FIRST GRADE

Top row from left to right: Mickey Jaeschke, Richard Doty, Esther Beck, Clarence Brauckmiller,
      Lloyd Vittitoe, Frances Hansen, Vesta Boyd, Junior Bessire, Wayne Dugdale.
Bottom row from left to right: Bernard Hosman, Helen Towers, Ruth Wiltse, Oral Hillman,
      Lucille Strain, Marguerite Byram, Virginia Hammer, Sammie Strain, Francis Vittitoe.
Those absent when the picture was taken are: Beacher Hillman, Mary Elizabeth Schwertly,
      Johnny Neff, Minnie Tippery, Lee Hornbeck, Kenneth Gore, Lyle Snyder, Margaret Jackson,
     Velma Alexander, Doris Earwood, John Verbancsis, Billie O'Rourke.

     We began the year with an enrollment of twenty-six pupils, but at the end of the first semester we started a kindergarten, so now our enrollment is thirty-one. We have taken part in two programs this year, one at Thanksgiving time and the other one in March. Most of the time we are real hard workers, and Miss Ransom is very proud of us. Won't it be fine to pass into the second grade next year.
     It takes heaps of our time just to train ourselves to sit quietly in our old hard seats for hours at a time, and sometimes we get so tired we can't tell where the seat stops and we begin.
     We sure think a lot of Miss Ransom, and she teaches us heaps of little things that real  ladies and gentlemen should know that are pretty hard to remember sometimes.