BLUE LAKES SCHOOL

The Blue Lakes School District was organized in 1869 and the original school was located on the south edge of the lower Blue Lake, along the toll road. After a boy on his way school drowned, the building was moved away from the lake to the north about 1/4 mile, into a little "niche" right up against a very steep mountain, on the north side of Highway 20. School was still held there during World War II, and then the building was turned into a home.

In 1946 a contract was drawn with the Upper Lake Union School to become a part of that district and the annexation took place in the fall of 1947. The school house and its site reverted to Paul Eaton, the son of the donor of the land. Later the property was sold and the building converted into a home. In 1951 it was bought by Mrs. Alethea B. Smythe, who had been a student at the school from 1894 to 1903 (Alethea B. Smith), in grades one through nine. It is still standing and occupied today.


TEACHERS (partial list)

N. Meador                                       1895-96 (at least)

Minnie Seat & Veda Allen               1904-05

Mrs. A. J. Waterhouse                     1905-07

Gertrude M. Clark                           1907-08

G. D. Hines                                      1908-09

Myrtle Harmon                                1909-11

Ruth Hamilton                                 1911-13

Loyis Scanlon & Ruth E. Shearer     1913-14

Mrs. F. W. Crawford                       1914-15

Miss E. K. Biggerstaff                      1915-17

Bernice Phillips (former pupil)         1917-20

Lucy Griffitts                                   1920-22

Mrs. Madge Harrison                       1922-23

Vivian Berry                                    1923-25

Viola Schuler                                   1925-26

Clarita Bannister                             1926-31 (her father a former student)

Mrs. Anna Phillips                          1931-41

Mrs. Adra Nelson                            1941-45

Mrs. Janet Crabtree                        1945-46

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GRADUATES OF BLUE LAKES SCHOOL -

1883 - 1901 - (Graduates of all schools are listed on Schools Main Page

1901 Promoted from 8th to 9th - Aletha Smith

1902 - Aletha Smith

1909 - Harmon, Jack

1911 - Lois Allingham,   Bernice Phillips

1914 - Doris Allingham

1916 - Ada Allingham

1917 - Myrtle Allingham

1921 - Dorothy Keil,   Elmer Phillips

1924 - Antha Mendenhall,   Thomas Rhodes

1925 - Ethel Mann,   Melba Tyson

1926 - Paul Keil,   Mark Mendenhall

1929 - Carmalita Ford,   Hazel Mann

1930 - Olaf Lemmerz,   Loren Phillips

1932 - Maudine Olivine Baker,   John Alvin Smith

1933 - Max Mendenhall

1934 - Vivian Chesney,   Leon Grover,   Walter Lemmers

1935 - Robert Phillips

1936 - Abram Sandage

1937 - Glenn L. Ryland,   Evelyn Sandage

1938 - Ernest Clay,   Ruby Eddings,   Janeal Tyra,   Louise Tyra

1939 - Elizabeth Mae Thompson 1940 - Mary Jane Lemmers

1941 - Elva Cosgrove,   Elsie Mabel Haston,   John Kirch,   Albert M. Simmons

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Anita Crabtree anitajc@pacific.net Last Updated 02/22/2010

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