Washington High School - Anvil Yearbook (East Chicago, IN)

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OUR STORY In June 1899 the second graduating class of East Chicago High School hod only three members, one less than the preceding year. Those graduates attended a school very different from any East Chicago school today. More than likely they had begun their studies in a two-room township high school which stood at 145th and Northcote. In 1898 the students moved to the Tod Opera House because the city had taken over the high school building. East Chicago grew; and when a town grows, the high school must also grow. The small space in the Tod Opera House became unbearably overcrowded. A new high school for East Chicago was to be built! The building, dedicated in 1900, still stands; however, today it is Harrison School, an elementary school. The Indiana Harbor side of town began growing, so in 1903 the building of another school began. 1908 found the building completed and ready for use. Today that building is the Washington Elementary School; but in 1908 it was East Chicago High School. In 1918 an addition between Hemlock Street and Parrish Avenue was started, and completed in 1921. 1925 found the city needing another high school. Since there were to be two high schools, there could no longer be an East Chicago High School. The older one, on the Indiana Harbor side, became Washington High School; the new one, on the west side, was named Roosevelt High School. Washington High School Auditorium and Gymnasium were added in 1924. To complete the high school block, the modern addition on Parrish Avenue was built in 1939. Our new physical education and cafeteria build- ing was dedicated on November 21, 1956. The remodeling of the auditorium was completed in 1957. We ore proud of sixty-one years of the best in high schools— Washing- ton High School of East Chicago, Indiana.

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,- - MR. JOHN P. FOX PRINCIPAL i! MR. CARL E. JOHNSON ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL