Country School Legacy #01 - Cleda Scott Casey Interview (Pottawatomie County)

Scope and content: Index
Clea Scott Casey
Jenkins School
Pottawatomie County
September 12, 1980

Time: Description
0032: Description of School; 1911 Started to school. Present school built 1912.

0070: Wantit was like at school - Great number of students related

0094: Graduation from grade school - county exams; prepared by teachers

0122: School career; Manhattan High School so could study music; Graduated KSU 1928

0141: Other schools in area; King School; Myers Valley - too close to Catholic community to be successful; Loux; Broderick

0168: Interschool Competition; Spring ball games

0176: Games in school; pump pump pullaway; ante over; baseball

0206: Discipline; Spanked at school, spanked at home

0216: Teachers

0235: Teacher's names; local people; Miss Arnold - father in the bank in Westmoreland; Mis Knicht from Wamego

0258: Games and teaching days; recitation bench in front with back on it; Different size desks

0281: Recitations remembered; "Asters by the brookside..." a fall poem; Spelling bees

0300: Community participation + lyceums + debates

0315: Why liked school; Good teachers; Well-thought-of community with good pay

0340: Programs; School board meetings; Drills; Costume performances - mom's made costumes; Halloween

0366: Winter Time; Skated to school on Rock Creek; School warm in morning - circulator heater (coal fired); School had basement - put in floor heater later.

0405: Washroom - Cloakroom; Drinking bucket there

0418: Evaluation of education; Good education; Able to make good grades when went to Manhattan High School; High School orchestra, first violin; Class officer on year; Very valuable experience

0442: Music; Teacher came from Wamego to teach music to neighborhood kids; The O'Daniel Orchestra - cousins

0468: Classwork; Spelling bees; Taught Kansas history extensively; Bought own textbooks - didn't change books so often, passed on to younger kids; Practiced multiplication tables "we learned them: not the way they taught our son"; Parents helped: Father went to school in Westy, Mother (O'Daniel) went to school at Jenkins and graduated Campbell Business School in Holton; Penmanship: "they need to get back to that"; Her mother too painting; She didn't have art classes; Spelling, penmanship, reading, arithmetic, history

0560: Good experience here helped with high school and college

0569: Difference between her education and her children's; They got as good an education, she thinks

0591: Auctioned Jenkins school property; Bought picture of George Washington from the school - special to her

0613: Gone too far to change education; Consolidation; Bussing - she's not sure about that

0672: Subscription to National Geographic - Scott kids brought from home; Library - little room off main room; Hot meals - had a little kitchen added later

0693: Last day of school dinners

0697: Arbor day; Every year planted a tree and never lived to next year

0705: No playground equipment; just bats and balls

0733: No options in grade school; lives planned- she was intended to go to college; Her brother, Walter, in at University of Iowa, a PhD - started at Jenkins school

0750: High school in Manhattan; Roomed during the week, home on weekends

0776: Country kids shy in "big city" schools; Never went to town hardly - not used to new people and situations