Booth Setser

[David Sechrest]

Booth Setser school memories

[RER]

"Columbus Township School Booth Setser Teachers/Faculty 1956"

James F. McKinney, Principal

Janice Barrows/Grace Renner
Helen Burney, Music/Kathryn Schaefer
Mary Beth Clevenger/Josephine Sears
Blanche Lind/Violet Stephenson
Lewis Lortz/Beulah Swartwood
Clarence Milnes/Beverly Swipe
Ralph Neville/Dorothy Wallace
Alice V. Owens/Harriett Wheeler

Note: School was through 8 grades

[RER]

"Graduating Class Booth Setser 1956 8th Grade"




Note: Next stop Central High School

[richard]

The Booth Setser School Building in 1958-59 School Year. The Booth Setser School was located on State Road 46 west at Rocky Point Road.




Photo Courtesy of Linda Brown

[richard]

Booth Setser School Class of 1958 - 59.

Photo Courtesy of Linda Brown

[richard]

Booth Setser School Class of 1959 - 60.

Photo Courtesy of Linda Brown

[richard]

Booth Setser School, Mrs. Shepherd grade 3 - 4 class of 1960 - 61.

Top Row L - R: Max Forge, Dennis Long, Pat Richardson, Jane Bamburger, Deborah Winchester, Kye Baxter, Eileen Shafer, Lon McDonald and John Bennett

Next to top Row L - R: Jan Nunemaker, Stephen Givens, Barbara Romine, Beth Jones, Carl Lockwood, Ellen Lawless, Linda Lou Brown, Cynthia H. Murphy, Ricky Spencer

Next to Bottom Row L - R: Lizabeth Hayworth, Joyce Johnson, Mark Hayden, Larry Henry, Debbie Sharp, Kathy Tyree, Steve Richardson, Danny Spencer, Mark Eddie

Bottom Row L - R: Mrs. Shepherd, Linda Darnell, Patricia Wilson, Randy Allman, John Burt, Dwight Martin, Linda Hill, Gale Smith



Photo Courtesy of Linda Brown

[richard]

Booth Setser School, Mr. Whitaker grade 6 class of 1963 - 64.

Front Row L - R: David Beatty, Eileen Shafer, John Campbell, Larry Dooley, Betty Froedge, Darlene Mullis, Carol Poland, Linda Brown, Ruth Galloway.

Second Row L - R: Mr. Whitaker, Cathy Bowles, Richard Davis, John Bozell, Jack Diel, Wayne Bringman, Jane Spears, Carolyn Jefferies, Frances Springhorn, Alice Carmichael.

Third Row L - R: Ronnie Sullivan, Ricky Newby, Gary Cunningham, Connie Cooper, Betty Powers, Steve Lewis, Jerry Coomer, David Smith, Danny Hogg.

Photo Courtesy of Linda Brown

[jdhinkle]

HERE IS A TEAM EFFORT FOR BOOTH SETSER
SID SENT IT RICHARD SIZED IT RER SET IT UP
JDHINKLE COPIED AND POSTED IT


Booth Sester Grade School Year 1955-1956

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Special Thanks to Sid Showalter for providing the picture and names of all the players and yells.

[RER]

Booth Sestser Basketball Team 1954-1955
Columbus, Indiana



Comment: One person not identified after Bob Pollitt

Special Thank You: To Sid Showalter for providing the picture and names to Jack Hinkle that processed the information through emailing to many former students and friends. The picture is enlarged to meet the standard of the Historical Board requirements.

Comment: The names are subject to change due to conversations that are ongoing through emailing. Any final changes will be updated on this page.

[bear]

When the school opened, all it had was "stink" water, a pumping station was added next to the Swifty station (the small metal building" just west of the station. The well and was sold to the school by Joe Damn for $1. the water was pumped to the school from that location.

[joeryanjr]

In April 2013, Nick Speth from the Bartholomew County History Center sent me a copy of an email message from Jon Myers, dated June 5, 2003.  It said, "Booth-Setser Elementary School was opened in 1953 to relieve 'serious overcrowding.' A four acre tract of land was donated by Mrs. Earl Booth and Charles M. Setser and the school was built on the site of the former Wright School about 2 1/2 miles west of downtown Columbus, Indiana at a cost of $183,500. Local citizens contributed $32,000 for the furnishings of the prefabricated steel structure erected by the Columbus township taxpayers prior to merger with the Columbus city school system and later merger into the present Bartholomew Consolidated Schools Corporation. The school was closed in May, 1976 due to declining enrollments. The Booth-Setser mascot was the Tigers."

About the donors:

Earl Booth was the name on a patent for an automobile radio control unit manufactured by Noblitt-Sparks, the forerunner of the late Arvin Industries.  Here's a photograph of the Arvin managers from 1946: Mr. Booth is second from the left in the first row.

 

"Arvin" was a brand name owned by the Noblitt-Sparks automobile components company, which had been formed in Indianapolis in 1919. The company got the name "Arvin" from the inventor of a car heater that it had bought, and they used it as their brand name because they thought it presented a good image.  Q. G. Noblitt was from Columbus and he took the company there from Indianapolis in 1931 after buying out his partners. It was renamed Arvin Industries in 1950, at which time its main site was at 17th and Central. Arvin seems to have been known best for its radios, Mr. Booth's specialty. It was acquired by Meritor in 2000, which in 2004 sold the 17th and Central manufacturing site, probably to the Columbus Components Group LLC, another auto components manufacturer that is in the site now.

Charles M. Setser (wife: Emma) seems to have been born in 1877 and was a prominent Columbus banker. He was one of the founding members, along with Herman B Wells, of the Indiana Commission for Financial Institutions, created in 1933 to help cure the financial sector meltdown that had reached a head at that time in Indiana as well as everywhere else in the country. Mr. Setser was also on the Butler University Board of Directors.

[David Sechrest]

Welcome to the board, Joe. Your post was very interesting. Thanks for sharing its history with all of us.