Fergus County High School - Fergus Yearbook (Lewistown, MT)

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 First Unit of New Fergus County High School

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Here’S to ©abbp Crego (Our Dedication) To Daddy Crego, kind and dear. We dedicate our book. Because to any other here It would not better look. To him, because he’s all true blue, From A clear through to Z; He willingly puts all things through That ever ought to be. He boosts along our basket-ball, Our tootball and debate, And Lyceum course and concerts, all He urges soon and late. His temper simply can’t be beat. Search all the wide world through; He's jolly, calm, and quite a treat. And never does feel blue. He's very kind and f ath erly. He's loved by all the school; He seldom chides us for our wrongs, Winch is against the rule. He is a busy man at school. Yet teaches classes well; He follows almost every rule, 'Tis easy that to tell. So, Mr. Crego, here's our book, It’s all for your best pleasure; Oh, treasure it in some quaint nook. And read it at your leisure. And as you see our faces there, Remember that we love you ; We think of you from everywhere, Beneath the sky above you. Evelyn G. Pierre.

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 iktjool iioarb ISJortf) Baiuns Mr. Weymouth D. Symmes is president of the high school board. He came to Montana from the province of Quebec, Canada, in 1S89. lie has resided in Levvistown 29 years, during all of which lime lie has been with the Power Mer- cantile company. His first connection with this company was as a delivery boy. Aside from working for a time on the railroad, his work has all been in the mercantile business. During the four years from May, 1913, to May, 1917, he was mayor of Lewistown. The principal streets were paved and the ornamental lighting system installed during his adminis- tration. He has been a member of the school board for two years. Ho was interested in promoting the dormitory and the new building. The vice president of our school board is Mr. 0. W. Del- den. Mr. Belden was born in Nebraska 47 years ago. His education was received at the University of Nebraska. He has lived in Lewistown 22 years, during which time he has been engaged in the practice of law. For the four years from 1901 to 1905, he was county attorney for Fergus county, and during the past four years lie was a representative in the state legislature. Since June, 1920, he lias been president of tile Bank of Fergus County. He was a member of the city school board four years, and has been a member of the high school board for a year. Mr. T. C. Sherman was raised oil a farm in Iowa. He lias been successively a school teacher, a railroad man, and a banker. He was assistant secretary of the Chicago, Milwau- kee St. Paul railroad in the early days when the road was being built westward. It was his duty to buy the right of way. It was while serving in this capacity that he became acquainted with the Indian chiefs and thus became informed on Custer's last stand. Since 1917 lie has resided in Lewis- town. He is vice president of the First National bank. He is secretary, and has been a member of the school board since March, 1920. The picture of Theodore Roosevelt that hangs in the library, and the oil painting of Black Butte were donated hy him to the high school. Mr. Adam Fox became a member of the school board last year. He is one of the foremost citizens of Kendall, where he has lived for about 19 years. His birthplace is Canton, Ohio. The only vocation he has ever followed is that of gold mining. His first position was with the Kendall Gold Min- ing company, for whom he worked as a bookkeeper until about seven years ago. He is at the present time accountant for the Barnes-King Mining company. He is married and has four children. Mr. James IT. Morrow is a prominent citizen of Moore, Montana. His birthplace is Fargo, North Dakota. He was graduated from the Fargo high school in 1899. Since that time he has always been in the banking business. In 1910 he came to Moore where he is at present president of the First National bank. Mr, Morrow became a member of the school board last year. Miss Amanda Swift, county superintendent of schools, a New Englander by birth and education, where she served for several years as the head of the teachers' training depart- ment in a state normal school, and later as assistant prin- cipal in the schools of Boston, Massachusetts, lias beeu a member of the board since January, 1910. On coming to Fergus county she was elected principal of the Gilt Edge schools and later opened the first school in the Winnett section, which in a few years she developed into the town system whose high school ranked next to the county high school in attendance. Her slogtiu is The best for the rural schools and a high school education for all our boys and girls. During her term of office, eighth grade examinations have been conducted at which nearly a thousand students have written, several hundred of whom have entered Fergus High. In addition to her official duty of visiting the three hundred public schools in the county and acting as truant officer for a hundred districts, she has seen to the providing of sum- mer normal schools for the training of the teachers which have ranked second to none in the state. Mr. C. R. MeClave is president of the Montana Flour Mills company, one of the largest milling concerns in the north- west outside of Minneapolis Since 1901 he has been a resi- dent of Montana and since 1912 of Levvistown. Longer than any present member of Ure school board he has been identi- fied with the high school, having joined the board in 1915. Our principal, Mr. Cummings, was born in gvviftwater, New Hampshire, in 1878. He was graduated from the high school of Hot Spring, S. D., in 1897. The University of Chi- cago awarded him his B. A. degree in 1904 and he earned Iris M. A. from Lhe same university in 1911. TTis pedigree as a teacher is as follows: assistant, in the San Antonio Acad- emy. San Antonio, Texas, 19U4-'0o; superintendent of schools at Elk Point, S. D., 1906-'10; principal of the South Omaha High School, South Omaha, Nebraska, 1911-'13; principal of the Flathead county high school at Ivalispell, Montana, 1913-'16; and principal of Fergus County High School, 1916; instructor at the summer school of the South Dakota Agri- cultural college during the summers of 1910 and 1911; in- structor at the Flathead county summer school during the summers of 1913 and 1911; instructor at the Bozeman sum- mer school during the summer of 1916- Mr. Cummings built up the Kalispell high school not only in membership, but. also into a real community center, an institution of great service to the district. At Fergus he lias repeated the performance with even greater success. In recognition of his services as a leading educator, the State Teachers’ association elected him by acclamation to succeed himself as president, being the only person to re- ceive that honor, Largely due to his efforts the association holds the prominent po6tion it does in Montana life.