Verlag: Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1937
Anbieter: Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: In quite good condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No. Royal octavo [25cm/10inches], full chrome-embossed beige cloth sans dust jacket, unpaginated. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . Shortridge High School opened in 1864 and is Indiana's oldest free public high school. Out of 421 public high schools in Indiana, Shortridge was ranked as the 10th best in 2020 by US News & World Report. Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Shortridge class of 1940, said of his alma mater: ". my dream of an America with great public schools. I thought we should be the envy of the world with our public schools. And I went to such a public school. So I knew that such a school was possible. Shortridge High School in Indianapolis produced not only me, but the head writer on the I LOVE LUCY show (Madelyn Pugh). And, my God, we had a daily paper, we had a debating team, had a fencing team. We had a chorus, a jazz band, a serious orchestra. And all this with a Great Depression going on. And I wanted everybody to have such a school.".