| Ruston High School | |
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| Front entrance to Ruston High School (2010) | |
| Location | |
| Ruston, Louisiana, United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | 4-year, Public high school |
| Established | 1921 |
| Staff | 85 |
| Number of students | 1,000 |
| Website | [1] |
Ruston High School is a 4 year public high school located in the Lincoln Parish School District of Ruston, Louisiana, United States. The school has an enrollment of approximately 1200 students with 85 faculty members; the mascot is the bearcat. The school colors are red and white. Black students were first admitted in 1970. Ruston High School also serves as a memorial to the survivors of the Gulf War. The campus is in the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
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Ruston High School Speech and Debate has won numerous state championships: Advanced Cross Examination in 2000, 2006, and 2011; Intermediate Cross Examination in 2001 and 2002; Novice Cross Examination in 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2010; Intermediate Lincoln-Douglas in 2007; Oral Interpretation in 2006; Declamation in 2007, 2010, and 2011; and Student Congress (Senate) in 2007. The team finished in a tie for 2nd overall at the Louisiana High School Speech League state championships in 2006 and finished third overall in 2007. They also received the Novellen Price Ellis Rotating Sweepstakes Trophy in 2007.
Oscar P. Barnes, Jr. (ca. 1921 - April 17, 2008), was band director at Winnsboro High School in Franklin Parish and assistant band director at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge before he began his tenure at Ruston High School. In 1987, he was inducted into the Louisiana Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. The City of Ruston proclaimed June 16, 2002, as Oscar P. Barnes Day. A native of Plaquemine, the seat of Iberville Parish in south Louisiana, Barnes was a former choir director of the John Knox Presbyterian Church choir. He was the first conductor of the Russtown Band and played the trombone in the band, "The Debonnaires".[2]
Robert W. Mondy (1908–1997), alumnus and a former social studies teacher at Ruston High School, was subsequently a history professor from 1935-1974 at Louisiana Tech University.
Harold Montgomery, a former Louisiana state senator from Bossier and Webster parishes who also operated Montgomery Feed and Seed in Ruston, taught agriculture at Ruston High School in the 1930s.
Morgan D. Peoples taught history at Ruston High School prior to 1965, when he joined the faculty of Louisiana Tech University for a 20-year career in college teaching.
Randall Elliott teaches Physics at Ruston High School. He is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University. He has been called many honorable names by his students such as: "Papa Elliott", "O.G.E.", "Pope Elliott", and many more. He is undoubtably the more popular teacher currently teaching at RHS.
3. ^ "History of Ruston High School. Arkansasnewslist2007/halloffame02