Medford High School - Crater Yearbook (Medford, OR)

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get Q - X - xl K A x ,ww H 'X W,mm,umImmVW E M A F23 I El? 2? y . N S N X QFXXXWYFNKWolhiilllnimg, 1WillIllfLF'MMI'I'lflIWw,'frfvlwnulmfwvm ffff1fffwW7!7WWfw 'WWCIKQW t ff 5 ' s . . X ns .. .., 3 i ,lf gi? -I 2 History of Medford High School 1883-4. Forty wooden houses, new railroad building, public school, 34 pupils, so states one history of Oregon. ' 1886. Walter Gore, principal, with two assistants, taught the first school in Med- ford in a small building where Washington school now stands. Mr. Homer Harvey of the the post office force says, I helped to clear off the sage brush so we could play baseball. 1899. Will H. Gore was principal with five assistants. Mr. Gore taught Latin, geometry, general history, algebra and English literature, known as ninth grade. 1892. N. L. Narregan became principal about this time. New school house had been built, seventeen in ninth grade, eight in tenth grade. This building was burned in 1894. 1894. Postmaster Warner states: Prof, Narregan was principal, teaching ninth and tenth grades. There were six or seven other teachers. The school house burned and the present brick structure, Washington school, was built. School was held in churches and business rooms until the new house was finished. Following Principal Narregan were G. A. Gregory, M. B. Signs and U. G. Smith as principals, with one or two assistants in the high school. 1906. Reliable data gives, U. S. Collins, principal, three assistants in high school, boys 63, girls 84, total 147, graduating class 17. 1908. The present Junior high building was erected, U. S. Collins, principal with six assistants, 157 in the high school, graduating class 22, team playing football, parents called it a rough, brutal, dangerous game. 1909-10. U. S. Collins, superintendent, W. F. Cameron, principal of the high school, boys 78, girls 91, total 169, graduating class 28, business course, cooking and sewing added, declamatory contest held, football team. 1910-11. C. R. Bowman, principal, 387 in high school, graduates 35, course of study revised, basketball first played as an out-of-door game. 1915-16. Superintendent, V. Meldo Hillis, principal, G. Floyd Moore, cooking and manual training placed in basement, student body organization begun, Otto Klum, athletic coach. 1916-17. P. H. Dailey, principal, excitement of World's War, enrollment 328, debate teams, Elizabeth M. Jerome elected to business department Qlongest tenure in high school faculty 1927j , many students enlisted in A. E. F. 1917-18. P. E. Baker, principal, a time of high nervous tension in high school: war drives, enrollment decreases. 1918-19. William Davenport, superintendent, P. E. Baker, principal, Herbert Grey, editor of Hi-Times, Vol I, graduating class 43. 1919-20. O. R. Campbell, principal, enrollment 428, school building overcrowd- ed, students returning from Great War, much misunderstanding among pupils, sup- Twenty Two