From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.

Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews.    

Information for this retrospective series is courtesy of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.

April 15, 1970 — One junior high school for all seventh and eighth grade students beginning September was voted by the Warsaw School Board during a lengthy regular meeting Tuesday evening.

At the present time, seventh and eighth grade students attend junior high in Warsaw and in Claypool.

This means transferring about 110 students from Clay and Lake townships to the junior high on Main Street in Warsaw next September.

April 16, 1969 — Whitko’s school board Tuesday night in a special meeting signed a “mutual” cancellation contract with Richard P. Miller, Elkhart architect, who has already been paid the sum of $85,000 for his plans for a new high school.

The contract calls for the payment of $1,897 for the architect’s services since Dec. 16, 1968.

This leaves the highly controversial problem of a new high school, which has caused friction in the school corporation for several years, back to a complete beginning or starting again from scratch.

April 18, 1967 — Warsaw school board members last night took several “steps” towards avowed goals of one junior high school and smaller class sizes on the elementary level.

On a motion by Matt Dalton, the board voted to close the Adams Elementary School now located in the junior high school building. The decision was also to transfer 93 junior high school students from Leesburg to Warsaw.

The changes will be made effective with the beginning of the school term next September.

In another step, the board voted on a motion by Dale Tucker to make the Silver Lake and Claypool schools a single administrative unit. At the present time, there is a full-time principal at Claypool and a principal who teaches half-time at Silver Lake.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels