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Children and teacher pose in front of the one-room Ray School, an early area school located across the road of the present-day (2001) entrance to the Ames Country Club on west Twenty-Fourth Street (in Squaw Valley). This school became a part of the Consolidated Gilbert School system in 1917. The school's entrace was toward the road. Left-to-right, front row: Glenn Manges, Edie Mathews, Ethel Sawyer, Earl Sawyer; second row: Edna M. Mathews, Ruby Sawyer, Guy Ward, Guy Mathews, Walter Michaelson, Otho Sawyer; back row: Lorrainia Ward, Mabel Sawyer, Maud Wakefield (teacher), Grace Sawyer, and Abbie Manges. (Originial photograph is courtesy of Jay Mathews)