Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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THE SCHOOL BOARD PAUL PAUSTIAN. President MRS. PHILIP C. DAVIS. Clerk CECIL PAULUS, Treasurer OUR SCHOOL BOARD The present school trustees of District No. 33 were raised and educated in Ranchester. Lee Davis (Mrs. Philip C.) was born on the Guy Rhode ranch at Ranchester. She attended the local elementary school but went to high school in Sheri- dan as there was no high school in Ranchester until a year or two later. She graduated from Sheridan High School in 1924, and attended the University of Nebraska for two years, where she majored in Journalism. Paul D. Paustian was bom in Montana but moved to this community when he was six years old. Mrs. Doris Olson was his teacher in the first grade, and she is now his oldest son’s first grade teacher. He graduated from Ranchester High School in 1937, and graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1941 with a degree in Agronomy. Cecil Paulus was born and lived during his child- hood on the ranch where the Frank Carter family now lives on the Five-Mile Flats. He graduated from Ranchester High School in 1927, which was the second class to graduate from this high school and the first one to publish an annual. He has lived in this community all his life except for four years in Montana. —Mrs. Lee Davis. RANCHESTER SCHOOL SPIRIT The unity among our student body, faculty and community is the secret of our school spirit. The willingness of the students to accomplish their tasks and to conform to the standards of citizenship ex- pected from them: the understanding and personal interest shown every student by eacht. teacher; the solid support that the community gives all school activities—these are the three essentials. To these we have added good sportsmanship and pride in our school. This has developed a school spirit that we hope will be upheld through the years. —Julia Cable. RUSTLER ART WORK We are especially proud to call your attention to our title page and cover. This is the work of our own Robert Townsend. The idea of this Rustler was suggested to him by Bernard Thomas, who, as a struggling Sheridan boy, like Robert, dreamed that someday he could portray, as he saw them, the visions that stirred his imagination. It is now not only for being an accepted artist that Sheridan County may well be proud of Bernard Thomas. He has given that priceless spark of en- couragement to other boys, besides Robert, thal they might cling to the right road and profit by the help and suggestions he gives them. This may be more lasting than canvas. We expect great things from Robert Townsend. Some day you may be proud to have this book wherein is his first reproduced piece of work! A WORD ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF “QUEEN FOR A MAYOR” For many years Arthur Dickson has been col- lecting and verifying facts of historical and cultural importance to this section of the country. He first saw Ranchester as a “two-year-old” settlement, when, in 1895, the Dickson family came to visit Alex McDonald, one of Ranchester’s first settlers. After a four years’ residence on the Rosebud, the Dickson family returned to Tongue River and Ar- thur Dickson has been a Dayton resident since 1899. Except for a four years’ principalship at Lame Deer, Montana, his teaching career of over thirty years was spent in Sheridan County. He took both his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Colorado, at Boulder, where he majored in history. He con- tinued his studies at Columbia University. He has contributed articles of historical value to various publications throughout this section of the west and. in 1929. published a biography of his father under the title of “Covered Wagon Days ’ Mr. Dickson is at present at work on a book on the (Continued on Page 91)

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TO OUR ESTEEMED FRIEND RANCHESTER'S “QUEEN FOR A MAYOR’ We, the students of Ranchester High School, are proud to present this, our fifteenth annual, to Mayor Queen who knew this country before Ran- chester was established. We are, furthermore appreciative to Mr. Arthur Dickson, whose re- sourceful pen has so carefully sketched “A Queen for a Mayor,” which was written for our 1950 annual. In dedicating this yearbook to Mr. Queen, and in securing this hitherto unpublished article from Mr. Dickson, we feel a real contribution to the Annals of the State of Wyoming has been made.

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MRS. DORIS OLSON LEVI IRONHAWK THE FACULTY MRS. SHIRLEY CARROLL MRS. VERTISE WATT MISS JUNE CUNNINGHAM JOHN McCORMICK “We are deeply indebted to the . . . teachers who will match the challenge of our times '—Oscar C. Schweiring, at corner stone laying ceremony of educational building, University of Wyoming, Dec. 5, 1949.