One Room School Memories from Danvers, Montana
I would like to add to school house memories, as I went to the Danvers, Mt. one room school house Dist # 91 and I went there from first grade to 8th grade. It is a precious memory for me and know how important it is to keep these memories preserved.
I started at age 5 in the 1st grade at Danvers one room schoool house. My first grade was a small class; just three of us… Larry Wacker and Arlene Barney and myself; Beverly Koutensky. What a special time… getting our first readers; Dick and Jane, and the old blackboards and the old iron and wood school desks… even one with my mother’s initials carved in it! She also attended this same little one room school house.
We took our lunch in a paper bag or later in a cute metal lunch box. Recess and playing ant-I-Over the school house, ring around the rosie, and many other games… button button who’s got the button an on and on.
Then all the holidays the programs we had. First was the Christmas one and then Valentines Day and the Valentines box we all got to work on and put our Valentines in.
Just a few of my memories. Yay for restoring these wonderful school houses that educated so many of us …am now 70 yrs old and cherish these memories.
Beverly Kooutensky Domier
Some other nice photos of Danvers Montana by Raymond Hitchcock are at Seattle Ray’s Photostream. Beverly said that the school shown in Hitchcock’s photostream is not the one-room school she attended. Her schoolhouse “was and is the little school house on the right of where this* building stood. This was the oldest school house but it no longer stands. It should be on some pictures of the St. Wenceslous Church Project over there at Danvers. They used it for feeeding the workers and then people met there after the transfer of deed to the Friends of St. Wenceslaus.”
* (The photo which Hitchcock captioned as the Ackerly Schoolhouse, but which Beverly says was the Danvers Schoolhouse. See comments for more info from Beverly.)
not the ackerly school house, it was the Danvers one, one of the first of the two schools that used to stand. The big one has been torn down, this school district was #91 which consisted of three schools in one district with one trustee from each school house rep. the 3 schools in three different locations, one Akerly that was up on Harwood bench and the other that was the Ware school house and that was then in Ware, Mt. These three schools were all one room school houses and were not to far apart, approx 12 to 15 miles each way.