History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. II
1918, they were obliged to fit up a room over the Lisco Mercantile Company store again. In
1919, two rooms over the store were needed as the tenth and eleventh grades were added to the course. The teachers in Lisco at this time were Cora Felker. Principal, Eva Snider, Assistant, Mrs. R. O. Stevenson and Miss Lela Mosser.
Garden County High School
June 26, 1915, a Garden county high school
was organized under the control of a Board of
Regents. County Superintendent Nellie Olson
Stroud, County Treasurer Ralph Laycock, and
F. A. Dutton of Oshkosh, Mr Tilgner, of Lewellen and Geo. Sampson, of Lisco, were elected on the Board of Regents. The first teachers were Ben F Robinson, Superintendent, Mrs. Minnie Robinson and Miss Louise Barstow, Assistants. They remained two years.
The first graduates were Walter Olson, Bess Blair, Beulah Blair, Marguerite Day, Bernice Miller and P'ern Bentz.
The Garden county high school's best year in basket ball was in 1916-17. Paul Bergstrom, Superintendent of the Oshkosh grade schools, coached the high school team. They did so well that they were allowed to go to the state tournament. They were not in the best of condition, two players were sick with hard colds, but they won the first game from Bassett and lost the second to Pawnee' City. The players were Frank Robinson, Clyde Sudman, Lee Henderson, Everett Dennis. Walter Stroud and Ralph Snell.
The basket ball team in 1918-19 won their monograms and wool jerseys in the high school colors, purple and white.