Wasco Union High School - Wasconian Yearbook (Wasco, CA)

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Parked along Wasco's main street in 1911 were horses, buggies and early versions of the automobile igfyfiif if? we Jejfyf QV, Q tg? They toiled and they wept: some cursed and some bent their heads in prayer. Together man and woman by the sweat ot' their brows made homes - with logs. with labor, with love. And in those humble homes they taught their children endurance and reverence. womanhood and manhood: a girl was taught to be a woman. a boy to be a man. Qgfgs VL?2?V?fzsff And though those pioneers continually struggled against the adversity ot the land. the eternal rainbow ot human emotions remained. In their homes upon this desert land. the pioneers - man. woman. child - laughed and cried, loved and hated. prayed and cursed. braved and feared. With thanktul hearts in the midst ot wilderness. they added a one-room school. From these meager beginnings-from these pioneers. guided by an untading star, sheltered by an eternal rainbow- a community. a school evolved.

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The type ot building, the mode of transportation, the style of clothing, the array of social events - each endured its own time and crumbled into the enfolding dust of history. is s. An early mode of transportation, familiar to Wasco's first inhabitants, was Mr. Cormack's ice wagon. 1890's 1893 1897 1900 1904 1905 Land purchase from Marshal V. Hartranft of Los Angeles Oct. 11 - a S4000 bond election for erection of per- manent school building - all 10 votes in favor Small school called Delta lat corner of Wasco-Pond Road and Kimberlina Santa Fe Railway through Wasco - first finger of civilization Town originally named Dewey and then Deweyville in honor of Admiral Dewey, hero of Manila Bay Name changed to Wasco after tribe of Indians when dis- covered there was another Deweyville Combined Delta-Shamrock School - 5 pupils Town population 16 First game of baseball played in spring-W. G. McCombs pitched Marcia Albert and David Tracy admire the 'modern lines of his 1965 Mustang. ,amwtnmmnm

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M2 X 1 ,Q Stinddrd Qpire gygontw mp' ary A schrgjtuil tsfipdepigtel algal J N g .jk fW VA QL ,fllwil wry 1 ' f fl ' f N X U' J 1 1 i 1 W 9 if 7 JU! ,if lx, 5 1 1907 1908 1911 1912 1914 1915 1917 First colonists-400'lfamilies-arrived First church built First edition of Wasco News-Nov. 11 Public library opened in Nov.-build- ing dedicated in June, 1924 First local Parent-Teachers Association meeting-Jan. 17 First potatoes grown in Wasco Held first high school classes in old Wasco Hall, one-room building next to present Wasco Theater - 30 students and 3 teachers Naomi Crawford and Louise Schmidt first graduates ln spring, school moved to present campus - first building constructed at 547,203 Wasconian Staff 1922: Row 1: Margaret Thiessen, Gladys Dequine, Leona Gibson, Isabelle Kniffin, Cora Waugh. Alice Bartlett, Unidentified, Louise Hill, Mrs. Robertson. Top Row: Glenn Compton, Ben Kummerfeld, Armand Crandall, Herb Root, Milton Kranz, Herb Bowman, Raymond Carroll, Don Jackson, John Kniffin. Unpictured: Nettie Jackson. Mary Wright, Mr. Hill.