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 High School building in 1910 Click image to enlarge |
| Source: David Shedlock postcard contribution HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY In Sep 1960, Marcus Community School District electors were asked to vote on a school bond that would allow for the construction of a new high school. It was deemed that because of the fast growing district and the limited capacity of the existing antiquated and inadequate high school, and the fact that it couldn't be enlarged, the districts needs could not be met. On Sep 14, 1961, sixteen people took a tour of the new Marcus community high school which was under construction at the time. In the fall of 1967, the 8th grade class was moved from the new high school building back to the old building due to rising high school student enrollment. In 1969, the old high school building was being used as a grade school. Marcus High School, along with Meriden and Cleghorn schools, became part of a new district called Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Community School Districton July 1, 1993. The old school building was torn down to make way for residential lots in March 1998. |
| SCHOOL NEWS FROM THE 1910's A NORMAL COURSE PROBABLY NEW BRANCH WILL BE ADDED TO SCHOOL Marcus School Board Endeavoring to Make The Marcus School the Very Best Possible J. W. Nield president of the Marcus school board, has during the past few weeks been working in behalf of a normal training course becoming a regular branch of the course of the Marcus high school, this new addition to start with the opening of school in September. In the adding of normal training, there must be at least ten pupils who agreed to take the course. Mr. Nield states that eleven young ladies have stated their desire to take the course. F. L. Mahannah, of Des Moines, state inspector of normal training in high schools, was here last Thursday and approved of the establishment of the course in the Marcus high school provided more room could be arranged for. The school board held a long meeting last night discussing ways for such arrangement. If the conditions are met, and it is likely they will be, the local school will be the second in the county to have normal course, the other being the Cherokee school. It is probably that no other school in the county can get this course unless it is the Aurelia school. The state bears the large part of the expense of this branch, each school receiving from the state $750. This is a two year course and the student, on completing, will be granted a state certificate for two years. The studies to be taken in addition to the ones that have been taken in the school in the past are agriculture, economics and pedagogy. The student receiving the normal training certificate must also be a graduate from the school. The Marcus school has been recognized as one of the very best in the county and it will even have a better standing with the addition of this new branch. ( The Marcus News, Marcus, IA, Thurs, Jul 16, 1914, pg. 1) Rural Students Attending M. H. S. The following twenty seven young people fromo the rural districts have enrolled as students of the Marcus high school: Adelbert McGee, Virginia Means, Mae Shafer, Charles Meehan, Chris Scott, Edna Abels, Sidnea Carlson, Merna Ward, Gladys Nier, Eula Nier, Verna Ward, Lila Olson, Ernest Raun, Bessie Gibson, Mona McIntosh, Forest Peters, Bertha Scott, Edna Rubbert, Bernice Woodall, Marie Miller, Dale Pitts, Marion Swindle, Judy Means, Mary Lampher, Florence Brown, Lillian Umspeter and Mary Meehan. (Source: The Marcus News, Thur, Sep 9, 1915, pg. 1) |
 High School building in 1972 Click image to enlarge |
| Source: Cherokee Daily Times 10 August 1972; photo credit Robin Martin |
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