Baker High School - Buff Yearbook (Baker, LA)

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BAKER HIGH SCHOOL -vunyyf- ' BAKER HI GH SCHOOL Baker High School began in a one-room building on the site now occupied by Leland College but was closed because of a lack of students. In 1900 the old Baker Presbyterian Church became the next school site. Later with Miss Luland Weiland as principal, a one-room building was erected where Munson's store now stands, and as the enrollment increased, a curtain was used to partition the building into two rooms, and two teachers were added. With increasing enrollment it became necessary to find a perma- nent location, so the present site was chosen. A four-room frame building and an auditorium were built. Miss R. W. Leguenec, now a retired teacher, was principal. From 1914 to 1916 Mr. W. B. Hatcher, who became Parish Superintendent and later President of Louisiana State University, was principal. The following year, 1917 to 1918, Mr. S. O. Bane was principal. Baker High School consisted of twenty students with less than one hundred in the whole school. During the years 1918 to 1922 Miss Angie Williams was principal and the enrollment increased to two hundred. During this period a new gym and a home economics cottage were erected. Mr. V. E. Eskridge was principal from 1922 to 1936, during which time a movement was started for a new school building. The new building, which is now our grammar school, was erected. From 1936 through 1940 Mr. C. C. Cheudoir was principal. Basketball and track had been the major sports, but in 1939 football was initiated at Baker High with Coach Cachere and assistant-coach R. J. Aertker as the first two coaches. The Baker Band, consisting of sixty students with Mrs. Stubbs McConnell as director, was organized under the sponsorship ot the Parent-'l eacner Association.