Rock Springs High School - Sagebrusher Yearbook (Rock Springs, WY)

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KhooLbaCkiMhe wz- 1' ' - riff; with one hundred e$11665. Only went ' .H V :3 the tenth grade and then only en- 1 1 rolled some twenty f f 1 ninety-five enrol1ed. working on a full four years course, . combining college Kudents, counting 1-1 entranc-Eand busig me eighth grade as an integral part of the high school. And as late as '936 we End only twenty actua1 high ness courses, with an approaching 5-611- ior class numbering iwenty; the boys and girls fitted at home for college, Number Four Schccl Building. school students in a course covering businets 111e, teachers, and the home. 'our years. Today, one hundred and It may interest farther to note the zErty-Hve actual high school students, 1 comparative, beginning wiih tsiv ......................... 3o 1 1904.05 ......................... 820 1111-12 ........................ 90 1 1905-06 ........................ 962 143195 ...................... 21o ' 1906-07 ........................ 1070 1'1101 ........................ 415 1 199-7. 08 ........ .., ............... 1105 'am-Ifrz ........................ 530 1908-09 ........................ 1115 232.c3,..... . ............ 610 190910 ........................ 120:3 :38 04 ........................ 670 1910 11 ........................ 133:. The New North Side School Building. .7.

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for school purposes, six of which were used at once with full grades to the eighth and a few ninth grade stu- dents in attendance. To :this building was added an :extra room over on Bridge 9 avenue, with some thirty pu- pils enrolled. This Main building cost about $28,000 when completed. The frame buildings were sold in three ' '9 parts, one used as a residence . Mrs J-lWTlSDELL on A street, the other part Mrs.SARAH SHEDDEN . . . . . ; Early County Superintendent Teacher m Rh: Flfs! School In occupled as a home On A when main building was ROCk Splings' and 2nd streets; the third conshuctcd. part is used by the Morris Hardware Company as a warehouse, now located on 4th street. The West Flat building was built in 1904. Number 6, with one room, and No. F our originally with two rooms, then another room added later, had been in use because of the increased population in these parts of the district. In 1889 Principal Reed was at the head, with Mary Woods, Emily Ran- kin, Mary Dickson now Mrs. W. W. Paterson, and Lila Brooks as assistants. In 1895-96 A. J. Mathews was the head, assisted by Emily Rankin, Isis Hall, Mrs. Bidwell, after this place supplied by Ida Hill, Clyde Carpenter, Mary Dickson and Mrs. Hubbs. The graduating class of this year was Jennie Young, Bessie Taylor, Alma Ramsay, Ada Parker, Albert Moffitt and John Shedden. The schools have nishings and mod- had a remarkable ' ern sanitation a 5 growth, starting i compared with the old h o m e m a d e s v wooden henc h e s .-. N and tables and j painted blackboard twenty-eight teach- of I 8 80. The ers and six build- 1 , i e growth is more pro- ingsin 19H, and g t ' i t ' i .' nounced if one With medem fur- First School Building in Rock Springs. reads that the high with thirty pupils i; and one teachir in one room, back in ' 1880,to 1335 with I .6.

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West Flat School House. H School- Board of District No. 4 ll DIRECTORS:- SOREN LARSEN. President CHARLES CROFTS. Clerk FRANK KERSHISNIK, Treasurer MEMBERS: T. SEDDEN TALiAFERRO,Jr., Senior Member ADAM BARRASS THOMAS LeMARR The present Board of Directors, practically coming into office in 1908, has' made a record for School District Number Four. it is as follows: rhe Main build- ing twelve rooms, has been redecorated and hard wood Hoors placed; the halls re- modelled and also new Hoors: reiurnished four rooms with new and modern desks; re- placed the 01d roof; built Cement walks of full size in front and with curb- ing, and added new walks on the ap- proach to the build- ing; put in a cement new CHARLES CROFTS. Clerk, . 3 - Very briefly summarized, retaining wall the whole length of the front; added new and sanitary drinking fountains and placed in the rear of HIV building, connected with, modern toilet rooms; added to the high school equip- ment, both in the reg- ular library and in school texts, and fur- nishing a physical lab- oratory; including a strong commercial department with a two