Gleaned from School Daze pages First grade - 1949-50 Second grade - 1950-51 Third grade - 1951-52 Fourth grade - 1952-53 Seventeen class members were: Robert Anderson, Charles Bottorff, Scott Canady, Don Carrel, Cecile Coats, Junior Gallinger, Charlie Gordon, Gary Keys, Mary Ann Laun, Max McClarey, Frances McCullough, Patty O’Neal, Linda Schnitker, Wayne Shores, Marilyn Stabe, Nancy VanGilder, and Alan Lovell. Fifth Grade - 1953-54 Twenty class members: Robert Anderson, Ronald Bashor, Charles Bottorff, Scott Canady, Don Carrel, Cecile Coats, Mary Durby, Junior Gallinger, Charlie Gordon, Gary Keys, Mary Ann Laun, Max McClarey, Frances McCullough, Patty O’Neal, Linda Schnitker, Wayne Shores, Marilyn Stabe, Nancy VanGilder and Howard Walker. Scott moved to Arkansas during the year. Robert Anderson was chosen by Mrs. Ketchum to appear on the program, Conservation Kids, on radio station KFEQ. A column featured Small Fry news. Taking part in March music contests in Maysville: In the April “School Daze”, the reason for Cecil changing her name to Cecile was “Cecil Coats was born in 1943 to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Coats at Union Star. He is in the sixth grade.” We attended the Shrine Circus in St. Joseph that spring. Class members: Robert Anderson, Gary Brunk, Donald Carrel, Cecil Marie Coats, Junior Gallinger, Gary Keys, Mary Ann Laun, Frances McCullough, Max McClarey, Patricia O’Neal, Linda Schnitker, Wayne Shores, Marilyn Stabe, and Neal Wilcoxson. Seventh grade - 1955-56 A bizarre administrative decision put eight third graders - two of them virtually unteachable - in our classroom. Mrs. Hayes kept her smile despite a very trying situation. Eighth grade 1956-57 This was a busy year for us. First, we welcomed Yvonne Wogan, Alice Campbell, Don Saunders and William Garner, Jr. to our class. Charlie Gordon rejoined us during the year. Class officers were: Don Carrel, president, Yvonne Wogan, vice-president and secretary Linda Schnitker. We worked all year having bake sales, paper drives, picking up corn and other ways to raise money for our Chicago trip. We left Friday, April 26, arriving in Chicago at 8:15 Saturday morning. We visited the Museum of Science and Industry, the Natural History Museum and went along the Lake Shore Drive and through the shopping district. We left Chicago at 6:15 p.m. and arrived in St. Joseph at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday. (Remember all those milk stops?) Noted in the school paper was: “Gary Keys, were you really asleep when you sat down with those two girls on the train?” We studied the U.S. and Missouri constitutions and had to pass a test on them to be eligible for an eighth grade diploma. We were good spellers; Linda missed NO words all year. We read lots of Reading Circle books. Linda, Cecile and Marilyn S. were awarded lifetime certificates. We made conservation posters, and Neil Wilcoxson won first at Maysville. Boy and girl teams participated in junior high basketball tournaments in Osborn and Helena. Don Carrel and Patty O’Neal had perfect attendance for the year. Seventh and eighth graders had a party at Skateland in St. Joseph in December. That month we also got polio vaccines. Robert dramatically passed out. In January, Linda invited the class to watch Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower's second presidential inauguration at her home. |
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