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An independent school for high school age boys in the beautiful country north of Steamboat Springs heralds its first summer session this year with a capable and enthusiastic staff, well-traveled and brimful of ideas.

The Whiteman-Gaylord School, organized by Lowell Whiteman, Garth Gaylord and Perry Hendricks with the untiring aid of Portia Mansfield, one of the originators of the world-famous Perry-Mansfield camp for girls, combines the wonders of the outdoors with intensive academic training for its camper-students.

Classes are informal and small - a boon to any educator. Standards are not set. The boys are urged to live up to their own capabilities. Any student who needs extra help is given private tutoring by qualified personnel.

Typifying the attitude and versatility of the instructors is Bob Shaw, the only member of the teaching staff born and reared in Steamboat Springs. Shaw teaches sciences at the school during the morning sessions and gives swimming instructions to students in his spare time. Holding a B.A. degree in anthropology from Colorado University, Shaw is enthusiastic about his botany and archaeology programs, which, considering the environs, readily can be incorporated into his students' program.

Shaw said he tries to give his students a sound theoretical background in the sciences - an understanding of the basic principles rather than a conglomeration of facts - to prepare them for higher education.

An interesting objective of the school, and by no means a sidelight, is its effort to incorporate one year of foreign travel for students who take the one-year course, including the winter session. This spring, the students were taken on an enlightening three-month Mexican tour, accompanied by seasoned travelers.

Officers hold Yampa man as murder suspect

A Yampa man was picked up by authorities and jailed here this week for investigation into the death of his tiny daughter in April at an Oregon hospital.

Weldon Paul Lane, 25, had left for The Dalles, Ore., earlier this year. The Portland coroner who performed an autopsy on Lane's 21-month-old daughter attributed her death to a brain injury caused by a blow to the head.

District Attorney Harry Hogan of The Dalles sent this information to the Denver Police who in turn contacted Sheriff Ab Ritter. Through communications with Hogan, Ritter was able to locate Lane at Yampa, where he had returned to work. Lane was picked up by Deputy Sheriff Howie Ragland and turned over to Sheriff Ritter.

It is alleged by authorities here that Lane struck his daughter on the head with a baby bottle last September near Yampa, a blow which eventually caused her death.