se power lioilers in this hot air furnaces in the basement has been divided into room su])ply steam for the two large coils— a tempering five large I ' ooms for laboratories. These are eipui)ped for coil and a ■■master ' eoil Air from out of doors passing Physics. Chemistry, l ' iohig. -, .Manual ' I ' raiiiiiig and Domes- ovei ' and thi ' inigh these coils is forced bv means of a lai-ge tic Science. I!y means of iirismatic glass these rooms are