West Side High School - Successus Yearbook (Union City, IN)

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f Qual-I5 if wa 'mtl-E3 SCMOLA Qwlg 1 N PGQEWAQD COGNITIO NON PERIT 1 During this year, 1935, America is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birthday of 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 national committee was appointed to begin collect ing material and informing schools. By means of radio, news- papers, and magazines, the public is learning of America's Tercentenary. This special issue of the annual 1935 Successue 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 1655. It was named the NBoston Latin School.N It has had continued exist- ence even to the present day. With one school leading the way, many such schools were established in Massachusetts. In the year l647, twelve years after the founding of the first public school, a law was passed in the state of 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 Revolu- tionary Warj A

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,i..i.i--.h hi... .-W. t Seoccsses 1 ' The four decades following the Revolutionary War marked W many changes in the school system. Local autonomy gradually gave way to state supervision. Nearly all the states now 1 have laws making education compulsory. Today we recognize .three mein types of public schools: ill The city elementary 1 'end high school, C21 The centralized school which includes e high school and department, and C35 The rural district school which is fest 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 e private one. It M was opened in the fell of 1855 by Miss Mary Ensminger. About M e year later the first public school was opened on e site near the railroads on Columbia Street. When the school was y first opened, George W. Brainnrd and his wife, Emily H. ' Brainerd, the teachers, had seven pupils. The building was 1 destroyed by fire. A new building was erected on the site of the present West Side high school building in 1858. This was n 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 was composed of four years of primsry'work, two years of intermediate, three yeers of gram- mar grades, end of twelve years one hundred who But before first school on three years of high school, making e total in all. At that time only one child in every entered the first grade finished high school. we advance too fer, another word about that the present location. In 1872 the first high school class was organized by Walter B. Pegs. From those thirteen people came the first graduates of the Union City High School, four of them in the year l876. . The school built in 1858 became, after n quste for the increased educational demands time, inade- of the Union City population. So,in 1891 the building was demolished and a larger end much better one was erected et the some place. There were about three times as many rooms including a large study hall and science lnboratories,' Another velueble eddi- tion to the new building was the Stone Library adjoining the study hell. At collection. r we-r ' nur- 'un ' least two thousand volumes were in the Stone - 1 1 .a...., 1 I V 3 I. V J 5 'E r J w H 1 1 W h 1 yi! qu l W if J 13 I5 I ll i lei I,- UT w 1!i In My H! ,lc , 7-3,