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1911 class photograph of the combined third and fourth grades of Welch School, located at 120 South Hyland Avenue in west Ames. Front row, left-to-right: Orville Temple, Jeanette Byers, Grace Morgan, unknown, Ethel Rayness, Elmer Huffman, Ida Thomas, Swede Valline, Eleanor Murray, unknown, and Carl Ines; middle row: Marie Mortenson, Veryl Williams, Margaret Sloss, unknown, Hazel Black, Dorothy Gruwell, unknown, Burton Colburn; back row: Fred Jones, Edith Sunderlin, Leslie Smith, Etta Temple, Miss Best (teacher), unknown, unknown, and Harry Gatewood. Welch was an elementary/junior high school. A new building was constructed as Welch Junior High School at 321 State Avenue in 1968; it became the Ames Middle School in 1986; the new Ames Middle School on Mortensen Road opened in 2005.