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Home My Public Portal AboutIdaho History: EducationGhost school- ITt. STATESMAN SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1982 Memories are all that remain at once -proud SICE Down the ancient corridors And through the gates of time Run the ghosts of days That we left behind From Ghosts, by Dan Fogelberg By JIM POORE The Idaho Statesman ALBION — The wind blows through a shattered window, flip- ping fingers of a torn curtain to- ward the center of the room where, dusted by snow, a red, black and white panther snarls up from the center jump circle at an empty room. Thirty years ago, the second floor basketball court throbbed with life. Terell Bell, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education, ran along the track that circled above the basketball floor in the red -brick building. Gus Johnson once ex- cited the crowds hugging the run- ning track that doubled as bleach- ers with his behind the back passes. But even as Gus Johnson filled the gym with life, the spirit of the building, if not its mortar, was crumbling. Now, after years of neglect, the brick and wood that once stood straight and narrow is slowly falling apart despite the panther's defiant snarl. The panther was once the mas- cot of Southern Idaho College of Education in this tiny southeast- ern Idaho farming town that stands at the foot of Mount Harri- son, hidden by foothills from the cars whizzing along Interstate 84 some 14 miles to the north. Once the panther presided over (See ALBION, Page 2F) The second -floor gymnasium stands empty at the Southern Idaho College of Education Tt 1> �d �C o . 04; Cochrane, �• B.Sutter, NY, 13:53; en crensnow ....... _ ... _ ........ Tom Purtzer ..........._......_..._._...._.7a11- 1. 53, 4:10; Philadelphia bench, George Archer .......... _ ..... ._..._... ••_101 �man,16:57; Lineman, Phi, Cro�9 -72 NY, 20.00• ,4 New York, Boume 26, Studer .............. ....____..___72 Bernhard Longer ..... ................. Mar- tnies ' IDonReese. 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Jo ...._........__....___.7i John .._ ._.... raull� 1a au11 a — - - -- arn a, ul uo 1.ua� ua a ar stepped in au sfeJ 113 prq aM The late Gene Coop at aql P e 1F) s; h:" and took over the school's athletic Ilnl Sul (Continued from Page program and p roceeded to make ssod aAlsuallo� a school whose athletic teams $JC's fledgling legend, Lyle 1 `u °iuM atu say battled Boise Junior College and Smith, work for his victories over Hants a1nu 11 Idaho State to a standstill, win- the farm kids from Magic Valley. m 1l a�auMRu ( now his kingdom is empty SICE played both four -and two- �uueo PunO dows, a few crushed beer cars, year schools from 1946 to 1951. > 1a$ PlnOus a broken bleachers, chunks of Alas- ball a �> a& s1 Cooper later became head foot aslog ` ter and — a sure sign that it's not a coach at Boise High School a lsl"O `�v copies Of � and preceded Bowman as the 1950 anymore —two or three cen- terfolds torn from cop head of Boise State's P.E. Depart - auzu� apisul s playboy. ment but in the 1940's he molded our rest the Panthers into Smith's only Fury rages through Y titian in the inter - 3 x real compe less days that's g one be- mountain west. Shades of time fore When Smith became head ris i> coach in 1947, he started the aa0od Empty cages where the p -game win streak oner plays Broncos on a 38 g by Long 'Til the door swings closed be- that was finally. snapped 5 hind for evermore Beach Junior C College in the 1950 From Empty Cages, Little Rose Bowl asadena, in P 0 by Dan Fogelberg Calif. The streak actually Sher 5 in 1946 under Harry Jacoby 0 BJC ended its season The gam( A The door swung closed on the O set Southern Idaho College of Educa- College of Idaho 246. 166 �', before, Jacob) forces had t 100 tion in 1951. The state legislature threw away the key when it cut tle fora 7 -7 tie with SI`CaE• almos off funding for both SICE and its Smith's streak snapped by SICE in 1948, the yea sister school, North Idaho College € the Broncos were 9 0 and han '" of Education in Lewiston. In the 12 Yakima 52 e,� ;miiwaakee I :. »r mered Olympic 33-12, Seattle lssl VS. Son Diego Or Las Vegas, first half of existed primarily to :.:: >? ,; t'< and Ricks 25-0. mbe ev, schools that e P d ` "' ' " £ >; :' chstrasser reme N o 6, Oakland 1 ' $ Bill HO Francisc chers were cane > »;:<<< . w:'":: xf:y strass San i tt1e1551,iate educate tea le t. 1 ntad sea people, ::::..; game in 1948. Hoch Atlanta man P : >.:::: ><:<<: >;:.,.;.: that g lore . To Y Pe w Is :.::...t. d York (NU, O _.. n vs. New ( al Schools. <j:�s:... _,__,_........ gJC a sLou r ....,... r 1. No .. fo <. 1 vs. New York IA, late till Albion No was play g f Montreal the old school is s Ph�lodelphlddlMinnesota,lare c1S1UCY1 doing the point -after work Cot itornio at Los Angeles, late had Door to gymnasium Tadar's Games mal. Lewiston Smith. b New York (NU vs. St.LOUis Ot S1.Peters- Pohtically, "Southern Idaho had a burg, Flo• enough clout for an afterlife as who 11 Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh at Columbus, Cagle, named John Lardy Ohio every June," said Joy Dint afters Detroit vs. Boston of gpltel the fact tstcityuhallbs within kicked 30 straight (Pa teacher Wichita (AAA) vs. Montreal at West Palm said Hochstrasser, Beach,Fi0. distance g drawing On a smile that covers in Toronto vs. Houston at Coco a Fl a, legjslatlorg Vard f Chatburn, Junes of seeing old friends g o- Boise High School• Lord mis Cleveland vs. Milwaukee' f Sun City, Ariz. powers- (NU at Chico" (AL) But against BJC, Y Phoodelpmo at Minnesota couldn't a scat convince the Po pie that hobble nin here. I'm from two straight conversions as Sol Texos vs. New York (ALI at New Orleans that be the state needed another San Diego vs. Seattle (ss) at Las Vegas, four -year school. the last graduating class in 1951 ern Idaho took a 12 0 hatft Nev. is Valley The hobble in here lead. BJC rallied for two toll Los Angeles Ot California It did become Magic and I'm 53. Y Oakland vs. son Francisco 300,400 strong." downs in the second half Atlanta atseottle(SS) Christian College in gymlarock EXHIBITION SEASON ENDS and the basketball Hochstrasser hit One of his ' At Miami especially when the tiny Along the wall; in shadows raft- versions for a 13 -12 BJC wt Texas 000 021 00o 1-4 14 ° again, P ers reserve the streak. 1iOChSirB Bonimore 030 000 000 2 -510 3 school cut down Gus Johnson and rwo years later, Honeycutt, Darwin 161, Mirabelli (7), g Moving like a thought through P � _. ., a iMns"n (61; Boise Junior College ,one i night in ...,.o.t atmosohere t—i transferred to SICE and in, mator- minor, 14:07; Mon- souve, But, 17:24; Foligno, John Mazza . .__....��..._...__.._.._.MrJ Greg Powers -81 -224 -11 -BO --225 Texas 000 021 000 1-4 14 0 Baltimore 030 0, 000 2 -5 10 3 cconduct),17:24; Hunter, Mill, ........._. ._ Bob Shearer ..................._.74 -73-79 -225 tL Darwin (66 Mionnsoa 176 midi �icord, Mill, motor (miscon- _. ._.._ ........................73 Allen Miller - 76.80 -226 (8 Schmidt 181 and Sundber9, B.Johnson (61; rta, But, 17:45. ... _ ... _ ................... Lou Gronam _...10 2- 73-81 -226 Flanagan, Palmer (I), Snell (9) and Roy - 1- , Montreal, Tremblay 33 ........... _ Mike Smith .... ................ 72 - 7381 -226 fora, Nolan (6) W- Snell. L- Schmidt. HR- 1. 1, Montreal, Lafleur 27 ml, 9.07 & Boston, Peterson .... » ................... Lindy Miller ..... ... ............ Scott Hoch ............ _-__.._.7/ -70-82 -226 73 -72-82 -227 Texas,Sundberg. ._ ........ .............. ___... w Dunn), 14.30. 9, Buttolo, Mick Soli reautt), 19:40. Penalties -Pe- Mike Reid.. ___._. ................ ....... 70 -7583 -228 2; Van Boxmeer, But, 7:35; Michelob Seniors (At Tampa, Fla.) Don January ...... ...................... _.._..7369.67 -209 Paul Harney .... _ .................. ._._.69 -72 -71 -212 Bill Dow Finsterwold .. ...... _ ...... .„_._..10-72 -71 -213 Miller Barber ... .... .... _ ...... .» ........ 68 -74 -71 -213 Art Wall Jr. ........ ». ........... » ................72 -67- 74-213 Billy Casper ......_. ..._. ............ ... _..73 -69 -71 -213 J.C. Goosie .__......._._..........._.__- ...6&71 - 75-214 Dan Sikes ........ .».__ .............. ». ....... 7472. 73-215 Sam Snead .... _._ .................... »._..74 -72- 70-216 Charles Malchoski ............ ., ........ 74-7413 -217 Gene Littler ... . ............... _ ...... 72 -72- 73-217 Tom Nieporte ........___- _..._..___.74 -73- 72-219 Howie Johnson .................. _ ... ........ 72 -74- 73-219 Jim Ferree ........ ....... ... _ ... ._.. ....... 74 -71- 74-219 Tommy Bolt ..... ........................... _ .7371- 76-220 Bill Johnston .... ___ ... _ ............. _.7672 -73-221 Charles Sitford .._ .............. __.__.757373 -221 Boo Erickson Jerry Barber ...... ___ ...... _ ..... .... M7576 -221 Michael Felchick ............ _.__.._.71.7575 -221 Fred Hawkins .- »._..__._.- _..7572 -75-m Ken Most.._._...__._......_._ _.77- 7514 m Jock Fleck Lionel Hebert .... ....__ .................... 7577-72-224 Doug Ford ... _._.»._ ................. _..7570-75 -224 George Bayer .._. .__._._..........847371 -224 LPGA Nabisco -Dinah Shore (At Rancho Mirage, Calif.) Hollis Jon Stephenson ... ................. _._...76 -69- 68-213 JoAnne Carrier ....—.._..._..__...7311 -69 --213 Sally 1_ittle .___..__._..__..7i- 67- 71 -2I4 Cindy Hill .. - __._...________75.69- 70-2I4 N. Lopez -Melton .._____._.__77-7I -67 -215 Kathy Whitworth _. ......... ____75n-68 --215 Lori Gortim .._._...__._....______71 -70-7±1 -215 Donna Coponi — _. _ _ _ 7371 -71 -215 Beth Daniel .._.___..__.____._72 -71- 72-215 Pot Patty Sheehan :._.._____._____.76- 68-72 -216 Sandra Haynie ...__..._....._— ..._.73.69 - 74-216 Shelley Amy Alcon ....... ._ ............ _... »_34-74 -69 -217 Carole Jo Callison .._ .......... ._... .... n -Mil -218 Betsy King ...... _..... ..... _ ............ 79 -67- 73-219 Jane Blotock ._. _. _ .77 -737±1 -220 Janet Coles .- ._..»..._ ........ __ »..76 -74- 70-220 Debbie Austin ._..._...._...... » »__.7/- 7572 -221 AvaKo Okamoto Totsuko Onsako ._._._._...___._74-74 -73-221 Stlste MCAUlster ..._..._.._.____.__78- 7473 -221 Kyle 0 'Brien._....._...._.___.__71 -76 -74-221 Cathy Morse . ......._._..___._.._..7374-74 -221 Chris Johnson .._._...- _.._.,._.7571 -75-22 1 Dionne Daley ___7577 -74-221 Kathy Postlewait Comy Sherk Sondra Palmer ... _._..__.._........._._7576.71 —m AliceRitzman._ — .....____»_77- 7075 -m Martho Honsen ....._.__...._75-75-73 -223 Vicki Tabor .._._.__..._.______.76. 7374 -223 Clifford Ann Creed._.._._- ..__79- 1371 -223 J. Stanger- Pyne ....... .......... _ ..... 77- 7076 -223 Pat Meyers ._..___._..»._.._......_.79 -74-70-223 Joyce Kazm6erski .... ......... - _ .... 757574-224 Beth Solomon Judy Clark .._____..... ..... .... _ ...... n -7374 -224 Carolyn Hill ._.._.._._..__ »..___ .... 74- 7575-224 Vicki Singleton .......... _. .... _ --- 77-74 -73-224 Myra Van Haase .___..._._...__...78 7373 -224 Donna H. White neuve, Canada, Ferrari 126 - ,rg, Finland, Williams FW08, Skiing At Tampa, Fla. Houston 000 000 00" 5 2 Cincinnati 320 300 00x-8 8 0 Knepper, Smith (7), Sambito (8) and Ashby; Pastore, Edelen (8), Shirley (9) and Trevino, O'Berry 18). W- Postore. L -Knep- per. HRs- Cincinnati, Householder, Cedeno. At Lakeland, Fla. Boston 301 100 000- 5 q6 0 Detroit 100 201 26x -12 18 1 Oteda, Burgmeier (6), Aponte (8) and At- lenson; Petry, Saucier (7), Sousa (8) and Parrish, Fahey (8). W- Saucier. L- Burg - meier. HRS- Boston, Rice. Detroit, Broo- kens. At Tucson, Ariz. Milwaukee 100 000 000- --1 7 2 Cleveiond 000 000 02x -2 3 0 Caldwell, Bernard (6), Jones (8) and Sim- mons, Moore (8); Denny, Barker (6), Whit- son (8) and Hassey. W- Whitson. L- Jones. HR- Milwaukee, Cooper (4). At Bradenton, Fla. Toronto 022 002 020-4 13 1 Pittsburgh 130 030 010-4 14 1 Clancy, Jackson (5), Garvin (7), Murray (8) and Whitt; Rhoden, D.Robinson (2), Te- kulve (4), Romo (6), Scurry (8) and Nicosia. HRs- Toronto, Barfield, Bonnell. Pittsburgh, Moreno, D.Robinson, Modlock. At Phoenix, Ariz. Son Francisco 303 000 000-6 10 1 Oakland 000 100 000-1 8 0 Gale, Barr (6), Lavelle (9) and May, Ran- som (7); Keough, Underwood (7) and New- man. W -Gale. L- Keough. Boxing Amateur Golden Gloves Finals (At Kansas City, M0.) 10600unds -Jose Rosario, Elizabethtown, N.J., dectsioned Micon Bates, Des Moines, Iowa. 112 pounds -Jesse Benovides, Fort Worth, Texas, decisionea Bill HoCkmer, N.Y. 119 pounds-- Wictrick Taylor, Phibdel- Phia, decisioned Herbie Bivolacquo, Latoy- ette, La. 125 pounds- Shetton LeBlanc, Lafayette, La., tlecisioned Lomont Buchanan, St. Louis. 139 Pounds - -JIMMY Roiwn, Lafayette, La, knocked out Reginald Watkins, Knox- ville, Tenn., 1:58 first round. 147 pounds -Roman George, Lafayette, Lo., decisoned Micoel Nunn of Des Moines, Iowa. On the air TODAY 11 a.m. NBA, Houston vs. Son Antonio, KBC1, Channel 2 12 noon Sportsbeot, K I V I, Chonnel6 12:30 P.m. American Sports- man, Premiere, KIVL Channel 6 12:30 P.m. Sportsworld, Grand National Steeplechase, KTVB, Channel7 1:30 p.m. NBA, Portland vs. Los Angeles, KBC1, Channel 2 1:30 p.m. NBA, Portland vs. Los Angeles, KXBQ, 96FM 1:30 P.m. U.S.A. vs. World, Olympic Sports, K I V I, CHannel 6 2 p.m. Dinah Shore LPGA Invi- tational, KTVB, Channel 7 2:30 P.m. ABC Wide World of Sports. K IV L Channel 6 again, especially when the tiny school cut down Gus Johnson and Boise Junior College one night in 1961, but MVCC finally folded in 1969. Thirteen years later, the town's chamber of commerce sign that greets visitors still pro- claims Albion as "Home of MVCC." "One thing I've always remem- bered about Gus was the way he took the basketball and passed it," said Chris Cagle, until re- cently Albion's long -time mayor and a former football player and graduate of Southern Idaho Col- lege of Education. "He'd roll it out underhand like he was pitch- ing a softball." Cagle shakes his head at the memory, one of the good ones. Lately there haven't been too many good ones for the school. Since MVCC took its basketball team and vanished — Cagle's not sure, but he thinks the school wound up in a hotel in Baker, Ore., — the once - impressive cam- pus has slowly dissolved into something Alfred Hitchcock might use as a backdrop for Psycho II. The multi - storied red -brick buildings belong to the city, but they're decaying. The seats in the auditorium are broken, pommel horses lay unused on the first floor of the gym, the second floor library is littered with copies of Newsweek and The Nation and "Gary Loves Deana" — and worse — is scribbled on the walls. A stone bench given by the class of 1923 sits vacant along a walk framed by lonely Scotch pines, empty of the sweethearts that must have sat there on clear moonlight nights 40 years ago. Everything — everyone — is gone. The waste of that once beautiful campus riles Cagle, a long -time coach who now teaches at Burley High School, which stands 15 miles or so from downtown Al- bion. "What angers me about that lit- tle old campus is that I've been mayor for eight years and I've been trying to get something going," said Cagle, who left office this year. An outfit called the Ore- gon Trail Festival of Arts tried to get something going, but that Along the wall; in shadows raft- ers Moving like a thought through haunted atmosphere Muted cries and echoed laugh- ter Banished dreams that never sank in sleep From Ghosts, by Dan Fogelberg The college may sleep and wrinkles and grey hair may have overtaken the glory-boys of South- ern Idaho College of Education, but they haven't forgotten. "'Those farm kids that came out of Magic Valley were hard - nosed kids," said Bill Bowman, head of Boise State's Physical Education Department and a graduate of SICE. Bowman was Len B. Jordan not from Magic Valley. He gradu- ated from Cascade High School and went to Albion Normal in 1940 to play football after one of the school's graduates, a teacher in McCall, told him it was a good school. And a cheap one. "It didn't cost us much, I think it cost us $75 for tuition and room and board was $26 a month," said Bowman, laughing at yesteryear costs. "There's a lot of history and a lot of memories in that little town." Bowman played football in 1940, a season when the Panthers were 8 -2 and ranked among the top 10 teams in the nation. Albion Nor- mal, not BJC, was the top two- year school in the state then. Al- bion Normal whacked the Broncos 21 -7 that fall, the school's Hochstrasser hit one of "his con- versions for a 13-12 BJC win to preserve the streak. Two years later, Hochstrasser had transferred to SICE and was starting at left guard when Smith's Little Rose Bowl bound Broncos — complete with star running back Larry Jackson — went to Jerome, a neutral site, for a showdown with SICE. Both teams were unbeaten in Inter- mountain League play. Ironically, Smith wasn't with them. Just two games earlier he returned to ac- tive duty in the navy because of the Korean War. Before 4,000 spectators, and' with George Blankley filling in fo Smith, BJC won 21 -7, one of it two real tests of the year, an kept on marching toward Pa dena. SICE went back to Albion and anything but a bunch of roses. The school had just six more months of existence. Former U.S. Senator Len 9. Jordan was governor when the Al- bion school was shut down. Jordan said he'd always planned on closing the two teach- ers schools. "I thought Idaho was spread too thin in higher education, I wanted quality first," said Jor- dan, retired from the U.S. Senate and living in Boise. Milton Horsley lays the blame on money. Horsley was chairman of the state Republican party then and when it came time to fund education in Idaho the problems of 1982 were the same in 1951 - there wasn't enough to go around. "They had a budget request — and this will sound very unreal to you — of $48 million," said Hors- ley, who is retired and lives in same apartment complex as Jor- dan. "That was for two years. All the money we could see at that time was $36 million so the gov- ernor had to make some reduc- tions." So the trap door was pulled on the Southern Idaho College of Education, a school with almost no political clout. Not that there wasn't an outcry. Grace Jordan wrote in her book The Unintentional Senator, a po- litiral hietnr.r of 1,nr 4+.. 11---A •U-. Austria, McLoren MP48, s France, Renault RE -308, France, Renault RE 30B, imelll, Italy, Alto Romeo et, Brazil, Brobhom BT- uve, Canada, Ferrari 126. 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Rod is plowed and sanded but chains or snow tires are advised. Brundage Mountain An additional 4 inches over night Friday, increases the depth and continued the condi- tions as excellent on powder and packed. Powder. All main rods are plowed and oc. cessibdity is rated excellent to the area, Sun valley hours e o has increased n I eased the depth B Idy Mountain to 120 inches of the top, 80 at mid- course and 60 at the hnitnm Fnre + Chonnel 6 12:30 P.M. American Spar mon, Premiere, KIVI, Channel 12:30 P.m. Sportsworld, Gro National Steeplechase, KTV Channel? 1:30 p.m. NBA, Portland Los Angeles, KBCI, Channel 2 1:30 P.M. NBA, Portland Los Angeles, KXBQ, 96FM 1:30 P.M. U.S.A. vs. Wort Olympic Sports, KIVI, CHannel 2 P.M. Dinah Shore LPGA In tationol, KTVB, Channel 7 2:30 P.m. ABC Wide World Sports, KIVI, Channel 6 6 P.m. Soccer Mode in Ge many, East Germany vs. Polon KAID, Channel 4 Cable - Listings 8 a.m. Sports Center, Chonn 23 9 a.m. F.A. 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Albion Nor- Education, a school with almost d, going," said Cagle, who left office mal, not BJC, was the top two- no political clout. 6 this year. An outfit called the Ore- year school in the state then. Al- Not that there wasn't an outcry. i gon Trail Festival of Arts tried to bion Normal whacked the Grace Jordan wrote in her book of get something going, but that Broncos 21 -7 that fall, the school's The Unintentional Senator, a po r- didn't ork. Cagle refuses to give seventh straight win over BJC. litical history of her husband, that d, p. "I've got two or three thins "Instant reaction was expected, going." g The Panthers' only losses that but hardly its virulence. "Jordaa el Cagle and his wife, Joy, sit in year were 30-26 to Idaho State and was hung in effigy on the campus o their homey cafe —the Annie 20-10 to College of Idaho. at North Idaho College of Educa- Laurie Inn, a must stop for skiers One of Bowman's teammates tion and a retired legislator from going to and from nearby Pomer on that 1940 team was Secretary Burley was re- elected to try and goo Ski area r and talk lovingly Po of Education Terell Bell. "He make the Albion school whole about the days when Albion a play football," said Bowman again, but it was no use. s. the star attraction for the 400 about Bell, a reserve on that Students had their credits Don strong study body at SICE. The team. "He was only about Moot -5 transferred to Idaho State and the school was founded in 1898 as a or 5-foot-6.,, doors were closed, although the Cup two-year teachers school. Bowman, like Bell and a lot of male students, returned to Albion number of graduates from that to finish their edu- tiny school still have an impact on After the war, it became a four- after the war year school because two -year de- cation and take part in athletics, year education. grees were no longer enough for although Bowman accepted an Bowman recalled a few of teachers. Isolated from the rest offer to coach the Albion Hi h them: Ernie Knee, a member of of the state, SICE drew largely School football team for credit 122_ the state superintendent of from the Magic Valley —Twin stead of going back to football. schools staff; Al Walters, a long - Falls, Burley, Glenns Ferry, Kim- The school had a basketball team time Boise coach; Merle oath berly, Buhl and occassionally — coached in its last days b worth, a former Boise High coach from Boise. There were two y Y who now teaches in Burley; Gor- ma major entertainments — athletics Ernie Craver, father of Boise don Brown and Bob Belliston, two and the Annie Laurie Inn, then State athletic trainer Gary long -time Glenns Ferry coaches known as the J.C. Cafe. Craner —and it was renowned for and teachers; Frank Charlton, its boxing team. "We had to make our own fun But football made the bi biggest former Meridian High School and we'd congregate here and football coach and currently su- dance," said Joy Cagle, looking news. Before it became SICE, Al- perintendent of schools in Twin around the cafe as if she half-ex- bion Normal had its own version Falls; Ward Tucker, recently re- of her husband to come of Lyle Smith. His name was Or- tired Dean of Education at Col - through the front door in a varsity ine Hult and he was a former lege of Idaho. letter sweater tapping his toe to football coach at Glenns Ferry. Maybe it was never meant to be In the Mood. "The place was dif- "He had graduated from Albion that a small town lost by inter - ferent then. There was a lunch and then from the University of state 84 should continue as a seat counter over there, a Nickelodeon Idaho," said Bowman, a former of learning. The hand - writing was over here. The back room had a football coach and teacher at on the wall that final year and if poker table and slot machines. Boise High School. "Hint was the talk in the legislature wasn't We'd spend our Friday and Satur greatest coach around. In 1938, enough, the end to Albion Normal day nights here, dancing and just in 39 and 1940 they were outstand- — and the eventual resurrection having a good time." g'" of Lewiston Normal — may have Like those good times, just During the war, the school's been played out in something of a about everybody who went tojust athletic program shut down and winner- stays -alive type game on school scattered to other cities, Hult went to coach at Clarkston, the football field. although Miss Buckley, the iris Wash., High School. When Albion In the final meeting of the two P.E. teacher, still lives in the mid- Normal reopened in 1946 as a schools in November of 1950, die t town. She's 89 years old, four -year school with a new North Idaho College of Education and definitely not forgotten. home to Rupert t return. Going defeated Southern Idaho College Every year she sees her old stn- pe for Christmas in of Education 30-7. Today Lewis dents. the early '40s, Hult was killed in and Clark State lives, while 500 "We have an alumni reunion an automobile accident. miles to the south, a campus lies Hult's athletic legacy didn't die. dead. Boise's first schoolhouse — teaching there was a challenging experience The By ART Venerable landmarks have always received a certain amount of atten- tion in Boise, especially when their days were numbered. The photo- graph shown today is of Boise's first schoolhouse, and the occasion for re- cording it was its imminent demoli- tion. The city's new Carnegie Library was receiving its finishing touches in 1905 when this picture of the 1868 schoolhouse was made. As the photo shows, it was in a sad state of repair by then, and was no longer used as a school: The 19M City Directory tells us that William C. Wiggins conducted his carriage painting business there, and lived in another part of the build- ing. In Februrary of 1903 the contents of the shop were burned, but the stout brick walls were saved by speedy action of the Fire Depart- ment. Through tracing accounts of this building and its later adventures it is Possible to get an idea of Boise's struggle to establish a public school system in the first place. In the fall of 1868 the voters approved a 5-mill tax t.o build a public schoolhouse. The Ar Ar raising, razing of a schoolhouse Idaho Yesterdays trustees had already secured plan and specifications for the buildin g and advertised for bids. By Oct. 29, 1868, The Statesman re- ported that the building was progres sinf rapidly and that several brick masons were about finished with the walls. The one -room school was to be 29 by 40 feet when completed, one story high. It was expected that a second story would be added later, and the walls were made strong enough to support such an addition the following season. (This never happened, although a wing was later added.) By October 1869, however, the school was not yet in use. The States- man wondered editorially why not: "The question is frequently asked why the public school is not in suc- cessful operation. A large and com- fortable brick building is standing unoccupied and useless. It was built at public expense for a public school house, and a large and flourishing school should be under way there now." The record showed that the con- tractors had been paid nearly $5000 for the work done on the first year, S but it was June of 1871 before mason Charles May collected all of the money he was owed on the contract. It took a special election to approve a _ levy for the purpose. Setting the teachers' salaries was accomplished in an unusual way in the 1870s. Prospective principals and their assistants were required to bid on the job, and the ones who would work for the least were hired. In 1872 a Mr. and Mrs. Thompson got the contract. By 1876 there were 107 scholars, and the Statesman wryly observed that "Prof. Humphreys and his able assistant, Miss Alice Thews, have their hands full." Since this en- rollment included grades 1 through 8, that was an understatement. Later that year A ' L. Rinearsolf and Lizzie Reed - were -brave enough to bid for the job. He got $80 per month and she got $40_ The problems of maintaining order, let alone teach- ing very much, are suggested by a report published in The Statesman on Sept. 26, 1876: The building stood upon the com- mon, with no fence around, and was a sort of target for the hoodlums to throw stomes at the windows. The seats and desks were ... in every re- spect much dilapidated and going to ruin." By October 1876, Rinearson and Reed had an enrollment of 130, and in 1977 it jumped to 190. There must be pio- neer te teachers like these who tried to make young Boise an island of cul- ture in the wilderness. (Arthur Hart is director of the Idaho Historical Society.) John W. Daniels and pupils in front of Boise's Central School in the 1880s Boiseans Vacillate4i Between Love, Hate For Early Educator In 1881 there arrived on the Idaho scene a young teacher named John W. Daniels, an 1876 graduate of Bates College in Maine. He had married the same year he received his diploma, and taught in a "semi- nary and female college" in Maine before coming to Boise. Few could have predicted the enormous impact this young English -born educator wouid have on the cornmunity. After only one term as principal of the Independent School of Boise City, Daniels announced his retire- ment. The Statesman described the farewell scene as it took place on Feb. 17, 1882: "In closing the school the Professor intended to make a short speech, but after a few words his sympathetic feelings got the mastery, and for a short period there was not a dry eye in the school room. "Mr. Mann, the Assistant, was re- quested to close the school, but the scholars declined to leave their seats, and after a short suspense one of the pupils came forward and asked for the privilege of reading a farewell address on the part of the school, which we are permitted to copy: 'Dear Sir: It is with sincere regret that we learn you are about to close your connection with our Public School. In your departure we feel we sustain a great loss, and take pleasure in expressing our deep esteem for you as a kind tutor, ripe scholar, able instructor and dis- ciplinarian ...' " Daniels' fame as a disciplinarian was to last, and although he planned to remain in Boise only through the winter, the pupils who signed the very long and warm trib- ute to him (which followed that quoted above) were to know him until they had children of their own in Boise schools. In 1885, having led the Boise dis- trict through the building of a mag- nificent new Central School, and having reorganized the system thoroughly, Daniels again resigned, this time as superintendent. His ob- jective was now to read law and be admitted to the bar, which he ac- complished with ease in a short Idaho Yesterdays By Arthur Hart time. He practiced law for a few years before being prevailed upon to return to the school superinten- dency. (A contemporary account says that during Daniels' absence "the schools degenerated. ") The then- princely salary of $2,000 per year was offered to lure him back, but it was to prove a trying experi- ence to Daniels as he was alter- nately praised and attacked by var- ious factions within the city. In the election of 1894, The States- man came out strongly against him, saying that "this presumptious dic- tator will rule no more." He was defeated overwhelmingly on Sept. 3, 1894, and two weeks later was also fired as paid secretary to the school baord, "the position in which he has made himself so objectionable," said The Statesman. Daniels' perennial ability to bounce back was shown by subse- quent reelections, however, and by The Statesman's decision to praise and support him. The narrowness of some of these elections suggests that the school board still contained a strong anti - Daniels faction. In 1899 Mayor Moses Alexander -broke a 3 -3 tie to reelect him. In 1902 Daniels was master of cer- emonies at the corner stone laying of Boise's new high school. Al- though he was praised for his lead- ership in completing the project, only a few months later he was voted out as superintendent, 5 -1. He took a similar position in Rock Springs, Wyo., in 1903. Daniels the disciplinarian posed with his pupils in front of the new Central School sometime in the 1980s. The military precision is all too obvious, as were the virtues and foibles of a man who was either much - admired or much - criticized. (Mr. Hart is director of the Idaho Historical Society.) Girls from St. Teresa's Academy are shown gathering for a picnic in this 1923 photograph Academy photo gives amusing look back By ARTHUR HART The Idaho Historical Society's collection of photographs includes many school pictures, taken origi- nally for use in that time- honored production, "the annual," or year- book. Few of them are as much fun as the one shown today of a 1923 pic- nic group from St. Teresa's Acad- emy. Although delightfully and artistically posed by photogra- pher R.H. Sigler, it is more amus- ing than convincing for several reasons. Our favorite is the young lady at left with a tennis racket in her hand — surely an incongruous ac- companiment to the dry sage- brush- and - tumbleweed landscape Yesterdays in which she stands. Perhaps most incongruous of all is the no- tion of a picnic in the setting at all — and several of the young women are looking skeptically (or wistfully) around them, as though in search of green grass and shade trees. St. Teresa's Academy was Boise's Catholic parochial school for girls from the late 19th cen- tury until Bishop Kelly High School opened in 1964. St. Teresa's was coeducational for the last 30 Renaissance and Romanesque years before Bishop Kelly High elements in a colorful and striking opened in its new location. way. St. Teresa's cornerstone was laid on Aug. 15, 1903, by Bishop Al- phonsus J. Glorieux. The building was designed in the office of John E. Tourtellotte, probably by Charles F. Hummel, who had just joined the firm. (The First Meth- odist Church, in a very similar style, had been designed by the same firm a year earlier.) Many Boise men and women graduated from the tall old build- ing at 3rd and Jefferson that housed St. Teresa's from 1903 until May 30, 1964, when its doors closed for the last time. They re- call it as a rather exotic piece of architecture that mingled Spanish Returning to our charming pic- nic picture of 1923: Mrs. Lyle Kern was able to identify most of the girls in this photo when she viewed it in 1968. She could not identfy the two at left, but the next eight, from left to right, are: Lucille Smith, Helen Baxter, Ad- eline Schwartz, Gertrude Fairchild, Mary Hand, Agnes For - garty, Francis Smith, and Be- atrice Kelly. The girl at the far right is unidentified. Should any of our readers know the missing names, we would like to hear from them. Ideally, a complete set of all of the city's high school yearbooks should be available in one place for reference. Since the Idaho Historical Society library has most of the negative files from R.H. Sigler's photo studio, pic- tures, like the one shown today, are available to us. Unfortunately, the society does not have a single copy of a St. Teresa's yearbook, making identi- fications difficult or impossible. Friends who have old year- books that could be donated or loaned for copying are urged to call the society at 334 -3356 or 334- 2120. Also, Boise, Borah, and Capital yearbooks are far from complete in the library collection. You may have just the ones we need. (Arthur Hart is director of the Idaho Historical Society.) /4v THE IDAHO STATESMAN, Boise, Sunday, September Z1, 1975 STERRY HALL AS IT APPEARS TODAY AT C of I ... administration building built in 1911 z �(z Availability of Land Attracted Church Schools to Canyon County By MIRIAM BARR The Idaho Statesman CALDWELL — Available land for buildings probably had more to do with establishing two church - related col- leges and two academies in Canyon County than the nuber of church mem- bers. The county is home for the College of Idaho, started by the United Presby- terian Church; Northwest Nazarene College of the Church of the Nazarene; Greenleaf Academy of the Society of Friends, and Gem State Academy of the Seventh -day Adventists. However, Canyon County was not chosen over other locations because the religious denominations had large groups of members here. The C of I, first of the four, began at 2 p.m. Oct. 7, 1891, as an academy be- cause there were no students in the area prepared for college entrance. Presbyterians had been trying to start a "school for higher learning in South Idaho" since early in the 1880s. That was before the state university, normal schools, and most of the high schools had been considered, according to the diary of the late Rev. Dr. Wil- liam Judson Boone, C of I founder. Some funds for starting a college had been obtained by the committee on education of the Wood River Presby- tery before a meeting at Shoshone S,ept. 19, 1884. But by the presbytery meeting April 19, 1889, the committee roported, "No one place has offered sufficient means or holds out the hope in the present of sufficient pecuniary help to warrant beginning of the work." Forty acres near Shoshone were of- fered, ground on Camas Prairie was suggested, and "also good invitations from Caldwell" were noted in the pres- bytery minutes. The presbytery includ- ed the area south and east of Idaho County. In that large area there were three Presbyterian churches, two ministers and 43 members, including 16 at Boise and 27 at Hailey and Bellevue. Since two-thirds of the membership was' in the south - central part of the presbytery, it was natural that area was favored for the college site. Mrs. Robert E. Strahorn, "leading agitator" for a Presbyterian Church in Caldwell, was one of a group who. pushed for the college in Caldwell, records show. She was president of a society of women started in 1885 when Caldwell was two years old. Her hus- band had platted the city in 1882. , Caldwell city officials and prominent Dr. Thelma Culver residents secured money and land for the college's founding by the mis- sionary preacher. Northwest Nazarene College owes its existance to Eugene Emerson, a busi- nessman and later Nampa mayor, who spearheaded organization of the Church of the Nazarene in Nampa and founded NNC, according to Dr. Thelma B. Culver, retired dean of the college. Emerson, who was in the real estate and investments business in Nampa. gave the four blocks of land for the original portion of the college. He was a city councilman in 1907 and mayor in 1923 -25. NNC began in 1913 at the elementary level, in a Mennonite Church at Thirteenth Avenue and Eighth Street South, Nampa. Emerson joined the Church of the Nazarene in California, where he lived during the winters. He believed Christian education was needed in Nampa, and built the build- ing for the First Church of the Naza- rene at its present site. He brought evangelists to Nampa to speak and was responsible for organizing the denomi- nation in Nampa. The` church was founded in Los Angeles in 1895. The deed to land for NNC was given by Emerson to the Idaho Holiness School, May 14, 1915, and the name was changed to Northwest Nazarene Col- lege Dec. 16, 1916. William Brown was the first member of the Society of Friends to move from Iowa to claim land under the Home- stead Act. He started a farm southeast of the present city of Greenleaf, and encouraged other Friends to come to the community. The first church serv- ice was held in the Brown home Jan. 3, 1906. The group held services for the first time Feb. 9, 1908, in a 32 by 50 -foot church, and started school in the church Nov. 10, 1908. By that time 83 persons were in the Sunday school and 120 in worship services. Elder R. A. Garner Mrs. Cornelia Holmes, librarian at Greenleaf Friends Academy, and a for- mer teacher in Greenleaf, Wilder and Caldwell, said Brown did not move to Canyon °County to start a church or school. He came to homestead on the sagebrush land that had been opened by the government, she said. Elder R. A. Garner of the Seventh - day Adventists said the Idaho Confer- ence found a "desirable location" at South Indiana Avenue and Linden in Caldwell for a boarding academy for their young people in June, 1918. A site selection committee had been appointed at the Idaho Conference camp meeting in June, 1918, in Baker, Ore., after the Ames Academy, north- west of Eagle, was destroyed by fire. Elder Garner said Seventh -day Ad- ventists, from the "beginning of the work in 1844, have felt the need for Christian education." Since about 1860, "Wherever churches were developed, they introduced church schools. "Not that we didn't think the public schools were good," Elder Garner said, "but we wanted to give our children an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the Bible and the truths of the Bible. This is the reason for our education system." Gem State Academy was moved to a new campus at South Montana Avenue and Karcher Road, four miles south of Caldwell, in 1960. Elder Garner said the academy first came to Caldwell be- cause more land was available near Caldwell than in the vicinity of the for- mer Ames Academy. Other churches operating schools in Canyon County include St. Paul's Cath- olic and Zion Lutheran of the Missouri Synod, both with elementary classes in Nampa. The Christian Schools Founda- tion, Inc., a non - denominational corpo- ration, operates Nampa Christian Jun- ior- Senior High School at Nampa and Boulevard Christian for elementary students at Caldwell. 3 K l -t pit ht�yt� V a ,17v With Tender Loving Care Some Old Schools Fade Away, But Others Made Second Life By TIM WOODWARD The Idaho Statesman The March sun peeks between clouds to warm walls whose white paint has long since blistered and peeled. A roos- ter hops through a hole sawed in a front door and forages on worn wooden steps. A jet plane passes overhead, an anachronism in this place that seems to belong to the past. Unconcerned, hundreds of box elder bugs congregate on walls small boys may have white- washed in punishment for neglecting their lessons or not wearing shoes to school. Built about 1910, the Barber School hasn't heard the laughter of children for a long time. Its timbers are rotting and its first floor, half - filled with straw, is a home for chickens. The Barber schoolhouse is a rarity, though. Most other old schoolhouses in the Boise area are homes for people. Those who own them consider them- selves lucky. Schoolhouse homes have much more space than most — and cLaracter seldom found in subdivi- sions. Their owners are fond of gloat- ing over how little they paid for how much they have. Over the years, schoolhouses that have outlived their educational useful- ness have been sold by school districts to high bidders. The word 'high' is used loosely. Jackie Gibson, 2451 East Boise Avenue, says her family picked up the old Holcomb School two and a half years ago — after a high bidder already had purchased and renovated it — for what she considers a bargain price. "I like to tell people how much we paid for it," she said. "It only cost $24,500. Where else could you find a house like this for $24,500 ?" The two -story schoolhouse home has more than 3,500 square feet. Most "av- erage" homes have about 1,200, accord- ing to a representative of the South- west Idaho. Homebuilders Association. Even most new homes in the over - $40,000 bracket normally have only about 2,000 square feet, she said. Mrs. Gibson's children ride their bi- cycles on the hardwood floor of her liv- ing room for wintertime entertain- ment. Compared with most homes, di- mensions of the Gibson residence are huge. The fireplace has more bricks than four or five average fireplaces and is complete with a charcoal broiler for cooking meals. Her home has 16- foot ceilings, contrasted to seven and one -half foot ceilings in most new homes. There dre, of course, disadvantages. It costs a lot to heat 3,500 square feet. And, as Mrs. Gibson said, the family has "gone through gallons and gallons of paint." "But we just love it," she added. Tom Hazzard and his family feel the same way about their home, the old Five Mile School. They bought it 13 years ago. "The only other guy that was inter- ested in it wanted it to store hay," Haz- zard said. "The first time I saw it, it was a poor, forlorn old school house out there that hadn't been used for about 10 years. "All the windows were broken and it looked awful, but it had some things that appealed to us. One was the old pump. I didn't think it would work, but I went over and gave it a try and out came the most beautiful, cold water you've ever seen." The house has a number of things be- sides water that attracted the Haz- zards. One was its size — 5,500 square feet. Another was a stage the family uses for 'musical and theatrical activi- ties. Another is an approximately 2,000 square -foot gymnasium used for bas- ketball, trampolining and other sports. "Gosh, it's been a ball living here," Hazzard said. Asked if he felt he got a good deal on the home, he replied, "Oh, certainly. We never could have produced this many square feet for what we paid for this. It's enabled us to do things we never could have done otherwise. I have five kids and this place has really been a joy for them." Amenities offered by converting old schoolhouses into homes have become well enough known there aren't many of them for sale these days. Those that are, Mrs. Gibson said, aren't the bar- gains they used to be. People who dis- cover such things, such as the woman who renovated the Gibson home 12 years- ago, have moved to greener pas- tures. "She's really a neat lady," Mrs. Gib- son said. "She's living over on the Coast now — on an old barge she's con- verted into a home." :� g F )�.fi4 �! F. � N� f'�(' „.�� i"A6'. -'�. APO' <�f �f: 0 y7'%'�, _. s � ��/ zs:� .w.� ?� ... .�? � e:. •�� ,. 1°•' fw..b�As�:�.3r,�t c ?:;�8�5fC•>:F n: r_oea,F.N ,� �, >�. �.a�.` ' THE IDAHO STATESMAN, Boise, Wednesday, March 19, 1975 ��: V,�� ::, a" -s - ;�� 2�2($ 55�� j} Z 2 _....._. ��' a.;;! ,r- ?wk,._ I ROOM FOR LIVING — The front room at the Gibson's is larger than some homes. In fact, Mrs. Gibson says that her children some- times ride their bicycles on the living room's hardwood floor for wintertime entertainment. The ceiling in the room is 16 feet high. .rya « : � � . }/\ . � .. � .: « z �z College alumni to recall a school that used to be !poise, Friday, June 1, Ip Gooding College reunion June 16 and 17 Boise By JULIE T. MONROE The Idaho Statesman Lucille Rush will be a ,youngster among those attend- ing the Gooding College reunion. She graduated in 1937, a year before the small school ended its 20 -,year struggle for survival. But Rush, now of Middleton, is. old enough to recall some of the worst of that struggle. The retired teacher said that, during the Depression, Gooding College stu- dents "were lucky if we had a nickel for a bag of popcorn. Kids were really scrounging." She recalled with a smile that Sunday afternoon entertainment often consisted of sewing up the runs in her rayon hose. Her teachers weren't much better oft'. "Teachers' salaries probably amounted to $50 a, month, and often they didn't get that," she said. Somehow Rush and her classmates survived those years and got an education — thanks, in large part, to the residents of that small eastern Idaho town. Many of them took in students to work for room and board, even when they didn't need help. "'They just wanted to help out, Rush said. "Lots of times the people were struggling to support their own families and another person in the home was added re- sponsibility." The close -knit community was behind the school from the start. The local., undoubtedly contributed to the op- timism of the school's motto - "We can if we will and we will" — which it had even before it had students. The Gooding College story began in 1911, when the Methodist Episcopal Church saw the need for a Chris- tian college in its western district. In 1912, U.S. Sen. and ex -Gov. F.R. Gooding and the citizens of Gooding offered land and an endowment for the school. Fundraising began. The school was on its third president by the time it opened in 1918. The first three were Sam J. Chaney, E.E. Lyman and a Mr. Brainard. After Brainard's brief tenure in '18, C.W. Tenney was appointed and stayed with the school until 19:35. Size was not a strong point for the school. There were 29 students in its first class. Because records are skimpy or nonexistent, it's hard to say how many students attended Gooding College during its two decades of exist- ence. One estimate of total enrollment is 1,400. What Gooding College lacked in size, it apparently made up for in enthusiasm of its students. There were ample extracurricular activities to complement the tradi- tional studies. There was track, volleyball, polo, music, art, debating teams (the 1928 debate topic was "Resolve that American investments in foreign lands be protected only by the government of that nation in which the in- vestment is made "). An outstanding basketball team played in the well - remembered `outlaw" tournaments. The 1929 yearbook, The Sagebrush Echo, is full of the wisdom and witticisms that ,yearbooks are famous for, from a poem titled The Challenge of Life to appropriate quotes for each of the seniors. Among those pictured is class treasurer Honer Deal ( "Those happy smiles on his face which play /Make friends of all who pass his way "). Deal, whose other activities included YMCA president, pep band leader and yell king, is head of the committee organizing next weekend reunion. Plans for a reunion were started by the Rev. Paul Her- shey of Hemet, Calif. A '28 grad, Hershey had in mind a 50th reunion for his classmates. He originally planned it for Willamette University in Salem, Ore., where student transcript, were sent in 'art after Gooding College suc- cumbed to financial troubles. But he found that more students had settled in Idaho and preferred to have a re- union in Boise. The reunion will start off' Friday at the Sheraton Downtown with a 7:30 p.m. dinner, which will follow a social hour. Registrations will be taken starting at 2 p.m. at the Sheraton. A less formal brunch will be held on Saturday at the Rodeway Inn. Cost for both events is $19. Reservations can be made with Eula Randall Logs- don, 1921 Mountain View Drive, phone 376 -0589. The first student at Gooding College — the Rev. Frank Bennett, firmer president of the Eastern Oregon College of Education — is unable to attend the reunion. But or- ganizers expect 250 of his fellow alumni to make it. ,;Pioneer Roots Cl-int ,0, to Cole School By RANDY MCCARTHY The Idaho Statesman Two years before Idaho became a state, a springtime wind rustled over the sagebrush on Orric Cole's 800 -acre ranch. That year, 1888, Cole used a handwritten deed to do- nate two acres as the site of Cole Elementary School. Cole, Civil War veteran and de- scendant of a colonist killed in the battle of Bunker Hill, and his sec- ond wife, Ella, daughter of an Idaho pioneer couple, gave up the isolated property so a country school could be built. Now, 88 years later, the Boise School District is considering selling the two -story, stone, school that since has been surrounded by the spreading city. School officials hope to replace the school at Fairview Avenue and Cole Road — Idaho's busiest intersection — with a new school in a quieter neighborhood. Orric Cole In the deed, the Cole's retained the right for their heirs to take over the property if the school was closed, but whether the school dis- trict or the heirs will own the schoolhouse remains uncertain. None of the heirs, four of Cole's grandchildren and the husband and married and had a daughter by his first wife, Rebecca. In 1878, he married Ella Bown, daughter of two of Idaho's early settlers, fathered two children and worked his 800 acres west of Boise. Cole, a thin, mustachioed man who wore round, rimless glasses, mined near Atlanta and Banner, and was a member of Boise's volun- teer fire department. He also was a charter member of the still- active Elks Lodge No. 310, and held every office but one with the Odd Fellows. In 1775, one of Cole's ancestors, Abiel Cole, spread the word to other colonists of the coming battle at Lexington. Abiel died eight weeks later in the battle of Bunker Hill. Mrs. Blanche Beggs, one of Cole's few descendants still living in Idaho, said her grandmother, Cole's only sister, lived with him after Ella died and took care of him until his death in 1940. two children of a great-granddaugh - ter, lives in the state Cole moved to 105 years ago. Cole was born in Massachusettss in 1843 and attended school there before moving as a teenager to Il- linois where he enlisted in Company 1, 112th Regiment of the Union Army. As a personal aide to Gen. Ambrose Burnside, Cole took part in the seige of Knoxville. When the war ended, more than half of Cole's regiment "and two - thirds of his 87 -man company had been killed. At the end of the war, after serv- ing in the cavalry and turning down an officer's commission as head of a regiment of black soldiers, Cole lived in the Midwest. In 1871, he moved to Boise County, where he was a farmer. Three years later, Cole moved to Boise and ran the Palace Restau- rant for nine years. Earlier, he "All that time no relative came to see him or help," said 75- year -old Beggs, who lives 22 miles from Cambridge in the only brick and glass house on the side of Hells Canyon. "The Cole family are all buried in the old Pioneer Cemetery on Warm Springs Avenue," she said. They in- clude "Uncle Orric, Aunt Ella„ Cousin Orric, my grandmother, mother, father and my first hus- band and one of my sisters -in law." In a letter, Beggs said Cole had a brother who married an Indian. "Uncle Orric never spoke to him from that day forward," she wrote. If alive today, Cole would not want the district to close the school, which is named for him, and sell the land, Beggs wrote. "Knowing my uncle as I did, I feel very sure that he would want the school to still keep the laced Schoolroom at Delamar, Idaho, circa 19ZU Teachers had to be dedicated then, as By ARTHUR HART With the current statewide con- cern over quality in education, funding for schools and finding and keeping qualified teachers, it was especially interesting to us this week to receive in the mail a packet of documents and corre- spondence revealing the condi- tions under which Idaho teachers were hired 75 years ago. Nina Pool received Tdaho teacher's certification on Oct. 3, 1908, qualifying her to teach sec- ond grade in Elmore and Bing- ham counties. The subjects for which she was tested, under the Idaho law of that time, were or- thography, reading, penmanship, arithmetic, English grammar, modern geography, U.S. history, physiology, school law, civil gov- ernment, theory and art, and the state Constitution. Her scores in each subject were listed on the certificates, ranging from 100 in reading to 70 in U.S. history. Her average was a cred- itable 80 percent. When Pool got her first -grade certificate in 1910, her overall average was 90 per- cent. Additional subjects for which she was tested that year were rhetoric, hygiene and al- gebra. An Idaho teacher and her f The most interesting part of the material, donated by Pool's daughter, Elise Little, consists of correspondence with school boards. A letter from Rocky Bar, dated Sept. 2, 1910, advises Pool that "should you care to teach our school on the terms stated, you may consider yourself engaged." The terms were "eight months at $75 per month, with $5 per month for janitor work if you care to do your own work, sweeping and making fires, everything fur- nished in a handy place for your convenience." The letter further states that room and board could be secured at the Elmore Hotel in Rocky Bar for $25 per month. The hotel keeper, A.H. John- ston, who was chairman of the school board, offered to knock $5 per month off the room and board for tutoring a high school pupil from his place, and said he would talk to other parents to try to se- cure more high school students at $5 each to supplement the teach- er's salary. Although it was already Sept. 2 when Pool's appointment letter lock, circa 1910 was written, a postscript says: "School will begin as early in Sep- tember as will suit your conveni- ence." Johnston wrote again on Sept. 10 after Pool had accepted the po- sition, asking whether she in- tended to stay at his hotel or not. "You are at liberty to board where you please and we would not, if we could, obligate you to board at any particular place, but I believe we can give you as good accommodations as can be se- cured anywhere." Assuring the new teacher that "our interests are mutual," John- ston asserted that "$25 is the cheapest any teacher ever se- cured board and room here in Rocky Bar." In 1912, Pool applied for the job and was accepted as a teacher at Shelley. By then the salary of- fered was only $65 per month, with local room and board availa- ble for $5 per week. Then, as now, being an elementary school teacher in Idaho took a lot of dedi- cation. It was as much a "calling" Idaho as a profession. SOL Yesterdays Id , `A, \ Fields steps down from state board BY LINDA WILLIAMSON For The Star -News Setting statewide policies and then using them to benefit her hometown schools is what Roberta Fields will remember as the most rewarding moments during her tenure on the Idaho State Board of Education. Fields, of New Meadows, com- pleted 10 years on the state board in February, stepping down at the end of her second five -year term. Fields, who graduated from Mead- ows Valley High School and spent most of her life in New Meadows, was originally appointed to the board by former Gov. John Evans in recog- nition of her achievements as president of the Idaho Parent Teacher Associa- tion. Her goal was to bring a parent's perspective to the state board, and it earned her a reappointment by Gov. Cecil Andrus. During her 10 years on the board, she chaired the Public School Com- mittee, the Personal Finance Committee, the Academic Program Committee and the School Reform Committee. She also served as board president, vice president, and secre- tary. "One of the most rewarding as- pects of my work was that I helped to set policy at a state level and then returned home to implement it," Fields said. She has worked as a career guid- ance counselor for the Meadows Valley School District for 15 years, where her job entails helping kids in grades six through 12 prepare for the job market. She teaches students how to write resumes and also coordinates the work experience program. She knows first- hand what works and what doesn't and has been in a position to make changes on both grass roots and ex- ecutive levels. When Fields was first appointed to the state board, she said there was not much money going into teacher edu- cation programs at the state's colleges and universities. She spent much of her time work- ing with the state's four public colleges, work that she said has paid off. "School reform will depend largely on training and retraining teachers in technological areas and in perfor- mance based outcomes," Fields said. Roberta Fields ..ends 10 year term on state Board of Education "Parents and the community have to take a bigger part of the responsibility for children's social education. " — Roberta Fields, former State Board of Education member Now, due largely to Field's work, education is an emphasis area in the state's colleges and universities, and a lot more money is being funneled into teacher education programs. Even though she has experienced a number of successes, Fields said she has felt a great deal of frustration over the rising costs of higher education. "It used to be that students could enroll in a four -year college program and work in the woods during the summer to earn enough money to pay for the following year's school fees," Fields said. Today, however, education costs are rising so rapidly that it is impos- sible for students to earn enough money during the summer to finance their next year's schooling. The ever - increasing costs of higher education makes it nearly impossible for students to estimate what their four or five years in college will cost, Fields said. She said the dwindling supply of federal grant monies available for education make it necessary for most students to rely heavily on loans to finance their education. Even though fundingand improved teacher education are priorities to Fields, "the biggest problem today is what's going on socially," she said. "Social issues spill over into the class- room." Even though rural schools like Meadows Valley do not have prob- lems with the same degree of severity as schools in urban areas, they too See "Fields," back page I (Continued from Page 1) must grapple with a society in transi- tion, she said. "Parents and the community have to take a bigger part of the responsi- bility for children's social education," Fields said. Although she does not think schools should shoulder the responsi- bility of parenting, Fields does feel schools can and will be an important resource to parents. She endorses early childhood pro- grams which offer classes in effective parenting and teach parents to be- come their child's first teacher. "If you want to make a difference, early childhood programs are where to start," she said. Fields will continue to serve on the School Reform Committee and be the committee's liaison to the State Board of Education. 26(1246) '*FAR BEST Alaska + Arizona + California + Hawaii + Idaho + Montana + Nevada + Oregon + Utah + Wasl TRENDS IN THE REGION Debt -Wary Idaho Finds School Funding Hard to Come By $y. Antonio A. Prado ith Idaho's public school class- rooms overflowing, state law- makers are expected during this year's legislative session to approve a pro- gram to meet the school districts' growing capital needs. But don't expect a large general obliga- tion bond issue from this debt - cautious Far West state. Idaho's two previous GO debt issues were in 1972 and 1905 to help finance con- struction of water pollution projects and the state Capitol building, respectively, said Treasurer Lydia Justice Edwards. "The state currently has no outstanding GO debt, but a small number of school districts have approved local bond issues to meet capital needs. Idaho's only bond pro- posal before lawmakers this year is $300 million of GO issuance to fund expansion of U.S. Highway 95 through the state's central area. Boise School District voters on Tues- day approved a much - debated $44 million GO measure to finance new school con- struction after months of gloom- and -doom predictions. Proceeds will pay for two new.elemen- File photo h"A" way fash after We debt Trea Justi tary schools and two junior high schools, as well as for the renovation of Boise High School. District officials suggested that busing, unprecedented double shifts for classes, year -round high school, and other dracon- ian measures would have been required had the bond failed before voters. School systems e do not in any throughout the feel compelled to state, facing con- tinuing growth, ion ourselves report similar [other states]. conditions. For example. prefer to remain the Teton -free,' says Idaho School District has been hous- surer Lydia ing pupils in mo- ce Edwards. bile classrooms. a National Guard armory, and a national forest office. "We can't continue to absorb all of these new kids without more space;" said Teton district superintendent Gordon Woolley. Voters in his district have repeatedly re- jected GOs by small margins. Teton school officials said next year they may seriously consider putting classrooms in underground cellars, inside the hol- lowed -out trunks of huge old - growth trees, or at a local ski resort if capital project funding can't be obtained. "It's absolutely critical:' Edwards said of Idaho's need to find a way to fi- nance school districts' grow- ing capital needs. "We need ry i. Fall 1996 to be more cre- ative than we've ever been:' Calif. Earthquake Auth insurance pool ref. $3.3 bin. Needs legislative and IRS approval not set But while other State GOs; local school construction $3 bin. March 26 ballot not set Far West states not set have turned to A. not set large statewide Comp. not set GO issues — where proceeds rvl. not set are distributed in I. Comp. not set a variety of forms Comp. April to local school Comp. March 20 districts — Idaho probably won't Comp. March 13 be mimicking their financing Comp. 1996 methods. "We do not in any way feel sold in- compelled to crementally fashion our - over 10 years selves after that role model." Ed- wards said. "We Comp. not set prefer to remain debt-free." With its pay -as- Como. '98 or'99 you -eo system. Far West Invisible Supply underwriter Expected Issuer and purpose Amount' Approval status choice sale date ALASKA Needs Borough Council, voter app State GOs; central Calif water projects $500 -$540 Passed Senate needs Assembly app Los Angeles GOs police facilities $432 Needs City Council and voter apprvl State GOs; vetrans farm and housing aid $400 Passed Senate, needs Assembly app State GOs; public libraries $350 Stalled in Senate needs voter appry 13an Francisco refunding GOs up to $200 Approved Los Angeles Comm. Redev. Agcy. Ref. Tax Alloc. $115 Approved San Francisco GOs; City Hall improvements $63.6 Approved HAWAII State GOs: General capital protects $100 Approved IDAHO State GOs; highway construction NEVADA �N.ashoe County Schl. Dist. GOs OREGON Tri- County Metropolitan Trans. Dist. GOs $300 Needs legislative, voter apprvl $172 Needs voter apprvl. spring 1996 $450 Aonroved by voters eI s Continued from page 16 For a state GO to make it to statewide voters, a two - thirds vote of both houses of the state Legisla- ture is required. The same supermajority is required to approve local school district bond measures. And unlike in other Far West states with similar supermajority vote requirements, there are no plans before lawmakers to lower that threshold. "It's tougher to build schools in Idaho than any- where else in the nation," said House Speaker Mike Simpson, R- Blackfoot. In response, a number of proposals in the Legis- lature call for 20% to 30% state funding matches for school districts that finance their own construction. Teton's Woolley noted that Idaho is the only state in the nation that requires a two- thirds vote to ap- prove local school GOs without a state matching - fund program. Other proposals before lawmakers would keep school bond property tax levies at their maximum rates — instead of the current practice of lowering levies as bonds mature — and collecting the extra funds to finance capital projects. Another, proposed by state Rep. Doug Jones, R- Filer, creates a revolving loan pool for school build- ing construction from lottery funds, a state endow- ment fund, or sales tax proceeds. "He is right on when he says we need a nest egg," Edwards said of Jones' plan, which she doesn't think will pass. "But how do we fund the initial pot? "I'm not hopeful his idea will achieve fruition this year," she said.