Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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SHEKIDAN HIGH SCHOOL FflE present Sheridan High School plant illustrates at once the development of the idea of A universal secondary education and the faith and confidence of a progressive community in that program. A little to the south of the center of a spacious campus stands the first Sheridan High School building to he erected on the present grounds. This building was erected in 1895, contained four rooms and housed some one hundred pupils. With the growth of the community this building became inadequate in 1908 and another building was erected just to the east. This consisted of eight rooms and was built to accommodate some four hundred pupils. Eight years later the enrollment much exceeded that figure and plans were laid for the present high school building. At a cost of over $400,000. in 1926 this building was completed ami was first occupied in that year. The building built to the east of the two preceding structures is located only a short distance from the brow of Neilsen Heights. The property to the front has lately been purchased and the campus will then offer a commanding view. The present building is three stories in height, contains eighty-three rooms and is adequate to house one thousand students. The total enrollment is now nine hundred three, which is sixty-one more than at the same time last year. So it i evident that if the present growth continues n two years even the present plant will be taxed to capacity. Built four years ago. tin Sheridan High School building is well adapted for the maintenance of a modern program of secondary education. The program of subjects and activities of Sheridan High School is well adapted to meet the needs of students of secondary school age. Four years of English, four years of Latin, and three each of History, Science, Mathematics, ami two years each of French and Spanish constitute the academic program. In addition to these, Sheridan High School offers an unusually wide choice of vocational work. The Commercial department occupying the full lime of three teachers offers excellent preparation for clerical and stenographic work. Graduates of the Normal Training classes receive with their high school diploma certificates to teach in the rural schools of the State. Manual Training and Agriculture housed in a separate building offer opportunities for training in those lines. The Domestic Science department with its unit kitchens and model apartment is one of the show places of the school and gives excellent training in the economics of the home. In Music. Art and Dramatics, opportunity is given to develop special talent and provide building of worthy use of leisure. Two hundred fifty students were enrolled in musical organizations this last year. A full program of physical education for boys and girls is carried out. In sports the ideal of enlisting the activities of as many boys and girls as possible is fostered. interscholastic competition in football, basket ball, debate, music, essay writing and commercial contests are sponsored and Sheridan High school representatives always rank well in state competition. Sheridan High School is fully accredited by the University of Wyoming ami since 1909 lias been a member of the North Central Association of High Schools and Colleges. Her graduates are thereby admitted without examination to all state universities and most privately owned colleges and universities, provided they make proper selection of subjects during their high school course. in the actual administration of the school, effort is made to emphasize the building of character and an attitude of individual and civic responsibility. It is felt that to develop individual responsibility and self reliance, exercise in those abilities must be given to students, so far as they show the capability, are encouraged to govern and build themselves. To that end teachers endeavor to act as helpers and advisers rather than as overseers and task masters. A splendid pupil-teacher attitude exists and one of the most valued memories of school that will persist in the minds of alumni is the association with their high school teachers. ROBERT W. SKINNER. T uenty-three