| Children of veterans who saw service in
the wars of the United States or in the regular army, navy, marine or
nurse corps are cared for in a splendid institution, the Indiana
Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home in Knightstown. The children must
be under sixteen years of age, normally healthy, and destitute of means
of support or education. The veteran must have been honorably discharged
and a resident of Indiana.
The home is located two mile south of
Knightstown, its thirty brick and frame buildings occupy two hundred
acres eighty-seven acres. Approximately one thousand children are cared
for here.
A regular grade and high school course is
given the children, and, in addition, they are taught a useful trade in
which they are interested.
The school numbers among its alumni men
and women who have become notably prominent and successful in the world
of business and art. One graduate is chief of the promotional staff of
the Bell Telephone Company in New York City; another has climbed the
ladder of success in the theatre and is now an internationally known
movie star. Several have become writers of fame and many have been
successfully engaged in varied fields of commerce. In fact, it is an
exception to hear of a former student of the school who has not made
good. The staff of the school is carefully selected and only those of
the greatest ability and highest degree of professional integrity are
employed as teachers and attendants. This is done to insure the children
of our war veterans an opportunity to grow into healthy, normal, happy,
self-sustaining men and women.
Children living in the Home are given an
opportunity to improve their social welfare. Organizations like those in
every school in the state are encouraged on the campus. Girl and Boy
Scouts, student newspaper, inter-scholastic contests, 4-H Club, class
organizations, athletic teams, and church organizations all contribute
to the building of personality and character to the end that graduates
are fitted for membership in an average community. |
