Sheldon High School - Panther Yearbook (Sheldon, MO)

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N-- ' ,I ,ff On a hllltop proud and stately Stands our Sheldon Hlgh Near the spreadmg elms and cedars Reaching to the sky Alma Mater Alma Mater Dear old Sheldon High We shall ever love and pralse thee As the years go by v'9X

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Memorzes 0 the Past ln the early 1800 s what rs now our thnvmg lrttle town of Sheldon with almost frve hundred people was a raw prarrte with herds of grazing cattle roaming at will over When lt was known that the Mtssouri Pacrfrc Rarlroad would be bu1lt as is Mr Frank P Andrews passed thrs mformation on to Mr Sheldon Wight Mr Wight and his wrfe Mary V Wight bought this land and pard B E Emerson to survey and stake out the town which was made a matter of record May 20 1881 The townspeople were educatronally minded and they at once planned a school as t e nearest school was at Avola wluch was built tn 1859 The ltnes from withrn three mrles to the County line were made but to no avail as they found that they lacked the lawful number of pupils to organrze a school drstnct whrle thrs fact was betng lamented Old Man Luck moved m a camp of rarlroad workers who had large famrlres These chrldren were qutckly enumerated thus gtvtng the dlstrlct the necessary enrollment to establrsh the much desrred school District No 109 Vernon County was now permanent and was recorded tn Book 34 page 258 Thas land was grven by patent from the Unrted States government to James Easley Keith Lou Mayo and John Phrpps September 12 1884 and thrs was frled September 24 1884 All went well and many of our citizens passed through the portals untrl Superintendent Brandum found rt necessary to add h1gh school subJects Latm so11d geometry Caesar zoology physrcs and psychology were added to the requrred subJects of an accredtted h1gh school 1896 found ten young men and women ready to recerve the coveted drploma Kenney Lotsprech Cordeha Nell Grrffrn Mabel Sharp Clara Belle Clayton Lucy S Seaver Laura M Dejamett Effte Comelra Correll May L Pollard Cordre Lee Hargert and John T Clayton Supertntendent Hale Leedy Brown Marqurs and Marttn have added therr blt to many of our people and by 1912 more room was needed and the old burldrng sold Part of rt IS now the Sam Mam'l residence and four rooms were moved and became part of the Hargert Apartment House where the present Mrs Holmes resldes In place of the memones of bygone days stands our present Alma Mater May the next thtrty years of our school bnng as sweet memones of the past as rt has to Mrs McCutcheon who lmparted these words to us tn such a pleasmg manner ' f , ' ' lt. ' h who in turn sold it to Ben M. and Susan Smith who gave it to the board members: H. W,

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COMMUNITY BUILDING AND PARK The measure of a 11fe is not its duratron but 1ts donatron The Sheldon Prcnrc Assocration was organized in 1904 with W W Hughes as one of its great leaders Each and every year tents were rented for therr get to gethers but this proved to be expensrve as well as most mconvenient Several years later wrth W W Higgins Wm Steele Roy Holmes Ray Wrsehart and the presrdent Mr Frank Dale serving as board members formd that the treasury was bulging wtth four hundred dollars They conceived the idea of makmg a permanent home for the assocration and the request was granted July 7 1927 Mr N E McCoy then supenntendent of the Sheldon Public Schools and a lover of youth appeared before the board and offered hrs servrces to solicit funds so that the building would meet the needs of the commumty as the school building had no place for Fine Arts and Recreation This wish was granted and all was well and soon the home was established Scarcely was this dream a reality when fue destroyed most of this handiwork of the past months Yet many thought that this was a blessrng rn dl.Sgll1SC The crtizens true to the Sheldon spxrit arose to the occasion and by 1930 stood our Community Building with stage stage curtains and a greater seatmg capacity At the present many pass through its door every day in search of pleasure and knowledge May we all not forget to breathe a Thank You to all those who have passed on to the Great Beyond the Legion and to Mrs Bartholomees who steered the P T A through those weary months May we say rn closmg The best to you on this your GOLDEN IU BILEE