1 10 44 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/f1429fb320ae3ad63a24485410fb040d.png 21beaf1ecd19b677954fa02a86dd0060 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1954, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource GRADE SCHOOL NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954 FIRST GRADE We were pleased to have so many visitors during American Education Week. The following parents and friends came to visit our room: Mrs. Wm. Farley, Mrs. Bill Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. H.D. Richardson and David, Mr. Frank Dolezilek, Mr. and Mrs. John Simekca, Mrs. Leroy Parr, Mrs. Albert Coleman, Mrs. A.M. Sieck, Mrs. Donic Parr, Mrs. Hope Meade, Mrs. John Foresman, Mrs. C.E. Gresser, Mrs. Oliver Tuller and Dennis, Mrs. Clyde Rogers, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Gene Reding and Doris Jean. Myles Preble and Clyde Parr celebrated their birthdays recently by passing candy bars and balloons to the boys and girls. In art we made them birthday cakes. They also had their pictures taken for their mothers. Jane Parr, Bobby Dolezilek and Carl Farley visited their dentist in St. Marys and have returned their pink dental cards. We are becoming acquainted with spelling by having one easy spelling word a week. We have a Spelling Flight Chart on which our airplanes fly if we receive 100 on our words on Friday. We are happy to say all our airplanes are in the air. After Christmas we will have harder spelling lessons. All of us have finished our second pre-primer. Some of us will finish our third one this week. Larry Wehner told us of his first bus ride to Sabetha to visit his grandparents. His sisters, Helen and June, accompanied him. Steven Pardee, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, Rudy Bailey and Bobby Dolezilek were absent because of illness this six weeks. The next three weeks will find us very busy getting ready for our Christmas program, for our mothers, making gifts, decorating our room for Christmas and writing our letters to Santa Claus. We all enjoyed our Thanksgiving vacation. Some of us stayed home and had family dinners. Others journeyed quite a distance to spend the day. Aex Sieck was in Council Bluffs, Iowa, visiting his Grandmother and Grandfather Sieck over the holidays. June Murray accompanied her parents and sister to Kearney, Nebraska, Thanksgiving Day, where she spent the week end with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Murray and Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Deaver. She also visited her two great-grandmothers. John Simecka and Larry Wehner ate their Thanksgiving dinner at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wehner in Delia. Robert Dolezilek visited in Topeka with his brother George and family. Tom Foresman and Clyde Parr ate dinner with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Max Lemon in Topeka. Rudy Bailey was a visitor in the home of Dr. and Mrs. S.F. Zickenfoose Thanksgiving Day. Dale Stiles had as his guests over the holidays, his aunt and uncle and cousins from Akron, Colorado. Also his grandfather from Anton, Colorado, was a guest. Myles Preble and his parents ate Thanksgiving dinner with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Wood. Carl Farley was also in Manhattan for the day. Jane Parr spent the day with her aunts, uncles, and little cousins at her Grandmother and Grandfather Keller at Delia. The following ate Thanksgiving dinner at home with their parents and invited guests: Larry Reding, Allen Jackson, Bonnie Tuller, Susan Nadeau, Carolyn Gresser, Steven Pardee, and Mrs. Ramey. SECOND GRADE This is where we spent Thanksgiving – Carolyn Farley went to Manhattan. Vauncille Avers spent the day with her grandparents in Burlington. Bruce Shannon went to Auburn. Daryl Mitchell visited his grandparents at Paxico. Helen Wehner ate dinner with her grandparents at Delia. Rebecca Zeller went to Kansas City. Sandra Heiland went to Topeka to be with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. John DeGraff and family. Laura and Parker VanVleck left Wednesday noon for Fayettville, Arkansas. Freda McCollough ate dinner with her grandmother Burton in Wamego. Gary Dick went to Springfield, MO. Charles Meade spent the day with Mr. and Mr.s Max Lemon and family in Topeka. Diane Murray visited her grandparents and great-grandmother in Kearney, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Challis ate dinner with relatives at Garrison. Those of us who stayed at home and had company were: Virginia Stach, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Amy Jones, Dwight Martinek, Barton Larson, Artie Campbell, Henry Wade, Marilyn Trubey, Connie Bahner and Diane Cowan. Diane said there were fourteen guests at her house. We are so sorry about Mr. Baker’s and Bruce’s accident. Artie Campbell has joined the Boy Scouts. Parker VanVleck is also a member. Vauncille Avers treated us to frozen chocolate turkeys on her birthday November 20th. Marilyn Trubey, Rebecca Zeller, Helen Wehner, Henry Wade and Dwight Martinek were absent because of illness the past week. Amy Jones, Charles Meade, Carolyn Farley and Connie Bahner have returned their pink dental cards since our last news. We hope to have our Christmas decorations up very soon as our room looks so bare with our turkeys and other Thanksgiving decorations gone. The First and Second Grades have started working on a Christmas program to be given before vacation. You will be hearing more about it, so plan to come. THIRD GRADE The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back from vacation with many exciting stories to tell about their vacations. Many of them took trips or had company visiting them for Thanksgiving. The “Spelling Speedway” contest closed the last day before vacation with Linda Simecka’s race car coming in first. She hasn’t missed a spelling word since school started. Finishing close behind Linda were Douglas Kelsey and Myrna Perry. They both missed getting 100 only once. The race starts again with the start of the new six weeks period and everyone plans to move his car faster this time. We had two birthdays in the Third Grade this month; Marilyn Simpson and Pat Royal. They both treated the class with candy bars. Again it is time for grade cards and there are still 19 Third Graders who haven’t missed a day of school. The honor students for this six weeks are Jimmie Fauerbach, Da Gee, Douglas Kelsey, Myrna Perry, Marilyn Simpson, Lillian Reser, Donna Tuller, and Connie Zeller. We are now starting to work on Christmas decorations and are all looking forward to the visit from Santa Claus. FOURTH GRADE In checking our clean plate chart we find that of those eating at school regularly Judy McCollough, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles and June Wehner have had clean plates since we started keeping the record in September. Many of the children spent Thanksgiving away from home. Richard VanVleck in going to Arkansas traveled the farthest distance. All or most of the others had company come to their house. FIFTH GRADE [notated from here forward is from December 9, 1954] Christmas spirit is showing itself in all the rooms. The fifth grade have been assigned to their parts for the assembly program which will be coming in the future. Further information as to time and date will be announced later. In the fifth grade, we’ve been working long division and some division in fractions. Improper fractions are still giving trouble to some. In English, we are building sentences and learning the different kinds of sentences. We have about 90% of the class this six weeks with an A average in spelling. Phonics and lots of practice are helping our spelling. We had a birthday in our room last week. We wish Buddy Mogus many more Happy Birthdays. Our Safety Motto is – Stop! Look! And Live! Maxim: Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. SIXTH GRADE The boys and girls in our room were very sorry to hear that Mr. Baker had to be hospitalized. We are studying hard and trying to do just what he would want us to do during his absence. We are very glad Mrs. McClellan is helping us, but we will be happy to have Mr. Baker back again. Mr. Baker had our room decorations for Christmas planned and nearly prepared before the Thanksgiving Holidays. We put up his decorations and fixed the room just the way we thought he would want it. We hope he can see it soon. We wrote letters to Mr. Baker for our English assignment Monday, December 6. Our reading class has continued our study of phonetic sounds. We have been studying prefixes and suffixes. Each student is keeping a list of words in his note book. Wanda Harmon and her parents spent Saturday in Topeka. J.W. Adams visited his Oculist Saturday and was glad to find that he had no ill effect from an eye injury received last summer. J.W. Adams and his father have completed an outdoor Christmas scene for their home. Gene and Dean Davis had a busy weekend. They helped their father repair the pony pen. They assisted their mother with some house work, and last but not least, enjoyed a visit from their grandmother, Mrs. E.P. Bahner. Wayne Miller reports that his parents have moved into the Bailey home and they are now comfortably settled. Curtis Berkey helped his father build fences and feed-troughs this weekend. Sally Nadeau attended the 4-H Achievement party in Topeka last Saturday. Don Rogers and his mother did their Christmas decorating last weekend. In the Spelling Contest for our grade the scores for last week’s total ran as follows: “Yankees” 100%, “Termites” 95% and “Indians” 96%. Mr. Baker will be happy to know that our room again has the highest percent in church attendance. We are very pleased about it, too. All of us are counting the days until Christmas – Are they sure the days before Christmas are the shortest – They seem like the longest days to us. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 2, 1954 and December 9, 1954 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0319 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/0dea33ee5bb077f78a5d8d2d5ab27be4.jpg 59ed82cf4af75b051959b59deb001712 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1954, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource EIGHTH GRADE (Nov 18, 1954) Our individual pictures sold very well. We are all looking forward to Thanksgiving vacation which will begin at dismissal on the 24th. There will be no school on Friday following the 25th. The skating party the Mothers planned for the seventh and eighth grades was really enjoyed by everyone. Our visitors during American Education Week were Mrs. Viergever, Mrs. Coe, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Shannon. The assembly program by the sixth grade was very good. Mrs. Marvin Davis told us about the history of schools in Rossville. Helen Stadler leads in spelling this six weeks. Our spelling this six weeks. Our spelling grades have improved over the last six weeks. These members have recently joined our band from our room: Roger Zeller plays a sax, Raymond Rafferty the Tuba, and Jimmy Coe the clarinet. Our band is really making progress. The cup cakes Ginger Shannon made for our Halloween Party were very good. On to Jupiter and Horizons Unlimited were shown to the upper grades last Monday. They were films from General Motors. Ralph Marney and Raymond Rafferty are our movie operators this term. Raymond Rafferty was out of school one day with a cold. The four girls from our room who will be cheerleaders for the first team are Sue Viergever, Geraldine Masters, Ginger Shannon, and Helen Stadler. Patty Coffey, Sharon Rosencutter and Salley Porter will cheer for the second team. They invited Carol Rafferty to work with them. Geraldine Masters was recently fitted with a new pair of glasses. The Good Citizen vote was given to Raymond Rafferty last week. Douglas Martinek and Leroy Dick [article cut off]. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 18, 1954 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0318 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/9c9ebab33197e01313ec3531adbd61f2.jpg 839fb18203c7f4537fa5313a06a573f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1954, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource PROGRESS OF THE GRADES ROSSVILLE GRADE SCHOOL DECEMBER 9, 1954 SEVENTH GRADE We enjoyed a demonstration last week by Wayne Rasch and Ralph Marney showing how the force of gravity is partially overcome by the principle of the gyroscope. The boys pointed out that the principle of the gyroscope is used by ocean liners to steady the great ships as they plow through rough seas. Mrs. Bailey was our first visitor in December. She observed an oral reading class in Kansas History. Our group had fun celebrating with Nida Mogus her 13th birthday, December 1st. Thank you, Nida, for the candy bars. A good sized crowd was in attendance at our opening basketball game. Our boys had little difficulty winning over the small but scrappy boys from Auburn. Every boy on the squad saw action. December 1st as a red letter day for us, it seems. In addition to our joy in winning the ball game and our pleasure in celebrating Nida’s birthday, all the girls made perfect spelling lessons. For recognition of their special effort they enjoyed a brief gym period at the end of the class period. Safety: Realizing that the season of winter sport is upon us, the class discussed ice skating. The discussion pointed out that thin ice is very dangerous, how to test ice for thickness and ways to rescue should anyone ever fall through. A slogan composed by the class culminated the discussion: “Thin ice is strictly for mice. Don’t skate on thin ice.” EIGHTH GRADE Sharon Rosencutter spent Thanksgiving in Nebraska, Bobby Atchison in Illinois and Clifford VanVleck in Arkansas. We were proud to have Patty Coffey participate in the Shawnee county 4-H Bank in Chicago. School will be dismissed for the Holidays at 2:00 o’clock on December 22. We will take up the first Monday of January. We drew names for gift exchange. There will be a county teachers meeting in Topeka this Saturday. Douglas Martinek brought a sweet potato plant for the room. Dr. Murphy and Mr. Watson visited our school recently to inspect it for sanitation. The boys were very happy about the new basketball suits. They did them justice by winning our first game against Auburn last Wednesday evening. The mothers did a good job in helping the cheerleaders with their regalia. We will go to St. Marys to an invitational tournament this Thursday night. Last Friday, the Henmon-Nelson Test of Mental Ability was given in our room. Eddie Besta visited in our room last Friday. The kitchen helpers this week are Sally Porter and Clifford VanVleck. Wash Monitors are Sue Viergever and Leroy Dick. Raymond Rafferty will have his tonsils removed during the Holidays. We have been using our compass to make geometric designs. In social studies we listed the colleges and universities in Kansas. We were surprised to find so many. We are reminded that work will win when wishing won’t. The safety slogan insists that we drive with caution in fair weather and with double caution in foul weather. This will be our last news before the Holidays. We extend to you all the usual season’s greetings. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 9, 1954 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0317 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/a0e7373db7fda33ea69213da5452ce73.jpg cd5afb47944f5d2cf9f7722b3230d997 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Thursday, December 8, 1955 Progress of the grades The Rossville Grade school has started a Pep Club for boys and girls of the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Mrs. Catt is our sponsor. We have elected officers, who are: Nida Mogus, President; Charlotte Decker, Vice-President; Jane Zickefoose, Secretary; Sharon Viergever, Treasurer, and a reporter from each room – Josephine Rosencutter from the eighth, Arleeta Sage from the seventh, and Judy Huston from the sixth grade. We have 32 members and four cheerleaders who are Janet Harth, Sharon Reser, Carol Rafferty, and Diane Swenson. The members are: Nida Mogus, Jane Zickefoose, Norma Klingenberg, Florence Felps, Arleeta Sage, Charlotte Decker, Judy Huston, Marie Stiles, Mary Besta, Sharon Viergever, Janet Hause, Wanda Harmon, Lynda Allen, Dorothy Jacobon, Sally Nadeau, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Carol Tuller, Linda Kelsey, Judy Fauerbach, Charlene Perry, Mary Smith, Janet Kurtz, Josephine Rosencutter, Laura Stiles, Sharon Davis, Zora Wade, Joyce Swenson, Joan Dolezilek, Buddy Mogus, Larry Kurtz, John Vanderblomen, and James Wamego. We have ordered R’s and hats. The hats are going to be two colors. Our cheerleaders have blue corduroy farmerettes and gold cotton baby doll blouses with white collard. Their gold R’s, for Rossville, will go on the bib of the farmerette. Thank you, Mrs. Catt, for helping us. FIRST GRADE NEWS Those having perfect attendance for the second six weeks were Daniel Avers, Linda Bush, Mary Ent, Audery Felps, Laurel Gee, Evan Jones, Wayne Macha, Anthony Martin, Sharon Mayer, Diana Mitchell, Benjamin Mogus, Linda Parks, David Richardson, Cheryl Robinson, Linda Royal, Benjamin Stach, Rosie Stadler, Ronald Starkey, Gary Myers, Jerryl Lauber, and Cynthia Ingram. Bonnie Fauerbach, Gary Myers, and Sharon Mayer have birthdays this month. We welcome Cynthia Ingram into the first grade class. Christine McBurney has returned from Idaho so our enrollment now is 25. Visitors in our room since our last reporting have been Mrs. Andy Mogus and A.J., Yvonne Craig, H.A.W. Kesler, county superintendent, Dr. C. Henry Murphy, and Melvin Lynch. We are getting in the Christmas spirit, although our tree is not yet lit. We have a make-believe fireplace, with stockings hanging by it. We are painting Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer, and we hope that we will all hear His merry bells on Santa’s sleigh coming from far and near. We have Santa Claus wearing a bright suit and each foot is warm in a big black boot. We really have a lot to do, but we wish a very Merry Christmas to you. SECOND GRADE NEWS Those who had perfect attendance for the second six weeks are: Kathleen Becker, Robert Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Tom Foresman, Linda Gardner, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jackson, Henry Kurtz, June Murray, Susan Nadeau, Steven Pardee, Clyde Parr, Jane Parr, Laird Reding, John Simecka, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, and Larry Wehner. In music we are practicing our songs for the Christmas program. Recent visitors in our room have been Mrs. Stiles County Superintendent, H.A.W. Kesler, Dr. C. Henry Murphy, and Melvin Lynch. Kathleen Becker, Robert Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Tom Foresman, Linda Gardner, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jackson, Henry Kurtz, June Murray, Susan Nadeau, Steven Pardee, Jane Parr, Laird Reding, John Simecka, Dale Stiles, and Bonnie Tulller received perfect spelling lessons last Friday. We have enjoyed working on Christmas decorations and pictures for our room. Carolyn Gresser read the story of Cinderella to us last week. NEWS FROM THE 28 THIRDS Yes, we’ve added another to our class and we’re just real happy to have done so. He is Billy Streit from St. Marys. The children came back to school from the Thanksgiving vacation with many exciting events to share. We decided there were an abundance of things for which to be thankful. Now, we’re in the midst of planning the coming Christmas events. We are looking forward to a Christmas party and program and of course always the unexpected excitement. If you should come in to visit our class for awhile, you would see houses with snow-capped roofs and trees laden with snow. Using tempra paint and black crayon, the children very effectively made lovely winter pictures. It has been a pleasure to watch the children improve in the last six weeks. Most of them are finding cursive writing quite a pleasure and enjoy learning this “new” style. One of the biggest thrills, and there are many, of the school day is to hear the wonderful prayers of the children at the beginning of each day. It was a thrill to hear from the White House and the children wanted to share it with you- December 1, 1955. On October 2, we learned about the President’s birthday which was on October 14. Then Dwight brought some cards. We chose the one that we wanted to send to the President. It had a golf ball on it. And it said, “Hope this suits you to a tee.” Then we sent the card October 12. About two weeks later, we received a thank-you from the White House. It was a very nice note. The card from the White House read: The President and Mrs. Eisenhower are deeply grateful for your kind remembrance of them on his birthday. Your good wishes, coming at this time, have been very heartening to them. FOURTH GRADE We are busy decorating our room for Christmas. Plans have been made for each of us to make a book of “Christmas Ideas”. We plan to put choice poems, stories, pictures, and recipes in our books. Those of our class who celebrate birthdays in December are Jane McCollough, Daniel Gee, Kenneth Coleman, Ronald Avers, and Joe Mitchell. Jane and Daniel treated us with candy bars, which were enjoyed greatly. Those who made perfect grades in spelling all through the six-week’s period were James Fauerbach, Daniel Gee, Myrna Perry, and Linda Simecka. Those who received perfect scores on the six week’s test were Stephen Becker, Herman Bringle, James Fauerbach, Daniel Gee, Rose Mary Jacobson, Douglas Kelsey, Myrna Perry, Lillian Reser, Patrick Royal, Linda Simecka, and Marilyn Simpson. Winnders for the multiplication tables contests were as follows: those receiving blue ribbons for daily championship – James Fauerbach, John Giles, Jane McCollough, Sharon Decker, Lillian Reser, Linda Simecka. Those receiving red ribbons for group winners – Myrna Perry, Connie Zeller, Herman Bringle, Ronald Avers, James Fauerbach, Stephen Becker, Gary Hill, Larry Felps, Rose Mary Jacobson, Daniel Gee, Marilyn Simpson, Jane McCollough, Sharon Decker, Lillian Reser, Michael Martin, Donna Tuller, Linda Simecka. Dec 8, 1955. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 8, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0316 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/9811474c37646b607ce6f0214fc2bf5a.jpg 29295226d80116e3867b5685be96ffc6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Thursday, October 6, 1955 Progress of the Grades Rossville Grade School Grade 5 The Fifth Grade has many interesting Science Specimens. Dale Dannefer brought a praying mantis for us to see. A sample of “Fool’s Gold” was brought by Carol Adams. Michael Gresser has a sac nest which he and Davi Jones cut open. It proved to hold many baby spiders. Richard VanVleck brought a large spider and petrified clam. The spider proved to be a “Bird Spider”. Collections of rocks, shells and petrified wood were brought by Carla Rasch, Anna Ent, Jerry Giles and Virginia Rezac. Pamela Berkey has returned from a vacation trip to New Orleans. She brought back samples of sugar cane, cotton and rice stalks with her. She told about her trip and showed pictures of many interesting places she saw. We are glad she is back. Jimmy Stadler of the 7th grade loaned us a large piece of mica he found in Colorado. Grade 6 The sixth grade elected Charles Harth as citizen of the month for September. We will choose a new citizen for every month. Our choice is made on leadership, conduct and scholarship. We had a Mexican Fair October 5. All of the plans for the event were made by the boys and girls. In the room, we arranged displays of many different things that were made in Mexico. Several of the children painted pictures of life in Mexico for the bulletin board. Others arranged a miniature Mexican farm scene. After the other grades visited the Fair, we played typical Mexican games and sang Mexican songs. Grade 7 New students in the seventh grade September 6th were Florence Felps and Arletta Sage. Florence came to Rossville from Jackson county; Arletta from Dover; a third new student was Carol Lumley from Iowa who enrolled September 20th. She is returning with her family to Iowa. Those who have full attendance for September are: Dean David, Gene Davis, Charlotte Decker, Florence Felps, Bill Foresman, Dorothy Jacobson, Gary Klingenberg, Timmy Lynde, Wayne Miller, Sally Nadeau, Katherine Porter, Kenneth Porter, Jimmy Stadler, James Wamego, Jane Zickenfoose, Don Rogers and Arletta Sage. Curtis Berkey made an attractive exhibit of sugar cane, rice heads, and postal cards which he collected while visiting the deep South as far away as New Orleans. Those who spelled the fourth weeks spelling perfectly are: Curtis Berkey, Dean Davis, Gene Davis, Charlotte Decker, Bill Foresman, Dorothy Jacobsan, Tom Lacock, Timmy Lynde, Wayne Miller, Sally Nadeau, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Kenneth Porter, Don Rogers, Jimmy Stadler, Jimmy Wamego, Gary Klingenberg, Jane Zickefoose, Florence Felps, Arletta Sage and J.W. Adams. (Note: This is a unanimous situation. The whole class spelled without an error.) Jimmy Stadler is making an exhibit of souvenirs he brought home from Colorado. A few of the items are: a wood cut calendar made in Japan; a beautiful golden colored key thermometer; a sea side scene in oil on a wood slab, and a silver plated horse. Each member of the class is enjoying the new books which were added to the library this fall. Timmy Lynde is reading Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle: Kenneth Porter has read The Call of the Wild by Jack London; Florence Felps just checked out Amigo, Circus Horse by Cooper, Gary Klingenberg enjoyed Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Henry; Katherine Porter recently completed The Haunted Bridge by Keene. About three weeks ago Billy Foresman and his Uncle Pete caught two good sized yellow catfish. One weighted twenty-four lbs., the other weighted eight lbs. Billy remarked, “There’s more where those came from.” When asked how he could be so sure he gave a true fisherman’s reply (you guess), “The biggest one got away.” So we said the biggest one is older, wiser, and still off the hook. Last week’s maxim, “Kindness is catching and if you go around with a thoroughly developed case of it, you neighbor will be sure to get it.” Grade 8 We have the largest room in school composed of eleven girls and fifteen boys. We are sorry that Josephine Rosencutter’s name was omitted from the enrollment list earlier published. Eight from our room are members of the band. They are Janet Harth, Kenneth Heiland, Ralph Marney, Carol Rafferty, Sharon Reser, Charles VanVleck, Diane Swenson and Laura Rose Stiles. Nida Magus leads the class of flag salute and the Lord’s Prayer. Diane Swenson has charge of the Almanac, and Mary Smith leads discussion on life adjustment. Our discussion topic for October is cooperation. Winners of the contest in multiplication and division by 10, 100 and 1000 were Sharon Reser, Mary Smith, Ralph Marney, and Kenneth Heiland. Mary Smith and Ralph Marney received the most votes for good citizens during the month of September. Diane Swenson and Wayne Rasch are kitchen helpers this week. Gene Irwin was first to return his dental card. Sharon Reser visited the dentist last Wednesday. Twenty-four of us got cards for passing health inspection. These pupils had September birthdays: Billy Fauerbach, Carol Rafferty, Danny Bahner, Charles VanVleck. Charles invited the class to his home for a party on his birthday. From the citizenship posters, we have studied the laws of health, self-control, and self reliance. Sixteen of us took sides with the Dodgers while five stuck with the old faithfuls. It is three apiece at this writing. East Indianola will bring two boys teams to Rossville this Friday to challenge us to softball. Next week the boys will play in a tournament at Gage Park. Some very good free-hand pencil drawings were turned in after our first art lesson last week. Many thanks to the Reporter Staff for a complimentary copy of the Rossville Reporter again this term. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 6, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0315 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/1b5e2b016320e7e44629767dd11e3dd6.jpg cab65703260cfb39a91f705e639bd381 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Enrollment, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Thursday, September 8, 1955 Grades Enroll 176 Rossville Grade School enrolled 176 students on the first day of school September 6. The three largest classes are grades three, four and eight with twenty-five pupils in each of these grades. The smallest class is the second grade with seventeen students. List of students by grades is as follows: First Grade: Daniel Avers, Linda Bush, Mary Ent, Bonnie Fauerbach, Audrey Felps, Laurel Gee, Evan Jones, Terry Lambert, Wayne Macha, Anthony Martin, Sharon Mayer, Christine McBurney, Diana Mitchell, Benjamin Mogus, Linda Parks, David Richardson, Cheryl Robeson, Linda Royal, Benjamin Stach, Rose Stadler, Ronald Starkey. Second Grade: Kathleen Becker, Robert Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Thomas Foresman, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jackson, Henry Kurtz, June Murray, Susan Nadeau, Steven Pardee, Clyde Parr, Jane Parr, Laird Reding, John Simecka, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, Larry Wehner. Third Grade: Vauncile Avers, Connie Bahner, Artie Campbell, Diane Cowan, Gary Dick, Carolyn Farley, Sandra Heiland, Amy Jones, Barton Larson, Sandra Macha, Dwight Martinek, Freda McCollough, Charles Meade, Daryl Mitchell, Diane Murray, Melvin Sage, Bruce Shannon, Virginia Stach, Shirley Taylor, Marilyn Trubey, Laura VanVleck, Parker VanVleck, henry Wade, Helen Wehner, Rebecca Zeller. Fourth Grade: Harry Adams, Ronald Avers, Steve Becker, Herman Bringle, Kenneth Coleman, Lloyd Culp, Sharon Decker, James Fauerbach, Larry Felps, Daniel Gee, John Giles, Gary Hill, Rose mary Jacobon, Douglas Kelsey, Michael Martin, Jane McCollough, Joe Mitchell, myrna Perry, Ronald Pressgrove, Lillian Reser, Patrick Royal, Linda Simecka, Marilyn Simpson, Donna Tuller, Connie Zeller. Fifth Grade: Carol Adams, Pamela Berkey, Dale Dannefer, Anna Ent, Jerry Giles, Michael Gresser, Roger Hurley, Sharon Irwin, David Jones, Judy McCollough, Kent Paine, David Parr, Carla Rasch, Virginia Rezac, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles, Sandra Taylor, Janice Vanderblomen, Richard VanVleck, June Wehner. Sixth Grade: Mary Besta, Donald Bush, Fred Davis, Joan Dolezilek, Judy Fauerbach, Charles Harth, Janet Hause, Darby Holder, Judy Huston, Billy Jackson, Linda Kelsey, Norma Klingenberg, Janet Kurtz, William Mogus, Charlene Perry, Marie Stiles, Joyce Swenson, Dale Timmons, Carol Tuller, Jimmy Turner, Sharon Viergever, Robert Wilt. Seventh Grade: Jesse Adams, Curtis Berkey, Dean Davis, Gene Davis, Charlotte Decker, Florence Felps, William Foresman, Dorothy Jacobson, Gary Klingenberg, Thomas Lacock, Timmy Lynde, Billy Miller, Sally Nadeau, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Kenneth Porter, Don Rogers, Arletta Sage, James Stadler, James Wamego, Jane Zickefoose. Eighth Grade: Lynda Allen, Danny Bahner, Joe Bahner, Bennie Besta, Thomas Bush, Sharon Davis, William Ent, Billy Fauerbach, John Felps, Janet Harth, Kenneth Heiland, Gene Irwin, Larry Kurtz, Ralph Marney, Nida Magus, Kyle Perry Carol Rafferty, Wayne Rasch, Sharon Reser, Mary Smith, Laura Stiles, Diane Swenson, John Vanderblomen, Charles VanVleck, Zora Wade. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 8, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0314 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/65b06d0907310f2c52e15d9fd0648c1b.JPG 40ea470de3eb0a4a0e63853a273e8c13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 150 Years of Education in Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource [This was an alumni display in 2013.] 1863- First school established. Fifteen white and Indian students attended a small log cabin school near the creek at Main and Marion Streets. Students taught by Mrs. Metty. The school was called a subscription school. 1865- A one-story frame school building was built near Main and Marion Streets. A private school was established. 1870- District #34 was formed. This was the first public school. A two-room school was built near Navarre & Marion Streets (near the creek). Fourteen students attended, 20 in winter. 1871- The two-room school was moved from the site and a new two-story school was built at that site. Thirty students attended. Mr. Grant was teacher. 1882- A larger school was needed. Also needed was a secure playground away from the creek. 1885- A new school was built on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. This was a two-story brick building. Four teachers. Both grade school and two years of high school were taught there. 1902- The first class graduates from the two-year high school. Graduates were Edna Hartzell, Stella Johnson and Ellen Parr. 1909- The high school became a four-year school but classes were still held in the grade school building. 1910- Citizens voted to build a new and separate high school. 1912- The first class graduates from the four-year high school. The graduate was Martha (Rezac) Placek. Class of 1913 had six students, 1914 had 11 students. 1912- Construction was begun on a new City High School just east of the grade school. Because of delays, the school was not occupied until the Spring of 1913. The first semester was held in the Fritz Opera House (above Anderson Upholstery). Enrollment in high school averages 45 with four teachers. 1913- Rossville Grade School (left) and Rossville High (right). Standing at the site of the current Grade School. 1920- The school name changed from City High School to Rossville Rural High School. Six teachers. 1937- New High School was built south of Highway 24. This school was used until 1979. 1940- The present grade school was dedicated. It cost $42,000. Original school building had four classrooms, one combination classroom, library, auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and boiler room. 1952- Addition added to grade school. Additional rooms added in 1963, 1975 and 1989. 1956- Kaw Valley Unified School District #321 was formed. Rossville, St. Marys, Emmett, and Delia were combined. Separate schools were kept with Rossville and Delia combined. 1980- The new High School was opened for classes in August. The old high school was torn down. 2003- A Junior High addition added to the High School. Classes began in August. 2011- A secondary gym, locker rooms, etc. were added to the High School. 2013- Rossville schools serve students from Rossville, Delia, Valencia and Willard. Current enrollment in Junior High is 87 and Senior High 179. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville High School - The Cardinal 1917 Yearbook, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource The Cardinal 1917 Rossville High School Rossville, Kansas To Miss Hazel A. Cuddy, for her unceasing interest, and untiring effort in making possible the publication of our first annual, The Cardinal, this book is RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED THE STAFF Editor-In-Chief Mabel Howerton Assistant Editor Irene Howard Manager Gladys Eversole Assistant Manager Howard Bixby Associate Editor Mildred McCollough Artist Fred Stewart THE ROSSVILLE SCHOOL BOARD I. B. ALTER A. B. JAMIESON C. E. CLESS Under the direction of the present board many improvements have been made in our school. In their plans for better equipment and greater efficiency of the school new apparatus for the laboratories has been purchased, drinking fountains have been installed and many other improvements made about the grounds and buildings. We as students in the school cannot do too much to show our appreciation for the privileges accorded us through the unselfish efforts of the Rossville School Board. ROSSVILLE GRADE SCHOOL GRADE SCHOOL FACULTY MAUDE L. CLARE ALTA ELLIOTT VALLEE E. SHORT VIOLET B. MCCOY ROSSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL THE HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY O. P. STEVENS. SUPERINTENDENT SARAH E. THROCKMORTON HAZEL A. CUDDY CLASS OFFICERS CLYDE STRIMPLE, PRESIDENT THURLOW NEISWENDER, VICE PRESIDENT GLADYS EVERSOLE. SECRETARY-TREASURER CLASS COLORS PURPLE AND WHITE CLASS FLOWER PURPLE SWEET PEAS AND LILY OF THE VALLEY Clyde W. Strimple Say many things about him Describe him you who can; He’s just a combination Of all the jollities of man Margaret E. McCollough Dainty and pretty and quiet of speech This maiden ne’er stopped long to play. Happy but never considered too gay She was that by her classmates a peach. Mabel M. Howerton A faithful ever studious girl; She was her teacher’s joy. Gave recitations with a whirl. Made friends with every boy. Irene C. Howard Amid the Senior maidens fair Of charm yon surely hare your share. For tho you're such a quiet one. You're really very full of fun Edna G. Sanders This maid is of the quiet kind Who ne'er did aught but right; For her no slander can we find In these few lines we write. Thurlow L. Neiswender He’s busy in the morning. He’s busier in the night. For he’s the busiest person That ever came in sight. *Doris E. Jamieson She cared not whether you were good. You might he slim, you might be fat; She loved you if you swore with her To ever be a Democrat. F. Lucille Stephens Painstaking and quiet as any mouse, She wasted never an hour, She spent her time in her own little house Just like a delicate flower. Gladys E. Eversole You did not know her? You have missed The best that life could give; Her deeds were kind and well she used The time she was in school. Mildred F. McCollough An independent little girl. AS happy as can be. She greatly loved the social whirl. And she was good to see. *Diploma to be granted at close of summer school Blanche E. Kesler Never worried, seldom hurried. Always happy, always free. Never caught with a solemn thot. But ever singing, fair to see * Pauline L. Baylis Demure and sweet, this maiden had A fetching little way Of casting eyes at any lad, Who with her dared to play. Gladys I. Hartzell Dignified but full of fun. This lassie went her way; At last her high school work is done. What more can people say? \ CLASS OFFICERS GLEN PAGE. PRESIDENT FRED STEWART. VICE PRESIDENT LESLIE GRISWOLD. SECRETARY-TREASURER FRED A. STEWART MARLIN D. EVANS LESLIE H. GRISWOLD B. EDWARD DOUD GLEN A. PAGE EDWIN A. STAMP HOWARD V. BIXBY CLASS OFFICERS HOMER REID. PRESIDENT GLADYS JAMES. VICE PRESIDENT PHEANE ROSS. SECRETARY-TREASURER CLASS COLORS GREEN AND WHITE HOMER S. REID GLADYS M. JAMES NEVA O. BRADY BERNICE E. DAVIS PHEANE W. ROSS MILDRED E. MYERS JUANITA B. MITCHELL RALPH W. BOLAN CLASS OFFICERS RUSSELL PARR, PRESIDENT MARVIN HOPKINS. VICE PRESIDENT RUTH EASDALE. SECRETARY-TREASURER Marvin L. Hopkins Riley B. Mitchell Clara A. Strimple A. Carl Lynde Arline J. Wilt Clara E. VanVleck Elizabeth E. Jackson Nellie M. Sebring Laura L. Lewis Clara M. Lambert Lucille Lambert Ruth E. Easdale Maude R. Sneller John Lillard Ralph E. Hartzell Russell L. Parr V Mr. Easdale has been the janitor of the Rossville schools for a number of years. He is one of those rare personages who will go out of his way to do a favor. Any time there’s anything wrong he’ll sympathize with you. Any time there’s anything funny, tell Mr. Easdale and he will laugh with you. And so it goes, there’s never a thing comes up but he is ready to do all he can to help out. Favors are Mr. Easdale’s specialty, and they are the kind that don’t have to be asked for. The fact is, the school children have been so used to re¬ceiving these favors that they almost forget to appreciate them as they should. He is just a jolly good fellow always ready with a glad hand and a cheery smile to do anything for us that he can. If he has any enemies, they don’t live around Rossville; just let any one from school hear anything said against Mr. Easdale and there’s something doing right away. The high school basket ball team of ’16-17 is one of which Rossville may well be proud. Although the team was rather light it took a husky team to beat them. They upheld the motto which has always been observed by all Rossville teams, whether it was in basket ball, base ball, track meets or any other form of interscholastic contests and that is, ‘ Fair play and a square deal” The girls’ basket ball team of ’16 17 will never be forgotten. They were never beaten by any team during the whole season. They had the Rossville spirit, plenty of pep and a red-headed captain. Is it any wonder they never were beaten? Not at all, because they never played a game. THE TRACK MEETS The first year Rossville entered the track meet, was in 1911. It was new to all the students, and as they were a little bashful, they were not for¬tunate enough to win any of the cups. The next year Rossville school was winner of the cup offered to the grade school whose pupils scored the highest number of points, the cup for the high school whose pupils scored the highest number of points, and the cup for the winning grade school relay team. Three of the Rossville students were awarded medals for the individuals winning the highest number of points. In 1913 the third Shawnee County Track meet was held. On account of the rain the meet was carried on in the old Exposition hall building near the entrance to the grounds. It was staging the meet under a heavy handi¬cap, but the schools were able to compete on a fairly equal basis. Three of the four cups were presented to Rossville. Four of the six medals given to grade school athletes were won by Rossville pupils, and two of the medals for high school winners were awarded to Rossville athletes. Rossville High school had little difficulty in running away with the high school events in 1914. The grade school, however, was not so fortunate and only won fourth place. The track was in fine condition and unusual records were made. Next to the joyful memories of this day the contestants will probably remember best their sunburned backs. Rossville succeded in win¬ning three of the six loving cups offered by Governor Capper. The three medals for the three boys winning the highest number of points of any high school were won by Rossville. This year, the other schools being a little afraid of Rossville, combined, but the combination did not seem to hurt us in the least. “AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW” Senior Class Play, given at the Fritz Opera House, May 22 and 23, 1917 CHARACTERS Robert Preston, a lawyer - - Leslie Griswold Douglas Brown, a football player - Riley Mitchell Dick Preston, the groom - - Pheane Ross Stanley Palmer, “Hawkins, the butler” - Thurlow Neiswender Ted Whitney, captain of the ’Varsity team - Fred Stewart Jack Austin, Preston’s Secretary - - Marlin Evans Marion Dayton, A Ward of Preston’s - Mabel Howerton Nellie Preston, A Bride Irene Howard Louise Lane, Known as Miss Grayson - Margaret McCollough Phyllis Lane, A Football Enthusiast - Mildred McCollough Kathleen Knox, Chairman of the Rushing Committee Gladys Hartzell The Imp, A Freshman - - Lucille Stevens Emily Elliott, With a Conscience - Blanche Kesler Jane, A Maid with a Taste for Literature Margaret McCollough Mrs. Brown, Step-Mother of Douglas Brown - Blanche Kesler Polly Price Edna Sanders Elsa Ernest Blanche Kelser Marjorie Arnold of the Theti Pi Edna Sanders Marie Swift Blanche Kesler Molly Bruce Gladys Eversole SYNOPSIS Scene – A College Town Time—Present Day Act I—“Den” in the Theta Phi House Act II—Library in the Preston Home Marion’s Mask Rail—Two Weeks Later Act III—Interior of Athletic Club House Afternoon and Evening of Game JUNIOR-SENIOR “STUNT” PROGRAM FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1917 FRITZ OPERA HOUSE Popular songs Chorus Solo—“Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” .. Riley Mitchell Reading Gladys Eversole Solo—‘ The Sunshine of Your Smile” Arline Wilt Bear Dance A Bear Piano solo Leslie Griswold Stunt Three Homely Old Maids Solo—“Clover Song” Elizabeth Jackson Reading Russell Parr Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra Boys’ Chorus Duett—-‘‘A. B. C.” Gladys Hartzell. Doris Jamieson Instrumental duet Mabel Howerton. Irene Howard Stunt—“Romeo and Juliet” Thurlow Neiswender, Eliza¬beth Jackson Duet—“Somewhere a Voice is Calling” Arline Wilt, Mabel Howerton Humanaphone Prof. Tschantz “Johnny Schmoker” Boys’ Chorus Reading Pauline Baylis “Greeting to Spring” Girls’ Chorus Oldtime Melodies Chorus Yells AN OLD MAID'S REVERIE / sit alone in the twilight And count the years that are past, Ten, twenty, yes, forty Since I met with my classmates last In the good old Rossville high school, Those days will ever be dear, Though tonight as I sit here thinking. It makes me feel sort of queer. 1 know so little about them, Those girls of English three. 1 wonder what they are doing; And if they're all old maids, like me. Then they were young and pretty And pictured the future fair, Now they may be Grandmas With caps and snow white hair. Of the boys, too, I am thinking. Of the boys of English three, And if they all got married Why none of them ever asked me. So I sit alone in the twilight. And again 1 seem to be In dear old Rossville high school. With the class of English three. SENIOR PROPHECY “I certainly feel like the morning after the night before. These Alumni banquets get on my nerves.” “But you were the one who wanted to go so badly” replied my com-panion. “Didn’t you have a nice time? Didn’t you see any of the 1917 Alumni? Oh! I know you did. Now tell me all about them. I’m so anxious to hear.” ‘‘Yes I’ll have to admit that I had a perfectly lovely time and I did see all the 1917 Alumni. It was such fun hearing what they had done since that night they graduated from dear old R. H. S.” Irene Howard is manager of a musical company, the name of which is known all over the world. The company has played before the Royalty of the leading countries in Europe. Irene finished music in Germany and then or¬ganized her company. Clyde Strimple began teaching in a small country school after graduating. But Clyde wasn’t the kind who stayed at the bottom. Now he is Professor of physics in Princeton University. Gladys Eversole and Margaret McCollough are teaching in a large high school in Minnesota. Gladys, who graduated from Washburn, is teaching English. Margaret graduated from K. S. A. C. and is teaching Domestic Science. Gladys Hartzell was for two years a stenographer in Topeka. Then she took a course in home economics at K. S. A. C. and put her knowledge into actual practice in a home of her own; one of those little bungalows that Gladys was “crazy” about. Mildred McCollough is proprietor of a Beauty Parlor in Kansas City. She owns other such establishments in the United States, but Kansas City is her headquarters. Thurlow Neiswender, true to his school name, “Judge” is now Judge of the United States Supreme court. But this is only half of his occupation. Thurlow always had a strong inclination for A Sophomore. Mabel Howerton, after graduating from Washburn, made her home in New York, where she is devoted to the Playground work. Blanche Kesler lives on a large farm in the Kaw valley. Of course she doesn’t live alone. Lucille Stevens is a short story writer for Harper’s Magazine. She is one of the best of modern short story writers. Edna Sanders is a Missionary in India. She is home on a short furlough now. ALUMNI CLAIRE MILLER GOYETTE, ’14 EDNA BURNS, ’16 ARCHIE CLESS, ’15 MABEL BINNS, ’15 MYRTLE DAWSON, ’14 MONITA FRANKLIN, ’15 HERBERT GREEN, ’14 RAY GREEN,’14 LOWELL HOOK, ’13 ETHEL JAMES, ’16 HAZEL JAMES PARR, ’16 GLADYS JAMIESON, ’15 LANCELOT JAMIESON, ’14 ROBERT MCCAULEY, ’14 CLARENCE MCPHERSON, ’09 BEATRICE MILLER, ’15 WILLIAM MILLER, ’14 AUGUSTUS PARR, ’13 JOE PARR, ’16 ORA PARR, ’16 ESTHER PRATT, ’15 MARTHA REZAC, ’12 PAULINE BEZAC, ’16 TILLIE REZAC, ’15 MAY SEBRING, ’13 MAY SEELY, ’15 CLAUDE SNELLER, ’15 GRACE SNELLER, ’16 ANNA STOVALL, ’15 EMMA STOVALL AUSHERMAN, ’13 EDITH TROSTLE, ’13 EMMA TROSTLE, ’15 MARY VAN VLECK, ’15 WINONA VAN VLECK, ’13 TRINNIE V1ERGIVER, ’14 JAMES WADE, ’16 ENID WARD, ’14 JAMES WHITE, ’14 EDITH WILSHIRE, ’15 LESLIE WILSHIRE, ’15 GOLDA WILSON, ’15 FAYE WORTHINGTON, ’14 HISTORY OF THE ROSSVILLE SCHOOLS During the years 1865-68, the country around Rossville was not so very thickly populated. There not being enough to make a new district school successful, a number of the citizens of Rossville formed a little association and built a small one story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion streets. A teacher was hired and most of the children in town at¬tended that private school. By the year 1870 the country was in a very prosperous state and was much more thickly settled than it had been four or five years previous. So it was at this time that district 34 was formed and a two room frame building was built on the corner of Navarre and Marion streets. This was the first public school that was ever known in Rossville. As the school attendance was steadily increasing, a few years later a large two story frame building, now known as the Rossville Hotel, was built on the same location as this former school had stood. Mr. Higginbotham bought the old building, moved it away and used it for a part of his house. School in this new building was a perfect success and prospered wonderfully. In the year 1884 it was decided that a new and better school house should be built. So in the fall of 1885 a new two story building of red brick, which is still standing and is being used at the present time for the grade school, was ready for use. It was greatly appreciated by all those who had a part in it. The building has undergone many changes and improvements and today it is a place dear to many people because it is there they received all the education they have. There being two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs, four teachers have always been employed. In about the year 1910 it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a High school building in this community under the Barnes law. Until the High school was completed the High school students were instructed in the fourth room and library of the grade building. In order to do this, the first room children were moved down into the old Baptist church. The two upper rooms were then moved; the fourth room pupils occupying the third room and the third room pupils occupying the second room and so on down. The site for the new building was thought to be the best just east of the grade building, so work was started immediately. The building is a beautiful structure made of buff colored brick, the lower part of the building being pebble dashed. It is heated by oil, lighted with electricity, has a fine ventilat¬ing system, domestic science and manual training rooms, a large auditorium, and four recitation rooms. It was thought the building would be ready for use by the fall of 1912, but every one especially the students who were ready to enter High school was sadly disappointed. On account of the weather and other hindrances, the contractors had not completed the work. High school was held in the Fritz opera house for the first part of the year but at the beginning of the second semester the students entered the new building. Four teachers were employed up until the years 1915-16 when, in order to lessen expenses, and there not being a very large enrollment, three teachers were hired. This year 1916—17 also there are only three teachers employed in the High school. The average enrollment of the High school is about forty-five. The first class to graduate from Rossville high school was composed of one member but the following year and each succeeding year, there has been on an average, a class of about twelve or fourteen. This High school is on the accredited list of High schools and a diploma will admit you to any higher institution. In athletics the school has always taken a prominent part. They have taken all the honors and prizes at the County Track Meet every year they have entered, excepting the first year when they were not so experienced as now. So we should all extend our heartiest wishes for the success of Rossville High school and hope that nothing will impede her progress. Irene Howard COURSE OF STUDY Planned to meet the requirements for College Entrance, Normal Training, Industrial, and General courses FIRST YEAR First Semester English Algebra General Science *Ancient History *Sewing Second Semester English Algebra Physiography *Ancient History *Sewing (Expression 1-4 unit) SECOND YEAR English Geometry Botany *Modern History *Cooking English Geometry Botany *Modern History *Cooking (Expression 1-4 unit) THIRD YEAR English Agriculture Algebra *Physiology *Latin English Agriculture Algebra *Physiology *Latin (Expression 1-4 unit) FOURTH YEAR Physics American History *Methods and Management *Reviews *Latin Physics American History *Methods and Management *Reviews *Latin (Expression 1-4 unit) *Subjects starred are elective Four subjects each year carried with one fourth unit of “Expression” is the maximum amount of work allowed. Expression is required of all students throughout the four years course. One fourth unit credit shall be made each year and the four grades given shall be averaged at the end of the senior year and if the average is eighty or more the student shall be entitled to one unit credit in “Expression’’ and in case of failure of a subject the unit of Expression would make the required sixteenth subject for graduation, otherwise, the student would have seventeen credits. Sixteen units are required for graduation and “Expression” must be one of them. This course of study is to be in effect for and after the coming school year 1917-18 unless changed by order of the Board. Approved by order of the Board of Education this, the 28th day of April 1917. Signed Director—A. B. Jamieson Treasurer—I. B. Alter Clerk—C. E. Cless AN APPRECIATION The Annual Staff desires to return sincere thanks to the firms whose advertisements appear on the following pages. To their financial aid in a large measure, is due the credit for the publication of this book. We reserved this space to make this acknowledgement. C. E. CLESS Dealer In Hardware and Implements Furniture, Carpets and Rugs ROSSVILLE - KANSAS MORRIS BOND, Pres. W. S. BOLTON, Mgr. HARVEY JAMES, Sec. Farmers’ Co-operative Elevator Co. GRAIN, COAL AND FEED Highest Market Prices Paid for Grain of all Kinds Every Business Day EMBALMING UNDERTAKING McPherson & Verschelden ROSSVILLE. KANSAS Full line of goods in stock Place your funerals in our charge. We are prepared to please you in every particular FEEDS FIELD SEEDS E. D. HARTZELL Dealer In POULTRY. EGGS AND POULTRY SUPPLIES ROSSVILLE Phone 570 KANSAS If you go up to King’s Studio early in the forenoon he can make your picture and show you proof be¬fore you return on the evening train E.V. KING PHOTOGRAPHER TOPEKA, KANSAS Can copy any picture you wish copied and improve it N. S. Clothier, D. D. S. (Doctor of Dental Surgery) At Rossville from morning of 20th to evening of last day of each month. Office in Fritz Opera House Always On the Job We will buy your hay and vegetables in carload lots, grain and seeds in any quantity ALWAYS THE TOP OF THE MARKET Sell over the finest scale that money can buy, with TYPE REGISTERING BEAM Wm. F. Bolan, Grain Dealer A.A. Cless Groceries Confectionary Ice Cream Cold Drinks Rossville, - Kansas The City Barber Shop J.C. Dickneite, Prop. A clean, sanitary shop Bath room in connection Agent for a Topeka laundry We solicit the patronage of particular people Boys’ Home Restaurant Fred Baker Prop. Short Orders Candies, Cigars and Lunches First door south of the Rossville State Bank Ice Cream and Cold Drinks in Season The Golden Belt Café Rossville, Kansas Short Orders and meals at all hours Our Motto: “Nothing too good for our patrons” Commencement Time It is essential in commencing a career to start right You can make no mistake by starting to buy your eatables and dry goods from us and forming a connection that will be mutually agreeable during the time to come. We shall give your trade our best effort. Ira T. Hopkins & Co. Store DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, MILLINERY AND SHOES Congratulations At this time, the Commencement of your career in a business life, we extend the facilities of our institution as a help to your success. Build up a credit and this together with a reputation of honesty and integrity will carry you over the rough places in life. Always at your service. PEOPLES STATE BANK ROSSVILLE, KANSAS H. F. PRATT, President MORRIS BOND, Vice President C.E. Gresser, Cashier Phone 3070, Topeka and E. V. King can come to your home and make pictures E.V. King Photographer 827 KANSAS AVE., TOPEKA, Better Kodak Finishing SEND HIM A FEW AND SEE Henry B. Miller M.D., A.M. Rossville, Kansas Goyette Drug Store Drugs Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Toilet Articles Wallpaper Stationery Paints and Oils Rossville – Kansas Wilt Bros. Hardware and Implement Dealers Business Established in 1890 Wm. Aye Dealer In Harness, Saddles Blankets Ropes Whips, Etc Repairing Rossville – Kansas The Dependable Cash Store Our merchandise is high grade and satisfactory and our prices save you money. We are always glad to have comparisons made of our quality and our prices with those of other stores. LEWIS MERCANTILE CO. Dry Goods, Shoes, Notions, Groceries and Fruits Phone 210 ROSSVILLE, KANSAS I. B. WILT Heating— Plumbing Pump and Tin Work Gas Fitting Lighting First class work in every particular guaranteed Rossville, Kansas Every boy and girl should at an early time learn something of practical business and no better way than to open a Bank account for Checking or for savings deposit. They not only help business but also pave the way to a good financial foundation for their future success in life. We welcome accounts from all such and will be glad to talk the matter over with any boy or girl. We pay interest on time deposits at the rate of four per cent, as much as any other Bank under the State Guaranty Law is allowed to pay. No red tape or clubs, and you may start your deposit at any time and for any amount If you should be interested in the Gov. Capper hog or cow clubs come in and talk to us about it. Some nice prizes are offered for canned fruits and vegetables by the State Fair Assn., all open to boys and girls of Kansas. Come in and see us. ROSSVILLE STATE BANK I. B. ALTER, Cashier Capps Clothing Huiskamps Shoes Ladies’ Ready-to-wear Garments Black Cat Hosiery Gimbel Hats and Caps We give the best values known in all styles of under¬wear Rossville Clo. Co. H. L. Miller, Buyer H. E. Ishmael General Blacksmith Plow Work, Welding and Brazing a specialty ROSSVILLE - KANSAS O. K. Barber Shop For an easy shave or a stylish hair cut BATH ROOM Laundry Agent Roy Hawks, Prop. The City Meat Market Dealer In Fresh and Cured Meats Full line Staple Groceries Candies Buyers of Cream M. L. Whearty, Proprietor PHONE 240 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville High School, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1917 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Loaned to the library by Virginia Foster Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource yearbook Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0296 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/ca930090b5182d466cb7d6c09e3a1ae3.jpg f63128762ce87708f8ac2c78152afe4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville School News, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Mr. Robert Sigg, English instructor in the high school, returned for his second year at Rossville from his home in Holton. He is rooming again this year at the Henry Lambotte home. - - - Mrs. Ida Andrews, new fifth grade teacher at Rossville Grade School, is rooming at the Henry Lambotte home. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 8, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0295 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/1ba1baaef207b4e4b850567d54830deb.jpg 049b047668331bc0ea373ad6c1f95271 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville School Board News, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Scott Kelsey was re-elected to the school board of the high school at their meeting Thursday night. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 9, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0294 Rossville School Board