Natrona County High School - Mustang Yearbook (Casper, WY)

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---- THE GUSHER ---l- TEN YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF NATRONA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLV The past ten years have witnessed the growth of Natrona County High School from a village institution to a great modern high school gathering its students beyond the limits of the city, the county and even the state itself. In that ten years our school has risen from obscurity to a prominence and fame that has carried its name into states north, south, east and west, as a place of unusual educational opportunity. At the dawn of 1920 we find that our school had recently expanded from the basement of the city library into the then new and proud building that now houses the junior high school. The community wondered if sufficient student body would ever be gathered to fill this new 340,000 structure, and justify the building. A view of conditions in Natrona County High School in 1920 would show us two hundred and three boys Hlld girls enrolled, seventeen teachers, and the principal, a cadet corps of about seventy-five students. There was no auto mechanics department, no woodwork as we have it today, no normal training, no library, not half of the subjects now offered in our four year courses. The streets surrounding the school were unpaved. Many of the buildings about the school had not been put up. In fact, the high school was way out on the edge of town in the midst of mud, sand and wind that made things continually disagreeable. However, through the years, since back in the nineties when a high school was first planned, the people of Casper sought to give their boys and girls just a little bit more and better training than they could get in the average com- munity. The vision of Casper as a center for good schools has persisted, and grown, and materialized, until today no community can boast of better organ- ized, better equipped, and better manned schools, than exist in 1930 in Natrona Cmmty. Expansion has gone on well in advance of the times into every field touched upon by high schools anywhere. The best, the finest, the most up-to- date in the field of high school endeavor is found centered in Natrona County High School. Progress brings new and better things to our institution each year. 1930 will see the completion of a hundred thousand dollar swimming pool, of tennis courts, cinder track, the addition of new and finer equipment in the classrooms, the laboratories, shops, and library. Each succeeding year more and better trained students leave the portals of our school. VVithin the decade the student body has grown from two hun- dred to over a thousand, students who have gone out from Casper and taken their places here and there over the United States among the best in the land in all occupations. Our high school stands as a most magnificent gift of the people to the youth of Casper. L. H. DANIS. --1930-1 Fourteen

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THE GUSHER Sallie Anderson Georgetown. lienturky lunghsh A. B., Georgetown Collogeg Graduate VVork, Columbia University: Head of Eng- lish Department: Editorial Adviser of Newspaper: An- nual Sponsor: Sponsor of junior Class. Frances lferis illi-.1----1 Beulah B. Bayless 'VVatson, Missouri Public Speaking Draniatics Hardin College, A.A. : Curry School of Expression: Tar- kio College, A.B.: North western University, Gradu- ate VVork: Phi Theta Kap- pa: Alpha Psi Omicron: Sponsor of National Thes- pians: Sponsor of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Laramie, VVyorning English A. ll., University of VVyon1ing: Pi Beta Phi: Phi Kappa Phi: Kappa Delta Pi: Debate Coach: Sponsor of Sophomore Class. Ruth Pettigrew Charlotte. Arkansas ltnglish A. li., University of Arkan- sas: A. M., University of Chicago: Skull and Torch Honor Club. University of Arkansas. Loy E. Owen Effie Hoopnian Q Lucas, Kansas P.llgllSl1 A. li.. Kansas Wesleyan University: Post - Graduate VVork, Kansas NVesleyan University: Sigma Tau Del- ta: Delta Kappa Chi: Spon- sor of Girl Reserves. Lincoln, Nebraska English A. B., Cnion College: University of sor of English Club, Verda James Casper. NVyon1ing English A. B.. Cniversity of Iowa: Delta Zeta: Sponsor of Girl Reserves: Sponsor of Class Debates. Ruth Hoag Nebraska: Columbia Cniversity: Spon- Nell jones Williamsburg, Iowa Mathematics A. B., State University of Iowa: Phi Omega Pi: Head of Mathematics Department. Eureka Springs, Arkansas Mathematics B, S., University of Washington: Pi Lambda Theta: Sponsor of Euclid Club. VValter J. Oliver Pittsburg. Kansas Mathematics B. S.. Kansas State Teach- ers' College: Sigma Mu Delta: Sponsor of Sopho- more Class. Gertrude Berg Deal Micklewaite Twin Falls, Idaho Mathematics Physical Education Head Coach ll. P. E. and ll. S., Oregon Aggies: Beta Theta Pi: Al- pha Zeta: Sigma Phi. Kenyon, Minnesota Mathematics A. ll., St. Olaf College: Phi Kappa Phi. Marion A. Shaw Springfield, Missouri H lstory A. ll.. Southwest State Teachers College: Sponsor of Senior Class: Business Sponsor of Annual. Edna Mae Healy Virgil Yates Russell Kansas City, Kansas History A. B., Fairmount College: University of California: University of Arizona, M. A.: Phi Delta Kappa: Head of History Department: Sponsor of Junior Class. Casper, Wyoming History A. B.. University of Colorado: M. A., Columbia University: Alpha Delta Pi. Sixteen