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Post by richard on Oct 10, 2009 8:45:11 GMT -5
Grade School Group # 9 from assorted county and city schools. 1954, 1955 and 1956. Top Row L - R: Unknown, Unknown Row Two L - R: Unknown, Unkown, Daune Rita Cook Row Three L - R: Steven Burton, Robert Ruduick, Clifford Kinsey Photo Courtesy of Daune Rita Cook Maze
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Post by jdhinkle on Oct 10, 2009 9:40:14 GMT -5
I DONT KNOW IF THIS WAS INTENDED BUT THE GIRL IN THE UPPER LEFT LOOKS LIKE SHARI KIEL THE LOWER RIGHT LOOK LIKE CLIFF KINSEY THE GUY TO CLIFF'S LEFT MIGHT BE ROBERT RUDDICK COUPLE OF OTHERS LOOK FAMILIAR BUT... Grade School Group # 9 from assorted county and city schools. 1954, 1955 and 1956. Photo Courtesy of Daune Rita Cook Maze
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Post by guest on Oct 16, 2009 17:01:19 GMT -5
don't really know where to post my? but here goes. I was watching the american gladiators on espn classics.I know they were reruns but enjoy them any way. My? is does anyody know or ever heard of a Jim Shiner that went to Columbus North.It sure caught my attention even tho I don't know the person I mentioned.
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Post by RER on Feb 4, 2010 20:08:43 GMT -5
You Think Your School Facility Was Bad.....Well Think Again...This was not an uncommon scene in the early days in Bartholomew County and many other places. Brief: Tough times in those days and they may have been our "greatest generation" of tough minded, patriotic, and goal guided citizens. Think about your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents, what they went through to get you to where you might be today. I appreciate the "greatest generation" and will never forget what they did for my family values, myself and our country. God Bless our history and Country. Source: From The Library of Congress, Washington DC.
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Post by RER on Feb 6, 2010 10:07:46 GMT -5
Grammer Grade School (the forgotten school of the past)Road 1000E Bartholomew County East of Elizabethtown IN Rockcreek Township Brief: The grade school was built in 1899 in Victorian Romanesque Style. It was an active very small school as recent as the 1950s, before school consolidation took place. I recall they had a small group of students, but had a very small sports program during my exposure to Grammer. I suspect the school may have been razed, but not sure. Anyway, Grammer School is part of the Bartholomew County educational history and process for over a half a century. Notice the old bell tower and the construction style in those days seemed to be prevalent in most school buildings. Update: A long time friend in Elizabethtown Indiana states the building has been razed. Comment: This is posted under general school talk because there isn't a thread for the school.
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Post by RER on Feb 6, 2010 10:58:42 GMT -5
Walesboro Grade School (another forgotten school of the past)Road 400S off State Road 11, West of Columbus & Garden City Wayne Township, Bartholomew County Walesboro, Indiana Brief: The school was built in 1879 in style Victorian Gothic. I do not know when it closed, or even if it stands today. Walesboro today is known (since 1973) as a Cummins employment location, and for the Walesboro Industrial Airport near Garden City. The Cummins plant is called the Midrange Engine Plant. I remember as a very young kid, our family going to Walesboro at times to eat at a small restaurant, and they specialized in tenderloin steaks. I suppose that is where I got my life time urge for good ole tenderloin sandwiches. They really specialized in grilled tenderloins with light salt/pepper in lieu of breaded tenderloins. I recall when the order was taken I would always say: "and a extra large glass of milk, please." I can't recall every eating a better (beat up thin sliced) grilled tenderloin steak. Comment: This is posted under general school talk because there isn't a thread for the school.
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Post by BobLane on Mar 22, 2010 15:03:47 GMT -5
Hi Friends, One of my children pointed out that Petersville School is missing from this list. Two of my children attended there. Are there some points of interest about it to share? Thanks, Bob Lane
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Post by RER on Mar 22, 2010 17:27:26 GMT -5
Hi Friends, One of my children pointed out that Petersville School is missing from this list. Two of my children attended there. Are there some points of interest about it to share? Thanks, Bob Lane Former Petersville School:Well, Bob the school has been razed many years ago to my knowledge and it looked almost like Azalia's school posted in this thread on page 6. I only remember playing basketball in their Gymnasium during the early 1950. At one end of the Gym you would run up the wall after making a lay-up shot. At the other end was the stage. There was a sitting area high up, but not down below. I didn't attend that school but do remember some things about it. I will have to suggest that anyone that attended the school will have to write about it, and any pictures would have to come forward, probably from them. Further, I do remember one other event at that school and Clifty School played a softball game at Petersville field. That is about it and I guess if we had more information it could develop into a thread of its own. Current Information: A Bartholomew County Park is located on the entire site of the former Petersville School at county road 550 E just north of 25th street. It features non-lighted little league diamonds, an all-purpose field suitable for soccer and football, a picnic area and shelter, basketball courts, horse shoe courts, playground and accessible asphalt fitness trail. Go here to see the park: www.bartholomewco.com/parks/parkinfo.php?p=petersville
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Post by jabaker on Jun 11, 2010 9:45:23 GMT -5
Hi all, new here. I'd like to contribute the following. Maybe it can be a new topic thread? ELIZABETHTOWN SCHOOL I attended this school from 1960 until 1964. It was one of two elementary schools in SandCreek Township, south of Columbus. Grades 1 through 4 were at E'Town and grades 5 through 8 were at Azalia. The schoolhouse was used differently prior to 1960, as I recall attending first grade orientation at the Azalia School in 1959. I'm not certain but I am thinking that there were 2 grades in each room at Azalia at that time. Both Azalia and E'town had only four classrooms. Maybe at one time E'town had split classes too and then the schools were reorganized and consolidated? My brother who is 9 years older went to E'town at one time and he was definately older than 4th grade when he went there. I hope someone remembers. I'll start an Azalia thread as well. The old E'town building, which was brick and in excellent shape was eventually torn down and now there is a park and a firedepartment on the property. It was a two story building with the classrooms upstairs. There were two classrooms on the front and one large classroom across the back. This large room was separated into two rooms by a large wooden divider the width of the room made up of narrow horizontal strips of wood, that slid up into the ceiling similar to an overhead garage door. Downstairs was the furnace room, restrooms, kitchen (which also served as cafeteria for first grade). A large room across the back directly under the large classroom had a stage at one end and served as the cafeteria for the rest of the grades.
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Post by jabaker on Jun 11, 2010 10:16:34 GMT -5
AZALIA SCHOOL
I see that someone posted a picture here of the old school. As far as I know it still stands and is in bad shape. It appears that is had been modified to house farm implements. Huge overhead doors were whacked into the walls of the gym. Someone has a few pictures over at Flickr.
I attended Azalia from 1964 through 1967. I attended grades 5 through 8, as those were the only grades taught there. I went to E'town in grades 1 through 4. I am thinking around the time I attended Azalia that the children attending Etown were transferred to Rockcreek (which I don't see mentioned here either) and Etown was eventually closed and torn down. Azalia had 4 classrooms and as I recall from the Columbus history books the building must have been built in the late 40's and it seemed to be originally a three classroom building. There was a newer addition built much later in the 50's onto the east end. (I always wondered if it was an afterthought or a fire but I'm almost sure the history book said it was a new addition)There are two classrooms upstairs at the front facing south and two classrooms on each end facing east and west. There is a gym built across the back and it had a stage at one end. The corridor leading to the upstairs classrooms had a halfwall which enabled people to look down into the gym. The gym floor went right up to the walls and except for bleachers which were sometimes set up on the stage, there was no room for seating around the gym at floor level. Because of that, very few home basketball games were played here. At the end opposite the stage on the upper level was the principals office. It had two square openings in the wall that you could look through down into the gym. They were about 1 foot square and a few feet apart, They were staggered in height and I assumed they were used to project movies through down onto the stage since they looked exactly like the set up at the Crump Theatre. There were never any movies shown while I attended school there. Downstairs, which was like a half basement, were the restrooms, furnace room, small storage room and kitchen. There was also a cafeteria at the east end which was part of the new addition. I have my old yearbook from Azalia somewhere, so if anyone is interested maybe I could scan some pictures. I left Azalia in the fall of 8th grade and moved to Clifty Township where I attended Newbern Grade School, another very old 4 room schoolhouse. They were adding on to Rockcreek and in the Spring of 8th grade, all of the students at Newbern transferred to Rockcreek. Azalia was closed a couple of years later but I never knew for sure what school the students were sent to.
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Post by jdhinkle on Jul 24, 2010 12:55:47 GMT -5
THERE HAS BEEN DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN OLD CLASSMATES ABOUT THE TOURNEY WHEN WILSON, BOOTH SETSER , CLIFTY AND 25TH STREET WERE INVOLVED I AM ADDING THIS DOCUMENT SUPPLIED BY SID SHOWALTER THAT DESCRIBES THE RESULT OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BETWEEN WILSON AND 25TH STREET, IT FURTHER DESCRIBES THAT CLIFTY BEAT BOOTH SETSER IN THE CONSOLATION GAME THIS SHOULD HELP WITH FURTHER DISCUSSIONS I MIGHT ALSO ADD THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOX SCORE IN THE CENTER YOU MIGHT NOTICE THAT BELIEVE IT OR NOT JACK HINKLE ACTUALLY SCORED IN DOUBLE FIGURES AGAINST A GRUELING BOOTH SETSER DEFENSE I SUSPECT THAT WAS THE ONLY ONE EVER RECORDED
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Post by RER on Aug 13, 2010 14:30:06 GMT -5
Year 1952 Teachers List Of Columbus Township Schools
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Post by criswest on Jan 20, 2011 19:23:37 GMT -5
Grammer schoolhouse was indeed torn down in 1998 and the ground was turned into a park area. The original plaque that was located above the door to the school is now part of a sign at the entrance to the park.
I am VERY INTERESTED in ANY and ALL photos of this school (& Burnsville, Mitchell & Beaver Swamp) and its students. I have developed a collection of photographs from family and friends. Most of them were taken in September at the beginning of the school year and feature all of the students and the teacher standing outside the school house. I have used my Photoshop skills to place numbers on each person in an effort to identify the kids. I started this because I wanted to see my grandparents, John Evan Romine and Helen Louise Muir, as they went through grade school. My grandma only had the 1928 photo taken her last year there before high school. I have found 3 that my grandpa should be in, but apparently his dislike of school probably attributed to his absence from all 3 photos.
I have also pulled each individual person out of the photo and made something like a baseball card from them. I will share these with anyone interested. I glanced through the instructions on posting photos and decided I was not quite ready for that yet.
I have the following photos of Grammer School (note “id’d” means identified):
- taken about 1900 in the auditorium w/ teacher Charlie Talkington & 13 students (1 id’d)
- snapshot taken about 1916; 10 students w/ teacher (5 id’d) standing at the RR Xing sign
- snapshot taken about 4/1/1919 of 20 (5 id’d)
- snapshot taken 10/1/1924 of 26 (4 id’d)
- class photo grades 1-4 taken about 1915-1916 of 42 (38 id’d)
- class photo taken about 1916-1917 of 35 (31 id’d)
- class photo taken about 1918-1919 of 29 (7 id’d)
- class photo taken about 1920-1921 of 29 (27 id’d)
- class photo taken about 1922-1923 of 33 (17 id’d)
- class photo taken 9/25/1925 of 61 (55 id’d)
- class photo taken 9/19/1928 of 76 (60 id’d)
I also have class photos from my parents (Jim West, CHS ’58 & Sharon Romine, CHS ’60) but I have not finished marking them up yet.
Here are the surnames I identified in at least one of the photos listed above:
Anderson, Anthers, Beck, Behrman, Booker, Bowman, Brisben, Brougher, Burns, Carnes, Carson, Cash, Cheever, Connell, Curry, Danderline, David, Davis, Dickey, Eddleman, Eilliott, Fletcher, Flohr, Foist, Fox, Friedersdorf, Green, Heavern, Herring, Hook, Hubbard, Hughes, Hulse, Keller, Long, Maddock, Mallory, Marsh, Martin, McCord, McCoy, Morris, Muir, Murphy, Neal, Osborn, Phillips, Rand, Redd, Redding, Reed, Romine, Roscoe, Rudicel, Ryan, Sanders, Shaw, Sims, Smith, Speers, Springer, Talkington, Thompson, Tomlinson, Van Blaricum, Wade, Walker, Wertz, Williams, Wilson & Yancey.
I am also interested in the general history of ALL of Rockcreek Township.
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Post by nancs on Jan 21, 2011 17:17:41 GMT -5
Hi Cris------------some several years ago I ran into you while in Columbus, and you shared with me and a friend------the Grammar photos---------and you did have my aunt IDed. Am putting my cousins alert to your most recent post. Now, I have to ask-----------Burnsville---------cousins on the other side of my family----------their dad grew up in Burnsville------was born in 1905----------do you have the dates of any photos from there? Then might be able pursue a tad farther with you. Thanks. Nanc
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Post by criswest on Jan 21, 2011 23:47:28 GMT -5
Glad you asked about Burnsville. Why yes, I do have 2 class photos of Burnsville. One from the 1926-1927 school year (27 students, 1 teacher, 18 id’d) and one from the 1933-1934 (60 students, 2 teachers, 55 id’d) school year. Of course I also have my parents’ photos from the 1940’s & 1950’s but I haven’t numbered them yet.
Here are the complete names from the ones identified in my 2 old Burnsville photos:
ADAMS (Kathryn); ANDREWS (?, Verlan); ARMSTRONG (Alfred, Arthur); BARBOUR (Don); BEHRMAN (Waldo); BENNETT (?, Noble, Ruby); BROADY (Franklin); BURNS (?); CARMICHAEL (Alvin, Edith); CARSON (Esther, Gerald, Kathryn, Leon, Stanley); CHAMBERS (Charles); COCHRAN (?); ELLIOTT (John “Pete”); FIVECOAT (R.); FRIEDERSDORF (Norma Jean); HELT (Joe); HUFFMAN (Frank, Mary Helen, Todd B. Jr.); HUSTON (Peggy); JACKSON (Cecil, Donald, Ruby, Ruth); JONES (Buck); KELLER (Eva, Harold, Liberta); LOCKE (Francis); LOWRY (Lucille, Paul); MALSON (Earl); O’NEAL (Bill); PHEGLEY (Irene); PHILIPS (Donald); REED (Mrs. Goldie); ROGERS (Marifrances); ROMINE (Althea, Earl, Lavah, Rosa); RYAN (Louise); SPEER (Bob); SPRAGUE (Earl, Evelyn); TALKINGTON (Wilma); TERWILLIGER (Bertha); TUTTLE (Donald, Harley); UFFMAN (Billy Earl, Louis); WADE (Bob, Dorothy, Kathryn, Mabel, Paul, Sylvia); WHEELER (Marie); WHITTINGTON (Glenna); WILLIAMS (Dean, Jimmy, Max, Maxine, Robert); WILSON (Warren)
I also have photos of the schoolhouses themselves, both taken about 1900. We actually have a piece of one of the slate boards from Burnsville. My dad framed it and place two old coat hooks from there also on the frame to make a grocery list in our kitchen. He got them from my mom's cousin, the late Jim Muir, who turned the old school into a house many years ago.
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Post by nancs on Jan 22, 2011 11:28:34 GMT -5
Hi Chris-------and it is so much fun when you are 'running on all eight,' as I just established with my cousin on my dad's side that a family member of his is in the Burnsville photos. Would it be possible for you to send me your private email address-----------as cousins on both sides of my family are wanting to pursue this farther with you............ This is what keeps us coming to these boards------------you learn, and have fun doing it................Thanks, Chris. Nanc My email address is: ylns5281@aol.com
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Post by criswest on Jan 22, 2011 19:27:07 GMT -5
Info is on its way as I type!
My relatives in those photos were the Romines, Muir, Broady, O'Neal, Tuttles, & Wades. Earl, Althea, Rosa & Lavah Romine were my grandfather's siblings. Donald Tuttle married Lavah. Kathryn Wade married Wayne, his older brother. Broady is a relative through my Christy line and O'Neal though my Muir line.
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Post by nancs on Jan 23, 2011 7:33:20 GMT -5
Good morning to all, First, I have to thank Cris West for all of her efforts to put together the school photos from the past, and be willing and take more time to share her discoveries. Folks, this is why we have these message boards-------the cooperative efforts of many to preserve and share Columbus history. In this case----------I am almost the 'outsider looking in' with just a minimal connect to these IDed school photos--------BUT as this has 'unfolded' the last couple of days---------cousins on both sides of my family------are putting pieces into their family puzzle. And it is interesting------one cousin now has photos of her mom growing up in Grammar, and my other cousin is filling in the genealogy that he works on for family in Burnsville-------------- Just this one little thread-----------has 'traveled' from IN, to CA, to TX and PA and on to ID...............And this is just one experience, and trust me, this kind of thing happens all the time. Yeah, I am addicted to these message boards----------I never cease to be amazed at what may be revealed and shared. Love to all, Nanc
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Post by RER on Jun 5, 2011 10:55:19 GMT -5
County School Names Come & Go For Over 160 Years Or SoBrief: I look back in my very young ages and remember the county schools throughout. Visited many of them playing basketball, some softball and baseball. Some were named after sorta famous folks and some after family names.
Today, most of those youth recalled school names have vanished into the history books. Some made it from the 1800s like Lincoln School, but relocated to newer facilities. The old ones like Petersville, Taylorsville, Kent, Grammar, Quick, Walesboro, Lowell, Garfield Schools are only memories to some.
The consolidations of schools in the 1950s have fulfilled the planner's wishes, and former county school officials; resulting in betterment of the educational system.
Here are the changed school names of today and the web site herein to briefly see some of the facilities of the past:Bartholomew County School Corporation Pre-Kindergarten to 12th Grade :: 10,580 Students :: 17 Schools Bethel Holiness Christian School1st Grade to 12th Grade :: 30 Students :: Non-Denominational Christian Private School Central Middle School7th Grade to 8th Grade :: 767 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Columbus Area Vocational ProgramGrade Unknown :: No Enrollment Data :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Columbus Christian SchoolPre-Kindergarten to 11th Grade :: 367 Students :: Non-Denominational Christian Private School Columbus East High School9th Grade to 12th Grade :: 1,366 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Columbus North High School9th Grade to 12th Grade :: 1,695 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Fodrea Community SchoolPre-Kindergarten to 6th Grade :: 370 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Jefferson Education Center7th Grade to 12th Grade :: No Enrollment Data :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Lillian Schmitt Elementary SchoolPre-Kindergarten to 6th Grade :: 739 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Lincoln Elementary SchoolKindergarten to 6th Grade :: 269 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Mount Healthy Elementary SchoolKindergarten to 6th Grade :: 385 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Northside Middle School7th Grade to 8th Grade :: 898 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Parkside Elementary SchoolPre-Kindergarten to 6th Grade :: 593 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Rockcreek Elementary SchoolPre-Kindergarten to 6th Grade :: 351 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Southside Elementary SchoolPre-Kindergarten to 6th Grade :: 813 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation St. Bartholomew SchoolKindergarten to 8th Grade :: 379 Students :: Roman Catholic Private School St. Peters Lutheran SchoolKindergarten to 8th Grade :: 435 Students :: Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod Private School W D Richards Elementary SchoolPre-Kindergarten to 6th Grade :: 602 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation White Creek Lutheran SchoolKindergarten to 8th Grade :: 89 Students :: Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod Private School 47203 Clifty Creek Elementary SchoolPre-Kindergarten to 6th Grade :: 554 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Columbus S.D.A. Church School2nd Grade to 5th Grade :: 8 Students :: Seventh-Day Adventist Private School Cross Cliff Elementary SchoolKindergarten to 2nd Grade :: 245 Students :: Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corporation Kinder Care Learning Center #570Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten :: 67 Students :: Nonsectarian Private School L Smith SchoolPre-Kindergarten to 6th Grade :: 505 Students :: Bartholomew Con School Corporation Midway Christian AcademyPre-Kindergarten to 12th Grade :: 65 Students :: Assembly of God Private School Here are some of the old school names of the past:columbusin.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=schoolseducationSource: indiana.schooltree.org/Bartholomew-County-Schools.html
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Post by jdhinkle on May 20, 2012 19:11:13 GMT -5
FOR WHAT IS WORTH WHEN I WAS GOING THRU THE 1940 CENSUS RECORDS THERE IS A GILMORE SCHOOL ROAD MENTIONED IN OHIO TOWNSHIP MIGHT BE ONE THAT WE HAVENT UNCOVERED
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