Woodland R 4 High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Lutesville, MO)

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Left - Elementary Music Concert. Below left - Misty Stewart. Angel Garcia, Gabe Wooldridge. Randy Hol- loway. Truman Gipson. Alethea McCormick, David Massa, Cathy Kirkpatrick. Joshua Sefrhans, David Schooley. DeWayne Howard. Amber Childers. Amanda Wiggins, and Misty Crader waited for lunch time. Below - Dusty Massa, Amanda Summers. Douglas Sutton. Mitchell Robbins. Brandon Elfrink, Michael Ballard. Rickie Bazzell. Patrick O’Rourke. Vanessa Prince. Becky Brown, and other classmates listened intently. Below left - Danny Lincoln. Josh Garcia. Amanda Summers. Michael Ballard, Ted Cowgur, and Lilo Whitener worked on their assignment. Below - Heather Lutes. Jeanna Hope. Tiana Hughes. Lisa Angel. Eddie Massa. Kathy Whitlock. Melissa Bandermann. Theresa Wiggens, Seth Smith, and Randy Roark finished their assignment. ELEMENTARY 23

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Top - Elementary Music Concert. Right - Laurie Blankenship, Angie Bollinger, Paul Sitze, Andy McClard, Craig Null, Mike Long, Billy Craw- ford. Jada Trentham, Nick Under- wood, Valerie Becker. Roger Benca, Travis Doerhoff, and Kim Nunnery used their time wisely. Below - Melisa Underwood. Angel Garcia. Alethea McCormick. Deric Dockins. Dusty Fisher, and Blake Rhodes enjoyed each others company. Below right - Casey Grimsley, Nathan Allen, Re- becca Burkman, Silas Warner, and Mia Cook practiced reading. Right - Tami Shepard. Melissa Forrester. Lucas Page. Iris Elledge, Chris Lutes. Sarah Green. Bobby Wells, Jennifer Allen. Michael Davis, Valorie Lin- coln. T. J. Null, and James Godwin practiced their math. 22 ELEMENTARY

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The earliest schools in Bollinger County were made possible with money subscribed by parents of the children who attended. That money paid the teacher's salary and provided fuel for heating the build- ing. Books were furnished by the pupils and the furnishings of the building were provided by the patrons. The term seldom exceeded six months and students could attend until they had completed all available books, until they found employment, or just quit school. Isaac Martin Aldrich is credited with starting what was probably the first school of that type in this county. Soon after he and his wife. Bessie, came to live at a site eight miles north of Marble Hill in 1858. they built a log house as a temporary home for the first winter. Later when a more substantial house was built for his family, he gave the log structure to be used as a schoolhouse for his and the neighbors' children. From that subscription school, the Cedar Branch School Dis- trict evolved and is considered the beginning of public education in Bol- linger County. Job High Schools came into existence in the early 1930's. They were governed by a law that appropriated extra money to pay an addi- tional teacher for the ninth and tenth grades in the rural districts. Such schools were conducted at Sedgewickville. Patton. Grassy. Scopus and Stepp (Greenbrier), and perhaps other places in the county. From these, first class high schools were soon developed at Patton and Sedgewickville. As early as 1893. a movement was underway in Marble Hill and Lutesville to raise the standards of the two schools. An article in the Marble Hill Press early in that year pointed out the inadequate facilities in both school systems and proposed combining the two districts into one and building a good brick schoolhouse of six rooms (for $6,000) in keeping with our fine courthouse.” The site suggested was just east of the old bridge abutment on the east side of Crooked Creek. The ex- pense for conducting such a school, with the total assessed valuation of the two districts estimated at $225,000, was thought to be no more than $210 per month and a term of ten months was recommended. What became of the plan is not known, but each of those two schools, as well as most others in the county remained as individual units for many decades. Some of the smaller rural units consolidated with larger schools near them, but a complete reorganization of all schools in the county did not come about until nearly 100 years after the county's first subscription school began in 1858. By 1945, Missouri had built new roads, growth in prosperity im- proved most of the rural schools or closed them and the yellow school bus was a familiar vehicle on the public roads. Moreover. we had a new constitution that had a major impact on our schools. It sounded the death knell of the little red schoolhouse and mandated the establish- ment of enlarged high school districts. SENIOR CLASS Row 1 - Shelby Doerhoff, Bev Winchester. Jana Pridemore. Rhonda Deck. Mitzi Tho- mas, Tracy Page, Brian Derton. Lottie Jetton. Pam Crader. Gilbert Moyers. Allen Young. Ri- chie Roark. Michelle Gullett. Pat Holmes. Carl Horton. Andrea McIntosh. Mike Nenninger. Lisa Lax. Kristi Simmons. Sandy Sneed. Stacy Tucker. Judd Marquis. Karla Smith, Bobby Brown. Lori Brown. Scott Hunt, and Leonard Foster. Row 2 - Terry Toombs. Laurie LaRose, Marsha Cutsinger. Marla Rhodes. Brad El- frink. Randy Mayfield. Wade Wilkinson. Joyce Sperling. Delbert Weakley. Jim Shepard. Ter- esa James. Robert DaVault. Leslie Haddock. Tammy Reeves. Deniese Crites, Candy McFarland. Beth Rhodes, Lisa Christopher. Wendy West. James Stephens. Tim Sitze. Roger Brennecke. Johnny Nanney. Darrell Loughery, and Richard Beard 24 people