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May 19, 1955 Want a Kindergarten? A need for a kindergarten has been called to the attention of the Grade School Board of Education. Before going through the necessary channels preliminary to such a procedure, the board would like to have the opinion…

No names are known for this group of fifth and sixth grade students from Rossville, Kansas.

Steven Martinek is doing the painting on this one-room #101 school house in Rossville, Kansas. The flag shows only 48 stars.

Pictured left to right in the top row are Hazel James, Golda Wilson, Pauline Rezac, Bea Miller, Emma Trostle, Ethel James, and Joe Parr. In the second row are Claude Sneller, Elizabeth Jackson, Mildred McCollough, Doris Jamieson, Unidentified,…

Pictured left to right top row are Doughty Strimple, Mildred Gutshall, Unidentified, Bill McGrew, Ralph Hackler, George McGrew, and Miss Cuddy, teacher. Second row: Unidentified, Sarah Strimple, Vida Reser, Clara Wilt, Henry Wade, Ruby Wilt,…

Thursday, March 24, 1955 Rossville Grade School '55 Basketball Champions [Caption to photograph](Engraving courtesy of Jim Rezac) These boys were the winners of the Class B Basketball First-Place Trophy in Shawnee county this season. Almost all of…

A photograph of the Rossville grade school on the left, and the Rossville high school on the right, at East Pottawatomie Street in 1913. The grade school consisted of four rooms.

RGS BOARD MEETS Nearly fifty patrons were present at the annual grade school board meeting Friday evening. Mrs. Fern Rogers was re-elected as director of the board. There was some discussion about school books, hot lunches and in purchasing band…

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…

From The Rossville Reporter Thursday, May 5, 1955 Nineteen Beginners Expected at R.G.S. Nineteen boys and girls came for Pre-School Roundup last Friday. Their mothers completed an information sheet and were given a list of books needed for next fall.…