Baker High School - Nugget Yearbook (Baker City, OR)

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Mrs. UHIIJIBBIII First Teacher in Baker 1865 ThE Baker CIW Schools The most vital product ot the national lile is the American public school. Upon its preservation depends the vitalizing agency in our American order of public and private affairs. To train the whole people ior an effective manhood and womanhood is the first duty ot a republic: and a system which places all classes on the one plane oi universal brotherhood: which recognizes no distinction between wealth and poverty, where ancestry wields no influence, is the ideal system for America. Under our present system of national expansion, widely-extended interlacing oi national interests have an ethical element that comprehends all humanity. At no other time in our nation's history did the rising generation need the knowledge of rules lor human guidance that have developed with the race and that contains the result oi human experience, than it does now. Upon the enlightenment of this generation depends the correct solution oi problems that are to mete out justice, equity and honor in the iuture. Now the education oi public opinion is a necessity urging every patriot to action. A German maxim KConcluded on Reverse Pagej ADMINISTRATION

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RISE 5.1151 PPUQFESS of ll'lE BEHEI' 50110013 fCOHllHU6d tom Precedmg Pagel After thirty five years of constant service the old Central Buildmg had become obsolete and was 1nadequate for further use and the constant de mcmd for more space for the 1un1or h1gh school program prompted the school d1str1ct to make plans for the razmg of the old Central School and erecting a new lumor high school bu1ld1ng on the site These plans were accomplished m 1934 when the Helen M Stack Iunlor High School bu1ld1ng was dedicated It was appropriately named after Bakers pioneer educator Helen M Stack Improvement of the curriculum continued on through the thirties to the early forties when a state of war suddenly began to take its toll of peace time endeavors and ambitions It was during the early forties the war years that school population in Baker declined many education leaders went away into the services and of course all training programs were founded on one objective win the war Baker schools however were not casualties of the war W1th the war ended and won Baker like the nation began to survey its educational needs and requirements There was ev1dence ot an ever increasing school popula lation and this led to investigation of the facilities for provldmg for this host of school children The facilities proved to be totally inadequate During the administration of Superintendent Iames R Evans a consolida established a pattem of efficient and compact d1str1ct was effected and it IS this type of d1Sl1'1Cl that is now being advocated for the entire state The madequate facilities to provide for this new d1str1ct were alarming and when the issue was presented to the people agam it was the will of the people to provide the best for the1r children and a long range bu1ld1ng pro gram was approved This building program will provide for a new high school plant with stadium and pool with playground and farmland all to be completed 1n 1951 and 1952 a new T1edemann School building to replace the obsolete fifty year old structure in south Baker a new Brooklyn School building to replace the aged 1901 school on the east site a complete remodelmg of the North Baker school functional improvements for the Haines School and the Church hill School a renovation of the 1916 High School to provide a central elemen tary school bu1ld1ng to house the fast growing school population Again it may be sa1d that this enthusiasm 1n school bu1ld1ng construction IS not inspired by the desire of a prosperous community to erect monumental archltecture to be remembered by but rather it is 1nsp1red by the desire of the people to provide the best educational fGC1lllleS for the training of the children and young men and women of the area The rise and progress of the Baker City Schools has been characterized by dynam1c development founded on a past history of good sound planmng and a future history from positive realistic foreslght. Page B . I , tion in 1949 of fourteen districts which unified the area served by Baker and

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T11eBaker city sms says: 'Whatever you would put into the life of a nation, intro- duce into your public schools.' Hence public opinion and public education form an equation. Whenever a community recognizes this the public schools are strengthened. Within a period of six years Baker City has doubled its school enrollment. In 1892 the teaching force consisted of eleven teachers and 606 pupils were enrolled At present the corps comprises 19 teachers while the indications are that over 1200 will be enrolled before the close of the school year Though progress has been the watchword of the teachers careful discrimination has been made that the work should not be carried beyond the bounds prescribed by nature In every onward movement to 1ncrease the efficiency of the schools the management always received the encouragement and support of the school patrons In fact no town 1n the state can Justly boast of a more enthusiastic educational spirit than that possessed of this community which supports our splendid public school system Educators recognize the fact that in the struggle for a liveli hood sixty per cent of all the pupils who enter the first pr mary never enter the grammar grades Therefore the work of our pr1mary grades 1S so arranged so as to be of the greatest possi ble value to this sixty per cent in equipping them for the conflict of life Here the fundamental pr1nc1ples in arithmetic are thor oughly mculcated excellence ln penmanshxp IS atta ned while thoroughness in language work is here a distinctive feature For several years the grammar grades have followed the departmental system of instruction with a benefit which accrued to both teacher and pupil A trend toward spec1al1sm has been accompanied by a variety both in methods of instruction and personality Thus a m1sunderstand1ng of the students capab1l1t1es has been lessened The high school IS one of the best in the state It is equlppecl with a good workxng library a chem1cal laboratory and appa ratus for performing experiments an physics Three instructors are here employed the course being as follows FIRST SEWIESTLR FIYSI Term Algebra Geometrx TFlgOl1OITlCtTy Engllsh Hlstory Physlcal Geolgaphx Phxslcs Chemlstry Hlgher Algebra Rhetorlc Ancient HISTOTX Geology Polltlcal Economy Latxn lCoysl Latin llvposl Ldtln fCaesarl Eng,l1sh Classlcs Lngllsh Cldsslcs lE.ng.,l1sh Cldsslcs Fngllsh Classlcs SECOND SLN!! QTER Second Term Algebla Geometry HlgllCl A11thmet1cF1ench Hlstory C1x1es Medlexal H19tOTVAill0ll0mj Engllsh Llterature Rhetol 1C Ldtm 1Cox sl Ameucdn HlSlOlX Hlgher Algebra Botany Latm Vxcposl Latm lCaesarJ Ellgll9l'l Classics Engllsh Classlcs Eng,l1sh Classlcs Enghsh Classxcs -Baker City High School Nugget, Ianuary 1, 1899, Vol. I, No 1