Westlake High School - Ram Ler Yearbook (Westlake, LA)

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MISS MAUDE BRUCE WITH HER COMBINATION GRADE - 1909 SIDE LEFT: Ernest Anderson, Ed Smith, Maxie Lutz. SIDE RIGHT: Reese Stewart, Gus Anderson, Matt Prater. ROW I: Alma Brown, Elora McGuire, Annie Laura Guillory. Stella Bradbury, Lillie Mae Gammage. ROW II: Thelma Chandler, Myrtle Collier, Margaret Ecker, Icy Carroll, Lena Mae Sloan. ROW III: Beaulah Hillebrandt, Mildred Lawson, Anna Jardine, Mary Hillebrandt, Georgia Garoby, Effie Mae McKee. ROW IV: Christian Bahnsen, Arthur Smith, Louis Ripley, Nick Grout, Alvin McGuire. BACK ROW ROW: Bill Gammage, Paul Gammage, Melvin Coleman, Stella Lyons, Lillie Jackson. AT RIGHT: 1910 BACK ROW: Icy Carroll, Alma Brown, Bill Baker, Bennie Johnson. Louis Ripley, Nick Grout, Truitt Gandy, Charlie Smith. Lucius Cash, Douglas Lutz, Herbert Goss. SECOND ROW: Chester Carroll, Roland Jcghers, Paul Johnson. Bcrnie Hursch, Matt Prater, Laurence Johnson, Jack Simpson. Goodwin Spearings, Harold Chandler, Julia Goss, Sidney Anderson. FRONT ROW: Gladys Walsh, Mabel Hillebrandt, Eva Grout, Stella Maude Stewart, Eunice Pilley, Era Jackson, Ann McKee, Nellie Jcghers, Stella Bradbury, Lucille Brown, Annettie Garoby, Wanda Cash, Jo Lorena Myhand. LEFTSIDE FRONT: Lucille Managan, Samantha Goss, Aileen Anderson, Nellie Pilley. TEACHERS IN WINDOW; Maude Bruce and Pearl Collier. ABOVE: 1912 BACK ROW; Truit Gandy, Ernest Guillory. Willie Carroll. Alcide Le Meuer, Mr. Arnett, Willie Coleman, Mabel Creighton. FRONT ROW: Ethel Myhand, Bertie Mae Anderson, Thelma Lyons, Edna Beth Anderson, Gertrude Sanders, Adele Mitchell, Cornelia Sedlock. BELOW: Early teachers in West-lake, Miss Marguerite Bailey and Miss Edith Pond.

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GRADES 3-4-5 1903 - 1904: FRONT: Eunice Cavanaugh, Douglas Cavanaugh, Beaulah Myhand, Tibatha Ecker, Carrie Broussard, Irene Vatter, Dora Dane, Gussie Ecker, and Pearl Lyons. SECOND: Sylvia Cash, Mano Cash, Ernest Miller, Everett Grout, Madison Guillory, John Spearing, James Smith, Arthur Vatter, Orton Stewart, Detlef Bahnsen, and Willie Gabe Smith. THIRD: Edna Carroll, Nellie Datenhoff, Nettie Greenroad, Lockwood Williams, Gladys Bouchard, Claude Johnson, Irma Lock, Homer Mitchell, Ellen Bunch, Mary Jones and Clara Stine. BACK: Miss Lela Gray (teacher), Kenny Bunch, Eddie Hemingway, Bill Stine, Bertha Ferenbach, and Loula Hemingway. John Henry and Sam Paul Arnett in front of the house they lived in from 1906-1908 when they first moved to Westlake. It was located about where the present shell pile is found. BELOW; Mr. S.P. Arnett, Major James Wharton who taught at WHS until he entered the service in 1917, Mr. Bouchard, with the railroad, Mrs. Arnett, and Mrs. Wharton, also a teacher at WHS, formerly Marguerite Ware.

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v ' y. vav.v - By the cistern in back of the old school: Mrs. Mary Ripley, standing, and her sister Thelma. 1913. AT RIGHT: Faculty of 1913 - 1914 Myrtie Clark, Rebecca Whitaker, S.R. Arnett, Loula Taylor, Pearl Collier and Mr. Will Kirkwood. AT LEFT: Faculty of 1914 - 1915 It is not known which is which but those in the picture are Rebecca Whitaker, Lillian Broad-well, Vergie Patterson, Norma Lashlee, Alice Brown, Loula Taylor, and Mr. Arnett. GRADUATES OF 1915: These are four of the six members of the first graduating class of WHS. Picture was taken just before they left for the literary rally at Sulphur, where they won a first place with their song, Sleep, Kentucky Babe. They are: Pearl Lyons, Edna Beth Anderson, Grace Allison, and Ruby Stewart. Many townspeople met the quartet at the train when they returned that night. The other two members of this graduating class are Nellie West and Nellie Newell. 1915 - Miss Edith Ponds BELOW: Graduation invitation of 1916. Cljr Staniot Cla of ttir Slfstlakr Jitgh rhuul rrqur t» your prrrcmrr at thr Commencement iurrriaes {ur«bay. jRay Ctarnty-fiftli at right, p. m. 1916 - Bertie Mae Anderson (Mrs. I.J. Goode) in her graduation dress of white.