The Detroit times., 1914-10-30
MCMILLAN HIGH SCHOOL


RescAy. Associates, AnnabeIIe a.
Johnson, Dorothy kezi0W, FivIus
.Hfvkin. Oliver karicofe.
The Mcmillan high school has II
rooms and is located on West End
ave. near Jefferson. The location Is
bad on account OF being In the center
OF the Delray business district and
the Michigan Central tracks running
near the building. Students are
often held up and made late for
school by trains blocking the streets.
A number of factories are also To-
Gated near the building, adding to
the confusion.
The present site OF the Mcmillan
school was donated to the old Delray
settlement by James M. Mcmillan.
and the building erected thereon,
named In his honor. he being a very
prominent citizen in his day. A two
room building was first erected In
1899, succeeded in 1894 by an eight
room structure. destroyed by fire In
1895. when the present building was
planned and constructed. The build
ing Is of yellow brick and quite
handsome. green vines covering the
front, adding TO the attractiveness.
The equipment Is complete, including
fine laboratory.
A feature Of the Mcmillan. and one
that has attracted much attention. IL
the fact that five-year tot can
enter the kindergarten and finish with
high school education. The sew
enth and eight grade students are
considered hieh school juniors, and
are permitted to take I'M German.
Latin and other studies This feature
will be treated more fully later.
Mr.. George W. Murdoch Is our
principal, succeeding Mr. Frank
Cody. who guided the destines of Nc
MILAN from the time II was two
room country school until last year,
when he was selected as one Of DR..
Chadsey's assistant superintendents.
He Is wei loved and highly respect
ed by the young as well as older citi-
zens In the vicinity Of the school,
who grieved to lose him as principal
In the selection Of his successor, how
over. they are compensated. for Mr..
Murdoch has proved to be a most
capable Instructor and manager. and
has won his way into the hearts OF
the students by his pleasant person.
atty. He comes to Detroit after IL
years experience In the schools or
Denver. where he was a very close
personal friend of the famous judge
Linsay, and had occasion to study
closely the workings OF the Juvenile
court. fittine him especially for the
handling Of boys.
The names of the teachers OF Nc
MILAN have been published In this
department, SO we will not repeat
them but we do want to refer TO
Miss Begole. who recently left us.
after % years OF faithful and eff
Client service.
AT present we have t63 members
Of the Junior and senior classes, a
large increase over last year, and the
school Is growing rapidly in all de-
partments.
Since the transfer OF Mr.. Wagner
to Northwestern high we have about
given up our athletic sports. He
trained our football. baseball and
basketball teams heretofore. and we
are proud of the records they made.
Instead OF SO much attention to
athletics. as In the past, we expect
to devote the time to oratory and
debating, one club being now organi-
zed and others to follow. Ths edi-
tors for Mcmillan. as shown above,
are charter members Of the first club,
and while the attendance SO far Is
rather small. we expect to make
good" and arouse interest and en-
thusiasm for greater success.
We find that the Mcmillan Is not
as well known throughout the city
as II should be, many people consider
ing II merely grammer school In
stead of a combination of all the
grades to the twelfth. and for that
reason we expect to write rather ex-
tendedly about our school and its
advantages.
We hope editorial colleagues Of
other schools. as well as all readers
OF the Times School Department. will
pardon the length of our first let
ter and ind something to interest
them, promising to get down to the
customary length articles as soon as
we have made up for the time lost
In getting started. We have num-
Der OF interesting things to write
about, but will try and String them
out" from day to day rather than
tell the whole story at one sitting.