Sometime ago, in Corinna...

April 19, 2002
 
 

 
Here's an interesting picture my mother, Betty Dow, found of the students at the Corinna Center School in 1944. Not everyone is identified below. Can anyone fill in the blanks?
Front Row: ___, Alden Seamans, _____, Keith Burton, Marjorie Somers, Betty Bagley, Mildred Flouiline, Alice Bemis, ___. Second Row: Kitty Flag, ___, ___, ___, Martha Skillinger, Marcia Skillinger, Olive Shorey. Third Row: Milford Bemis, ___, ___, Shirley Page, ___, Henry Flag, Billy Sargent, Delores Tuttle. Fourth Row: Ronald Rockwell, Sally Robichaud, Janet Sawtelle. Fifth Row: Russell Summers, Sylvia Robichaud, Muriel Worthen, Connie Bagley, Betsy Sargent, Teacher Gracie Hooper. Sixth Row: Gladys Bemis, Edger Rockwell, Dorothy Bemis, Owen Bryson, Dana Doherty, Allen Bryson. Seventh Row: Mary Ellen, Omar Lampher, James summers, Kathleen Seaney, Billy Bemis, Clara Louise Doherty, ___, Betty Sawtelle, ___ Kittridge.

At that time the Center School was a two-room school house. The Sub-primary through fourth grades were in one room. The fifth through eighth grades were in the other. There was a big crack in the floor of the lower grade classroom. In the winter cold wind would blow in through the crack. There was a two-sided outhouse in the back. 

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