Madras High School - Hi Sage Yearbook (Madras, OR)

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1923 Grizzly School

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FACULTY MIRROR Schools Of Today Reflect Images Of The Past One of the greatest ways to illustrate the changes brought to America in the last 200 years is by comparing the schools of yesterday and today. Religion was the main educational system of early America. Children learned to read from the prayers and proverbs printed in the Bible. Lessons of moral beliefs and values were imprinted in the minds of the young, and life circled around the philosophies of the Bible. Schoolmarms, as they were called, were very restricted in their actions. They were forbidden to marry, keep company, or ride in the same vehicle with any man other than their father or brother. They could not wear less than two petticoats, smoke cigarettes, dye their hair, or loiter in ice cream parlors. The “Dunce-cap” was one of the earliest means of punishment for children. Another way was by the whispering stick. A stick was put in the naughty students mouth, so that he looked like a horse with a bit between his teeth. Sometimes children had yokes put over their heads and were forced to stand in front of the class. College students were punished by fines, whipping. boxing the ears, and exile (forcing a student to live with the minister for a period of time). Before steel pens became common about 1850, a first step in penmanship was making the pen by sharpening a quill with a pen knife. Students made their own ink from powders, dyes, berries, or from the steeped bark of the swamp maple. Sometimes recipes included salt as a mold-retardant and drops of brandy as an anti-freeze. In 1913 the first high school in Madras was built. This was a one-room building located where the boiler room at the grade school now stands. The school colors were black and gold, and there was no mascot. In 1920 a two-room high school was built where the junior high now stands, but a fire in 1936 destroyed the structure. The school that is now the junior high was built to replace it, and today only the steps in front remain from the original building. The high school that is used now was built in 1965. Teachers and teaching have changed with the times. Students have changed also, but time has not changed their deep appreciation for their friends, the teachers. Charles Alexander “The staff and the majority of the students are strong points of MHS. The bleachers turned out to be a weak spot. Another weak spot is communications. It seems universally difficult to communicate what you intend and have it interpreted the way you intended. This goes for all directions, not just the governing body or establishment.” B.S. Oregon College of Education; Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Math Analysis. Janice Alexander The girls locker room is not going to be the same without Mrs. Alexander’s cheerful voice calling “Line-up for roll call” to her not so cheerful students. “I have enjoyed my years as a teacher, but 1 am looking forward to becoming a mother and housewife.” Mrs. Alexander made many friends and will be missed by all. B.S. Oregon College of Education; Girls P.E. and Advanced Girls P.E. Mert Barth A very on the go and busy man, Mr. Barth likes to take life as it is handed to him and live it to the fullest. “The first 18 years of my life were spent on the farm in Iowa. I have two brothers and three sisters. We milked cows at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. come hell or high water 12 months a year. That influenced me to leave the farm.” B.S. Winona State University in Minnesota. M.E. University of Idaho; Personal Finance, Boys P.E. Alicia Bauer As a part-time nurse and teacher, and full-time wife and mother, Mrs. Bauer has little time to relax. “I spend vacations assuming the roles of wife and mother. I ride horses a lot; it gives me time to be close to my family and be outdoors.” Mrs. Bauer teaches Health Occupations in the morning, and is a junior high nurse afternoons. B.S. in Nursing University of Portland; Health Occupations, School Nurse.