Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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Cale Riddle Benny Heddy Ruth Bruhns Gwendolyn Doggett Mr. Moyer President Vice-President Secretary and Treasurer Class Representative Sponsor FRESHMAN CLASS ROLL Catherine Absher Ruth Bruhns Lois Campbell Gilberta Brunning Katheryn Childs Edna May Conley Sylvia Dalfors Iona Dineen Gwendolyn T oggett Cleta Ferguson Elaine Feyerherm Josephine Frentheway Martha Groff Marjorie Hartt Martha Jones Elizabeth Larsen Catherine MacKay Katherine McPherson Iris McDermith Rosemary McDermott Monica Mohatt Mary Ellen O'Neil Ilene Poffenberger Jaunita Pope Susie Rasmussen Margaret Sanden Winifred Reagor Cora Sheahan Marlyss Strauss Gladys Vanderholf Rhoda Weller Louise Brown Synneve Davis Robert Anderson James Banta Carl Bogren Buster Boyer Elmer Countryman Walter Cross Elmer Case James Davis Myrl Foster Miles Gilbert Crystal Peck William Grieve Joel Hays Benny Heddy James Verna Hudley El wood Johnson Burton Kincheloe Edward Me A tee William McNees Lawrence McNeil Elmer Nelson Albert Rasmussen Cale Riddle Robert Riddick John Riley Curtis Sample Eric Schmit Richard Sheahan Russell Shannon Peter Trejo Robert Street Thelma Pixler FRESHMAN CLASS HISTORY On September 7, 19 27. a class of sixty-six pupils was enrolled as the Freshman Class. They were initiated by the Sophomores and most of them turned out to paint the “R.” During the year the Freshman English Classes plunged through the depths of “The Lady of the Lake,” “Ivanhoe,” “Silas Marner” and “Treasure Island.” The History I Classes learned many interesting facts about the government of the United States. The Algebra Classes are supposed to know a great deal about “quantities,” and “x’s.” The Latin Classes have progressed and can read short stories in Latin, while the Home Economics Class made delicious things to eat and also did much sewing. On February 17, 1928, the Freshman Class gave a dance, which was a great success. During the year some of the members first enrolled in the Class went away, but new pupils filled their places and at the end of the year there were sixty-seven pupils enrolled. The Class of ’31 hopes that all of its members will be present to answer roll call at their first “Sophomore” Class meeting in September, 19 28. M. H. ’31

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History of the Class of 1887 Almost half a century has elapsed since I became a student in the Rawlins Public Schools, coming from Ft. Steele, where they had no school, in December of 1881. At that time the old frame schoolliouse was being used, its two rooms furnishing educational facilities for all comers, from tots to well grown men. Prof. T. N. Wells and wife were the teachers, succeeded the following fall by Prof. C. L. Wells and Mrs. Florence J. Gardiner. Prior to their coming, evidently but little attempt had been made to follow any standard curriculum. Students seemed to have been graded more by size than scholastic attainments. I smile as I recall the husky fellows who used to punch cows during the spring and summer, attending school in the winter, retiring to the “Back-room” to recite elementary arithmetic and other rudiments with the kiddies. One big fellow, 1 remember, “headed” the second reader class. Regular “Classes,” as we know them, were unknown. For instance, when I started, I was put in the A class in reading, somewhere about “X” in arithmetic, and decidedly minus in everything else. The “Three R’s,” with geography, spelling, and elementary grammar, formed the bulk of our labors, with here and there a student who “thought himself smart” puttering a little with higher studies. Prof. Wells and Mrs. Gardiner changed all this. In two years we were following a fairly well organized course of study. About 1885, a class in Latin was formed. Ten or twelve of us began. I think four of us read Caesar together. I read Vurgil alone. June 188 0 saw the passing of the old schoolhouse, as well as the termination of the labors of Prof. Wells and Mrs. Gardiner, whose five years of fruitful endeavor nad organized and built up a student body and 00111 86 of instruction conformable to recognized standards. A new schoolhouse had been built, up on the hill out of town, and a new corps of teachers—four of them now—engaged. With ample room instead of cramped quarters, and enough teachers to give each class full time instruction, the seed planted and nourished by Prof. Wells and Mrs. Gardiner through those toilsome years—watered sometimes, I fear, with their tears—blossomed as the rose, and Rawlins had a standardized school system equal to any. Prof. Blazer announced that he proposed to graduate the first class of the Rawlins High School in June of 1S87, provided there were any of us who could complete the course as laid out. Up to this time, students had atte-nded school as long as desired and then “quituated.” Eight of us started the race for graduation in the first class. Several moved away, others found they had too much of a handicap, and when the spring flowers bloomed,, only Miss Zoe A. Kirk (afterwards Mrs. J. A. Eason) and myself were left. So we graduated in June, 1887. That fall, both Miss Kirk and myself entered different Eastern colleges. Out of more than one hundred “new students,” most of whom were graduates of Eastern High Schools, I was one of two admitted to the Freshman Class without conditions, that is, with no work to make up that should have been done in High School. I understand that Miss Kirk had a similar experience. I mention this merely to show that even at that time,. Rawlins schools ranked in grade and efficiency with the best in the land. Fate has directed my footsteps into other paths, and my labors into other fields, so I know but little of the record of Rawlins High School in succeeding years. I doubt not that it has kept pace with the progress of the day. But I do