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 entrance was toward the road. Left-to-right, front row: Harley Mathews, Jim Sawyer, Edie Mathews, Ethel Sawyer, Hazel Sawyer; second row: Glenn Manges, Jay Mathews, Harold Hoyt, Earl Sawyer, Floyd Manges, Guy Mathews; third row: Guy Ward, Edna Mathews, Grace Sawyer, Ruth Sawyer, Walter Michaelson; back row: Albert Rudolph, Charley Mathews, Sam Allen, Katy Mauser (teacher), Ira Mathews, Delno Sawyer, Ira Blakesley, and Otho Sawyer. (Original photo is courtesy of Jay Mathews)
Citation: 75.385.1-3
Year: 1900