Travis County Rural Schools - Defender Yearbook (Pflugerville, TX)

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IITIIHIISVIVUIRW IN THE YEAR 1882 THE FIONEERS or THE DEGNEH GGNHUNITV BUILT A ous- nomu sexual House, Ann NAKED IT DEOKER SOHOGL ron THE HAIE or THE Tlo GTR:- Aus WHICH FLow NEARBY. THE FIRST TRUSTEES WERE! F.G. SNENSGN, JOHN LUN- DELL, AND AUGUST SPOHBERGQ Miss MARY PETERS IAE THE rlnst TEAONER or THE SCHOOL. .,-l. ATHE ENROLLMENT RAPTDLY INCREASED AND IT IS SAID THAT IN A FEI YEARS THERE WERE S0 HART FUPILB THAT ONE LITTLE BOY STARTED SCHOOL AND ATTENDED FDR THREE DAYS BEFORE THE TEACHER NOTICED HTH. AT THIS TIME THE FUPILS HERE NOT CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO GRADES BUT RATHER ACCORDING TO THE READER HE UAS ABLE T0 READ. PROGRAMS WERE PRESENTED AT THE SCHOOL ON FRIDAY AFTER- NODNS WHEN THE PUPILS WERE GALLED DN FOR lFEEGHESs IT WAS SOON NECESSARY TO ENLARGE THE CLASSROOM BEOAUSE GF THE INCREAS- ED ENROLLMENT. DURING THE FIRST YEARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, CHANGES TOOK FLAOE IN OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. THE LITTLE SOHOGL GN THE HILL WAS ALSO EFFEOTED BY THESE OHANGES. HDDERN EQUIPMENT SUPFLANTED THE OLD, AND OONDITIDNS GENER- ALLY IMPROVED: ONE MORNING, IN THE SPRING or 1907, THE CHILDREN EXPEGIENGED THAT FEEL- ING or NINGLED Juv AND sonnow NHEN, ON THEIR HAY TO SONOOL, THEY DISOOVERED THAT THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE HAD BEEN GLAINED BY FLANEG FROM AN UNNNGNN sounoE. THIS MEANT THE UNEXPEOTED BEGINNING OF THE suuusn VACATION' DURING THE FGL- LOVING suuuan, THE PRESENT SCHOOL BUILDING 'As EREOTED- Mjss MARGARITE CAHLSGN, Now MHS. H, M. MUNGER or DALLAS, AND Miss HULDA LINGGREEN, NDI Has. Jos SNAHN or ELGIN, WERE THE FIRST TD TEACH IN THE NEN SOHOOLo DURING THE-PEHIGD 1910-1920 AN ACRE or GROUND WAS PURCHASED ADJGINING THE ORIGINAL ONE-HALF ACRE. THE BUILDING NAS REMODLED AND NEw EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING AN ORGAN, WAS ADDED. DURING THE WAR TIME PERIOD, A LOCAL RED Cnoss ORGANIZATION IAS Fnnuzn, AND A SAVINGS STAHPS OAMPAIGN WAS SUOOESSFU- LLY GAHHIEG ON AMONG THE CHILDREN. SEVERAL EX-FUPILS on THE scHoGL SERVED IN THE ARMY, some or THEN IN FHANcE. IN 1923 A THIRD noon WAS BUILT AND A THIRD TEACHER wAs EMPLOVEDH THE scHooL wAs CLASSIFIED AS A STANDARD 'A' ScHouL IN 1928. DUHING THIS YEAR7 THE PARENT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION WAS ORGANIZED, Ann ITS FIRST PRESIDENT wAs Mas. Ga oo cEDARn THE SCHOOL HAS TAKEN AN AcTIVE PART IN INTERSCHOLASTIO LEAGUE ACTIVI- TIEs. OUT-STANDING ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE! THE WINNING or ELEVEN FIRST PLA- ces IN COUNTY EVENTS nunING THE YEAR 19325 DURING THE SANE YEAR, MARGURITE SwENsoN WON IN THE STATE FINAL SENIOR GIHLs DEOLAHATIOHQ THE SOHOOL won COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP ron TWO coNsEcuTIVE YEARSQ THE lovs PLAYGROUND BALL TEAM won rInsT PLACE FOR FIVE OONSEGUTIVE YEARS' THE SEVENTH GRADE PUPILS OF 193h.WON THE COUNTY BANNER FOR THE HIGHEST GRADE AVERAGE, AND HAZEL EKDAHL WON FIRST PLACE FOR THE HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL GRADE AVERAGE FOR GIRLS: THE BOYS OF THE SCHOOL NAINTAIN AN ACTIVE HHH CLUB, AND THEIR WORK IS OUT-STANDING. THE PARENT TEACHERS ASSOOIATIDN IS VERY ACTIVE, HEETING AT THE SCHOOL ONCE EVERY SIX WEEKS DURING EVENING. THE MEETING I8 SUPPLEHENTED BY A FRG- GRAH PRESENTED DY THE FUPILS OF THE SCHOOL AND TAKES THE FORK GF A OOMHUNITY ENTERTAINMENT. THE PRESENT PRESIDENT IS MRS. To Eu SWENSDNu THE MOST REOENTLY FORHED ORGANIZATION I8 THE CEHTENNIAL ULUlo THE ORGANIZATION OONSISTS OF PUPILS OF THE UPPER GRADES WHOSE CHIEF OldEOTIVEg IN THIS'ULUB, IS ONE-HUNDRED PER CENT ATTENDANCE AT THE CENTENNIAL IN-DALLAS 3 I I ...li

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