Lockridge High School - Golden L Yearbook (Lockridge, IA)

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?' uyywv-'uuu u W.. . vue., l N948 i wffti' f. ',- 475 j i f H 332 Eighty-five Years of Loclcridge School Houses Edna Rauscher The first school built in the Lockridge community was erected in 1850, a little west of the present site of the Baptist church. It was called the Ripley school house and was constructed of logs. Its dimensions were about eighteen by twenty-four feet, there was one door at the south end, with two windows on each side. What remains of the building is now standing on the Charlie Erickson farm south of Lockridge. The building was purchased in 1865, by Mr. Samuelson, grandfather of Miss Agnes Samuelson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and rebuilt on its present site and used for a home. The school term in this first school consisted of three summer months, taught

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by women and three winter months taught by men. The teacher had no definite boarding place, but was put up at first one place and then another within the community and served much the same purpose as Icabod Crane had in the Sleepy Hollow region of New York state, a kind of a traveling gazette, carrying the whole budget of local gossip from house to house. In 1865, the boys returning from Southern battlefields, it was decided to build a frame building. It was a one room structure built where the present school house stands. It was used until 1909, when it was purchased by James M. Hickenbottom, moved to its present location, two houses west of the Lutheran church, and remodeled for a home. Several times there were seventy or more students enrolled in that one room school house. Lockridge's third school building was constructed by Albert Larson 8x Sons in 1909. It was a one story edifice of two rooms. In 1917, when a three year high school was begun, another story was added and in 1929, increased enrollment in what had been changed in 1927, to a four year high school necessitated a twenty-four foot addition on the west which was built by V. O. Sodergren. On April 11th, 1932, a fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the building. Sanctioned by an almost unanimous vote of the people, the members of the school board, C. N. Mickey, President, L. E. Boos, Leroy Linn, A. R. Littleton and C. A. Rauscher, supervised the construction of our fine, modern building. An attempt has been made by the 'tGolden L stat? to compile a complete list of those who have taught in the Lockridge schools. The records before 1909, have not been preserved and probably some names have been omitted and some inserted where they did not belong. We have tried to arrange them in the order of their service. If mistakes have been made or names omitted, perhaps a future staff will rectify the errors. In point of service Miss Caulk has served nine and onewhalf years, and Mr. Weston nine years, the longest periods of which there is any record. Others who have taught for several years are Miss Clark, Mr. Calkins and Mrs. Scheafer, six years, Miss Laceja Montgomery, five years, Fay Boley, Grace Roberts, Francis Millane, and J. D. Vest, four years. We have names of ninety-seven teachers and probably have omitted several so that over one hundred men and women have weilded the birch over the heads of local pupils in the eighty-tive years since the first school bell called shiny laced boys and girls from play. Peter Risor James Baxter Major Pierce Jennie Funk Hannah Evans Ida Kirkpatrick Jim Hickenbottom, Sr. Alex Hopkirk Mercy Toothacre Dr. R. B. Stephenson Mr. Hill Ed. Jenks Mary Heron Joe Perrine Mark Carter Maude Gift Deborah Heron fCarterl Ella Dallner fHaufl Wm. Hopkirk P. Richey Isabel Hopkirk fSampsonJ Lou Ripley John Pierce Addie Ripley fHopkirkJ Geo. White Ezexial Sampson John Paulk Lucy McClain 1 Ira Simmons Lizzie Lock John Eggers H. H. Carter Marcy Snarenger Jennie Hanson fUnkrichJ Fred Brown Mary McGeer Beatrice Wilkins John Farman