High School Graduates, 1898 - 1940

These names were obtained from past Lake City teachers’ class registers. A student listed as a 12th Grade student in the fall of any particular year may not, in fact, have received a diploma in May/June of the next year.  In a few instances, names appeared in the fall as 12th Graders but do not reappear the following spring on the roster, indicating the students,
1) may have moved away from the area; or, 2), dropped out of school; or, 3) received their diploma at mid-year.

Lists of actual graduates from year to year haven’t been located, if such lists exist. This is an attempt to assemble a list of the names of students who actually graduated from Lake City High School and is a “good guess” at best.  Additions and/or deletions to the list are WELCOME, as are suggestions of what other references might exist that would helpful with this endeavor.  Respectfully submitted, Parry Heath, Summer, 2002

Prior to the 1997-98 school year, no one is enrolled at higher than the 9th Grade level. Either registers for the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades are missing, or curriculum higher than 9th Grade was not offered.

1898 - seven students are listed as 10th Graders; two boys (both 18 years old), and five girls (ages 15 and 16). There are no students designated as 11th or 12th Grade students.

The first 10th Grade commencement for Lake City High School graduates was held in May, 1898, with graduates Burnie Paterson, Lula Lawler, Mary Lawler, Edith Bent, Alice Donnell, Sadie Isaacs, and Ray Madison.

1899 - only one school register was found, identifying all students as either 3rd or 4th Graders.

1900 - only one register was located and it includes students at all levels, primary through 9th Grade (and there was only one 9th Grader).

In the registers for the school year 1900-1901, H.G. Heath’s name first appears as a teacher. And it is with this school year, ending in 1901, that the names of any 12th Grade students first appear.

The following years signify the “Graduating Class of -------- ”.

1901 - Valeria Paterson and Rene Wright.

1902 - Florence Uglow.

1903 - Charles Avery, Florence Hull, Leoma Hunter, Alice Neil, Rachel Paterson.

1904 - no 12th Graders listed.

1905 - J. Taylor Ray and Louis Schafer.

Lake City High School now accredited by the State of Colorado.

1906 - Nettlie Uglow, Alice Watson, and Eva Watson.

1907 - W. Watson Avery, Edwin Brown, Arthur Hoffman, Marian Hoffman, Myrtle Kilvert, and Clementine Neil.

1908 - Edna Beam, Ruby Ellen Faires, Nancy Carolyn Hunt, Winnifred Ready.

1909 - Maude Edith Clevenger and Annie May Dwyer.

1910 - Nan Frances Egbert and Grace Viola Gray.

1911 - H. Augusta Avery and Ellen Zeigler.

1912 - Charlotte Avery, Leila Everett, and Midge Harkness.

1913 - Hugh McLeod and Chester Richards.

1914 - Anna Bardwell, George Carey, and Helen Hammond.

1915 - Selma Benson and Matthew Kinney.

1916 - Opal Hunt, Mabel Steele, and Alice Vernon.

1917 - no 12th Graders.

1918 - Adolph Benson, Margaret Mendenhall, George Ramsey, and Lyman Ready.

1919 - no 12th Graders.

1920 - Mabel Cummings, Irma Hardy, Verda Mendenhall, Roberta Ramsey, Lucy Watson, and Aileen Williams.

1921 - Herbert Heath.

1922 - Sidney Carey, Lillian Defenbaugh, Mamie Freeman, Wanda Knowlton, and Dorothy Ramsey.

1923 - Anna Ewart and Eben Slocum.

1924 - Keith Carey, Margaret Cummings, LaVeta Foreman, Herman Heath, William Heath, Nathan Knowlton, and Downing Rawson.

1925 - Fred Benson, Ruth Coburn, Lizzie Ewart, Leta Humphrey, and Nellie Vickers.

1926 - Sarah Buskirk, Alex Carey, and Joe Mendenhall.

1927 - Thomas Creel, Lucile Ewart, Alice Green, Althea Griffith, Edna Moore, Harry Ramsey, Hufty Rawson, Marjorie Williams.

1928 - David Green.

1929 - Marie Creel, Helen Ewart, Florence Lucy Maurer, Frank Mendenhall, Mildred Moore, and Agnes Ramsey.

1930 - James Andrik, Malcolm Carey, and Frank French.

1931 - Walter Andrik, George Cummings, Dorothy French, George Griffith, John McCloughan, and William Wright.

1932 - Edith Heath, Jean McCloughan, Margaret Rawson, and Purvis Vickers.

1933 - Gladys Ewart, Montana French, Tom French, Katrine Hoffman, and Vivian Ramsey.

1934 - no 12th Graders.

1935 - Barney Bryant, Rowland Ewart, Edgar Heath, Edna Hoffman, Claude Hunt, Norma McCloughan, Joseph Vickers, Robert Williams, and David Zeigler.

1936 - Clarence Beam, Ruth Hoffman, Ruby McCloughan, Dempsey Seibert, and Loretta Williams.

1937 - Celia Rawson.

1938 - Marie Griffith, Annie O’Toole, Sarah Vickers, and Sanford Zeigler.

1939 - the 1938-39 high school register was not found.

1940 - no 12th Graders.

Research into graduates of Lake City High School from 1941 to 1967 (latter Kelly Sue Burke and Hiram Dick White) will continue in the future.