Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 30

A-t Gasetie-Tlmef, Corvallis, Oregon, TbursdaT, August 25, I960 Harding School Started With 4 Rooms in 1923 I to volunteer lor the work. The i todays Harding has in its own li Harding school, built in 1923, school stored, canned foods, cots -I has grown from a slightly oversized "little red school bouse" of who provide the girl chatter so often beard." Mrs. Aubry Bond supplied the "soft music for the touching scenes." PTA dues were 25 cents per person, and at a meeting early in 1925, the total "take" was $12.25. In the same year, student enroll and blankets, as part of Civil De brary of about 3.765 volumes, and receives approximately $1000 a year to spend on books, periodicals and reference material for four classrooms and three teachers; to a 20-classroom "brick and fense, principally in case Corvallis should receive evacuees from other cities. Munford, now director of publi the children.

cations at OSC, remembers the concrete structure, bousing 20 In 1947, after the war. enroll teachers, one principal, Mrs. Charline Edwards, and a full-time secretary. ment was 100. It was at this time that an ingenious mind thought Up the "room prize" for best parent attendance at meetings; the prizes were such items as a picture to be hung in the winning room for a month, a goldfish bowl to be ment at Harding was 185.

And original schoolhouse, with its wood furnace) and cords of wood eight feet high behind the building. Munford doubled as teacher then the deluge: in 1950, the year At the meeting of the School kindergartens were added, Hard ing had 468 students. As a result Board when the, decision, was made to build a new grammar and principal, giving instruction in geography some music. He remembers after-school kept for a month, a' new book for of extending the original building, the and of adding two wings one school on hill," members present were Mrs. H.

Horn sports as being somewhat in 1950, providing 7 new 1 Room Always Problem By 1931, there was much talk classrooms and a special educa tion room, and one in 1953, adding but there were dramatic productions, and weekly radio programs, written and acted in by teachers and 6th grade students. Munford of a problem which some citizens may think arose only after World War II: "Mr. Em eric ing, George Denman, George Peavy, W. E. Kyier, Dr.

W. T. Johnson, and clerk, Aura Han-shew. A bond issue of $70,000 was floated for the original struc isi msina uemos Plan Fund Raising Plans for fund raising and organizational activity during the coming campaign in the first Congressional district, will be made Thursday night in Hillsbore according to Oscar Kendall, Corvallis, Democratic chairman of the first congressional district. Kendall said the planning meet ing will be held at 7 p.m.

at the Times restaurant. Chairmen and vice chairmen from the 10 counties comprising the district have been invited to the no-host din- five classrooms and the present gym-auditorium, Harding today is just about able to hold its 620 boys and girls. In 28 years, a thinks of the students, thee and (Principal) was called upon to now, as having "lots of initiative." ture of red brick which is still the main part of the building present the most urgent needs of Harding. He first considered the A Harding alumna of the 1930 s. "hot plate" has graduated to a fronting on Harrison Street.

eed of more room, saying that full-sized kitchen serving fine, hot Joyce Ball, whose daughter Leslie attends Harding now, recalls: The building was not yet com lunches in the basement cafeteria; "We had more free time then. pleted when school opened in the the playground is with Leslie is much more 'organized' the present arrangement, is not satisfactory as a permanent solution for the crowded Mr. Adams' (Superintendent) outlined the problems that face more equipment; current PTA rlr -inr bt iiin-fitni fall of 1923, but as Miss Beulah Gilkey remembers it, the children enjoyed watching the work membership is at 413, with $413 in than we were, and she has homework; I don't remember ever having any." dues collected now. that member progress, and liked to climb on ship is $1.00 per person. In 1925, the school board in attempting to properly house the school children Tom Ordeman recalls that in TYPICAL BENTON COUNTY SCHOOL oround the turn the school long since has been consolidated with Mon- of the century was this former "Brown some roe, where a high school was organized in '191 1.

Before four miles eost of Monroe. In front of the one-room- that, graduates of Brown, and similar schools could and-woodshed combination are the 18 students and enter college via the "entrance if they chose teacher of" 1906. Their identification is lacking and to do so. of Corvallis. He urged support of a total of $442.00 was allotted in the school budget for library books for ALL Corvallis schools; About a quarter of all Americans are now Covered by pension plans in private industry.

1939, when he was PTA president at Harding, emphasis was'- on the dirt piles out front. Miss Gil-key, together with Nona Mundy and Mrs. Elizabeth Owens were the original trio of teachers at the building program." Does this socializing" with parents and sound familiar? In 1936 when Ken Munford was teachers, and building up PTA membership: when he was elect Harding, with Mrs. Owens also holding the job of The following year, Harding "fa principal (1935-37), ana FTA re Consolidation Reduces Schools in South Benton ceived its charter from the state ed, there were five people present, or, as Dr. Ordeman mays, thers" did the work of putting in jm organization, the G-T earned an item about some local friends who the lawn and a sundial as well.

By MRS. CLAUDE SPRAGUE the number of schools in South around 500 students. "We'd hit bottom." "Went to War" T. J. Starker donated a number MOWKUK (bpecial) Consol- Benton County from twelve to The first schools were estab- In 1925 a union high school district was organized from the four schools and the present brick Ihfer'nRieat of birch trees for landscaping, and were involved in "histrionics" to raise money for the playground fund.

"The cast, with a near- idation of districts has reduced 'four, with a total registration of lished in the 1850 in the Belknap kidney'nbat In the 40's, Harding school "went to war" along with the rest by the year 1925 PTA and the land Monroe areas. building at Monroe was construe ted. Drama Section of the College professional reputation, includes They were located in settlers' homes, then log cabins! Later, F. A. Gilfillan and of the country.

Sally who was a Harding "room mother" during that decade, remem folk Club raised $105 to equip A faculty of 11 now are em chicken iseaty mix chopped fish 5 Moss CAT FOODS Mrs. C. H. Norton as Mr. and the playshed.

In these several one room schools weft built. All ployed there, with a registration-. bers that Harding was one of the of 125 students. ways, Harding was started on a long career of expansion and Mrs. Griggs, a typical couple, seeing the movies, and Mrs.

Herbert were of one pattern; rectangular, with three windows on each side, rows of home built desks, a centers of distribution of ration books, and Harding parents used growth. Nelson and Mrs. Harry Orner 50 Pay Tribute teachers desk at one end, with coats, books and the water bucket To Valentino Memory at the other end HOLLYWOOD (UPD-Abouf '50 A huge wood-burning stove was persons turned out Tuesday to oav the center warmed the room. Some times the lower window tribute to Rudolph Valentino on the 34th anniversary of the silent screen idol's death. panes were covered with paint, to keep the children from looking Holsum's full of flavor Missing for the third straight out.

year was the "lady in black" who Later all windows were moved formerly made an annual pilgrim to one side of the building to get away from cross-lighting. age to he. crypt. Former silent film figures At present there are four grade James Kirkwood and Belle Mar- tell spoke at the memorial service at Valentino's crypt at Hollywood schools, Belknap, Brown and Ingram Island, consolidated with Monroe. Central and Eureka joined with Irish Bend.

Mt. Home joined Alpine and Bunker Hill and Green Peaks came into Bell- Memorial Park. Miss Martell said Valentino's Pi as. mi iumr.ni i inr -r -v 4 memory "remains so green, so alive because; "His great attraction was that All pupils are transported by he carrie along when millions of bus. At one time all four districts had high schools, with women all over the world were suffering.

They had lost their strong athletic programs. The Monroe district organized lovers, their husbands, their fathers in the first world war. He a high school In Mil. Principal WXM. Mi filled a need for them.

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