Echo High School - Echoes Yearbook (Echo, OR)

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History of Echo High During the past three years school district No. 5 has increased in area from 101 square miles to 423. The assessed valuation has increased from less than one million dollars to almost two and a half million. The directors of school district No. 5 are to be congratulated for bringing about these consolidations and boundary changes as it makes Echo school district one of the largest in Oregon. The five school districts which have merged into one district now have enough resources to work out an economical building program that will not be felt too much by the taxpayers of the district. Due to this great increase in area the enrollment of students in the Echo school has increased also. A few of the rooms in the lower grades have become crowded that the need for more classrooms is in demand After the consolidation with the Pine City district was made, the directors brought up a bond issue which would provide a cafeteria and a new three room building for the elementary grades, that is, the first three grades, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades. That issue was passed, so the plans are being made now to have these new buildings ready for use next fall. The new three room building will have all modern facilities. The cafeteria will also have all modern equipment. The cafeteria has been planned so that it will occommo-date 150 people at the same time. There will also be changes made in the main school building. Some of the rooms are to be changed for the different classes that are to be held in them. The students of Echo school appreciate the fine help which the directors of the school district and the people of the community have given us in making this school one of the best schools in Oregon.

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Directors of School Dist. No. 5 Mr. Ed. Liesegang became a member of our school board a year ago He was educated in the Echo Schools. While in high school he was an outstanding athlete. Later, he was one of Echo's alumni who served his country in World War II. During the past year he and the other two trustees have carried through building plans for a new school building, also a cafeteria out of the old gym His small daughter will soon enter upon her first year of school in Echo. Mr Joe Ramos, chairman of the Board of Education, is now serving his sixth year as a school trustee. In these years he has worked for the building of the gym, the athletic field, and the heating plant. He has seen the district grow from 101 to 423 square miles; the valuation increase from $900,000 to $2,500,000. The playgrounds have changed from weeds to lawns during his years of service. He also, is a graduate of Echo High School. Mr. Gaylord Madison was educated in Iowa and Missouri, where his early life was spent. He came West, when a young mon and worked on wheat farms until he bought a desert claim near Butter Creek. He has se rved as a member of our school board for two years. Mr. Madison is president of the Umatilla County Wool Growers Association; a director in Pacific Wool Growers' Co-op of the Northwestern states; chairman of board of directors of Farm Bureau Co-op at Hermis ton; also past president, Umatilla County

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Mr. Warren Center our superintendent is a graduate of Bethany College at Lindsborg, Kansas. He has also taken work at Montana University. He taught one year at Kellogg, Idaho; the remainder of his teaching has been in Oregon at Sheridan, Chiloquin, Joseph and Echo. Mr. Center has taught 18 years, five of which have been in Echo. He is the instructor of the high and grade school bands and all the other music I organizations of the school. During the years Mr. Center has been principal here he has built up a high school band which includes almost every high school student. He has also organized three Pep Clubs which take part in most of the schools' activities.