I thought the following information would be of some interest. My Grandfather, William O. Gootee graduated from Loogootee High School in 1929. 
I just recently received a copy of his Graduation announcement. Here is some  of the information contained within this announcement:

Loogootee High School, Class of Nineteen hundred twenty-nine,  Commencement 
Exercises, Tuesday evening, May twenty-eighth at eight o'clock, High School 
Auditorium.
Class Motto: "Climb Though The Rocks Be Rugged"
Class Colors: Cream And Crimson
Class Flower: American Beauty Rose
Class Roll:
Mary Hope Armstrong
Peter M. Risacher
Aidan A. Raney
Charles W. Clements
Beatrice L. Walton
Irene Smiley
Margaret M. Cherry
Ava Laverne Crane
Pearl Crays Dowden
Helen Wanda Roth
Eva Marie Wininger
Alonzo Gardiner
Albert H. Stewart
Edward P. Haigerty
Leo J. Gootee
Joseph Bernard Seal
William O. Gootee
Donald K. Smiley
Virgil Anderson

I hope that this information will be of some help to someone. 

Sincerely, 
Clara M. Gootee-Arnold 
(GrandDaughter to William O. Gootee) 

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