Blue Valley High School - Reflections Yearbook (Stanley, KS)

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Technically, Blue Valley Senior High School began in 1968, with patron approval of a $2,825,000 bond issue. Through its predecessor, Stanley (Rural) High School, however, its roots can be traced much further, to antiquity itself (relatively, at least). The increasing number of secondary school age students in Stanley led citizens to initiate Stanley High School’s construction in 1919. As the construction progressed, Stanley Rural held its first classes in a local Methodist church. At that tim-the school's freshman, sophomore, junio and senior classes totaled seventeen sti dents, and the teachers numbered a mode.1 two. Two years later, after spending a year in nearby Presbyterian church, the slightl larger SHS student body and faculty tran: ferred into the new building, which pres ently serves as the District Office. Oleth Young, the sole member of the Class of ’2

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came the school’s first graduate. As Stanley High School’s population con-lued to expand through proceeding dec-es, the range and quality of its curriculum d extracurricular opportunities advanced pressively. The high school remained a nter of community life and produced stunts such as Coach Rick Taylor who today ike direct contributions to Blue Valley. By the late 1960’s, SHS students began to tgrow existing facilities, and the District proposed a bond issue to fund the construction of a new high school. Three years after approval, BVHS was completed, with a capacity of 700 students and an initial enrollment of 400. This yearbook, which examines Blue Valley’s past and present, commemorates the publication of Volume 1 of the Marooner, the Stanley High School yearbook, exactly one-half century ago.