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White

District # 5

Rubicon Township

Year Ending	Teacher	Year Ending	Teacher
1901		1940	Glen Harris
1902	Mayme Peters	1941	“
1903		1942	Mary McCollow
1904	Cecelia Manning	1943	Mrs. Mary O’Neil
1905		1944	Raymond Snyder
1906	Bertha E. Clason	1945	“
1907	Ella A. Carey	1946	“
1908	“	1947	“
1909	Elizabeth Agnew	1948	“
1910	Annette Hays	1949	Laura Carey
1911	Irene McNamara	1950	Closed
1912	Charlotte Condon
1913	Jennie Christopherson
1914	“
1915	“
1916	“
1917	Rose Butechenritter
1918	“
1919	“
1920	Mary Collins
1921	Gladys Hays
1922	Frances Condon
1923	Jean Hays
1924	Leo F. Hanrahan
1925	“
1926	Josephine Hannan
1927	Marion L. Condon
1928	“
1929	“
1930	“
1931	Leona Petsch
1932	“
1933	Antoinette Lange
1934	Leander J. Wolf
1935	“
1936	“
1937	“
1938	“
1939	“

White School-1936-1937

Back row: John Sigrist, Robert Condon, Russell Klink, Hazel Condon

Second row: Beverly Redlin, Margaret Lindert, Marion Sigrist, Vincent Ebert, Orville Hannon

Third row: Forrest Condon, Walter Sigrist, Margaret Condon, Elvina Hannon, Lovell Koch, Bernice Koch

Front row: Delmar Ebert, Elsie Mae Hannon, Victor Koch, Betty ?, Roy Klink

Missing from picture: Lee Sigrist

Teacher: LeanderWolf.

REMEMBRANCE 1:

First of all that is NOT a class picture but a picture of the entire student body of that school. I had one other student in my class in the third grade but believe it or not he did not pass and had to take third grade over again. I then was the only student in fourth grade. The school closed after fourth grade and we then went to Neosho school which was a two room school on two levels, and being in fifth grade I moved right up to the second floor.

I still remember the closed in fire escape and doing fire drills. It still had outdoor privies as we had no sewer facilities at the time at that school either. No, I do not know all of them - Lejune, and Jeanette, or course two sisters Joyce and Nancy and brother Gerald - I kind of remember a Paul lived west of us on a long drive way.

The old stone wall still stands but the building has been replaced. We talked of that school just recently remembering the winter of January of 1947 when the snow drifted over the telephone lines and the road going up the hill was not able to get cleared and it waited until the spring thaw. You can see that old stone wall still in this picture captured from the satellite. Of course the roads are now paved; they were really dirt roads back then, not much gravel at all.

The picture was taken on that wall that I said looked to be still there today. I am that good looking fellow between the two girls front row, the two girls to the right of me are my sisters and I believe the one on my left was Jeanette.

I love the Bib overalls, mine looked mighty short, probably hand me downs from my older brother, he is second one from right back row and no bib overalls. I do remember we always got one pair of overalls from the Sears or Wards catalog each year. The shirt Mom made from flour sacks as the flour came in clothe sacks back then and Mom had a Singer Sew Machine with the paddle to make it go. I do remember those leather belts were not what you wanted to get spanked with as they hurt.

REMEMBRANCE 2:

I went to a one room school about three miles east of Neosho, it was called the "White Jt. 5 School." I do have a report that my older brother wrote. Raymond Synder was our teacher. You might note that I did have a perfect attendance at that point yet along with two sisters and a brother. I remember the school was on a corner in a triangle on what is now County NN and Jefferson Road. We lived across the road to the north and east for some time then moved to the farm to the north and west of the school. This is a picture of the inside of the school, I don't have any pictures of the outside. That is Mr. Synder in front and I am in the row on the right third from the front behind Lajune.

REMEMBRANCE 3:

Teacher – Raymond Synder; Reporter Gerald Stefan [pdf file]