Teton County High School - Pow Wow Yearbook (Choteau, MT)

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THE HISTORY OlF TETON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL Teton County was named aftel a tube ot Indians who belonged to the Sioux family and lived in these parts The Teton County High School began in the grammai school bllllillflff in 1900 where Mr P I Cole who was the pimcmal ot the g1ammar school tauffht fnst year high school along with his other work Four students were enrolled in the high school work In 1901 Mr A B Guthiie came here as first principal of our hign school and for the following three years the school occuoled the upper part of the grammar school building It was then moved to the Woodman Hall and remained there for the next yeal and one half In 1903 a thiee year coul se of studw was plepared and minted and a new teacher added Mr D H W e11 A meeting of the board w as held ln 1904 to discuss the adx 1sab1l1ty of buildlng a high school Seveial othe1 meetings followed and at last the decision was favoiable hence ten acres of the Shexburn Ranch were pur chased for the site Doctors Lone and Befxupre were appointed on the building committee and material was oi dei ed to be on the giound bv July in the fall of the same year The building was completed and the school opened in the new building in Februaix 1906 The first athletes representing Teton High went to Missoula in April 1905 1907 brought a new IJllHClp3l M1 W W Jones M1 Iones seived 111 this capacity until 1909 when he was succeeded by M1 Bs 1on E Tone In 1911 the installation of a Noimal Coulse 111 Teton H1 h was con templated lVIr D J Dean took the position of p11nc1pal in 1912 and was suc ceeded oy Mr M C D1etr1ch in 1913 In 1914 the Domestic Science Department was discussed and estab lished in 1916 with Miss Anne Brenneman as the first teacher Our first Normal 1nst1ucto1 Miss Putmm was employed in 1917 She organized the depai tment and opened It to 1un1o1s and seniors The study ot German w as dlscontinucd tlom the school culrlculum in l ll ' 1 l' 1 P ll ll 4 I ll X xi 1 1' ' . A1 AT ,,. . . . u ' l , . - . , V 1 'l lb, V l sl , 3 1 L Y sl 1 . L L1 v . . 7 9 I ' ' 4 .s y Q 1' , . .1 W . y , 7 ' Q , . . . . I I l nl . A I l sl , C C s' -1. r ' 1 ' - . . , , . , . I . 3 c ' - 15, 1905. Professor Weir laid out the first track for the boys to train on . i . . A , K . . . . K 7, n 7 'i . , I. . . o .'. I. v 1' ll ' ' ' ' ' H 1 1 . ' V ' ' ' . - ' 'ly 1 1 - , ,, . C . A . D . N. p. i. D. . , V s N - , 'h ' P ' ' If lf n ' l 1 . 1 1, A .L nv 2 , v 4 I . .I ' 1 4 , ' ' ' .fs 1 1 ' V 65

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l 1918 The same year ou1 h1gh school had the hlghest ax e1age attendance of any of the accred1ted h1gh schools 1n Teton County M1 D1etr1ch 1es1gned h1s p0N1tlOl1 111 1919 and 'VI1 R F VVlll13I'f1SOl1 took h1s place The same wax the lJ03lll moposed the e1ect1ng of a new h1g:h school bu1ld1ng and the conx c1t1ng, ot the old one 1nto a do1m1to1x The lJLl1ld1l10' was then fa1 too small fOl the numbe1 of students attenchngf The plan xx as to bond the countx fO1 31100 000 The same 5931 the hlgll school lellted two lOOmS 1n thc new palt of the g,1amma1 school lllllldlllg, to be occupled by the no1mal tlEl1I11l1L, depaltment August 1919 M1 D1et11ch p1oposed p ans fO1 the lJL11ld1lU., uhlch afte1 some consxderatlon by the bO31d were accepted The oonds Callled and by Octobe1 11 1919 b1ds VKQ19 opened Contracto1s Leland and Kleppe of C1eat Falls succeed Thls same yea1 Teton Counts Hlgll School had an enrollment of 119 students and the number of faculty IHCI eased to slx In 1920 three new courses wx ere apphed Commerclal MUSIC and A1t and Ag11culture Thls was the fnst yea1 1n the new blllldllig' vuth an en1ollment of 165 students The en1ollme11t of 1921 1eached 185 uhlch necess1tated a new teach 61 makmg ten 1n all The school contlnued to g1ow although the popula 11011 of Teton County IS much less than 1n fo1me1 yeaw New equ1pment has g'1dflLllllV been added Ulltll now Teton Huch 1 one of the best equ1pped schools 1n the countly 0111 school 15 0119 ot the iux 111 the Unlted States wh1ch belong to the Xldtl0I13.l HOUOI SOL19tV Wlth ou1 modern lJl11ldlHg, fullv equlpped and ou1 Do1m1to1V second 0 none 111 the state we stand fullv equ1pped to serxe as a Fountv Hlgrh School and gne to those 1n the most 1cmote palts ot the County the same oppo1tun1t1es and educat1onal adx antaucs as to those who l1ve 111 the com flflllllltj bb l 1 I' ll XX' - W 111' 1 l . 1 ' x- ' 7 4 7 . . S A' . 7. 'Ls ' ks. rv ,K - 4 . . L 4 ' v . S . . vu Q . r . . 4 . Q yn ' . an k 1 Av I . Q g n, ' V . v vv n T' , . k 7 1 l -1 - 1 K ' , v F f 1 Y . . L. ' ' If ' , . . ' ' Y , - -V 1 v . . , . ., . . . . , . . , V 4 7 ' ' 1' 1 1 y 1 l nl 7 1 . 'nl I A L A cd in securing the contract and the building was rapidly erected. .L L 4 7 . V D I l A' , . Q L' yn Y ' S v l 7 ' . 9 I 1 s 1 . V ' ' 1 - 3 . . U . . - 7 . . S H p 2 Q . . . r .S 'J , ' ' 1 s ' 1 1 ' - s' l l 1' , 1' , l I 1 7 S J L D ' v S ' L1 s , - A1 ' 1 . ' ' Av ' 4 yu 1 381 L1 S 7 ' ' - . 7.