Lincoln High School principals Dr. Charles E. Rochelle and William E. Best with students Joseph Mathews and Austin Grithin. The school was and is at 635 Lincoln Ave., although now it is K-8 . Dr. Charles E. Rochelle served as a private in the U.S. Army in World War I. After the war, he became the first African-American to receive a doctorate in education from the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Rochelle was a social studies teacher and then principal of Lincoln High School in Evansville, IN, retiring in 1962. He served as a member of Liberty Baptist, Cawthar Shrine Temple, Deaconess Hospital Foundation Board, and was a 33rd Degree Mason. William Ebenener Best (1884?-1959) was principal at Lincoln 1928-1951, and prior to this was principal at Frederick Douglass High School in Evansville.