TIGER

JEROME HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS 1922-1925

(With Alumni Lists 1913-1925)

**1920 -- JEROME HIGH SCHOOL¹ -- 1950**

The first class for Jerome High School started in 1909 with a Freshman Class at the Lincoln Grade School. The first graduating class was in 1913, with 8 graduates. A new high school was built in 1920 on North Lincoln Avenue; 1920-21 was the first class year at the new school. It was changed to Jerome Junior High in 1950 with the opening of a second new high school directly to the North on what had been the Tiger Athletic Field. The junior high became the Central Elementary School in 1976 with the construction of a third new high school².

My mother, Thelma G. (DOBKINS) YINGST -- born 11 November, 1903 in Crawford Co., Missouri -- came to Jerome in 1916 from Oklahoma with her parents, Albert E. and Sarah C. (WALTON) DOBKINS. She finished grade school at the original Canyonside four miles south of Jerome; started high school at the then new building in 1922 and graduated in 1925. She played Girl's Basketball; Jerome won the State Championship in 1924.

THELMA G. DOBKINS
Class of 1925

DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER:

STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS
1924
STANDING: Coach Snodgrass, Oliver, Janes, Mullins, Thomas, Lind, Robinson
SEATED: Dobkins, Gill, Aberdein, Godfrey, Ayers, Wilcox, McGowian

NORTH SIDE NEWS
August 2, 2007
Jerome Centennial 1907-2007
The History of the North Side
"The first 100 years"
Excerpt: Page 58

I have the TIGER³ Yearbooks for 1922-1925 with Freshmen-Senior names for appropriate years. Individual photographs are included for each year's Seniors 1922-1925 and group pictures for Freshmen-Juniors, as well as activity pictures and student information. The Junior High Boy's Basketball Team and group photographs of the Seventh and Eighth Grades (no names) are included in the 1925 issue. The books also list Jerome High Alumni for 1913-1925. In addition, the yearbooks show advertisers, lecturers, faculty members and school board members.

Many of the students were children of early homesteaders in the Jerome Area, beginning settlers that drew Carey Act Homesteads in the first land drawing in 1907.

Additional information about the students in the yearbooks and students in other grades may be found in compilations of Jerome School Records in the Idaho State Historical Society Public Archives and Research Library at the Idaho State Historical Society Library and Archives (ISHSLA). The compilations are listed by schools and include birth dates, grades, parent and parent's occupation, as well as student names. If you can't visit the library personally, staff personnel will check the references for you as set out in the ISHSLA page.They are located in the Jerome County Section as follows:

Jerome County, Idaho, Jerome public school records 1920-35.
Jerome County, Idaho, Jerome public school records 1935-50.
Jerome County, Idaho, Jerome public school records A-K.
Jerome County, Idaho, Jerome public school records L-Z.

NOTE: My wife and I also have Jerome High School Yearbooks for the 1942-44 and 1948-1951 along with the 1946-50 University of Idaho Yearbooks and the 2004 U. of I. Alumni Directory. I am will to do lookups in those references.

SOURCES

Jerome High School Student Body, THE TIGER - 1943, VOL 16, (Jerome, Idaho); Photograph scanned from Title Page by Donovan Yingst, Meridian, Idaho.
The Northside News 75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, "School's first senior class graduated in 1913" (Jerome, Idaho), 5 August 1982, p. 48-49; Copy in possession of Donovan Yingst, Meridian, Idaho.
Jerome High School Senior Classes, TIGER - 1922-1925 (Jerome, Idaho); Original yearbooks in the possession of Donovan Yingst, Meridian, Idaho.