145 10 1900 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/cb1d839af159a8b57f5e1e6d199763d6.jpg 2c163109d9d135c8aa2e8943ef56f096 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Photo A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School and Rossville High School Description An account of the resource A photograph of the Rossville grade school on the left, and the Rossville high school on the right, at East Pottawatomie Street in 1913. The grade school consisted of four rooms. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1913 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain due to copyright expiration. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource original photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0034 Kansas Memory Project http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/474ce5f267adbc04276d4812770d429e.jpg 365845b416d531bb2113b7f63532b508 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Board Meeting Notes, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>RGS BOARD MEETS</p> <p>Nearly fifty patrons were present at the annual grade school board meeting Friday evening. Mrs. Fern Rogers was re-elected as director of the board. There was some discussion about school books, hot lunches and in purchasing band uniforms.</p> <p>The letters and cards received by the Board of Education in response to "kindergarten?" were more opposing it than for it. It was desirous of the patrons at the meeting that kindergarten idea be dropped for the present time. It was suggested that perhaps a private kindergarten could be established for those who would be interested.</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 9, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0293 Rossville School Board http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/1b5e2b016320e7e44629767dd11e3dd6.jpg cab65703260cfb39a91f705e639bd381 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Enrollment, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>Thursday, September 8, 1955</p> <p><strong>Grades Enroll 176</strong></p> <p>Rossville Grade School enrolled 176 students on the first day of school September 6.  The three largest classes are grades three, four and eight with twenty-five pupils in each of these grades.  The smallest class is the second grade with seventeen students.</p> <p>List of students by grades is as follows:</p> <p><strong>First Grade:</strong>  Daniel Avers, Linda Bush, Mary Ent, Bonnie Fauerbach, Audrey Felps, Laurel Gee, Evan Jones, Terry Lambert, Wayne Macha, Anthony Martin, Sharon Mayer, Christine McBurney, Diana Mitchell, Benjamin Mogus, Linda Parks, David Richardson, Cheryl Robeson, Linda Royal, Benjamin Stach, Rose Stadler, Ronald Starkey.</p> <p><strong>Second Grade:</strong>  Kathleen Becker, Robert Dolezilek, Carl Farley, Thomas Foresman, Carolyn Gresser, Allen Jackson, Henry Kurtz, June Murray, Susan Nadeau, Steven Pardee, Clyde Parr, Jane Parr, Laird Reding, John Simecka, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, Larry Wehner.</p> <p><strong>Third Grade:  </strong>Vauncile Avers, Connie Bahner, Artie Campbell, Diane Cowan, Gary Dick, Carolyn Farley, Sandra Heiland, Amy Jones, Barton Larson, Sandra Macha, Dwight Martinek, Freda McCollough, Charles Meade, Daryl Mitchell, Diane Murray, Melvin Sage, Bruce Shannon, Virginia Stach, Shirley Taylor, Marilyn Trubey, Laura VanVleck, Parker VanVleck, henry Wade, Helen Wehner, Rebecca Zeller.</p> <p><strong>Fourth Grade:  </strong>Harry Adams, Ronald Avers, Steve Becker, Herman Bringle, Kenneth Coleman, Lloyd Culp, Sharon Decker, James Fauerbach, Larry Felps, Daniel Gee, John Giles, Gary Hill, Rose mary Jacobon, Douglas Kelsey, Michael Martin, Jane McCollough, Joe Mitchell, myrna Perry, Ronald Pressgrove, Lillian Reser, Patrick Royal, Linda Simecka, Marilyn Simpson, Donna Tuller, Connie Zeller.</p> <p><strong>Fifth Grade:  </strong>Carol Adams, Pamela Berkey, Dale Dannefer, Anna Ent, Jerry Giles, Michael Gresser, Roger Hurley, Sharon Irwin, David Jones, Judy McCollough, Kent Paine, David Parr, Carla Rasch, Virginia Rezac, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles, Sandra Taylor, Janice Vanderblomen, Richard VanVleck, June Wehner.</p> <p><strong>Sixth Grade:  </strong>Mary Besta, Donald Bush, Fred Davis, Joan Dolezilek, Judy Fauerbach, Charles Harth, Janet Hause, Darby Holder, Judy Huston, Billy Jackson, Linda Kelsey, Norma Klingenberg, Janet Kurtz, William Mogus, Charlene Perry, Marie Stiles, Joyce Swenson, Dale Timmons, Carol Tuller, Jimmy Turner, Sharon Viergever, Robert Wilt.</p> <p><strong>Seventh Grade:  </strong>Jesse Adams, Curtis Berkey, Dean Davis, Gene Davis, Charlotte Decker, Florence Felps, William Foresman, Dorothy Jacobson, Gary Klingenberg, Thomas Lacock, Timmy Lynde, Billy Miller, Sally Nadeau, Joleen Parr, Katherine Porter, Kenneth Porter, Don Rogers, Arletta Sage, James Stadler, James Wamego, Jane Zickefoose.</p> <p><strong>Eighth Grade:  </strong>Lynda Allen, Danny Bahner, Joe Bahner, Bennie Besta, Thomas Bush, Sharon Davis, William Ent, Billy Fauerbach, John Felps, Janet Harth, Kenneth Heiland, Gene Irwin, Larry Kurtz, Ralph Marney, Nida Magus, Kyle Perry Carol Rafferty, Wayne Rasch, Sharon Reser, Mary Smith, Laura Stiles, Diane Swenson, John Vanderblomen, Charles VanVleck, Zora Wade.</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 8, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0314 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/c45db69d4e7ce9f5b823a920265938ee.jpg 565ea3a834d25e8c0deede230e7ef7e3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Enrollment, 1956, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>From<em> The Rossville Reporter</em><br /> Thursday, May 5, 1955<br /> Nineteen Beginners Expected at R.G.S.<br /><br /> Nineteen boys and girls came for Pre-School Roundup last Friday. Their mothers completed an information sheet and were given a list of books needed for next fall. Those who were with the group are: Danny Avers, Linda Bush, Mary Ent, Bonnie Fauerbach, Laurel Gee, Evan Jones, Terry Lambret, Wayne Macha, Anthony Martin, Sharon Mayer, Christina McBurney, Diana Mitchell, Benjamin Mogus, David Richardson, Sharilyn Robeson, Linda Royal, Benjamin Stach, Rose Stadler, and Ronald Starkey.</p> <p> </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 5, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0284 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/1c123d6cbf4a47f93e8181dd9c7d4e56.jpg c1c910f74b5d791f655c7f9af1e7137e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Graduation, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>Rossville Grade School Graduation Excercises<br /> High School Auditorium<br /> Monday, May 23, 1955 and 8 PM<br /><br /> Processional - Procession - Kinyon<br /> Rossville Grade School Band<br /><br /> Invocation - Rev. C.W. Punter<br /><br /> Songs - Music and Nature - Karl Feye<br /> Rossville Grade School Girls Ensemble<br /><br /> Clarinet Quartet - Theme - Schubert<br /> Sharon Reser, Janet Harth, Geraldine Masters, Charles Van Vleck<br /><br /> Address - Mrs. Willard Greene<br /><br /> Vocal Trio - Janice, Karen, and Pat Casey<br /> The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise<br /> Melody of Love<br /><br /> Accordion Quartet - Rozwick School of Accordion<br /> Judy Parnell, Emily Smrha, Tom Harkins, Aldon Tichenor<br /><br /> Presentation of Class - Dana Simpson<br /><br /> Presentation of Diplomas - Fern Rogers<br /><br /> Benediction - Rev. C.W. Punter<br /><br /> Rossville<br /> Bobby Gene Atchison<br /> James Clarence Coe<br /> Patricia Jane Coffey<br /> Leroy Glen Dick<br /> Richard Eugene Jackson<br /> Douglas Frank Martinek<br /> Vincent Philip Martinek<br /> Geraldine Elaine Masters<br /> Gerald Dee Perry<br /> Sally Ann Porter<br /> Raymond Vincent Rafferty<br /> Sharon Kay Rosencutter<br /> Virginia Ann Shannon<br /> Helen Edna Stadler<br /> Clifford Edward VanVleck<br /> Sue Ann Viergever<br /> Roger Noel Zeller<br /><br /> Stone<br /> Leroy Edwin Carrell<br /> Frank Anthony Ruff<br /><br /> Willard<br /> Connie Sue Johnson<br /> Sharon Aileen Lloyd<br /> Neil Duane McKenzie<br /> Betty Arlene McMaster<br /> Marilene Fayetta Pendleton</p> <p> </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 19, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0286 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/9c9ebab33197e01313ec3531adbd61f2.jpg 839fb18203c7f4537fa5313a06a573f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1954, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p><strong>PROGRESS OF THE GRADES</strong></p> <p><strong>ROSSVILLE GRADE SCHOOL</strong></p> <p><strong>DECEMBER 9, 1954</strong></p> <p><strong>SEVENTH GRADE</strong></p> <p>We enjoyed a demonstration last week by Wayne Rasch and Ralph Marney showing how the force of gravity is partially overcome by the principle of the gyroscope.  The boys pointed out that the principle of the gyroscope is used by ocean liners to steady the great ships as they plow through rough seas.</p> <p>Mrs. Bailey was our first visitor in December.  She observed an oral reading class in Kansas History.</p> <p>Our group had fun celebrating with Nida Mogus her 13^th birthday, December 1^st.  Thank you, Nida, for the candy bars.</p> <p>A good sized crowd was in attendance at our opening basketball game.  Our boys had little difficulty winning over the small but scrappy boys from Auburn.  Every boy on the squad saw action.</p> <p>December 1^st as a red letter day for us, it seems.  In addition to our joy in winning the ball game and our pleasure in celebrating Nida’s birthday, all the girls made perfect spelling lessons.  For recognition of their special effort they enjoyed a brief gym period at the end of the class period.</p> <p>Safety:  Realizing that the season of winter sport is upon us, the class discussed ice skating.  The discussion pointed out that thin ice is very dangerous, how to test ice for thickness and ways to rescue should anyone ever fall through.  A slogan composed by the class culminated the discussion:  “Thin ice is strictly for mice.  Don’t skate on thin ice.”</p> <p><strong>EIGHTH GRADE</strong></p> <p>Sharon Rosencutter spent Thanksgiving in Nebraska, Bobby Atchison in Illinois and Clifford VanVleck in Arkansas.</p> <p>We were proud to have Patty Coffey participate in the Shawnee county 4-H Bank in Chicago.</p> <p>School will be dismissed for the Holidays at 2:00 o’clock on December 22.  We will take up the first Monday of January.</p> <p>We drew names for gift exchange. </p> <p>There will be a county teachers meeting in Topeka this Saturday.</p> <p>Douglas Martinek brought a sweet potato plant for the room.</p> <p>Dr. Murphy and Mr. Watson visited our school recently to inspect it for sanitation.</p> <p>The boys were very happy about the new basketball suits.  They did them justice by winning our first game against Auburn last Wednesday evening.  The mothers did a good job in helping the cheerleaders with their regalia.  We will go to St. Marys to an invitational tournament this Thursday night.</p> <p>Last Friday, the Henmon-Nelson Test of Mental Ability was given in our room.</p> <p>Eddie Besta visited in our room last Friday.</p> <p>The kitchen helpers this week are Sally Porter and Clifford VanVleck.</p> <p>Wash Monitors are Sue Viergever and Leroy Dick.</p> <p>Raymond Rafferty will have his tonsils removed during the Holidays.</p> <p>We have been using our compass to make geometric designs.</p> <p>In social studies we listed the colleges and universities in Kansas.  We were surprised to find so many.</p> <p>We are reminded that work will win when wishing won’t.</p> <p>The safety slogan insists that we drive with caution in fair weather and with double caution in foul weather.</p> <p>This will be our last news before the Holidays.  We extend to you all the usual season’s greetings.</p> <br /><p> </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 9, 1954 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0317 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/0dea33ee5bb077f78a5d8d2d5ab27be4.jpg 59ed82cf4af75b051959b59deb001712 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1954, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p><strong>EIGHTH GRADE (Nov 18, 1954)</strong></p> <p>Our individual pictures sold very well. </p> <p>We are all looking forward to Thanksgiving vacation which will begin at dismissal on the 24^th.  There will be no school on Friday following the 25^th.</p> <p>The skating party the Mothers planned for the seventh and eighth grades was really enjoyed by everyone.</p> <p>Our visitors during American Education Week were Mrs. Viergever, Mrs. Coe, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Shannon.  The assembly program by the sixth grade was very good.  Mrs. Marvin Davis told us about the history of schools in Rossville.</p> <p>Helen Stadler leads in spelling this six weeks.  Our spelling this six weeks.  Our spelling grades have improved over the last six weeks.</p> <p>These members have recently joined our band from our room:  Roger Zeller plays a sax, Raymond Rafferty the Tuba, and Jimmy Coe the clarinet.  Our band is really making progress.</p> <p>The cup cakes Ginger Shannon made for our Halloween Party were very good.</p> <p>On to Jupiter and Horizons Unlimited were shown to the upper grades last Monday.  They were films from General Motors.  Ralph Marney and Raymond Rafferty are our movie operators this term.</p> <p>Raymond Rafferty was out of school one day with a cold.</p> <p>The four girls from our room who will be cheerleaders for the first team are Sue Viergever, Geraldine Masters, Ginger Shannon, and Helen Stadler.  Patty Coffey, Sharon Rosencutter and Salley Porter will cheer for the second team.  They invited Carol Rafferty to work with them.</p> <p>Geraldine Masters was recently fitted with a new pair of glasses.</p> <p>The Good Citizen vote was given to Raymond Rafferty last week.</p> <p>Douglas Martinek and Leroy Dick [article cut off].</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 18, 1954 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0318 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/f1429fb320ae3ad63a24485410fb040d.png 21beaf1ecd19b677954fa02a86dd0060 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1954, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p><strong>GRADE SCHOOL NEWS</strong></p> <p><strong>THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954</strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>FIRST GRADE</strong></p> <p>We were pleased to have so many visitors during American Education Week.  The following parents and friends came to visit our room:  Mrs. Wm. Farley, Mrs. Bill Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. H.D. Richardson and David, Mr. Frank Dolezilek, Mr. and Mrs. John Simekca, Mrs. Leroy Parr, Mrs. Albert Coleman, Mrs. A.M. Sieck, Mrs. Donic Parr, Mrs. Hope Meade, Mrs. John Foresman, Mrs. C.E. Gresser, Mrs. Oliver Tuller and Dennis, Mrs. Clyde Rogers, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Gene Reding and Doris Jean.</p> <p>Myles Preble and Clyde Parr celebrated their birthdays recently by passing candy bars and balloons to the boys and girls.  In art we made them birthday cakes.  They also had their pictures taken for their mothers.</p> <p>Jane Parr, Bobby Dolezilek and Carl Farley visited their dentist in St. Marys and have returned their pink dental cards.</p> <p>We are becoming acquainted with spelling by having one easy spelling word a week.  We have a Spelling Flight Chart on which our airplanes fly if we receive 100 on our words on Friday.  We are happy to say all our airplanes are in the air.  After Christmas we will have harder spelling lessons.</p> <p>All of us have finished our second pre-primer.  Some of us will finish our third one this week.</p> <p>Larry Wehner told us of his first bus ride to Sabetha to visit his grandparents.  His sisters, Helen and June, accompanied him.</p> <p>Steven Pardee, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, Rudy Bailey and Bobby Dolezilek were absent because of illness this six weeks.</p> <p>The next three weeks will find us very busy getting ready for our Christmas program, for our mothers, making gifts, decorating our room for Christmas and writing our letters to Santa Claus.</p> <p>We all enjoyed our Thanksgiving vacation.  Some of us stayed home and had family dinners.  Others journeyed quite a distance to spend the day.</p> <p>Aex Sieck was in Council Bluffs, Iowa, visiting his Grandmother and Grandfather Sieck over the holidays.</p> <p>June Murray accompanied her parents and sister to Kearney, Nebraska, Thanksgiving Day, where she spent the week end with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Murray and Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Deaver.  She also visited her two great-grandmothers.</p> <p>John Simecka and Larry Wehner ate their Thanksgiving dinner at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wehner in Delia.</p> <p>Robert Dolezilek visited in Topeka with his brother George and family.</p> <p>Tom Foresman and Clyde Parr ate dinner with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Max Lemon in Topeka.</p> <p>Rudy Bailey was a visitor in the home of Dr. and Mrs. S.F. Zickenfoose Thanksgiving Day.</p> <p>Dale Stiles had as his guests over the holidays, his aunt and uncle and cousins from Akron, Colorado.  Also his grandfather from Anton, Colorado, was a guest.</p> <p>Myles Preble and his parents ate Thanksgiving dinner with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Wood.  Carl Farley was also in Manhattan for the day.</p> <p>Jane Parr spent the day with her aunts, uncles, and little cousins at her Grandmother and Grandfather Keller at Delia.</p> <p>The following ate Thanksgiving dinner at home with their parents and invited guests:  Larry Reding, Allen Jackson, Bonnie Tuller, Susan Nadeau, Carolyn Gresser, Steven Pardee, and Mrs. Ramey.</p> <p><strong>SECOND GRADE</strong></p> <p>This is where we spent Thanksgiving – Carolyn Farley went to Manhattan.  Vauncille Avers spent the day with her grandparents in Burlington.  Bruce Shannon went to Auburn.  Daryl Mitchell visited his grandparents at Paxico.  Helen Wehner ate dinner with her grandparents at Delia.  Rebecca Zeller went to Kansas City.  Sandra Heiland went to Topeka to be with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. John DeGraff and family.  Laura and Parker VanVleck left Wednesday noon for Fayettville, Arkansas.  Freda McCollough ate dinner with her grandmother Burton in Wamego.  Gary Dick went to Springfield, MO.  Charles Meade spent the day with Mr. and Mr.s Max Lemon and family in Topeka.  Diane Murray visited her grandparents and great-grandmother in Kearney, Nebraska.  Mr. and Mrs. Challis ate dinner with relatives at Garrison.</p> <p>Those of us who stayed at home and had company were:  Virginia Stach, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Amy Jones, Dwight Martinek, Barton Larson, Artie Campbell, Henry Wade, Marilyn Trubey, Connie Bahner and Diane Cowan.  Diane said there were fourteen guests at her house.</p> <p>We are so sorry about Mr. Baker’s and Bruce’s accident.</p> <p>Artie Campbell has joined the Boy Scouts.  Parker VanVleck is also a member.</p> <p>Vauncille Avers treated us to frozen chocolate turkeys on her birthday November 20^th.</p> <p>Marilyn Trubey, Rebecca Zeller, Helen Wehner, Henry Wade and Dwight Martinek were absent because of illness the past week.</p> <p>Amy Jones, Charles Meade, Carolyn Farley and Connie Bahner have returned their pink dental cards since our last news.</p> <p>We hope to have our Christmas decorations up very soon as our room looks so bare with our turkeys and other Thanksgiving decorations gone.</p> <p>The First and Second Grades have started working on a Christmas program to be given before vacation.  You will be hearing more about it, so plan to come.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>THIRD GRADE</strong></p> <p>The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back from vacation with many exciting stories to tell about their vacations.  Many of them took trips or had company visiting them for Thanksgiving.</p> <p>The “Spelling Speedway” contest closed the last day before vacation with Linda Simecka’s race car coming in first.  She hasn’t missed a spelling word since school started.  Finishing close behind Linda were Douglas Kelsey and Myrna Perry.  They both missed getting 100 only once.  The race starts again with the start of the new six weeks period and everyone plans to move his car faster this time.</p> <p>We had two birthdays in the Third Grade this month; Marilyn Simpson and Pat Royal. They both treated the class with candy bars.</p> <p>Again it is time for grade cards and there are still 19 Third Graders who haven’t missed  a day of school.</p> <p>The honor students for this six weeks are Jimmie Fauerbach, Da Gee, Douglas Kelsey, Myrna Perry, Marilyn Simpson, Lillian Reser, Donna Tuller, and Connie Zeller.</p> <p>We are now starting to work on Christmas decorations and are all looking forward to the visit from Santa Claus.</p> <p><strong>FOURTH GRADE</strong></p> <p>In checking our clean plate chart we find that of those eating at school regularly Judy McCollough, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles and June Wehner have had clean plates since we started keeping the record in September.</p> <p>Many of the children spent Thanksgiving away from home.  Richard VanVleck in going to Arkansas traveled the farthest distance.  All or most of the others had company come to their house.</p> <p><strong>FIFTH GRADE [notated from here forward is from December 9, 1954]<br /></strong></p> <p>Christmas spirit is showing itself in all the rooms.</p> <p>The fifth grade have been assigned to their parts for the assembly program which will be coming in the future.  Further information as to time and date will be announced later.</p> <p>In the fifth grade, we’ve been working long division and some division in fractions.</p> <p>Improper fractions are still giving trouble to some.</p> <p>In English, we are building sentences and learning the different kinds of sentences.</p> <p>We have about 90% of the class this six weeks with an A average in spelling.  Phonics and lots of practice are helping our spelling.</p> <p>We had a birthday in our room last week.  We wish Buddy Mogus many more Happy Birthdays.</p> <p>Our Safety Motto is – Stop!  Look! And Live!</p> <p>Maxim: Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.</p> <p><strong>SIXTH GRADE</strong></p> <p>The boys and girls in our room were very sorry to hear that Mr. Baker had to be hospitalized.  We are studying hard and trying to do just what he would want us to do during his absence.</p> <p>We are very glad Mrs. McClellan is helping us, but we will be happy to have Mr. Baker back again.</p> <p>Mr. Baker had our room decorations for Christmas planned and nearly prepared before the Thanksgiving Holidays.  We put up his decorations and fixed the room just the way we thought he would want it.  We hope he can see it soon.</p> <p>We wrote letters to Mr. Baker for our English assignment Monday, December 6.</p> <p>Our reading class has continued our study of phonetic sounds.  We have been studying prefixes and suffixes.  Each student is keeping a list of words in his note book.</p> <p>Wanda Harmon and her parents spent Saturday in Topeka.</p> <p>J.W. Adams visited his Oculist Saturday and was glad to find that he had no ill effect from an eye injury received last summer.</p> <p>J.W. Adams and his father have completed an outdoor Christmas scene for their home.</p> <p>Gene and Dean Davis had a busy weekend.  They helped their father repair the pony pen.  They assisted their mother with some house work, and last but not least, enjoyed a visit from their grandmother, Mrs. E.P. Bahner.</p> <p>Wayne Miller reports that his parents have moved into the Bailey home and they are now comfortably settled.</p> <p>Curtis Berkey helped his father build fences and feed-troughs this weekend.</p> <p>Sally Nadeau attended the 4-H Achievement party in Topeka last Saturday.</p> <p>Don Rogers and his mother did their Christmas decorating last weekend.</p> <p>In the Spelling Contest for our grade the scores for last week’s total ran as follows:  “Yankees” 100%, “Termites” 95% and “Indians” 96%.</p> <p>Mr. Baker will be happy to know that our room again has the highest percent in church attendance.  We are very pleased about it, too.</p> <p>All of us are counting the days until Christmas – Are they sure the days before Christmas are the shortest – They seem like the longest days to us.</p>   Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 2, 1954 and December 9, 1954 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0319 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/9966c36165d33d091417e897b216582a.jpg d6b42eeae95f47101f2b4e10adcc5d02 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>January 13, 1955<br /><br /> "Progress of the Grades"<br /> Rossville Grade School<br /><br /> FIRST GRADE<br /> We are happy to be back in school after our nice, long vacation. Most of us stayed home and had lots of fun playing with our toys Santa Claus left us.<br /><br /> All of us would like to express our thanks to Mrs. Wehner, Mrs. Parr, Mrs. Foresman and Mrs. Simecka for the lovely refreshments they served after our Christmas Program. We also appreciated the nice attendance at our program.<br /><br /> Visitors in our room since our last news are the following: Mrs. Lorraine Bailey, Mrs. Frank Dolezilek, Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. Nadeau and Mr. Simpson. Please come again!<br /><br /> Alex Sieck and June Murray have returned their pink dental cards.<br /><br /> We are working hard on our letters, sounds and spelling words. We made little Snowmen Books to write our spelling lessons in.<br /><br /> Many of us are doing outside reading. Several of us received a set of Alice and Jerry pre-primers for Christmas. We can see much improvement in our reading.<br /><br /> Mrs. Ramey showed us three films this week which we enjoyed a lot. We plan to have films every Thursday.<br /><br /> Bobby Dolezilek came back to school proudly wearing a new pair of glasses.<br /><br /> Alex Sieck spent part of his vacation at his grandparents in Iowa.<br /><br /> Our room certainly looks nice. Mr. Dolezilek worked hard during vacation to have it nice and clean for us. We are trying to cooperate and keep it looking that way.<br /><br /> Mrs. Shortall, our school nurse, paid us a visit recently.<br /><br /> In Art, we have just completed our snowmen and Kansas sunflowers.<br /><br /> Rudy Bailey is nicely settled in his new home.<br /><br /> SECOND GRADE<br /> We were all glad to see each other after our Christmas vacation.<br /><br /> Some of us took trips during vacation. Virginia Stach went to California with her family. She told us many interesting things about her trip and brought back olives and fresh dates to treat us on her birthday.<br /><br /> Barton Larson went to Lyndon, Rebecca Zeller to Manhattan and Helen Wehner went to Sabetha. The rest of us stayed home and played with our Christmas gifts, which included bicycles, dolls, dogs, ponies, trucks and many other nice things.<br /><br /> Dwight Martinek treated us to popcorn balls a few days before Christmas. He also made the frame for our fireplace. Freda McCollough gave us our Christmas tree.<br /><br /> Gary Dick and Henry Wade treated us to candy on their birthdays.<br /><br /> Daryl Mitchell had his tonsils removed during vacation.<br /><br /> Artie Campbell ran a wire into his leg and had to have three stitches taken in it. Ronald Harmon stepped on a nail while playing at home.<br /><br /> We appreciate so many coming to see the program given by the Primary Grades before Christmas. Glad you liked it.<br /><br /> Parker and Laura VanVleck have moved to town. Parker isn't very happy about leaving the farm.<br /><br /> In Science we are watching for our winter birds and are remembering to put food and water out for them.<br /><br /> THIRD GRADE<br /> The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back to school with wonderful New Year's resolutions to work harder, help mother more, and be good boys and girls. All of them are working hard to keep their resolutions and very few of them have been broken.<br /><br /> In the present Spelling race Linda Simecka, Myrna Perry and Connie Zeller are in the lead with Douglas Kelsey, Joe Mitchell, Jimmy Fauerbach, Daniel Gee and Lillian Reser following very close.<br /><br /> We have had one birthday this month; Myrna Perry treated us with ice cream bars.<br /><br /> For Art the boys and girls in the Third Grade have decorated their room's windows with snowmen and snowflakes. Most of their pictures now will be about Kansas until after Kansas Day.<br /><br /> All but two of the students in the Third Grade have read more than the eight required library books and many of them have read more than twenty books.<br /><br /> Marilyn Simpson had her tonsils removed during Christmas vacation but she is feeling fine now although she must keep quite in her activities for awhile.<br /><br /> Since we have been studying good posture habits in health, we are starting a posture contest between two teams in the room. Through this contest we hope to eliminate all slouching and carelessness in posture.<br /><br /> FOURTH GRADE<br /> Our motto this week is, "No person is too big to be courteous, but many are too little."<br /><br /> The safety thought is Don't be a Jay, Play the safe way.<br /><br /> Last Tuesday the children each brought a Christmas game or toy and enjoyed sharing it with others during the rainy play periods. Carla Rasch came out the checkers champion.<br /><br /> We are learning the tables of sevens now in multiplication and division.<br /><br /> Those who made perfect scores in all the new lessons in regular spelling class are Anna Ent, Michael Gresser, Roger Hurley, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch, Virginia Rezac, Bobby Stach, Janice Vanderblomen and June Wehner.<br /><br /> In the supplementary Spelling Class perfect grades were made by Dale Dannefer, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch and Jean Stiles.<br /><br /> The Fourth Grade will have the assembly this month. We are planning it for Wednesday morning, January 26, at 9:15. We will welcome all of you parents who can come.</p> <p>___________</p> <p>Date: January 13, 1955</p> <p>Copyright Information: This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties.</p> <p>Credit Information: <em>The Rossville Reporter</em>, Rossville, Kansas</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 13, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0282 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/a74d273dd49dea205671480d276ebc32.jpg 67344d7c6d84d760af77d802cc505ec6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>Progress of the Grades<br /> Rossville Grade School<br /><br /> FIRST GRADE<br /> We are happy to have Alex Sieck with us again. He told us about the schools in Florida and other interesting little events of his trip. Alex brought Mrs. Ramey some pretty salt and pepper shakes from Jacksonville, Florida.<br /><br /> Steven Pardee celebrated his seventh birthday, March 11, by having all the first graders and other little friends as his guests for a party and birthday supper at his home. Everyone reported a wonderful time. Steven received many nice gifts. Steven also treated us to candy bars at school.<br /><br /> Carolyn Gresser is the proud owner of a new dog, which she has named Peppy.<br /><br /> Since our last news the following visited our room and stayed for lunch: Mrs. Leroy Parr and Janice, Mrs. Raymond Royal and children, Mrs. Joe Reding, Mrs. John Simecka and Gary.<br /><br /> Many of us are now checking out library books for our supplementary reading. We were really surprised and pleased to find that we could read so many of them.<br /><br /> Junie Murray enjoyed eating Sunday dinner at the Senate Cafeteria in Topeka.<br /><br /> We are working hard on our Assembly Play, which we will give in April. You will be hearing more about it.<br /><br /> Carl Farley's cousin, Sonnie Kovar, visited our room. Sonnie is a first grader at Quincy School in Topeka.<br /><br /> Jane Parr and Rudy Bailey were among the many Rossville fans at the Grade School Tournament.<br /><br /> We were pleasantly surprised to have Junie Murray's mother and Rudy Bailey's mother come for a visit last week. Steven Pardee's mother was also our guest.<br /><br /> Several of us have been enjoying roller skating at the St. Marys Skating Rink. Bobby Dolezilek, Johnnie Simecka and Larry Wehner were recent skaters there.<br /><br /> SECOND GRADE<br /> Signs of Spring decorate our walls and bulletin boards.<br /><br /> This is a month of many birthdays for us. Connie Bahner, Sandra Heiland, Amy Jones, Charles Meade and Diane Cowan are all eight years old now.<br /><br /> Sandra Heiland invited the girls in her class to a birthday party last Thursday after school.<br /><br /> It is also new shoe month. The fortunate ones to have new shoes are: Amy Jones, Charles Meade, Barton Larson, Laura and Parker VanVleck, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Bruce Shannon and Connie Bahner.<br /><br /> The Cub Scouts watched Peter Pan on TV at Artie Campbell's home on March 7.<br /><br /> We appreciate very much the wonderful cooperation of the mothers making such pretty clown suits for our part in the Operetta.<br /><br /> Virginia Stach's mother visited our room one day last week and stayed for lunch. Mrs. Raymond Royal and Mrs. Joe Reding also stopped in for a short while.<br /><br /> Henry Wade was absent one day last week to have his eyes tested by Dr. H.W. Powers. His new glasses are a great help to him.<br /><br /> We are watching for signs of spring. Over the week end several reported flying kites and raking yards.<br /><br /> Vauncille Avers, Amy Jones and Bruce Shannon have perfect attendance for the year.<br /><br /> Dwight Martinek's mother made cakes for the basketball team and one for us. Thank you, Mrs. Martinek, it was so good and such a nice surprise.<br /><br /> Our assembly program will be next Tuesday afternoon, March 22, at 2:35. Everyone is invited. Our program will consist of special numbers, The Cowboys Serenade, and a one-act Operetta "Going to the Fair."<br /><br /> THIRD GRADE<br /> The month of March so far has been a very busy one for the boys and girls in the Third Grade. The Third Grade presented their "February Assembly" March 2nd after having to postpone it because of illness and then last Friday sang several numbers before the Operetta.<br /><br /> Linda Simecka went to the hospital last Thursday to have her tonsils removed. Everyone misses her and we're all hoping she'll be back by this Thursday.<br /><br /> We have only one birthday during the month of March. Rose Marie Jacobson has a birthday March 16th.<br /><br /> In art last Wednesday we tried drawing some models. One person would model as a person batting, running, boxing, etc., while the rest of the class drew this model. Everyone enjoyed this art lesson and have also enjoyed coloring pictures of St. Patrick and shamrocks for the month of March.<br /><br /> FOURTH GRADE<br /> Since our last news writing, we have lost one of our class members. We miss Henry Martin since he has moved to McPherson, Kansas, with his parents.<br /><br /> Our March birthdays all come next week. Sharon Irwin observes hers on the first day of spring, Dale Dannefer the day following and Janice Vanderblomen on the 26th.<br /><br /> Judy McCollough and Dale Dannefer have made recent trips to the dentist.<br /><br /> Kent Paine, Roger Hurley, David Parr and Michael Gresser passed programs at the Operetta Friday night.<br /><br /> Illness has caused Carol Adams, Pamela Berkey, Dale Dannefer, Kent Paine, David Parr, Richard VanVleck, and Virginia Rezac to miss a day or more of school this past three weeks.<br /><br /> Our goal this week is to have everyone in the class make a hundred in the final lesson.<br /><br /> Our motto is - Lost time is never found again.<br /><br /> The safety thought is to avoid being hit by a softball, keep your eyes on the ball.</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 17, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. 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