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The Broad Ripple Gazette
Vol. 16 No. 16
Including the Cultural Districts and Midtown: Meridian-Kessler, Butler-Tarkington, and Meridian St.
Keeanna Warren (Founding Principal) holds the ribbon on the left as Scott Bess (Head of Schools) cuts the ribbon.
Crossword page 13
Aug. 9 - Aug. 22, 2019
photo courtesy of Broad Ripple H.S. Alumni Association
(Left to Right) Broad Ripple High School alumni Curtis Baker, Jan Ottolini and Bruce Buchanan with the Rocket.
Purdue cuts ribbon at new Broad Ripple PPHS Broad Ripple High School memorabilia collection Purdue Polytechnic High School - North held a grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony at the 1405 Broad Ripple Avenue location. Following the ceremony, tours of the building were conducted and refreshments were served. The new high school is now enrolling for the fall semester.
One of the many classrooms at the new Purdue Polytechnic High School.
Random Ripplings Kids Rock The Park, the annual fund-raiser for Girls Rock! Indy, was held at Broad Ripple Park on July 28. There were many activities for attendees, such as making buttons seen below. For more info: www.girlsrockindy.org
By Mario Morone
mario@broadripplegazette.com Broad Ripple High School alumni and Flanner Buchanan Owner/CEO Bruce Buchanan recently described his interest in preserving some of his alma mater’s memorabilia. “I have a great deal of interest in local and family history. I believe it’s very important to keep significant things. I fell into this project because I went to a Broad Ripple High School Alumni Association meeting last year for another matter. At that meeting, I mentioned that I had been a professional photographer, so I volunteered to become the photographer of the BRHS archives. I wanted there to be quality pictures that researchers would be able to utilize,” he explained. Buchanan described his early career. “After Indiana University, I went on to work as a photojournalist at three different newspapers and then as a commercial photographer for ten years. I worked as a picture editor at the Times Picayune in New Orleans. I transitioned out of that and became a commercial photographer in Milwaukee. I came back to Indianapolis in the mid-1990s.” “My first trip to see the school’s memorabilia was awe inspiring. Our volunteer team of BRHS Alumni Association members walked into a dance studio in the school and there it was: trophies, paintings, scrapbooks, yearbooks, sports jerseys and more. IPS staff had placed everything in cabinets and on tables. We saw the three state championship banners. Jan Ottolini is a co-chair with me on this project. We, along with Jack Hogan, Curtis Baker, Kerry Yount, Kent Springer and Annabelle Paul organized and started to catalog the items. I set up a photo studio and over eight trips we photographed 1,000 three-dimensional items,” he mentioned. “We know much has been given away or taken over the years. Alumni, when they heard about this effort, started asking us about specific awards or items. There is very little from the music department BRHS Alumni Assn. in the archive, for example. I was told that there were tapes made of the BRHS Golden Singers. www.BRHSAlumni.org We are doing our best to track down specific requests,” Buchanan said. If any Gazette readers or local residents know the whereabouts of significant items, they should contact the BRHSAA through their Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/groups/Broadripplealumni/ or via email at info@brhsalumni.org. “A policy for the archive has been drafted by the Alumni Association, with the assistance of the Indianapolis Public Library. It needs to be approved by IPS to become official. This will allow us to finish the process of cataloging the items so the inventory will be available for search on-line. Our committee is sorting the collection into three categories: to be kept in a museum, sell, or give away. We hope to sell some of these items to raise money for the archives’ long-term preservation. We will hire an intern to catalog and place items on-line. There are dozens of scrapbooks with newspaper articles and photographs. The Riparian newspaper is there in bound editions. These items need to be scanned, which takes time and money,” he emphasized. “There will be a BRHS Homecoming Alumni event on October 5th at the high
INDEX
See BRHS pg. 5 1 Purdue Polytechnic HS
4 History of BR part 15
1 BRHS memorabilia
5 BR Brewpub Quiz
9 Frog’s Random Rippling
1 Random Rippling Kids Rock
6 Classified Ads/Public Notices 11 Random Rippling Fur-Bee
12 Where in the Village?
15 Directory / Maps
2 Indiana State Fair
7 Local Contacts/Mistakes winner 11 Errata
12 Hidden History/Sudoku
19 Life of the Party
3 July Land Use meeting
8 Buzzing Around Town
11 Random Rippling Juicers
13 Crossword/Historic Ad
19 Random Rippling Vanguard
3 Calendar
9 BR Farmers Market
11 Poetic Thoughts
13 Random Rippling EJ move 20 Random Rippling Night
10 Random Rippling Burger
11 Random Historic Agrarian
14 Random Rippling Scotty’s
12 Random Rippling Sidewalk 14 Wine Scene Jill A. Ditmire