Old Stoney Corner

“Through The Realm of the Past” appeared in the 1934 School Yearbook:

Since no staff has attempted to tell the history of Crook County High School, the present staff has tried to give an account of the growth of the high school and those responsible during those years.

As not much material is available to tell about how our school system was first started in the community, not much can be told about it. However, we do know this much as gathered from some old timers around this locality.

The first was started with a one year course. Finally by raising funds from plays, etc. given they managed to “rake” enough together to build it up to a three year course. Later as we all know it grew into a four year fully accredited high school.

As one old timer expressed it, the first high school building was such that every time the wind blew it shook like a cottonwood in a cyclone. The old building had been standing for forty or more years.

When the town began to prosper, there was a call for a better building. In 1923, the local Crook County High School was completed and now has an enrollment of approximately one hundred and eighteen students of which there are graduating in the year of 1934, sixteen students.

The present building has an up-to-date heating system, large and well-lighted rooms and recently, through a C. W. A. program, was given a thorough renovation. The building now is in such shape that the students and patrons of the school can be justly proud of it.

Courses offered are: Commerce, Smith-Hughes Agriculture and Home Economics, Normal Training and a complete curriculum of academic subjects. It is fully accredited by the state department, and anyone graduating from here can go to practically any school and be accepted unconditionally. In athletics, which includes basketball, football, it takes a backseat for no school as records show.

Sundance is an ideal school town and has had the finest teachers. During years from 1931 to 1934 Mr. Lloyd S. McKeehan has been the Superintendent and has very capably filled the position.

Maybe in years to come our school will grow more and we will have to build another high school. However, we are sure that the seniors who are graduating this year will always remember this school as a place where they gained much of their education to be used in their later years to help them carry on in their life’s work that lies ahead of them.

Written by the yearbook staff of 1934.

Submitted by Crook County Museum