Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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F- m --'MF ' BELOIT HIGH SCHOOL l

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STAFF OF THE ORANGE AND BLACK Elizabeth Butler Donald Ewart .... Josephine Vance Elizabeth Lutz .... Russell Heidrick Helen Lathrop .... Margaret Wills Donald Evifart -.. -------------- Editor Business Manager -,--------,--- Literary Editor ---- Assistant Literary Editor Snap-Shot Editor --- Assistant Snap-Shot Editor ----------,------- Calendar ---- Artist x intl , Liege in sig

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l l f--, li THE HISTORY OF B. H. S. The improvement of our school has been steady ever since the Beloit School District, Number Two, was organized in 1870, the same year in which Mitchell county was organized. For several years school was conducted in a building which stood ion the present site of the Union National Bank. Here 0. N. Fletcher, who was a Baptist minister, taught school and conducted church services. Later, W. A. Reeder, a former congressman from this district, taught for two or three years in this same building. Mr. Reeder claims the distinction of being the only man in Kansas who ever dis- missed school that the older boys might aid in chasing from the town site a herd of buffalo. This he did in 1872 when a herd of wild buffalo was reported to be entering the village at about thexsame place where Beloit High school stands to- day. Three buffalo were killed that day on the townsite. A few years after this a brick school house was built a little to the south of where our present building stands. Due to the crumbling of the brick, this building was .soon con- demned and wrecked. In 1879 the school was organized as a High School Dis- trict. W. H. Burke was chairman of the board and W. H. Thomas was the first superintendent. He received a salary of S100 a month, while the grade teachers received 330. In 1884, twenty thousand dollars in bonds were voted to build the old high school building which in 1918 was destroyed by fire. The first class graduated from B. H. S.-the class of '83 -consisted of two members, Miss Long and Miss Barnes. The second class, which was graduated in 1884 had ten members. Miss Bauman, the superintendent, said in her report, The exercises as a whole were a credit to our school and places our educational advantages second to no city in the Northwest. From that time until the present day our school has grown and developed. In 19114 the board found it necessary to build an addition to the old building in order to better care for the ever increasing student body. On September 21, 1918, that building was entirely destroyed by fire. Immediately the school board set about to prepare for the erection of the new 'building-our own B. H. S. of which we are all so proud. During the time of the erection of the new building: school was held in the churches and various other centrally located buildings, and much to the -credit of those in authority, scarcely a day was missed. Today we are very proud .to say we are attending one of the most complete and best equipped High school build- ings in the state, Here's to our Alma Mater- The best school in the state. W'c love her, we revere her, adore her. . May she overcome any fate. F. L. S. , ,,. 4 i925 V