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

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PPE BCE By the close of the present year in May 1951 sixty one classes shall have been graduated from the Baker Hlgh School and fifty ed1t1ons ol the Baker High School Nugget shall have been published It is fitting then with the publication of th1s Golden Anniversary Edition to feature the peoples oi the Baker High School from year to year and some of their achlevements as recorded by the Nuggets of the t1mes For background information former graduates stu dents teachers of the Baker Publlc Schools and citizens oi the community were interviewed and referential research in past ed1l1OnS of The Nugget was made The pictorial matter that ol the Old Timers IS in former ed1t1ons of The Nugget and of original photo graphs donated by members of the Baker High School alumm The use of the Gay N1net1es type 1n the printing appropriately and artistically un1i1es the motlls por traylng the Golden Anmversary theme Now as you thumb through the pages of th1s an mversary number perhaps you too w1ll see a picture find a name read an article that will stir you to remm iscmg of good times in Baker High School and then you too can say to yourself I Remember Page 2 I I I - , I I . I - , : . I I ll l II. u composed principally of reprints of pictures that appear I ' -

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R150 and PPUQFBSS of the BHHEI' S0l'l00lS Baker C1ty has been called the Queen ol the West The Eldorado of Ore gon and many other such names these are 1n connectlon wlth and honor of our rlch m1nes vast tlmber lands and fertlle valleys But the most prlceless Jewel the falrest flower the schools have been scantlly praxsed beslde the other r1ches whrch she possesses The m1nes the forests the valleys all draw the more practlcal class oi people but the schools attract the more cultured and rehned ones What does 1t mean lor a c1ty when one says They have good schools there 7 Doesnt 1t mean that there must be educated rehned 1ntell1gent people 1n that commun1ty'7 A man w1th a :lamlly of growlng ch1ldren w1ll not now as 1n the davs of the S1Xl1eS and sevent1es p1Ck up and go to a place where there are no educa t1onal fGC1lll1eS lor now an educatlon 1S worth more 1n every way than gold In tracmg the F159 and progress of the publ1c schools ol Baker Clty through all 1lS stages of development from 1ts rnlancy to beautrlul mardenhood we are obllgated to turn back on the pages ot h1story to the year 1865 Twas 1n th1s ch1ldren rompmg along 1ts dusty roads to dnnk at the then meager fountam ol knowledge The school began 1n the summer oi 65 w1th Mrs Calbreath as teacher the schoolhouse was a httle bulldrng now a part of the H E Courtney s resrdence on the corner of Fourth Street and Auburn Avenue There were about th1rty hve or forty students and each had a drfferent set ot books thus makmg the dutres of the teacher very hard to perform She sometlmes was compelled to detam the puprls unt1l hve o clock 1n order that each one m1ght recelve the proper amount of attent1on Th1s state of allalrs cont1nued unt1l the year 1868 yet notw1thstand1ng the ex1stence of so many drsadvantages we have many bnght and useful men and women who would be a cred1t to a much larger and better regulated school than the one 1n whlch they recelved a large part ol therr mstruct1on Mrs Calbreath taught the school lor three terms each trme havmg her place oi mstructlon changed In the wlnters oi 66 67 school was held 1n a httle bu1ld1ng that belonged to Sam Barger and stood near the present slte ol the Arlmgton Bulldmg and 1n the summer of 67 whrch was her last term she taught m her own home on Flrst Street between Aubum and Valley Avenues I ont n d on I Q J P ge 3 I year that the little hamlet of Baker first witnessed the sight of merry school ' C x ue wlext Pa e C