Arizona Ranch Schools

Arizona RANCH SCHOOLS EDUCATION RECREATION HEALTH Arizona RANCH SCHOOLS

Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, together with all the tried and proven methods of modern educational thought-in the incomparable climate of Arizona's glorious winters, in settings of primitive beauty in the heart of the great out-door southwest-these form the patterns that have made and are making Arizona ranch schools famous throughout the world.

In increasing numbers each year, sons and daughters of many of our most distinguished Americans come to Arizona to study at our preparatory schools to exchange, as it were, the long winters of blizzards and snowdrifts of more rigorous climes for the delightful winters on the Arizona desert, where the bluest of skies and the most friendly of suns create an atmosphere that reminds one of eternal spring.

We present herein intimate glimpses into the life of students at our ranch schools-vignettes of happiness, permeated with the gay laughter of busy, healthy young people, studying and playing in the sun.

Arizona ranch schools offer a variety of appeal. There are schools for small children of pre-school age, there are schools for boys and girls in their tender teens and also schools for young men and young ladies who are preparing themselves for college. Most of the schools are embraced in the very bosom of the Arizona desert or in the rolling foothills that separate the desert from the high mountain ranges. One school is located in the pine-studded hills of Yavapai, but every school is so situated that much of the academic life and the recreational activities of the students are carried on out-of-doors, where the mild, dry Arizona winters lend themselves to such programs. Study in the Arizona ranch schools is far removed from the stuffy class rooms where the din-din-dinning of the radiator beats in monotonous overtones abject servility to winter's chill and where icy fingers claw against frozen window panes.

These private, preparatory schools are, moreover, institutions of learning, where the primary purpose and aims are highly educational. No greater tribute could be paid to any school than could be paid to one of the girls' preparatory schools of the state where the daughter of one famed college president and the daughter of the chairman of the board of another great college will enroll this next term. Some of the faculties of these schools are served by members who received their own education in some of America's and Europe's foremost universities. The parents of any prospective student can soon learn for themselves the high calibre of faculties serving these schools by writing to any of the Arizona ranch schools, addresses and directors of which are contained elsewhere in this presentation.

The locale of the Arizona ranch schools is the feature that makes these schools so unique and so superior. Located as they are in Arizona, the most picturesque land in the world, almost all are in that part of Arizona where winter exists merely on the calendar and where a spendthrift sun holds regal sway.

Then, too, life at an Arizona ranch school is the life of the west-the life of the open range, the friendly, hospitable life of easy and charming informality. These schools offer the vigorous and healthy life of the wide open spaces, where a horse is almost a constant companion and where boys and girls learn to ride well and hard. Such a life has left ineffaceable marks on many of their graduates, who have gone on to places of prominence in American life.

Because of the proximity to modern, urban communities, these schools also offer to their students the touches of life in these communities that are important to every boy and girl-the better motion pictures, concerts, and other stimulating events.

There is much of interesting and intimate detail in the functions of these schools that make them attractive and rank them beyond comparison.

Arizona Desert School

There is a good cheer in the pleasant surroundings of these ranch schools, indicative of good taste and comfortable living. The home-like appearance of the Arizona Desert School speaks of friendliness and hospitality.

Arizona Schoolatorium

Gay sunshiny rooms, an open spacious patio for study and rest, prove healthgiving and invigorating to boys and girls at the Arizona Schoolatorium.

Arizona Sunshine School

Busy days in the warm winter sunshine of Arizona is the schedule for students at the Arizona Sunshine School. Here out-of-door and study is stressed.

Evans School

Instruction at Fresnal School is complete and thorough. An experienced guide shows boys (right) the delicate art of packing for a long trip.

Boys who learn the ways of the west are receiving (below) first-hand information in the use of firearms.

Fresnal School

The sunny Arizona winter desert, with a background of mountains, proves a perfect setting for the spacious buildings of Fresnal Ranch School.

Green Fields School

The patio is a friendly recreational center for the boys at Green Fields. The school is located on a cattle ranch.

Busy afternoons at the corrals prove fun for the boys at Green Fields, who readily take to the easy ways of western life.

Hacienda del Sol Jokake School

Jokake School, the desert school for girls, offers a thorough college preparatory course amid genteel surroundings, in a spacious desert setting. During warm sunny afternoons classes are usually held in the friendly, expansive patio.

Girls at Jokake pride themselves on their horsemanship. Here Jokake's famed drill team opens the Arizona State Horse Show at Phoenix.

A Jokake student receives intense instruction in horsemanship and graduates are rated as among the best riders in the country. Taking a high hurdle with infinite grace and ease is an every-day accomplishment for the Jokake girl.

Hiking and riding, supervised by skilled instructors, are pleasant recreational activites of students at Jokake School.

Judson School

Judson School for Boys combines the pleasant freedom and informality of life at a western school with an atmosphere of refinement. There is a master for each group of five boys, and through small classes individual attention results in a high standard of work.

Mesa Ranch School

The Mesa Ranch School is a school for boys who seek a strong scholastic education, and who desire at the same time to develop vigorous bodies through sports and recreational pursuits in the open.

Good fellowship and life in rugged Arizona country develops strong character and high ideals.

Old Pueblo School for young children stresses study and play in open classrooms and sunny surroundings.

Old Pueblo School

There is an easy and friendly spirit of good comradeship at Judson School, which is intensified by the wholesome atmosphere of ranch life and western living.

Palo Verde School

Designed for boys from nine to seventeen years of age, Palo Verde School is a happy combination of thorough educational pursuits and outdoor living. The intimate contact between pupils and masters leads to achievement and accomplishment.

Prescott Preparatory School, in the mountains of Yavapai, has designed a program of intense study, individual attention, and work and play in the open.

Palo Verde School stresses recreation and sports in the long hours of Ari-zona sunshine.

Prescott Preparatory

Southern Arizona School for Boys

The Southern Arizona School for Boys typifies the finest features of Arizona ranch schools. Pleasant, home-like surroundings, personalized instruction, and life in the open and out-of-doors is typical of this school.

Western sports, riding, polo, and marksmanship are stressed at the Southern Arizona School for Boys, for Arizona's climate, perhaps the finest in the world, lends itself to these healthful, interesting activities.

The close association of student and master tends to make life at the school friendly and pleasant.

Directory

ARIZONA DESERT SCHOOL A school for boys from sight to fifteen years of age, ten miles north east of Tucson in the foothills of the Santa Catalinas. Established first at Wickenburg, Arizona Desert School was moved to Tucson in 1927. Alan Lake Chidsey, Headmaster Address: Tucson, Arizona ARIZONA SCHOOLATORIUM A school for young boys and girls, from three to twelve, located in Tucson, Especially adapted to those children whose school progress has been retarded because of sickness. Founded in 1933. Mrs. Thelma Holstein, Director Address: Tucson, Arizona ARIZONA SUNSHINE SCHOOL Located in the desert, three miles from Tucson, this school accepts boys and girls from pre-school age through the eighth grade. Founded in 1997. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Hodges, Directors Address: Tucson, Arizona EVANS SCHOOL One of the oldest ranch schools in Arizona, Evans School is located sixteen miles from Tucson in the Tanque Verde Mountains. Boys from twelve to nineteen enjoy study and ranch life out in the desert and open range. Founded in 1908. Edward M. Clarke, Headmaster Address: Tucson, Arizona FRESNAL RANCH SCHOOL. This school is located in the Baboquivari Mountains, fifty-two miles southwest of Tucson, thirty miles from the Mexican border. Fresnal School consists of a cow ranch of 10,000 acres, and takes in boys of junior high school and high school ages. Founded in 1929. Bryan F. Peters, Director Address: Tucson, Arizona GREEN FIELDS... A school for boys from eight to sixteen, on the Circle Double A Ranch nine miles north of Tucson, where the ranch atmosphere and out-door life predominate. Founded in 1933. G. H. Atchley, Director Address: Tucson, Arizona HACIENDA DEL SOL.. The Hacienda del Sol, a girl's preparatory school, is in the desert seven miles north of Tucson, Founded in 1929, it received a charter to operate as a non-profit educational association in 1937. Rev. George W. Ferguson, President Doris Choate Oesting, Principal Address: Tucson, Arizona JOKAKE SCHOOL. Jokake School, a desert school för girls, is located on the southern slope of Camelback Mountain, eleven miles from Phoenix. An accredited school, Jokake's pupils are of junior high school and high school age. George Thayer Ashforth, Director Address: Phoenix, Arizona JUDSON SCHOOL FOR BOYS The Judson School, for boys between the ages of eight and eighteen, was founded in 1928, on the desert in Paradise Valley toward the east base of Camelback Mountain twelve miles northeast of Phoenix. The school offers sound schooling as well as active life in the out of doors. George A. Judson, Director Address: Phoenix, Arizona MESA RANCH SCHOOL This boy's school is located near the desert about two and one-half miles from Mesa, in the heart of Salt River Valley. The spring term is held at Flagstaff. During the fall and winter months boys study and live an out-door life at El Rancho Bonita near Mesa. Founded in 1923. Major Lionel F. Brady, Headmaster Address: Mesa, Arizona OLD PUEBLO SCHOOL Located on the eastern edge of Tucson, this school has classes for boys and girls from nursery-age through the sixth grade. Old Pueblo School was founded in 1987. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Le Pine, Directors Address: Tucson, Arizona PALO VERDE RANCH SCHOOL Established in 1929, Palo Verde Ranch School provides education and life in the open for boys from nine to seventeen years of age. The school is located on the desert at the northeastern edge of Salt River Valley, ten miles from Mesa. A summer school, Escondido Lodge, is operated near Prescott. James S. Hutchinson, Director Address: Mesa, Arizona PRESCOTT PREPARATORY SCHOOL This school, for boys from the first grade through the twelfth, is located in the beautiful mountains of Yavapai county near Prescott. It offers a full course of book study with a stress on learning-by doing.

Here boys live and learn in the active ways of the west. Lancelot Minor Dent: Headmaster Address: Prescott, Arizona SOUTHERN ARIZONA SCHOOL FOR BOYS This school is located in the foothills of the Santa Catalinas, near Tucson, and accepts boys from the sixth through the twelfth grades. The 280-acre school property is in a range region where desert and foothills meet. Founded in 1930. Captain Russell B. Fairgrieve, Director Address: Tucson, Arizona THE THOMAS SCHOOL On the desert eight miles from Tucson, the Thomas School offers instruction and care for boys and girls from six to fourteen years of age, whose health requires personal and specialized attention. Miss Winifred G. Thomas, Principal Elmer R. Beeler, Headmaster Address: Tucson, Arizona

A Busy Day for a Busy Student in One of the Arizona Ranch Schools

Busy and active, indeed, is the life of an average student at an Arizona Ranch School. Habits of idleness are not formed by students who follow such a day's program as this:

Arizona Ranch Schools for students of junior high school and high school ages stress activity in the open, for the warm, invigorating Arizona fall and winter sunshine adapts itself to recreation, riding and sports out-of-doors.