Emporia High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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Athletics, then as now, have played an essential part in the Spartan life. Emporia High has always been fortunate with her teams. They have won state championships in both football and basketball. But whether they won or whether they lost, sportsmanship has been of first concern. We are proud of the display of trophies in our halls but we are prouder of the repu- tation that our teams have won for sportsmanly conduct. PECDPLE

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193 S-W. M. RICHARDS-19 ur uperintendents Mr. Lowther, former superintendent, came to Emporia to serve as head of the city schools in November 1896. He served for thirty-eight years until his retirement in the spring of 1935. He had the longest record of continuous service to one school system of any one school head in Kansas. The Lowther Junior High School building. erected in 1923, is named in Mr. Lowther's honor. 4 Mr. Lowther attended the University of West Virginia and the University of Kansas where he graduated in 1894. He studied at Clark University and at the Uni- versity of Chicago. He was a member of the State Schoolmasters Club, the Masons in Emporia and he was a 32ml degree in the Scottish Rite consistory of Topeka. The Modern W'oodmen, and Sigma Xi, national honorary society of the University of Kansas, were organizations in which he held mem- bership. He was a member of the Emporia Chamber of Commerce, served several years on the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. and for twenty-five years was a member of the city library board trustees. Mr. Lowther supervised the introduction of many of the present changes in the curriculum beginning with a manual training de- partment in 1903. Home economics, commercial training, ath- letic training, art, library, and music courses have kept pace with the changing times. In 1912 the people of Emporia voted bonds for the present Senior High building and it was erected on the school block just north of the old Garfield building. Completed in 1914 it was a 4-year high school. At this time the high school course was divided into Junior and Senior High Schools. lt was necessary to divide the days-the Senior High classes meeting in the mornings and the Junior High in the afternoons. This continued for several years until the present junior High building was completed in 1925. Mr. Richards, the present superintendent, was appointed in August 1935. Mr. Richards is a native Kansan, having spent his early boy- hood on a farm in Elk County near Howard. He attended the rural schools in Elk County through the eighth grade. At the age of 18 he obtained a teacher's certificate and began teaching in a rural school in Elk County. He taught two years at Severy, Kansas, before he went to college. After he had completed college he went back to the Severy High School as superintendent. fContinued on Page 74D 1896-L. A. LOXVTHER-1935 I 13 I