Westfield High School - Shamrocket Yearbook (Westfield, IN)

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R In sincere appreciation of this tire- less etfort in protecting and ad- vancing the cause of education, we, the Seniors of 1934, gratefullly dedi- cate this Yearhook to the friend of student and teacher, our trustee - -- LORA ITL KEISTER

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History of Washington Township High School The Washington Township High School and Westfield grade school system occupies a two-building structure situated on a five acre plot on the north side of West Main Street. The total enrollment of students is 4143 141 of which are in high school and 273 in the grades. The high school had its beginning in 1896 when the Board of School Trustees, con- sisting of C. W. Johnson, H. L. Boyd and Dr. Z. H. Fodrea, turned the management of the school together with the building, lot, equipment and S500 in cash to B. C. Sherrick, town- ship trustee. The school was granted a commission in 1898 and graduated its first class in that year. The first building which was located just north of the present site of the Westfield M. E. Chll1'Ch was destroyed by fire in January of 1904, but school was continued in tem- porary rooms and plans were begun for building a school house of sufficient capacity to accommodate the grade pupils attending school in this district and all the township high school students. After three years, in February, 1907, Trustee Ira H. Stanbrough moved his teachers and students into the new building which was pronounced one of the best township school plants in the United States. The building was formally dedicated in the spring of that year at an impressive ceremony in which Mr. Stanbrough presented the key of the building to Superintendent W. A. Jessup. As time passed and the enrollment grew, need for more space became evident. The present high school building was erected during the administration of Rufus Jobe, trustee, and was occupied in September, 1926. At the dedication services that fall, Russell Tomlinson, principal, presided, and Dr, W. A. Jessup, superintendent at the time of the dedication of the first building, gave the address.