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ROBERT E. WEST
Vol. 3, page 1181

The little city of Davis has one of the best equipped modern
schoolhouses in the state, completed in 1909. At this writing, there
is being constructed an addition in the form of an auditorium which
will contain a thousand seats.

In the fall of 1912, Robert E. WEST became superintendent of schools
of Davis. Mr. West is one of Oklahoma's younger educators, a man of
thorough experience as a school administrator and teacher, and his
work is also characterized by an initiative and originality which
makes him invaluable to any community which he serves. All members of
his high school faculty are college graduates, while the teachers in
the grades are graduates of normal schools. Mr. West has under his
supervision a corps of 14 teachers, 115 high school pupils enrolled
and 400 students in the grades.

Out of the fruits of his experience as an educator, Mr. West has
devised and invented a complete system of high school records, for
which application for patent has been filed. This is known as "The
Complete and Permanent Record of the High School Pupil." It consists
of four parts, Part 1 is called enrollment and classification; part 2
is classed record book; part 3, a report to parents; and part 4,
loose leaf ledger. All of it is designed to correlate in plan and
idea, first, the courses carried by the pupils; second, the daily
record of grades made by the pupils; third, the period averages at
the end of each six weeks; and fourth, the semester grades at the end
of each semester. The report card is a report only of the average
grade taken from the class book and sent to the parents. The ledger
contains the summarized semester class grades and examination grades
made by the pupils. These are carried into an average column and
designated as a pupil's credit grade. Each page contains the name,
residence and date of entrance of the pupil, and shows all the
semester grades made by the pupil during the four years he has been
in school. In fact, it s a complete history, semester by semester,
and year by year, of the high school pupil.

Though nearly all his brief career has been spent in Oklahoma,
Robert E. West is a native of Missouri and was born at Linneus, in
Linn County, June 6, 1885. His father is M. E. West, who was born at
Decatur, Illinois in 1855, was reared partly in that state and partly
in Missouri, and was married at Linneus to Mattie Belle KIRBY, who
was born there in 1860. M. E. West is an original pioneer of Oklahoma
Territory, having gone to Guthrie in 1889. In 1891 he moved to
Lincoln County and lived there until 1901 and has since lived in
Hinton, in this state. He has been very successful in his business
career, and has followed farming and stock raising, banking and still
owns a large amount of farm lands. At Hinton, he is a secretary of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, member of the Masonic fraternity and
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of
Pythias, the Brotherhood of American Yeoman and the Modern Woodmen of
America. As a democrat, he has served a state committeeman. He and
his wife are the parents of five children: L. L. West, who is a
hardware and implement dealer at Hydro, Oklahoma; Lessie, wife of E.
I. HEUSTON, a capitalist and farmer at Hinton, Oklahoma; Professor
West; Chester E., a farmer at Hydro; and Anna Maye, senior in the
Hinton High School.

Robert E. West attended the public schools in Eastern Oklahoma and
as part of his early career had six years of work and experience on a
farm. In 1901 he entered the Southwestern State Normal School in
Weatherford and he taught his first school in 1908-09 at Cement. He
was again in the Southwestern Normal where he was graduated in 1910
with a certificate for life. He is now preparing for the degree of M.
Ped from the Missouri State University. The two years 1910-11 and
1911-12, were spent as superintendent of schools at Sentinel, and in
the fall of 1912 he came to Davis. He is an active member of the
County and State Teachers Association.

In politics he is a democrat. At Davis he is an active member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, is a church trustee and assistant
superintendent of the Sunday School. He is affiliated with Tyre Lodge
No. 42, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Davis, Ivanhoe Lodge No.
116, Knights of Pythias; and Lucretia Camp No. 10106, Modern Woodmen
of American. He is a past venerable consul.

At Oklahoma City in 1910 Mr. West married Miss Eva Belle DINSMORE.
Her father J. W. Dinsmore, is a farmer at Lookeba, Oklahoma. To their
marriage was born July 10, 1911, a son, Devert Wallace.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Jacque Pearce Reynolds November 1, 1998.