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'h:114•thiC;i, 1rled necod,!tofie .1'cI. rli.dzaici0173elp-Ion-ty or_ mone(. ioo,IR Liz a 2riarle auTi2ea o/ 4cAooZ :1414tRi-C-t..4. ).i.atr.? -,a4.4e-1 con,o-a.--late deltoold' co,irs;Lttee fizom oveR the. ou.a.:01 Az.'",-e one ,..=/...i.dtriict o: the 'owl:0i !,-/u..-e; ;/ .• , / • OrZe arl(A, C0040,4..1.;:iLaZed. a numea o; SO We?. ;4.1.€ 14e441 o/ ;the C01211--el.i:G2 :Aat (Pr( Jortneiju. eare.tr: deitoold rsottn.-&J arseariake4 4.1n /zed on tki4 nap` • i/zonz rfoe 1.3enne:::4 fioaace YraUendon, le,-1 liairtfoo14. \N\ t 017 c cLotd., vreet-mts- Air4Eibizt-triN-e 3 awAria* rigkoetve-:>) Atraigetelni R--r514) f't „to r‘t VOC.4L .1\ tow- Me Call, .ID 83638 May 22, 1974 page 3 ; .mauWA:9Rt5. -. WWWMTasm inIMNIMMWM4COMMW HOW IT ALL ?.McCall -Donnelly School District #421 began as many small, one -room schoolhouses, spread from one end of the valley to the other. Most of the people who lived here in the early days of Long Valley were farmers or ranchers and there was no way of trans- porting the children great distances to and from school. So schools were in the coun- try where the children were, and there were many of them. Arling school was one of these schools. It. was located on the west side of the old highway, west of the present Arling stock yards. Another school was Center, district #4. It was southeast of the Orville Roberts place on the west side of the old north -south road, going south of Roseberry. The school. at MacGregor was only in existence for the few years the town was ;,there. Located two miles south �° `,•_.,. �,�r'> of Donnell on the west side of the old highway, ' T 4: 41 Donnelly MacGregor was a logging town. The buildings were. �+�''r�+1 brought in on trian .flat cars and when the logging was'---,---' done, they were taken out on logging trucks.. - —� The first school. at Donnelly was one-fourth of a mile BN „ �, v �� \\\I west of Donnelly on the north side of the road. People � �� t in high school went to Roseberry to school. Later, the ; railroad came through Donnelly and it be -an to ��bdu d•�d.f Y�f41 began , ,dul�'r ilc;ai� Roseberry's population began to dwindle. A new high school was built in Donnelly. Some years after that, the old grade school burned down and buildings were moved beside the high school to house the grade school. The lower wring on the main building was added when the grade school moved into the same building as the high school. About this same time, the school at McCall became too small and the high schools in Donnelly and McCall consolidated in. Donnelly. High school continued in Donnelly until the new building was built in McCall. High school then moved to McCall and junior high stu- dents from McCall and Donnelly were joined. in Donnelly. There was still a grade school in Donnelly for. many years before the grade schools 'were consolidated in.McCall. There is still a school in Donnelly, housing only junior high, in the same building that was build. many years ago. Before the railroad came through, Roseberry was one of the largest towns in Valley County. At the time, it had one of the largest, if not the largest, school in Valley County. It was a two-story school which housed the grade school children from Roseberry. The high school was in a different building. The grade school was located at the northwest corner of the Roseberry in- tersection. After there was no more school in Roseberry, and the students were going .to school in Donnelly, the building was sold to Charlie Lappen, who tore'it down and moved it. School district #42, first known as •-the Hartzel school, was located at the south side of Hartael Creek on the west side of the road. The location was later moved to one-half mile south of the Carrol Parks road on the west side of the road. It was moved. one more time: one mile north on the east side of the road, where it became known as the Pine Grove school. McCall, III 83638 May 22,1974 page 4 At the new location, the old building was used for a teacher's cottage and a new schoolhouse was built. Some of the teachers in this school in its various locations were Mrs. Charlie Close, Mrs. Erma Larsen, Mrs. Ingrid I,toskie, and Miss Edna Baker. When there were no longer enough children in the vicinity to 'have school there, the building was sold to Upper Long Valley Grange. It is still in Lake Fork, being used as the grange hall. The Bell school stood on the Farm -to - Market road in the southwest corner of the / Wendell Bates place. When there was no longer school in it, Bill Withers moved it 4,^ and made a house of it. On the north side of the Maki road, a- bout halfway between the highway and Jake LEX Maki's driveway, sat the Norwood. school. L l IRIS It was condemned in the later years of its life and sold to Vern. Peterson, who resold it to Fred Prince. Prince moved it to its present location, perhaps one-fourth of a mile north of 'Lake Fork Creek on the west side of the highway. There he remodeled it into a house. O. K. Knudson is the current owner. A new school was built to take the place of the Norwood school. This new school was known as the Lake Fork. school. Located not quite a mile south of Lake Fork on the east side of the highway, it is still standing. It was made into a house with Gordon Valdez the current owner. Whitney school was two and one-half miles west of Lake Fork on the north side of the road. It is still standing in the same location. Some of the teachers were Miss Alice Johnson, Irene (Boydstun) Whitney, and Ruth Vibrens. Wood Grove, school district #58, was known to many people around the valley as the "Chocolate School". It was located on the east side of the Farm -to -Market road, one-half mile north of the Lake Fork road. The last teach- er was Mrs. Ben Lawrence. The Star school was situated on the east side of the road, north .of the Bennett place, south of the old Collins place. It was sold, moved, and made into a barn. It later burned down while weeds were tieing burned along the ditchbanks. North of the Bill Ax driveway was the Hill Grove school. When there was no longer school there, the property reverted back to the owner, Bill Ax. He gave the building to the Lake Fork Assembly of God Church, who moved it beside the church and remodeled it into the parsonage. Elo school is still standing southwest of Dr. Harold Nokes' place on the west side of the Farm -to -Market road. This was a two -room building,' Two ° of the teachers were Jim Darkwood and Preacher Martin. 's 1 The Lardo school was located about three -fourths of a mile south of the inn Bill Dorris house. It is still standing. The first schoolhouse in McCall is now the city hall. There was only one room with the first eight grades together. Mrs. Betty Harwood (then Betty Brown) recalls that everyone studied science together. One day, when she was in the first grade, they were studying about porcupines. The teacher was telling how there are barbs on the end of the quills, so that when they stick into something, it is very hard to pull them out. The teacher was passing around some quills for the children to see. Young Betty wanted to see if she could pull quills out, so she stuck one in the back of the neck of the boy who sat in front of her. As she now recollects, "I'm sure I didn't mean to hurt him. I just wanted to see if it would come out." McCall was a young, children. A partition Now, first through four other. growing town:, and soon one room ;.?as not enough for the school was put up in the schoolhouse and another teacher was hired. th grades were in one room and fifth through eighth in the Later, a brand new school building was erected on the hill, at the present site of Medley's Sports, Dan's Saddlery, and the Maverik. This building housed not only the elementary school, but also McCall's first high. school. But the town of McCall continued to grow and even this building was too small. It was at this time that McCall and Donnelly high schools consolidated in Donnelly. Later, when the new building waS built, the high school was moved to McCall and junior high to Donnelly. years af- ter that, McCall and Donnelly grade schools consolidated in McCall, leaving only junior high in Donnelly. Over the years, there have been many additions to the school in McCall, making it what it is now. And it is still changing, still growing. Perhaps, if we were to come back fifty years from nor, there would be more changes than there was in the last fifty. Who knows? Virginia Schel.ine ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY AUTHOR: I would like to acknowledge all the people who gave me in -- formation to•help me with this project: Mrs. Betty Harwood, Chester Schelin.e, Carl Heinrich, Charlie Bowen, Guy Fairbrother, and others. Thank you for all your kindness and help. It meant so much to me.