Baker High School - Buff Yearbook (Baker, LA)

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BAKER ELEME TARY SCHOOL s. -1-.. - i 5 I Ill .ll I : 'll in tn an 1 in 5F: :W!T: ll It a qi I .HJ mr assess! 104, li 14-Y k From 1940 to 1949, under the able leadership of Principal Wedge Kyes and with the co-operation of the Parent-Teacher Association, Baker's first cafeteria was erected. Football, which had been discontinued during the war years, was started again in 1947 with Mr. Perry Angle as coach and Mr. R. J. Aertker assistant. For the first time in the school's history the basketball and football teams won the State B Championships. The newspapers proclaimed Baker's 'B' team victory over class AA Catholic High in football as being one of the biggest upsets in high school foot- ball history. From 1947 until the present time, Baker High has continued to grow. Before the present new high school was added in 1949, classes were held in the various churches of the town because of crowded conditions. ln 1949 baseball was added to the sports calendar, and Baker won the city championship. The school was rated an A school in 1949. The teachers numbered thirty-three and enrollment nine hundred and thirty-six. Mr. Kyes, who worked so diligently for Baker High passed away on November 15, 1949. Baker felt his loss keenly from the standpoint not only of an excellent principal but also of a sincere friend. Mr. Guy H. Sommers became principal after Mr. Kyes' death. This bnings the school history up to the present writing. This year, 1959, an auditorium, a vocational arts building, a home economics building, a new band room, and a complete stadium are being constructed. Baker High, with an enrollment of fifteen hundred pupils, is looking forward to continued growth and success.

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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.

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DEDICATIC X GUY H SOMMERS He has understood our problems assrsted us w1th patrence of steel lrstened to our complarnts w1th an admrrable sm11e msprred us wrth confrdence encouraged us when we were drsheanened and enhanced our chance for success Hrs determrned effort to make us satrsfred and happy shall always be remembered as one of our most precrous hrgh school memorres Words can t express our apprecratron for hrs varrous contrrbutrons but to show how much we love honor and respect h1m the 1959 Buff Staff dedlcates thrs annual to our prmcrpal Mr G H Sommers . 1 1 1 1 1 . . . , , . . . . . G - 1 1 1 1 , . 1 . .