Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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flLumm RssociflTion This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Ranchester High School Alumni Association, which was organized in the year of 1937, under tne sponsorship of Mr. Charles Alexander, teacher in Ranchester High School. At the annual banquets every spring, new officers are elected. So far the first four officers elected in 1937 have stepped up one office higher each spring. Gerald Osgard was the first president for the year of 1937. He was followed by Cecil Paulus for ’38, Chris Faustian for '39. and Hazel Black for 1940. The Association has tried to follow the aims as set up by the officers of ’37. Following are the five aims: 1. To create good will, a friendly feeling and a spirit of co-operation among all the graduates and between the school and community as a whole. 2. To establish as an annual occasion a reunion banquet to be held each spring for all graduates and their wives or hus- bands. The graduating class of R. H. S. and the faculty members are to be honor guests. 3. To give a cash scholarship each year to the most deserv- ing and worthy student of the class of that year. 4. Local members of the association to meet once a month for parties of some kind. 5. Each three months to give a community open house to raise funds to carry on our association. A few highlights of the Alumni of R. H. S. are: At the present time eighty-nine people have graduated from Ran- chester High School and all are still living. This is an unusual fact. Vicva (Paulus) Jeffers has the honor of being the youngest to grad- uate from R. H. S. She did so at the age of fifteen years. In the year of '27 the R. H. S. basketball team (consisting of Gerald Osgard. Dana Osgard. Clifford Reed, John Black, Ben Underwood and Joe Washut) won third place at the Northeastern Wyoming Basketball Tournament. As a result the team was sent to the State Tournament at Laramie. Gerald Osgard and Winfield Jeffers were in the World’s Champion Stock Judgers Team of the International Livestock Exposition, Chicago, December, 1926. The Alumni Association issued one scholarship of Fifty Dollars. The; was to Lois (Paustian) Washut in January, 1938. Since then no one has been eligible for the scholarship. LeRoy Mills is the only Alumni to have graduated at mid-term. Cupid hasn’t been too active among the alumni of R. H. S. as only two couples have been united in the holy bonds of matrimony: Hazel Rawlings, ’31. and John Flack. 30. in 1934. Faye Coast, 40, and Leonard Schilling, 37, in 1937. Page 9