Ellensburg High School - Klahiam Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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ZZ X Z JK ,fff L..-5 gm FFT E HISTORY OF ELLENSBURG HIGH SCHOOL The good shlp has tossed and turned upon the seas for many years lyer nearer lts goal the craft has come guided by the unerrxng hands of plots always on the lookout for the best route and manned by faithful r ews whose duty was gxvln thelr best for the shlp ln such a way might he chromcler of history set down the story of the Ellensburg Hlgh School Forty years ago the cltlzens of Fllensbur appropriated 540 000 for the constructlon of the old Central or Vlashm ton School The bulldlng occupled the block where the present Washington School stands A feature of the structure was the tower contamlng the clty clock by which the people of that day tlmed therr actrons The entire public school system of Ellensburg was housed ln the bulldlng the flrst year and m addltlon the Normal School occupied one floor from I89l to IS93 The hlgh school was orgamzed ln l893 The second floor of Central School was then devoted to the business of hlgh school mstructlon A two year course was first offered Apparently all the puplls were flrst year students for there IS no record of graduation before l895 when four completed the mastery of Algebra, Physiology, Bookkeepmg, Latln, English, General History, Geometry, Rhetoric, Civics, Botany, Muslc and Arlthmetlc The school's first prlnclpal, F Nl Mccully, served from l890 to I90l The fact that he remained wlth the mstltutlon for eleven years mdlcates that 8 , -f ,T V X ' N- 7-,M vf s A 1 X X Xxx , ,inn I I S X , X X 1 U . , . . X X, X grkr g xg ky I -4 D .Lf 5 fL?f L so as - , of jc. ,LQ A t ' f ::-f,-ff g Neff,- xY,4g,,fx,.!-X wswxxfx Y,fx.,,f'gv,y A ' ' 'H'- 'f ffkg ,Q ' ...u 'u ' --' ' l l l . 1, x I Il l l E E E S, , . .. ' Q , F.. S' . ,I Y . . g . . . . 5 . . l . . . A U . , 5 , . - I, . U . . .D .

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x 2 1 X We ,Z '21 V 5!uw Pazz:4w ' s-wi? :gm lus f1ne dlsclplme and popularlty wxth the students prox ed favorable to the townspeople During, his term of offnce the student enrollment Increased from eleven to twenty three Succeeding Mr lVlcQully F L Qaulklns recelved the posltlon of prmclpal Under the dlrectlon of lVlr C aulklns the three year course was established during the school year V203 04 ln 1904 07 another year was added to the course so that Ellensburg H1 h School became one of the nation s thousands !HEill lt3lDlflQ a regular four year course Howard Wallace heads the lust as the flrst of E H 5 'xlumnl under thls system llls raduatlon occurred ID 1905 The prlncxpals followmof lVlr Liulklns were W Nesblt who served from 1903 to l909 H H Ryan the nest year H X Ma 111 durmof the suc ceedmg year Arthur Q: Pope IQII to l9l4 Manly Q Wareham and F M Lash untll I9l8 Professor H Nlorgan for the neyt eleven years and F W Bleakney at the present The purpose of every man was to promote the alms of educatlon The present h h school lJUllClll'1Y7 was bullt durmf l9l2 Professor 'Vlorgan dellvered the address of the evenmv at the dedlcatxon on February 8 1913 Prevlously one thousand VlSltO s had been shown through the structure Although eighteen years old the V9I1tll3tlOI1 heatmr., water electric llghtlng buzzer bell and clock systems are ln dally SCYVICC 'lhe bullcllng IQ so effectlvely equipped that twenty teachers daily mstruct four hundred and fifty students m forty elght subyects The student has hrs choxce of elvht four year courses classncal SClCntlflC Fnvhsh commermal household econ omlcs manual trammg afvrnculture and muslc E H S students have pleasant surroundlngs and a benefrclal atmosphere IH whlch they work hve and are happy Tradltlons centerlng about hatchet rlghts three decades old class scraps unlor proms and campus davs are topics of lnterest Any enthuslastxc alumnus wlll devote a full flVC mmutes ln descrlblng just how Lllensburg used to play baseball wlth Seattle Spokane Yaklma Walla Walla and teams of the Northwestern league how Yakima football teams formerly tasted defeat at the jaws of the Bulldog Memorles wrll remain There are happy ones of athletlc vlctorles and school socral functlons Lmvermg memorles of sadness too there are when our boys went Over There lVlemor1es record the past as actlons bulld the present Shlpmates, on deck' The shrp IS yours, haul ln the anchor and watch your course' 9 ,- .- .f I co, X , - 5 s ,A ,Q ,ft f ,f H,- ,K XX ,X K,-X f , ,, X, 1 -c, X V f Y ,f , , ,XX 'XX X , X ,f X XXXXX , IX, -R 'XX xxx X- ' 1 ,f f' v' , .- ' ,f r -A , X Y ,X f ,ff , . ' Q., , My ' A 47, M-- ' I- A K ,,., -w.,Jt- .. , fa , ., ,..w- A s., ,,, ' ff ,sv 1 W - , z.: -- ' 1 . X . X . Y I ' . . s , . A . , . , - S ' v '- , X. U ' . to , I , X. , . . ' . N w .. ' . . 1 S ' . ' .' Lf ' A ,., . r .' ' . . -.' , . , , . . . , . I . . 2 ,D ' - . , , , , s - - , 1 X' . . . . I . , S , ' ' ,, 't .. Q lu v v ' :-l as :-I - - . so '7 ' 1 ' N' ri. , . . ' . . Y. . X R L r 1 . KY- - . . . , X X , . . . X X , , . . 1 . . . X , . . X . . . - . . t 5 - . . , . . , , .. 5, - . . . . - 1 , Q a ' 1 - x r- J ' i , v s Y ' V . X . , a , , - v - , 1 . D A , - y .. U . . .