One Room Schools and Schoolteachers in the Pioneer West - One Room Schools and Schoolteachers in the Pioneer West

One Room

Schools and Schoolteachers in the Pioneer West

Gail L. Jenner

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Copyright 2018 by Gail L. Jenner

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Names: Fiorini-Jenner, Gail L., author.

Title: One room : schools and schoolteachers in the pioneer West / Gail L. Jenner.

Description: Helena, Montana : TwoDot, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2018018494 (print) | LCCN 2018028111 (ebook) | ISBN 9781493036691 | ISBN 9781493036684 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781493036691 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Rural schoolsWest (U.S.)History. | Education, RuralWest (U.S.)History. | Pioneer childrenEducationWest (U.S.)History.

Classification: LCC LC5147.W47 (ebook) | LCC LC5147.W47 F56 2018 (print) | DDC 371.009173/4078dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018018494

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This book is dedicated to those vigorous schoolteachers who taught in one-room schools and who might have only been slightly older than their students, and also to those small, one-room (and, in some cases, two-room) schools that became the center of their communitys public life. Most of these structures have been abandoned or destroyed, but some still existas museums, community centers, as homesand even as ever-evolving schools within their more modern communities.

Acknowledgments

First, I would like to thank my editor, Erin Turner, who worked with me tirelessly on this project. Her help in this and past endeavors has been above and beyond wonderful! And thank you to everyone at TwoDot books.

Secondly, I want to thank all those who assisted me. After sending out invitations and requests for stories and anecdotes regarding one-room schools and those who attended them or taught in them, I was thrilled at the number of individuals who responded. The heartfelt responses and stories were a great tribute to the history of schools and education over the last one hundred years and more. Thank you to all those who sent me contributions, whether through personal interviews, online responses, or written history. The following represent those who took time to send me information in addition to family or local stories. If I have omitted anyone, please know that there were dozens of peoples stories that might not have made it into this volume because of space or other requirements, but I am sincerely grateful for every contribution.

Ann Allen

Stephanie West Allen

Sam Alvord

Deborah Anderson

Arcanum Wayne Trail Historical Society, Inc.

Rose Atondo

Patti Barker

Sharon Barni

Tessa Benkosky

Grace Bennett

Lori Bennett

Gay Berrian

Diane Biggar-Taylor

Kristi Schluter Bigham

Bruce and Vonita Bishop

Mary Blake

Debbie Hardin Bowling

Teresa Branch

Natalie Bright

Brenda Brodmerkle

Irene Bennett Brown

Victoria Bunce

Rochelle Burroughs

Judy Bushy

Betty Davis Carrier

Jeri Christopher

Genetta Clark

Donald Collins

Jim Cook

Naomi Liz Cooksey

Sherry Coonrod

Lilliane Conner

Wayne Courts

Lee Craig

Bev Caban Cross

Clint and Pat Custer

Terri and Mark Davis

Elaine Davis

Tammy and Andy Dean

Michelle DeLaney

Peg Delugo

Virginia N. Dove

Andrea Downing

Laura Drewes

Peggy Margaret Ellenbecker-Nietfeld

Jennifer Embury

Lora Facey

Sharon and Steve Farrington

Nancy Fine

Fiddletown Preservation Society

Karen Casey Fitzjerrell

Fort Jones Museum/Cecelia Reuter

Melanie Fowle

Hazel Gendron

Sandy Gibson

Lisa Gioia-Acres

Mark Greenfield

Carolyn Wing Greenlee

Beverly and Barbara Gust

Betty Hall

Monica Jae Hall

Carol Harper

Punky Hayden

Ruth Hensell

Stefanie Hunt-Linsley

Demetrios Iannios

Kaitlin Ikenberry

Kristina Jackson

Loretta Y. Jackson

GloryAnn Jenner

Jack Jenner

Corri Jimenez

Sheridan Johnson

Trinity Jones

Brenda Kelsey

Frank Kelso

Jane Kirkpatrick

Kathy Koon

Danielle Koresh

Linda Ladd

Page Lambert

Lynn Milburn Lansford

Patricia M. Laustalot

Virginia (Ginny) Laustalot

Jean Lesmeister

Alicia Lewis

Fran Lewis

Priscilla A. Maine

Norm Malmberg

Carol Maplesden

Larry Maplesden

Lana Marie

Marlene and Charles Martin

Roy Martin

Cynthia Leal Massey

Betty Trueax McClelland

Betty McCreary

Roni McFadden

Lisa Stricker McFarland

Janet Meranda

Doris Miller

Rebecca Hawkins Mills

Doreen Mitchell

Lisa Moberg

Kathy Moore

Cicely Muelrath

Vella Munn

Carol Murphy

Native Daughters of the Golden West, Eschscholtzia Parlor No. 112

Julie Newberry

Shirley Newberry

Lois Kennedy Newcomb

Karen Nicholson

Katherine OConnor

Lorraine OConnor

Lillian Ostendorf

Karen Paige/, California History Room of the California State Library, Sacramento

Lola Pearce

Linda Persson

Patricia M. Peterson

Angie Pettit

Lanora Phelps

Patty Philps

Mollie Phipps

Padi Pierce

Patsy Piersall

Harriett Quigley

Chuck Rabas

Leslie Ralston

Jason Rasmussen

Stephanie Tickner Reynolds

Margaret Ritches

Shirley Ross

Irene (Cindy) Sandall

Sandy Sandall

Shari Fiock Sandahl

Peggy Sanders

Carolyn Sato

Linda Scallon

Betty Lou Schott

Hank and Beth Schott

Madelyn and Gary Schott

Anne Schroeder

Bev Scott

Debbie Baker Scott

Sarah Secrest

Amy Woods Seelbach

Marilyn Seward

Dawn Shlaudeman

Michael Shreeve, Sr.

Cathie Herman Schoer

Kayann Short

Kathryn Shorrock

Vicki Simmons

Perry Sims

Siskiyou County Museum

Steve Sloan

Roy Smith

John Sorensen

Annette Stewart

Alan Stevens

Jean Thorson

Heidi M. Thomas

Bernita L. Tickner Collection

Laurie Ann Tippit

Barbara-Leigh Tonelli

Jose Torres

Alice Trego

Susanne Twight-Alexander

Marsha Ward

Shawn Watt

Beverly Wenger

Christine West

Dennis Weston

Joe and Jennifer Wheeling

Robin Wiedl

J. T. Wilcox

Louise Wilson

Dan Worley

Jolyn Young

Elaine Zorbas

Bob Zybach