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14A Derby High School 1920s Butch Ewing.jpg
The school building was the first brick building in Derby and cost $15,000 to build. The new building only lasted six years before a fire gutted it in May 1923.

The previous building was torn down after a violent storm severely damaged it in…

2101 Derby High School all students 1924 - 1925 school year 1924 Inv. 23-080098 unknown donor _ museumMuseum.jpg
From left to right:
Some of the names are misspelled and the corrected spelling is in parenthesis.

Fifth row (back row):
Murrell Ward '26; Murrell Mohr (Merle Mohr) '27; Everett Gass '26; Cecil Basset (Cecil Bassett) '27; Elgar Church '27;…

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139 Harry Summers and Arthur Owen 1924 Maurine Holt.jpg
Harry Summers and Arthur Owen helping at the Junior-Senior Banquet for Derby High School around 1924. During the Junior-Senior banquets, the juniors would prepare and serve the food to the seniors.

141 Junior Senior Banquet 1924 Maurine Holt.jpg
The junior class of Derby High School after the Derby Junior-Senior Banquet in 1924. The juniors prepared and served the food to the seniors.

Back row:

Harry Summers (3rd from left), Arthur Owen (5th from left), Mary Sue Williams (8th from…

275 Mohr Barn 1920s Maurine Holt.jpg
The barn on the Mohr homestead was built using some of the lumber from the Derby School destroyed in 1903 by a tornado. The picture was dated in the 1920s.

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Report of
Ivan Pendell
3rd Grade

Sedgwick County
District No. 6
Betty Swaney
Teacher
Year 1935 - 1935

The Home and School Should Work
Together for the Good of the Child.

R. M. Crum,
County Superintendent

Subjects
Reading,…

370 Derby School Board members 1920s Helen Parish.jpg
Three members of the Derby School Board. The man in the middle is Wirt Larimer, grandfather of Helen Smith Parish.

371 Derby Class 1923 Helen Parish.jpg
Derby High School Students
Class of 1923
Pendant

May 20, 1923 issue of the Wichita Eagle lists the following names:

Archie Booth, Lloyd Casement, Robert Dunshee, Ruth Frey, Howard Jones, Mildred Larimer, Thelma Larimer, Alice Shockey, Frances…
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