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NEW SUBJECTS TAUGHT.
The public schools of today teach a wide variety of subjects that were not included in the curriculum a few years ago. The casual visitor to the high school building of Connersville today will see girls baking biscuits, trimming hats, making aprons and receiving instruction in a multitude of other points concerned with domesticity. In another room boys may be seen making various kinds of furniture and engaged in the several forms of the industrial arts. Courses in agriculture are provided so that the boy who is from the farm or wants to engage in farming after leaving school has an opportunity to receive scientific instruction in the modern methods of agriculture.
In other words, the public school of today is trying as never before to fit boys and girls for active life when they leave the school room. No one will say that a knowledge of Latin or algebra is going to help a girl to bake biscuits or a boy to select seed corn, and it is for this reason that
MAPLEWOOD SCHOOL BUILDING, CONNERSVILLE.
HAWKINS PLAYGROUND, CONNERSVILLE.
FIFTH STREET SCHOOL BUILDING, CONNERSVILLE.
EIGHTH STREET SCHOOL BUILDING, CONNERSVILLE.
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the state of Indiana has provided a practical course of domestic science for girls and of industrial arts and agriculture for boys.
The course in domestic science in the Connersville schools was intro- duced in 1913, and has been extended each year since that time. Complete courses in cooking, dressmaking and kindred subjects, such as are usually included in domestic science courses, are given. The cooking department is provided with tables, cabinets, range. and a full complement of all kitchen utensils necessary to cooking. The sewing room is fitted up with a number of sewing machines and all things necessary for such a course.
The manual training department is fitted with an electrically-driven saw and planing and turning outfits. One room is devoted to cabinet-making, each student having a separate work bench, with his own tools. Another room is set aside for finishing the furniture made by the boys. The manual training department was installed in the summer of 1916 and it is the intention of the school board to add to it until it is as complete a system of manual training as may be found in any city in the state of this size.
SCHOOLS IN 1916-17.
It seems pertinent in this connection to give a birdseye view of the schools as they appear in 1916-17. There are four buildings, forty-three teachers, and fifteen hundred pupils. All of the high school work is done in the high school building, and also the eighth-grade work is conducted in the same building. The elementary schools employ twenty-eight teachers. All the pupils in and above the 5.A grade come under the departmental system of instruction. All the music and drawing instruction is given or supervised by special teachers. Music has had a special teacher since 1892. A commer- cial course including typewriting, shorthand and bookkeeping has been in operation since the new high school was opened in 1904. This course pre- pares its graduates for positions in business offices and more than twenty-five graduates of the course are now filling responsible positions. All the domes- tic science instruction is given in the high-school building, with the exception of one class in sewing in the Eighth street building.
A noticeable feature of the public school buildings of the city is the completeness with which they are equipped. Every wall in each room is painted in such a way as to give the best lighting results. The buildings have modern ventilated toilets, sanitary soap and towels, semi-indirect electric light- ing. phonographs, display theaters, outside drinking fountains, playground apparatus and material and a system of supervised.play.
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Each teacher is provided with a loose-leaf manual which contains the bulletins issued by the superintendent from time to time, so that each teacher is kept in constant touch with the superintendent. There is also a daily messenger service maintained between the superintendent's office and each school. There are supplementary lists in reading, geography and history provided for the different grades, and all sorts of "helps" for the teachers in the lower grades. Each room has a small library of books adapted to the needs of that grade. Each room is provided with a cabinet of sufficient size to allow each to have a separate compartment for his work.
PRESENT HIGH-SCHOOL ENROLLMENT.
The high school during the current year employs eleven full-time teachers, and has an enrollment of two hundred and seventy-five. The building is modern throughout and is well equipped to meet the modern demands for school work. During 1916-17 there were thirty-five graduates of the local high school in college. The school is commissioned by the state and is also accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The teachers in the high school are expected to contribute, within their respective abilities, to the literary, athletic and social life of the school and these phases of school life are prominent.
The students in the high school maintain a paper known as The Clarion. which is now in the fourth year of its publication. An athletic association includes both students and high school teachers. High school athletic teams engage in competitive contests with other schools in the state. There are literary and debating clubs for both boys and girls. A motion-picture machine is in operation and a regular film service is provided. Illustrative work is done in English, history, Latin and other high school subjects. There is a complete course in history and appreciation of music under the supervision of a competent instructor. In the music room there is a grand piano and a phonograph. During the past few years, the school has acquired a series of phonographic records which demonstrate the music, both vocal and instrumental, of many of the leading artists of the world. Each room also has its own particular paintings and works of art.
THE HAWKINS PLAYGROUND.
While the buildings themselves and their equipment will measure up to the buildings and equipment of any other city in the state of a similar size, Connersville has one feature of its public school system which demands
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special mention. This is a playground of three acres and a half known as the Hawkins playground, the site of which was presented to the school city of Connersville by Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Hawkins, Mr. Hawkins having been president of the board of school trustees since 1908. With the exception of two years Mr. Hawkins has been a member of the school board since 1894. The formal transfer of the property, consisting of three and one-half acres, or four city blocks, to the trustees occurred at a public ceremony on July 31, 1914. The playground is located at the northern end of Eastern avenue, opposite Eighteenth street.
The playground is provided with the modern equipment such as is usually found in the playgrounds of the larger cities and includes a brick field house, twenty-eight by forty-two feet, provided with a shelter room, toilets, shower baths, store rooms, attic and veranda on all sides. In addi- tion the playground has an elliptical running track with a straightaway, two tennis courts, basket-ball goals, a baseball diamond, two sets of six swings each for girls, a horizontal bar, rings, giant strides, ocean wave, swings for boys, a cement wading-pool twenty feet and two inches in diameter and twelve inches in depth, outside drinking fountains, sand box, baby swings, jumping standards, flagstaff and electric lights.
The initial costs of the improvements and equipment, not including the land donated, are as follows: Field house, wading pool, fountain and gates, $3.700 ; tennis courts, running track and ball field, $618; walks and grading around building, $275 ; hedge grading and fences, $200; apparatus and play- ground material, $457; flagstaff, lights and pedestals, $200: total, $5,500. This makes the cost for improvements and equipment approximately the cost of one room in the erection of a new modern school building. The initial costs of improvements have been met, to the extent of one thousand dollars, in part by donations by friends of Mr. Hawkins and the remainder is being paid for by public taxation as provided by law.
This gift of a very fine site so well suited to the purposes of a public playground made it possible for Connersville to be the first fifth-class city in the state to avail itself of this law. The playground was popular from the beginning and all classes of the people take pride in and believe in it as a most excellent factor in the present efficient school system.
THE MARGUERITE THIEBAUD SCHOLARSHIP.
The history of the Connersville schools would not be complete without mention of the Marguerite Thiebaud scholarship in Earlham College. Miss
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Thiebaud was born in Connersville, was graduated from the local high school in 1908, from Earlham College in 1912, and died at Bryn Mawr, Pennsyl- vania, in March, 1914, while in her second year of post-graduate studies in Bryn Mawr College. In her honor her parents, B. F. and Alice Thiebaud, established a scholarship in Earlham College, carrying an honorarium of three hundred dollars annually. Hanging on the wall of the high school auditorium is a framed announcement of this scholarship, and such of it as pertains to the scholarship proper is here given.
I. Marguerite Thiebaud was born in Connersville in 1890. She was graduated from the Connersville high school in 190S, and from Earlham College with the class of 1912. She died in Bryn Mawr in March, 1914, while in her second year of post-graduate studies.
Marguerite Thiebaud possessed and cultivated the finer qualities, both of mind and character. She represented well the modest, earnest, high-minded type of young Christian womanhood. She cared for the better things. She set a good example.
II. In October. 1915, her parents, Benjamin F. and Alice Thieband, founded a scholarship in Earlham College as a memorial to their daughter. This scholarship is open to graduates of the Connersville high school, young men and young women, who have been residents of Fayette county for at least two years previous to graduation.
The candidate shall meet these requirements :
(a) He shall be able to enter the college without conditions.
(b) He shall be worthy morally.
(c) He shall rank well in scholarship and ordinarily shall be selected from the group standing highest fourth in the class, i. e. in a class of forty he shall be one of the highest ten in point of scholarship record.
(d) He shall by ability, industry, variety of interests, and qualities of leadership and character, give promise of usefulness in life.
11I. The scholarship is awarded as follows :
The superintendent of schools of the school city of Connersville, the principal of the high school and the assistant principal constitute a committee to determine the method of selection of the beneficiaries and to make or to approve the selection, which when certified to the college by the superintendent of schools is final, subject only to the approval of the college.
The first award of this scholarship was made in the spring of 1916 and Grace Edwards, a graduate of the class of 1916, was selected as the first one to receive the benefits of the scholarship. She is now attending Earlham College, where she is making an enviable record.
CITY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS.
Since the present system of public schools was established in Conners- ville in 1858 there have been thirteen superintendents, their names and dates of service being as follow: John Brady, 1858-60; Harvey Nutting, 1860- 05 : Charles Roehl, 1865-67: J. L. Rippetoe, 1867-71, 1873-85 ; Mr. Hughes,
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1871-73: Mr. Housekeeper, 1873: D. E. Hunter, 1886-88; W. F. L. Sanders, 1889-98: W. S. Rowe, 1889-1904 : Lotus D. Coffman, 1905-06: E. A. Turner, 1907; Guy M. Wilson, 1908-11 ; Edwin L. Rickert, 1912.
The superintendent has had an office clerk since January 1, 1904. this position having been held in turn by Harriett Williams, Flora Doenges, Myrtle Morgan and Sophia Nickel. The superintendent's office is equipped with an adding machine, rotary mimeograph, safety vault and up-to-date record and filing devices. All the high school books are handled through the superintendent's office, which is a regularly appointed depository. The regular school library contains in excess of one thousand volumes.
SUPT. E. L. RICKERT.
Edward L. Rickert, superintendent of the Connersville city schools, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, November 12, 1874. He was graduated from the Columbiana high school and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the College of Wooster in 1901. Subsequently he did post-graduate ·work in the University of California and in Harvard University and in IQII received his degree of Master of Arts from Columbia University. Superintendent Rickert's teaching experience began in 1893, and for two years he taught in the rural schools of his home county. From 1895 to 1897 he taught in the North Lima, Ohio, schools. Following his gradua- tion from Wooster in 1901, he became principal of the Lowellville, Ohio, schools, and remained there until 1905. The two following years he was principal of the elementary school at Youngstown, Ohio. In the fall of 1907 he took charge of the schools at Maquoketa, Iowa, as superintendent. and continued there until 1912, when he became superintendent of the schools of Connersville.
Mr. Rickert was married on July 31, 1912, to Grace Weimer, of Beach City, Ohio. They are the parents of two sons, Edward W. and George A.
HIGH-SCHOOL PRINCIPALS.
Apparently from the official records the office of high school principal was first established in 1877, the year in which the high school adopted a course leading to graduation. The first graduating class was in the spring of 1878. It will be noted from the appended list of principals that only one of the number later became superintendent. Three of the former principals are now living in Connersville, E. M. Michener, W. R. Houghton and John
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F. Clifford. The complete list of principals follow: WV. J. Bowen, 1877- 79: J. H. Hayes, 1879-81 ; George Vinnedge, 1881-82: C. F. Coffin, 1882; C. E. Bickmore, 1882-83 : R. M. Zan Horn, 1883-85; E. M. Michener, 1885- 93: R. S. Ludlow, 1893-94; J. F. Clifford, 1894-95; W. R. Houghton, 1895- 1903; E. A. Turner, 1903-05, 1906-07; G. W. Gannon, 1905-06; A. E. White, 1907-09: Guy Cantwell, 1909-11 : M. S. Hallman, 1911, incumbent.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
The first records of the Connersville city school trustees which gives the members of the board are those of 1873. The following table gives the three members, year by year, since that date. It will be noticed that it has been the rule to continue the members in office from year to year. The complete list follows :
Year. President.
Secretary.
Treasurer.
1873
C. Wright
Charles Roehl
I. Zeller
1874
C. Wright
Charles Roehl
I. Zeller
1875
Charles Roehl
W. H. Beck
I. Zeller
1876
Charles Roehl
WV. H. Beck
I. Zeller
1877
Charles Roehl
WV. H. Beck
I. Zeller
1878
Charles Roelil
W. H. Beck
I. Zeller
1879
Charles Roehl
W. H. Beck
I. Zeller
1880
J. W. Ross .
M. L. Nichols
I. Zeller
1881
J. W. Ross
M. L. Nichols
I. Zeller
1882
P. B. Wood
J. H. Hayes
J. W .. Ross
1883
P. B. Wood
J. H. Hayes
J. W. Ross
1884
G. W. Pigman
J. H. Hayes
P. B. Wood
1885
M. C. Buckley
J. M. Higgs
P. B. Wood
1886
M. C. Buckley
J. M. Higgs
P. B. Wood
1887
J. W. Ross
J. M. Higgs
P. B. Wood
1888
J. W. Ross
J. I. Little
P. B. Wood
1889
J. W. Ross
J. I. Little
Thomas Downs
1890
Thomas Downs
J. I. Little
G. M. Sinks
1891
Thomas Downs
J. I. Little
G. M. Sinks
1892
Thomas Downs
J. I. Little
G. M. Sinks
1893
Thomas Downs
J. I. Little
G. M. Sinks
1894
Thomas Downs
E. V. Hawkins
J. I. Little
1895
Thomas Downs
E. V. Hawkins
J. I. Little
1896
Thomas Downs
E. V. Hawkins Thomas Downs
L. D. Dillman
1898
E. V. Hawkins
B. F. Thiebaud
L. D. Dillman
1899
E. V. Hawkins
B. F. Thiebaud
L. D. Dillman
J. I. Little
1897
E. V. Hawkins
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Year.
President.
Secretary.
Treasurer.
1900
E. V. Hawkins
C. E. J. McFarlan
B. F. Thiebaud
1901
B. F. Thiebaud
E. V. Hawkins
C. E. J. McFarlan
1902
E. V. Hawkins
B. F. Thiebaud
C. E. J. McFarlan
1903
B. F. Thiebaud
E. V. Hawkins
C. E. J. McFarlan
1904
E. V. Hawkins
W. L. Cortleyou
C. E. J. McFarlan
1905
M. C. Buckley
W. L. Cortleyou
C. E. J. McFarlan
1906
M. C. Buckley
W. L. Cortleyou
C. E. J. McFarlan
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M. C. Buckley
E. V. Hawkins
C. E. J. McFarlan
1908
E. V. Hawkins
B. F. Thiebaud
C. E. J. McFarlan
1 909
E. V. Hawkins
B. F. Thiebaud
C. E. J. McFarlan
1910
E. V. Hawkins
B. F. Thiebaud
C. E. J. McFarlan
IQII
E. V. Hawkins
B. F. Thiebaud
C. E. J. McFarlan
1912
E. V. Hawkins
C. C. Hull
B. F. Thiebaud
1913
E. V. Hawkins
C. C. Hull
B. F. Thiebaud
1914
E. V. Hawkins
J. E. Page
C. C. Hull
1915
E. V. Hawkins
J. E. Page
S. O. McKennan
1916
E. V. Hawkins
J. E. Page
S. O. McKennan
CONNERSVILLE SCHOOL DIRECTORY, 1916-17.
During the current year ( 1916-17) there were forty-three teachers in the city schools, twenty-six grade teachers, eleven high-school teachers and six special teachers. All of the grade teachers and special teachers have had college training, many of them being college graduates. The present directory of the schools follows:
Board of School Trustees .- E. V. Hawkins, president: J. E. Page, secretary ; S. O. McKennan, treasurer : E. L. Rickert, superintendent.
Teachers in the Fifth street building .- Chester Boone, principal, 6B; Harriet E. Williams, 5A: Ethel Carter, 5B; Nellie White, 4A; Blanche Higgs, 4B-3.A : Laura Goddard. 3B-2A : Hortense Crago, 2B-I.\; May Mer- ritt. IB.
Eighth street .- S. B. Pierson, principal. 7.1; Margaret Connell, 7B; Helen Scott, 6A; Rema Risk. 4B: Kathleen Carlos, 3B-3A: Elsie Stoll, 2.1- 3B; Mattie Gamble, 2B: Ida Bottles, IA-1B.
Maplewood .- D. W. Jacot. principal, 7B-6.\: Martha Schug, 7.1-5A; Pearl McCaslin, 6B: Elizabeth Turrell. 5B: Edna Gilbert. 4A-4B: Ruby Schneider. 4B-3A: Susan Hull, 3B-2A : Mae Moxley. 2A-3B: Elisabeth Friedgen, IA: Sue Procter. 1B.
High School .- M. S. Hallman, principal: Minnie Torr, history : W. F. L. Sanders, mathematics; H. H. Radcliffe, science : J. Warren Smith, indus-
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trial arts; Mary Melrose, science and mathematics; Lucy Hawk, domestic science ; Mabel D. Brown, Latin; Grace M. Hall, German; Louise Keller, English : Mary Rieman, English; R. E. Mathews, commercial; Anna Kett- mann, physical training ; Cora Sutton, 8B-8A.
Supervisors .- A. A. Glockzin, music; Ione Reynolds, art; Sophie Nickel, clerk.
THE ELMHURST SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
One of the most beautiful sites in Fayette county is the picturesque little park at the southern edge of the city of Connersville in which stands a stately building, now the home of the Elmhurst School for girls. This school was established by Isabel Cressler and Caroline Sumner in 1909 for the purpose of giving to the girls of the Middle West educational opportunities equal to those to be had in the Eastern schools for girls. Miss Cressler and Miss Sumner have had charge of the school since it was organized in 1909. Miss Cressler is a graduate of Wilson College and Miss Sumner is a gradu- ate of Smith College.
Elmhurst is a unique school in many respects. In the first place, the enrollment is limited to twenty-four, the number which can be accommo- dated in the building. While the school is strictly non-sectarian, it is per- meated with a religious atmosphere. Each day's work begins with a short chapel service, and Sunday morning attendance at one of the churches in Con- nersville is required of all pupils. The curriculum is divided into two courses, an academic and college preparatory course, and what is denominated an advanced collegiate course. The first course includes the following subjects : English, mathematics, Latin, French, German, Greek, history, science and history of art. The second course adds civil government, social and political science, logic and psychology. In addition to these subjects instruction is given in painting, drawing, vocal and instrumental music, dancing and a practical course in domestic science. The school property comprises one hundred and twenty acres and by utilizing the tillable land the school has developed a combination agricultural and domestic-science course which is unique in the work of private schools for girls. There is also an excel- lent course provided in physical training, the system in use being known as the Mensendieck system. Elmhurst is the first and only school in America to use this system and the instructor in charge is a graduate pupil of Frau Dr. Mensendieck.
The historic building in which the school is located was not all con- structed at the same time. The nucleus of the present structure was erected
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by Oliver H. Smith, then a member of Congress, in 1831, but his contribu- tion to the magnificent building of the present day was only four rooms. These same four rooms are now in the middle of the forty rooms now found in the building. When Smith removed to Indianapolis in 1839 he sold the building to Caleb B. Smith, also a congressman and later a member of President Lincoln's cabinet. The building next became the property of James Shaw, later of Nicholas Patterson, and from the latter it passed into the hands of Samuel W. Parker, another congressman from Connersville. Parker eventually disposed of it to James N. Huston, and after passing through different hands it finally became the property of Dr. W. J. Porter. While Senator Hnston occupied the residence, it was a part of an estate of many hundred acres, called "Old Elm Farm," from the ancient elm grove. The Senator was the political manager for Benjamin Harrison, who, with his first wife, Mrs. Caroline Scott Harrison, was a frequent visitor at the place. When Harrison became President, Senator Huston became United States treasurer.
Later, when "Old Elm Farm" was divided and sold, Mrs. W. J. Porter applied the modified name of "Elmhurst" to the part held for a time for sanatorium purposes by her husband. About 1905 it was purchased by the late George B. Markle, of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, who used it as a summer home. Four years after he became the owner the present school was estab- lished.
The magnificent forest trees surrounding "Elmhurst" furnish one of its most distinctive features. The famous "Elmhurst" elm stands ninety-five feet high and measures sixteen feet in circumference at the base. Good authorities have placed the age of the tree at three hundred years. Standing near the elm tree is a catalpa speciosa, eight feet in circumference and one of the best specimens of this variety in the country. "Elmhurst" has one of the finest beech trees in the state. The tree measures thirty-two feet in circumfer- ence at the base and stands one hundred feet high. Another tree proclaimed by Dean Coulter, of Purdue University, to be a perfect type of the American elm is a century old and measures ten and one-half feet in circumference.
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CHAPTER XV.
LITTERATEURS AND ARTISTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY.
Indiana is known throughout the nation as a literary center. Its men and women have contributed thousands of volumes of both prose and poetry, of varying degrees of merit, to the literature of the country. More than two thousand Hoosiers have found their names on a printed volume and at least a hundred of this number have attained a fame which extends beyond their own state. No fewer than twelve Hoosiers have written volumes of such merit as to be included in the list of "best sellers" of the country. They are George Barr Mccutcheon, Meredith Nicholson, Booth Tarkington, David Graham Philips, Gene Stratton-Porter, Charles Major, Maurice Thompson, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Elizabeth Miller Hack, Marjorie Benton Cook, James Whitcomb Riley and Albert J. Beveridge.
While Fayette county has never produced a writer who has been classed as a "best seller," yet it has produced a number of writers who have made a state-wide reputation. Two of the best volumes dealing with life in Indi- ana prior to the Civil War have come from the hand of residents of this county. Oliver H. Smith in his "Early Indiana Trials and Sketches" ( 1858), and Dr. Philip Mason in his "Autobiography and Original Essays" (1868), have given to the state two volumes which are very valuable for the light they throw on the early history of the state. The volume of Doctor Mason deals more with the history of Fayette county than the volume of Smith, the Doctor's autobiography being a recital of his career in the county from 1816 until his volume was issued in 1868, and covering a wide variety of topics. He touches on the schools, churches, social and industrial affairs, and the civil life of the county ; lists the prevailing ailments of the community and prescribes for their treatment : tells about farming conditions in the early days and offers suggestions to farmers as to methods for obtaining the best results from their efforts; traces the growth of Masonry in Connersville: in short, he offers in his volume the results of his life work in Fayette county.
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