Great Fear of Culver Losing Its High School  

Consolidation Plans Hit Snag

About 50 present at the public meeting on the school reorganization at the local school last Friday night heard township trustee Eugene G. Benedict assert that there is virtually no hope of keeping our high school in Culver.

As of that time, it was Mr. Benedict’s opinion that the County Committee would recommend to the State Committee in its report soon to be made, a consolidation of Union, Greene, Walnut and Tippecanoe townships of Marshall county.

All hopes for a consolidation of

Aubbeenaubee, North Bend, and Union townships or

Or Union, Green, Walnut, Aubbeenaubee, and Richland townships

seem to be gone as the Starke and Fulton County Committees have made it very definite that those affected will not be released.

Fulton county is definitely interested in a County School Unit with all high school students going to Rochester.

Mr. Benedict pointed out that there has never been much enthusiasm in Richland Township for a consolidation with Argos. Some in that area prefer the Fulton county plan.

Prefer Plymouth to Argos.

There was a strong feeling among those present at the Friday night meeting that they would rather have our students go to Plymouth to high school than see the proposed plan become a reality. Plymouth meets the state requirements at this time and has no wish for more students. So, unless many other people throughout the county feel the same as the majority of those who made their opinions known Friday night, and let their wishes be know, it seems a certainty that our high school students will be attending school at Argos.

The tentative plans for Marshall County as they now stand are for

Bourbon to go to Bremen;

West, Polk, and North townships – that is Tyner, LaPaz, and West – to consolidate with a new high school to be built, probably in Polk township as the most centralized location; and as mentioned the consolidation of

Union, Argos and Tippecanoe schools

James Miracle presided at the meeting. Those present of the Union township committee were Mr. Benedict, Mrs. Peteer DeTroy, Mrs. Glenn Overmyer, and Wayne Kline. Harry Edgington and Raymond J. Ives are also members of the committee.

Culver Citizen By JoAnne Price Aug 31 1960