In 1948, the Bremen Hi-Y club at the school decided a little good sportsmanship spirit was warranted at basketball games and created a sign that remained in the gymnasium until it was remodeled in 1987-88. The sign, apparently encouraged nationally... Continue Reading →
One of our goals at Historic Bremen is to scan all of the BHS yearbooks and make them available online on our Flickr account. We don't scan every page but rather focus on senior pictures, clubs, and sports teams, with... Continue Reading →
It's been 36 years, and yet it only seems like yesterday that the class of 1986 graduated Bremen High School. Here is a substantial part of that class' senior portraits. If you have more or portraits from other years, we'd... Continue Reading →
Dan Shuppert, long-time Bremen English teacher and counselor, allowed us to add his collection of sports teams he coached over the years to our digital collection. The photos range from the early 1980s to the 2000s. Note: Many of the... Continue Reading →
Among the items bought to us by the Bremen Public Library are several copies of the Lion's Roar, the high school newspaper put out during the 1970s. Here's one issue's "Grease Spot" column on Lee Anglemeyer's 1966 Ford Custom car... Continue Reading →
While yearbooks have been produced for Bremen High School every year since 1940 (and every four years before that, more or less, back to 1902), they were rarer for lower grades. But the 1976 US Bicentennial was a special year... Continue Reading →
Historic Bremen has put together a time capsule filled with items commemorating the year that was 2020. A lot happened last year: the COVID-19 pandemic, major road repairs lasting months, businesses closing temporarily or permanently, employees working from home, remote... Continue Reading →
Bremen Enquirer - 27 Feb 1903
Mary Jo [Pease] McPherron grew up around Tippecanoe and taught school in Madison township, St Joe county, but her late husband Tom taught school in Bremen. He coached girls' track and boys' wrestling and taught higher mathematics for many years.... Continue Reading →
Brandon Rowe has passed along a digital album of wonderful school photos from the 1920s and '30s, when his grandmother's sister, Mary Young, was a teacher. Many of these are her personal copies, and she labeled the students. The collection... Continue Reading →
The year is 1907. Football is a brutal game with few rules and fewer pads. Boys are breaking bones and cracking heads and riding home in horse-drawn buggies or horseless carriages (the Model T didn't even start production until 1908).... Continue Reading →