Logansport High School history

On August 11, 1840, the Cass County and Eel River Seminary Association bought a square plot of ground from the estate of General John Tipton.

It opened for the school year in September of 1849.

High school classes were first offered in Logansport at the Seminary in 1863, when a system dividing the school children into four categories -- primary, intermediate, grammar and high school -- was implemented.

The first recorded high school commencement took place June 1, 1871, at the Mesodian Opera House, located over Porter's Drug Store.

The following year, 1874, the Seminary was razed, and a new structure was erected on the same site.

They earned money through the play given in the auditorium on February 2, 1923, entitled The Importance of Being Earnest and by selling Eskimo Pies during the basketball season.

Tucker’s story was validated by Curly Hupp’s daughter, Nancy (Hupp) Wallis of the class of 54’. Felix did not make it onto the floor until the 1926-27 season, Tucker and Hupp’s senior year.

The emblem appeared on the 1933 Tattler cover.

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The flag’s designer, 1964 graduate Russ Bridenbaugh, created a flag with the school seal on the left lying on a white triangular field pointing to the right.

The course of building a new high school was first embarked on in 1967.

In February 1968 the board voted to purchase the property where the high school is now located.

The off campus El-Tip-Wa Vocational School began in 1971 at the old Pepsi Bottling Company warehouse on Sixth Street.

Although there were some trimming in the proposed cost of the building, it was completed and classes started in 1973.

Felix IV was submitted to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Museum in New Castle in 1986, where he is on display today.

In 1992, an auxiliary gym with new locker rooms and weight room were added off of the Berry Bowl.

The Berries were victorious, and thus Felix became our mascot and the first 'official' basketball mascot in Indiana." Another version that is much more detailed was told by Ralph "Red" Tucker in 1996.

A community fundraiser was held in 2000-01 to purchase a new Felix costume.

In 2002, major renovations were done to the current LHS Campus:

In 2010, Don Oriolo announced the launch of the Oriolo Guitar Company.

In 2015, major renovations were done to the current LHS Campus: