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

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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.

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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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SOFTBALL TEAM - 1919 Nell Pilley, Eva Grout, Mildred Jones, Mary Williams, Jo Lorena Myhand, Alma White, Urline Alexander, Georgia Moss and Frances Blake. SOME TEACHERS OF EARLY 20's Stella Maude and Ruby Stewart. FIRST BASEBALL TEAM 1920 These uniforms were made by the mothers and the home-ec girls with woolen cloth bought with donations for this purpose. BOTTOM ROW: Bennie Johnson, Sidney Anderson, Arsene Stewart, Maclyn Blake. TOP ROW: Ernest Anderson, Hoyt Vines, Harry White, Bill Gam-mage, Harold Chandler. They were a winning team! FORMAL POSE OF 1919 GRADS FIRST ROW; Gus Anderson, Annie Guillory. SECOND ROW: Lillie Jackson, Lillie Otto, Reese Stewart. THIRD ROW: Ernest Anderson, Luther Managan. TOP ROW: Edgar Middleton GIRLS’ BASKETBALL TEAM - 1920 Jo Rena Myhand, Myrtle Sallier, Lillie Jackson, Avis Portier, Aileen Anderson, Frances Blake, Georgia Moss, Erline Alexander, Lena Moss, and Thelma Chandler, seated. GRADUATING CLASS - 1919 Annie Guillory, Lillie Mae Otto, Gus Anderson, Lillie Jackson, Alma Deshotel, Luther Managan, Edgar Middleton and Ernest Anderson.