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

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. , - - Y . - . -.,.. , . ' Q, -. ,- vq. . . - . A Q , 'I I, .H U C C ,Q S U QQ-gff fTLYQQg1..g,:,-sf.. . i it The school did not have the advantage of an auditoriumj H all public gatherings had tc.be held in the study hall. Ml Also, our basketball team was at a disadvantage because of a U gymnasium greatly resembling in shape the main corridor of if our present building. gl In 1895, due to increased attendance, the South Side hi School was built. It was used for many years lartly as a Q, school shop and home economics department. 1:1 Q fy In 1919 the high school building and contents were total wi ly destroyed by fire. The following year tried the ingenuity ti and citizenship of the faculty, civic organizations, and rg citizens. Naturally, the South Side was used to capacity. ,Q The elementary grades met in the Lutheran Parish Hall,the , . pw Presbyterian Church, and the City Library. The Kindergarten ' was housed in the Atlas State Bank building. The seventh and eighth grades were located in the Methodist Church, and the tw high school in the Christian church. hi ' ,H After the hcusing problem was solved, there remained an at even more potent problem--that of constructing a new school ,M house. Many difficulties were met in raising money for the in new building. But by strenuous effort it,was possible for 1 the Alumni Association to raise a large-sum which, combined fd with insurance and three issues of bends, made the money Fm available for constructing and furnishing the building. The w H JS board of education consulted many authorities and traveled iq far to inspect schools that the Union City school might be best fitted to our needs. Our present school is the result lt of careful research. W M Today we have but two reminders of the old building: H the bell mounted in front of the school and a stone tablet M over the Walnut Street entrance. i. The tablet is in the sha e of an open book and on the ' . p . ' . I . f pages are the Latin words HQual1s Schola Talis SivisH-as , I 'F the school so the citizen. The image of the book has been t placed on the school seal which appears on the certificates W, of.recognition and various objects produced in the school or If made specifically for the school's use. .u 3 Y These two tangible objects from that former school are 1 K' held in deep respect by the Union city high school students tg today. They stand for education, achievement, endeavor, and Lg success. May we of today and those who follow live up to Qi these standards as have those who preceded us! f I Q i H5 Education is one of the most important phases of our I 1 pi lives. Men and women have devoted their time and effort to gl il Q fislglgllwpjrt-.1 3551- jljffggilrggi 1 3 i 'oo '.:T'.:41i1:,y - :irc

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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,

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, 'e SUCCACSSUS he research Wit? Enhrol has never 41 dents the beet in the it rating. w rw proved that UCognitiQ u and study that the peeple in the mrdern enhfcl might receive the beet available educatien. And the lnirn been behind in effering tr ite stu way of instruetrre and eeholaetie .b Thus three hundred years of Seerndnry Educetirn hwve , Nnn Peritn CLenrn1n5 Jcee Not Periehb the mettc of the Beet day me when that sehcrl was feunded. Q LJ - Much credit is HQ lj in Latin Scheel is as applicable t ! - 4 I else due te the students whr have inllfv ed eur eehocl mottn,UJuet do your beet? to becbme the bfet gi of whatever they are. ' If you cenft be e pine cn the tcp rf the hill Be a scrub in the valley--but be p The best little ecrub by the side of the rillg gp . Be a bush if yeu een't be e tree. ills I 1 1 lf you oan't be a bush be e bit nf the QI . And some highway some happier makeg If yOu eanft be n muekie then just be a ba 4' But the livelieet bass in the lake! We ean't all be ee tains we've eft t0 be p J EJ 'aee, ee-- crew, There'e something for all of ue here. There'e big wnrk te do and there's leeeer to dc And the task we must do ie the near. Q If you cen't be a highway then just be a trail, Q , MV If yeu ean't be the sun be e etarg f' It isn't by size that you win or fail-- li Be the beet of whatever yOu are! U 4eD0uglae Mnllech mx ' X5 Qi 'LTI X,X1AY 'y.'fX f ,EMMA ' e e 1935 t ii