Clipped from US, Indiana, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Times, September 28, 1933

AGED STATE EDUCATOR IS TAKEN BY DEATHRetired Elkhart Principal Served School for Forty-one Years.By United PreenELKHART. Ind., Sept. 28.—Syl-j vester McCracken, 76, member of I the Elkhart high school faculty for forty-one years, seventeen as principal, died Wednesday at the homeof his brother Charles in Bringhurst.Mr. McCracken was born in Kokomo. He retired as Elkhart principal last June.