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Meadow Grove High School 1940

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Meadow Grove H. S. Gives 25 Diplomas

Certificates of Award and Scholarships are Presented

Meadow Grove, Neb., May 16—Special to The News: Commencement was held in Meadow Grove high school Monday night with Newton W. Gaines as the speaker. Despite the fact that a terrific wind, rain, and hail storm visited this section between 7 and 8 p.m. the school auditorium was filled to capacity with the parents and friends of the class of 1940.

The 25 seniors in caps and gowns were seated on the stage. Seventeen of the graduates are from farm homes, seven from the town of Meadow Grove, and one from Battle Creek. Judging by the sentiment expressed by various graduates none of the members of the class is likely to attend college next year unless given an opportunity to work for room and board.

Excerpts from: The Norfolk Daily News, Thursday May 16, 1940, page 10.

Norfolk High School 1940

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115 Seniors to Graduate from Norfolk School

Announcement was made Wednesday by Principal Theodore Skillstad of members of the graduating class of the Norfolk senior high school, who will receive diplomas at the annual commencement exercises Thursday evening, May 23. There are 115 members in the class this year.

As in previous years, senior class members will be dismissed from classes Friday evening, the last week of school being given over to senior activities. These will commence Friday evening with the annual junior-senior banquet in Hotel Norfolk ballroom; while events scheduled for the final week include the baccalaureate service Sunday evening; the senior play, “Our Town,” Tuesday evening; the annual senior day program, Wednesday afternoon; and the commencement exercises Thursday evening.

Excerpt from: The Norfolk Daily News, Wednesday May 15, 1940, page 2.

1940 Battle Creek H. S.

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Battle Creek H. S. Will Graduate 37

Commencement Exercises will be held Friday Evening, May 17

Battle Creek, Neb., May 6, Special to The News: Commencement exercises of Battle Creek high school will be held Friday evening, May 17, in the school auditorium at which time a class of thirty-seven seniors, the largest in the history of the school, will receive diplomas. There are twenty boys and seventeen girls.

Excerpt from: The Norfolk Daily News, Monday May 6, 1940, page 5.

1906 Teachers

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School Bells Ring Out

Another Term of Answering Roll Call Has Come  Superintendent is Hopeful

Mr. Bodwell Believes That This Will Be a Good Year—Twenty-Seven Teachers Preside at the Various Desks—How Vacations Were Spent.

School bells rang out on the morning air in Norfolk this morning for the first time in three months, and around the five Norfolk school houses there were, for the first time since last June, clusters of neatly gowned children, their faces and hands exceedingly clean, all nervous in the anticipation of the first day.s rush for the best seats and the sizing up of the new teacher.

It was impossible to tell today just how many pupils are enrolled in the schools this year, but it will be somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000. Twenty-seven teachers, all feeling in the best of spirits after three months of rest and recreation, took their places at school room desks this morning to look after the rising generation of this community during the coming nine months.

Superintendent Bodwell was enthusiastic in his hope for a good school year, and all of the teachers in the city seemed to share his confidence that the coming year will be one of the best that has ever been known in Norfolk.s public school system.  During the summer that has just past, the Norfolk school boys and girls have enjoyed varied forms of vacation and fun. Many of them have spent a portion of their time in camping beside some cool spring, some of them have been away for several weeks visiting uncles and aunts and grandfathers and grandmothers, some have spent the time at work and in learning something about this business or that, while others have just stayed at home to play baseball and fly kites the whole summer through.

Source: The Norfolk Daily News, Tues. September 4, 1906, page 3.

School District #43

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First Rural School Teacher is Elected

Although many rural school boards have arranged with their present teacher to stay next year, the first formal notice of selection of teacher for next fall arrived in the office of County Superintendent Alice Hall this week.

This notice records that Miss Helen Heckendorf has been elected to teach in District No. 43, at $90 a month, and is signed by Emil Rottler, director.  This will be the fourth year Miss Heckendorf has taught this school, it being the only school in which she has been instructor.  Two years ago, a modern building was erected in that district and the school standardized.

Miss Heckendorf is the great-grand-daughter of Rev. Heckendorf, who taught the children of the pioneers at Norfolk as their pastor, and the granddaughter of Louis Heckendorf, a member of the first public school board at Norfolk.

Last year almost half of the 75 rural teachers of Madison county remained in their positions.  It is hoped that this good record may be bettered this year.

Source: Madison Star-Mail, Thursday, April 3, 1930, page 1.

Fairview School

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Fairview School

Fairview School District 9 now District 88

The following names are listed below a picture on page 85 in the Madison 125 year history book.  The date of the picture is unknown.

Teacher: Hattie Twist.

Children: Mary Echtenkamp, Edna Schulz, Maude Hetrick, Otto Kinkle, Betty Reeves, William Reeves, Ellen (Reigle) Anding, Sarah (Moore) Anding, Gertrude Schulz, George Kinkle, Albert Echtenkamp, Carl Echtenkamp, Carl Kindle, Lottie Kinkle, Louis Schulz, Betty Epler, Lizzie Volk, Allie Duphey, Iola Hetrick, John Reeves, Clara Echtenkamp, George Volk, Clifford – ?-, John Kinkle, Paul Moore, Anna Echtenkamp, Maggie Volk, Leo Moore, Mary Volk, Jessie Reeves.   Source: 125 Years Madison, Nebraska 1867-1992 book page 85.  [Please note a typing error may have been made in the Centennial book for Carl Kindle.   Should the spelling have been Carl Kinkle?]

Madison County Public Schools

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Madison County Public Schools

Mrs. Alice Hall, County Superintendent

Rural School Board Officers 1931–1932

The listing below is by last name, first name and then the District Number associated with each person.

Surname        Dist. No.

Albracht, Aloys  70
Altschuler, Charles  6
Anderson, Arthur  49
Anderson, C. O.  45
Anderson, John M.  67
Anderson, Leo  67

Barnes, James  75
Beaty, George, Jr. 30
Bennett, Will E.  14
Berg, C. F.   44
Besk, William  46
Best, Clyde 73
Bickley, Arthur 30
Bierman, Leo  14
Blair, Lem  65
Blehyl, Art  16
Boe, Albert  21
Boyer, Fred  33
Boysen, August  56
Braun, Lewis  10
Brockemeier, Henry  4
Brosh, V. J.   61
Brosh, William   9

Carpenter, Amos 3
Catron, Ernest  41
Choutka, Frank  40
Classen, Peter  36
Collins, E. T.  52
Congram, Phil   55
Conway, T. O.  83
Cook, J. C., Mrs.  74
Cook, John C. 74
Craig, Everett  83
Cunningham, A. E.  22

Dahl, W. E.  27
Dahlhouser, Michael  49
Daniel, Carl    61
Dederman, A. H.   24
Dederman, Harry  24
Diefenderfer, W. H.  65
Dieter, Otto   78
Dieter, William    6
Dittberner, Theodore   42
Dittrick, William   23
Doering, Arnold   3
Dover, Clifford   46
Dover, R. N.   42

Ellis, Frank   25
Etling, John   67

Feldman, Carl  54
Fender, Will   79
Finkral, J. G.   28
Forre, Gunder  62
Foss, Henry  34
Fowlkes, Lester 10
Fowlkes, Walter  85
Freudenburg, Ed  63
Freudenburg, Otto  63
Frey, W. H. 19
Friedrich, Herman  20
Fundum, J. H.  31

Gabelman, Fred   40
Gall, Gus  11
Gall, Otto   11
Gillespie, Charles  44
Ginn, P. H.  56
Grant, J. I.   50
Grant, L. P.   50
Gross, Daniel   40
Gustafson, H.  15

Hanke, Herman  26
Harms, R.  7
Hash, John H.   41
Henderson, Ora  43
Herda, John      28
Higbee, W. T.   77
Hintz, Emil   48
Hofferber, Jack  65
Hofmann, Paul   51
Horrocks, J. G.  52
Horrocks, S. H.  44
Huebner, J. C., Mrs.  75
Huelle, Herman  74
Huelle, O. G.  18
Hughes, Joseph  23

Jacobsen, Herman  58
Johnson, Casper  68
Johnson, John G.  14

Kaufman, Ralph   59
Kent, John  16
Kielty, James   4
Kierstead, G. A.  82
King, Eddie, Mrs. 29
King, Ernest   29
Klein, George  79
Klein, Henry   73
Knapp, George  85
Knebel, Ernest  37
Knebel, Sophie, Mrs.  37
Knull, Frank   66
Kohl, William, Jr.  70
Kohlhoff, Paul   430
Kohlund, Frank.  7

Larson, John   76
Larson, L. W.   76
Lauver, John   22
Leu, Fred   30
Lindahl, Raymond   54
Lindner, Joe   78
Linn, Myron   47
Luebeke, William  17
Lutjen, Herman  33
Lyons, C. F.   45

Marquardt, Henry  20
Matheson, Earl  26
Maurer, John, Jr.  7
McKibbon, J. W.  8
Meisinger, Ernest  15
Michales, Bert  36
Miller, George   51
Miller, Israel  75
Minkler, Fred   33
Moehnert, Fred  36
Mollhoff, J. F.    50
Morris, Will, Mrs.  16
Moses, Joseph   28

Nathan, Otto H.  70
Neidig, E. J.  48

O’Banion, Ross  77
O’Brien, J. P.   76
Oleson, Hilmer  59
Osborn, C. C.  57
Oschner, Honor  78

Petersen, M. J.   4
Peterson, C. F.  22
Pettitt, M. B.  25
Piskac, Charles   47
Pobanz, Emma, Mrs. 11
Pojar, Joseph   66
Pojar, R. J.   47
Prauner, Walter   9
Preuss, Ed   42
Purdy, Walter  6

Raasch, Darius   3
Ray, Ina   73
Reeves, G. C.  57
Reigle, J. C.   53
Reitz, Fred  86
Renner, Charles  26
Renner, Robert  66
Risor, Ray   64
Rix, H. B.   38
Roberts, F. O.  21
Roewert, Paul  71
Roewert, Walter  34
Rottler, Emil  43
Rottler, William  19

Sandin, Emanuel  54
Sattler, Fred  59
Scbastian, F. L.  86
Scheer, F. P.    53
Scheer, W. J.   27
Scheerger, F. A.  18
Scheffler, C. E.  86
Schlender, Ernest  85
Schmidt, William John 15
Schmitt, George  19
Schott, Otto 38
Schwager, John  62
Schwank, Ed   56
Schwartz, Raymond  35
Seckel, Fred  51
Severson, Henry, Mrs.  68
Sherlock, G. C.  77
Shipley, John   31
Stanek, Steve   55
Steward, J. B.  71
Stewart, S. M.   8
Stirk, G. E.   17
Suckstorf, August  23
Sullivan, Emma   21
Sunderman, Emil  35
Sunderman, Louis  63
Sunderman, Walter  53
Switzer, S. M.  27
Swoboda, R. G.  45

Tannehill, Earl   69
Tannehill, George  69
Tegeler, Walter  61
Terry, Clyde   18
Terry, F. J.   71
Texley, N. H.  62
Thomas, Herman  58
Thomas, W. C.  69
Tillotson, Ed   64
Timperly, Van   24
Trine, S. M.    83

Unkel, Albert  17

Vaage, Adolph   58
Vaage, Richard   68
Volk, Elmer    64

Wacker, Conrad   8
Walldeen, C. A.  49
Walmsley, H. E.  82
Walmsley, James  82
Walters, J. J.   31
Warner, E. C.   25
Wedekind, Henry  55
Weertx, John  52
Weiand, Frank   29
Weiting, Carl   41
Wetjen, William  46
White, Frank, Mrs. 48
Willems, R. U., Mrs.  37
Winter, Frank  20
Wisch, Henry  10
Wohlfeil, O. J.   34
0Wright, Ella, Mrs.  79

Young, H. O.   9
Young, J. C.   57

Zessin, Oscar   35
Zohner, John   38

Madison, NE. school

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Schoolmates Hold Fifteenth Annual Picnic On Sunday

The fifteenth annual picnic of old schoolmates of the Madison school of 1870 to 1895 was held last Sunday at the Hoyt Osborn home in East Emerick. Mrs. A. K. Robinson of Newman Grove was elected president and Mrs. Hoyt Osborn of Meadow Grove was named secretary-treasurer.

Those present included: Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Robinson, Newman Grove; Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Osborn, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Adams, and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Upton, all of Meadow Grove; Mrs. Alice Stevenson, Broken Bow; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fricke, Pender; Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hosford, Albion.

Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Neidig, Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Chittenden, Mrs. Nellie V. Yeazel, and Mrs. Gussie Wright, all of Madison.

Mrs. Grace Osborn and Miss Abbie Thomas, both of Battle Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Wager and daughter, Nona, Newman Grove; Virgil Bickley, Green Garden; and Miss Ava Osborn, Meadow Grove, who was co-hostess with her mother, Mrs. Hoyt Osborn.

Source: Madison Star-Mail, Thursday, September 9, 1937, page 4.

Dry Hollow School

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Can You Beat This?

Miss Izola Higbee has been appointed teacher of the Dry Hollow school, north of Battle Creek, for the ensuing year.  Her mother, Mrs. Audrey Higbee, taught this school, her grandmother, Mrs. Martha Cloyd, her great aunt, Mrs. Olive Cloyd and her aunt, Miss Cora Cloyd, were all teachers of this school.

It looks as tho the Cloyd family and their descendants have a mortgage on this school.  We see no reason why they should not have one.  They all made good, and we feel sure that Izola will be a worthy successor of those who blazed the trail.

Source:  Meadow Grove News, Thursday July 12, 1928, page 1.

Deer Creek School

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DEER CREEK SCHOOL HAS A HOMECOMING.

Former Pupils, Teachers and Patrons of School Organized in 1871,  Meet, Eat and Reminisce.

(The following comprehensive report of the recent homecoming celebration of the Deer Creek school district was written by Mrs. N. D. Evans (nee Mattie Simmons) of Battle Creek, in her younger days a teacher of the school.)

At 2 p.m. Friday August 22, cars gathered at the Deer Creek school house for an event that will not soon be forgotten by those present. All came with well filled lunch baskets and the anticipation of hearing a well planned program to be given by former patrons, teachers, and schoolmates. In planning this event, the first of this kind to be given by this school, no efforts were spared to make a profitable and pleasant affair. Even the weather man was at his best. Among the crowd of nearly three hundred present, as registered by Miss Rose Schroeder, were two of the first pupils registered in the school, organized in 1871. They were Mrs. George Haight of Battle Creek and Mrs. Conrad Hansen of Pierce. Twelve former teachers were present, several from other counties and one from Council Bluffs, Iowa. There were also present several former pupils from out of the state and greetings were sent from Los Angeles, California, by Mrs. W. H. Palmer, also Mrs. Malone of Madison who was away on a vacation. With Louis Braun as chairman the program began at 3 p.m. with an invocation by Rev. Hutchinson of Meadow Grove. .America. was sung by the gathering accompanied by Mrs. Ruth Scott at the piano. The address of welcome was given by Miss Violet Schroeder who was a former pupil of the school. The response was given by Mrs. N. D. Evans, probably better known in the community as Mattie Simmons. Mrs. Evans, who at one time was a teacher at Deer Creek, commented upon the modern building and equipment and upon the advancement made in education and all lines of work since the organization of this school.

Mrs. Hall, our popular superintendent of schools who is a candidate for re-election without opposition, then gave an address presenting Mrs. Haight who had complied a history of the school.  Mrs. Hall discoursed upon what comprised history and in a humorous way, which brought much applause, illustrated with school experiences of her own, the meaning of work history.  In presenting Mrs. Haight, Mrs. Hall compared the wedding days of the past with those of the present, remarking what a brave man Mr. Haight must have been to whittle out a potato masher and a rolling pin on the eve of their wedding. Mrs. Haight followed on the program, giving a short talk followed by the presentation of the history of the school to Mr. Fowlkes, president of the school board. Mrs. Harry Reavis of Battle Creek read the history.

The Rodekohr quartet, members of which were at one time pupils of the school, gave a pleasing number followed by an encore. Miss Bernice Braun, at one time pupil, also teacher of the school, gave a humorous reading in a very able manner as was manifested by the hearty applause, to which she responded with another humorous number.

The program was concluded by an address given by a boy who received his primary education in the Deer Creek school under the tutelage of Miss Elizabeth Zimmerman, now of Omaha. After graduating from high school and the university he was admitted to the bar becoming a practicing attorney. He can pride himself upon the fact that he is the youngest man to be elected to the office of county judge of Madison county, also upon receiving every vote polled in this home township for that office. This boy is no other than our own Judge Ernest Reeker. The ovation with which Judge Reeker was received showed the high regard with which he is held in his home school.  Judge Reeker began his address by relating incidents of his early school life, branching out into his chosen line of work and his present office. He adjured the people to go to the polls and cast their votes for the men of their choice to legislate for them as a remedy for some of the evils of the present day. He closed with the thought that not more legislation is needed in the country but more christianity, more of the good old fashioned religion.

Following the program, time was given for old friends to exchange greetings while the ladies of the community arranged the bountiful lunch of fried chicken and all its accompaniments, to be served cafeteria style with hot coffee and lemonade.  After everyone had been served and had eaten until too full for utterance, the friends bid farewell and in their sixty-eight cars left for their various homes well pleased with the entertainment and reception that had been accorded them. All joined in the commendation of the Deer Creek people upon the success of their first homecoming and hoped for many more such reunions in the future. Source: Battle Creek Enterprise, Thursday, August 28, 1930, page 1