Laramie High School - Plainsman Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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An Era Passes - Laramie Junior-Senior High School Divides in September, 1960 When the school year ends in June, I960, the student body will note, with mixed feelings of regret and anticipation, the end of Laramie Junior-Senior High School which has been located since 1939 in the familiar 8th and Garfield Street building. With the reopening of school in the fall, the building will be the Laramie Junior High with Eugene F. Chasey as principal, and the high school will be housed in new quarters on 11th Street with Harold L. Mack as its principal. Although the old building has long been overcrowded and its halls made excitingly treacherous by a succession of low-flying speedballs: the seventh grad- ers, the division of the two schools brings a pang of sadness, as it must when any closely-knit group is separated with fi- nality. Two buildings, will certainly bring about less general confusion; however, they will also contain less of the feeling of vitality which comes from mingling 1210 young people, ranging from twelve to eighteen years of age, supervised by a staff of sixty-two teachers. The main building, or first section of Laramie High School, was completed in 1879 and all grades held classes there. There were 32 in the entire school and 3 in the graduating class that year. Some of the original rooms that are now in use arc the art department, the chem- istry department, the commerce rooms, and the home economics rooms. In 1910 the high school was moved into the newly completed building that is now known as Washington School. There were 122 students attending classes both in the main building and in wooden buildings built where the tennis courts arc now. The first class to graduate from these buildings was the class of 1912, made up of 12 members. In 1926 the original, or 1879 building was remodeled, and it housed the junior high and part of the senior high while the remainder of the senior high still attended classes in the Washington School. The auditorium, the offices, the girls' gym, and the rooms on the north and cast sides of the building were added in 1929. In 1939 the library, both study halls, the boys' gym, the wood shops and the other industrial arts rooms were added. Since then there have been no additions, so the building is essentially the same as it was when these last parts were added in 1939. The 1960 Yearbook is dedicated to this building which has survived the comings and goings of thousands of students over the years while managing to retain a well-preserved appearance. North Stairway North Lobby 2 Boys' Gymnasium

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LARAMIE HIGH SCHOOL LARAMIE, WYOMING Published by Mountain States litho

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Auditorium A view from the roof East Side enior High School South Entrance