My best friends in elementary school were my cousins, Robert, and Calvin Peterson, and, as you can see, we weren't allowed to sit together. Jerry Wall was one of my best friends too but, due to the bad luck of being born a few months earlier, was in the grade behind us. Another theory, which seems reasonable, is that they wanted the best and the brightest kids in the forefront of the picture.
In our elementary school we were always seated alphabetically, by rows, at least for the first 3 or 4 years. My cousin's last name started with A so he was always right by the door. That would have been you, Ken. We started with two 1st grade classes, and it seemed like they purposely scrambled us up every year, just to throw us off balance. I guess that was good for discipline, but I didn't like it.
I was quite unhappy with my senior picture. My hair was much longer than this, but they airbrushed it to make it appear short.
We actually went somewhere today and visited several museums of that town. I took sndor two puctures inside the old school house...but the framed puctures of rules for students and teachers caught my eye [ATTACH
I was in the kindergarten class the first year the consolidated elementary school opened, so I missed the one-room schoolhouse by one year, although I have been in the building several times. The building was one room but I am told that they used to basement for the older kids, although it had a dirt floor. They taught grades 1-12 in that building.