Fowler, Kansas, School Photos--1933

Fowler High School, 1933
Meade County, Kansas

The old wooden two-story high school in Fowler, Kansas, was originally Friends University. Built in 1911, it was renamed Fowler High School in 1923 and served as the high school until 1950, when it became Fowler Elementary School. It was torn down in 1962.

We've found photos of the members of the class of 1933, along with their class sponsor and the school superintendent. Perhaps you'll find some of your family's history here!

How can these pictures can help you with Meade County genealogy? They place your ancestor in a particular place at a particular time, and give you an age range for them (note that the age range of students in a given class at that time was greater than it is now). You can see your grandparents or great-grandparents when they were at the brink of a new life.

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Ralph Blattner	Pauline Borger	Isabel Brownlee	Mary Brownlee	Wesley Burford


Bertha Burns	Madeline Dowell	Edgar Eikermann	Gerhardt Eikermann	Lavona Grisham


Geneva Hatfield	Bernita Haywood	Delphine Hotz	Howard Ingram	Robert Ingram


Flossie Lepel	Reginald Middleswort	Emerson Miller	Jamie Norman	Elwood Overman


Oneita Pflieger	Howard Pipkin	Melvina Seyfert	Clara Tillery	Donald Watt


Carl Coover Superintendent	Pauline Mallonee Class Sponsor

For an in-depth look at what life was like for these kids who grew up in the heart of the dustbowl, this is a great book: Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas. It details what it was like farming in Meade County, fighting the windstorms that blew away the very earth they were farming. It's a great way to experience what these young people lived through and how it may have shaped their lives.

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