BUTLER COUNTY, KANSAS
LEON SCHOOLS
1937 Leon High School Graduating Class
Submitted by Jill Gipson
1937 Leon High School Graduating Class
Top row left to right: Mary Garden; Robert Sipe; Doris Meeks; Glenn Gipson; Maxine Kingsley; Dannie Holt; Faye Haufman; Dale Davit & Gilbert Ridgeway
Middle row left to right: Sidney Blakeman (Treasurer); Ada Edwards; Donald Westervelt; Miram Gibb (Secretary); Earnestine Sutter (President); Hale Knight; Phyllis Noble; Robert Keys; & Evelyn Macklin
Bottom row left to right: Rogene Maclean; Junior Eckel; Maxine Poindexter; Oran Creger; Lillian Dedrick (Sponsor); Virgil Moen; Mary E. Potterton; Marie Wooten; & Ernie Blandin
The school was built in 1927 for $15,000. It burned down and was replaced in 1948 by the building that still stands on the corner of State Road 96 and Stoney Creek Road.
The picture blow is of the 1930-31 school year with the original instructor - Orville Wilson
Submitted by Jill Gipson
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