Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-05
WHERE ALUMNI
ARE LOCATED
GRADUATES OF ASHLAND HIGH
SCHOOL, SHOWN BY ANNUAL.
FIRST CLASS GRADUATED IN 1891
Thirteen Seems Charmed Number.
There Having Been Five Classes
of That Number-AFerage Men,
bership Trifle, Over IS to the Glass.

The 1913 annual of the Ashland
high school has a complete list of
the alumni of the high school, from
the time of , the graduation of the
first class in 1891 up to and includ-
ing the class of 1913
During these years there have
been S07 pupils graduated, the first
class, that of 1891, being the small
est, consisting of only three mem
bers, while that of 1913 was largest,
being made up of "a young ladies
and gentlemen. The mystic 13 ap-
pears to have been the charmed
number for the school, there having
been five classes numbering 13,
three classes. of Is and two of 10
members each. Including in the
count of years the year 1908, when
no class was graduated because of
the change from the three to four
years course, the average number to
the class was 1871. Excluding that
year, it was 1876 pupils to the class.
The death angel has been very
good to the alumni of the Ashland
high school, only six of the 307
graduates having been called to the
great beyond. The alumni secretary
has also been very fortunate and eff
ficient in keeping in touch with the
membership, there being only seven
whose postoffice addresses are either
unknown or uncertain.
OF the ladies among the alumni
there have been go married up to
the date of writing.
Glass of 1891.
The pioneer class of the Ashland
high school was that of 1891. 1t
consisted of three members, o. A.
Thornton, M. D.. of Portland, Ore,
Moody Scott, whose occupation is not
given and whose residence is given
as Portland, Ore, followed by a
question mark, and Miss Lora Col
ton, now Mrs. j r. Norton, of Gar
dena, Cal.
Glass of 1892.
This class had Increased in mum
bers over it's predecessor to eight
of whom two, Marie Andrews and
Anna Loomis, are deceased. The
Others are Mary Tiffany (Mrs. Lester
M. Leland) of Portland, Ore; Olive
Gregory (Mrs. Harry Yeo) of Ash.
land; A. c. Dixon, now manager OF
the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., at Eu-
gene; Helena Scherer, address un.
known; Eugene Barry, employed in
the electrical department of the U
S. navy yard at Mare Island, CAL
and Hattie Gleason (Mrs. P. F. Whit.
more), Pomona Cal.
Glass of 1893.
This class numbered II, and one
of them, Effie Armitage, has passed
over the river. The living members
are Louise Ganiere (Mrs. D. Pc
rozz), Ashland; Nell DePeatt, teleg-
rapher, LaGrande. Ore. Henry C.
Galley, real estate and insurance
Yuma, Ariz.; Kate DePeatt, occupa-
tion and address unknown; Agnes l..
Fitch (Mrs. Chester Jury), Seattle,
Wash; Lillian l.. Watson MRS.
George KindalD, Klamath Falls
Ore; Susie w. Homes, teacher,
Douglas, Alaska; May A. Sutton
(Mrs. James Patterson, Portland,
Ore; Irving E. Vining, lecturer for
Y. NJ. G. A., New York city.
Glass of 1894.
This class for the first time
touched the mystic number of 13.
All of the members of this class are
still living and are Jessie Naomi
Wagner (Mrs. T. w. Miles,, Med
ford, Ore; Bessie Winifred Ham
mond, stenographer, Portland, Ore. );
Mabel Edna Russell, artist, Ashland,
Ore; William Walker Peed, survey
or, Eureka, CAL; Elsie Patterson
(Mrs. John Churchman), Ashland,
Ore; Rosa Dodge (Mrs. Henry G.
Galey), Yuma. Ariz.; Ethel Walrad
(Mrs. Elmer Patrick), Newport, Ore !;
Fred Morley Carter, manager Eu-
gene Ice & Storage Co., Eugene,
Ore; Charlotte Cotton (Mrs. A.
Frank Shideler), Los Angeles, Cal.
Daisy Mingus MRS. Fred Robley)
Cazadero, Ore. Elmer Patrick, mer-
chant, Newport, Ore.; Genevieve Joe
Tiffany, clerk. Ashland, Ore; A
Frank Shideler. druggist, Los An
geles, Cal. Cupid seems to have got
busy with this class, two of the
young gentlemen marrying two o.
their classmates, the couples beinl
Ethel Walrad and Elmer Patrick and
Charlotte Cotton and A. Frank Shid
eler.
Glass of 1895.
This year the class dropped bacl
in number to IL, all of whom ar,
still living. The members are Their
esa Bryant mrs. Pelton Thatcher)
Portland, Ore. Gertrude SuttoI