Quaker Sctlool A reunion of Quaker Rural School students from 1934-35 was held in the Cassville School cafeteria on Sunday afternoon May 24 at 1:30, with 16 of the former students attending. The teacher tha t year was E unice Holma n' Thomas ... or " Miss Eunice" as her students knew her . It was her first year of teaching and has been 52 years. Melvin Ridenour , one of her eighth grade pupils, planned the celebration and was able to locate 26 of the 40 members of the .school. Pa Fields had made the school pictures that year a nd copiesweremadefor each enrollee, with "Miss Eunice" asked to identify those a tten~ing by the picture. Each told something of their life a nd fa mily . Lilas (Towe ) _~__.__ _
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Black of Prineville, Oregon, brought mementos of 1934-35 to share with the group ineluding grade cards, certificates , memory book and group pictures. Letters were read from Clarence Moudy and Lula Nadine Ridenour Martin expressing appreciation fo r the good relationships and learning during tha t year. "Miss E unice " expressed her apprecia tion to the group for launching her on a 4O-year teaching career. She taught six years at Quaker and 34 years at Cassville. Remarks about "Miss ' Eunice" made by her former ~: students included : " Enthusiastic , self-reliant, character", "she found a way . ! to ma ke me want to learn the 3 R's"; " an ounce of showing is worth a pound of telling" ; "she made a big difference in my life "; "use your head to get on your feet" was the mot" to of the 1934-35 school year; MEMBERS OF mE QUAKER SCHOOL CLASS OF 1934-35, pictured (I. to r.): , , "she was kind, but firm"; First row: Lilas Towe Black ~ Prineville, Oregon; Ellen Kidwell, Cas~ville; Bertalene Roberts "she ('ould make me laugh"; Smith, Joplin; Eunice Thom.a s ; Nadine Ridenour Martin, Purdy ; and Donna Eubanks Phillips, ' , ' ,. she molded my live to love Cassville. school" ; she is the Ozarks best Second row: Olen Painter, Cassville; Sylvia Ridenour Still, E " e~; Bee Starnes Milleson, teacher"; and "she loved Granby; John Holloway, Bu~terfield; Layern Hilburn, Cassville. .. ., Third row: J. D. Riddle; Bron'augh, Mo.; Eldori RidenOur;SeQeca: Pearl Priest Vanderpool, kids" . Group pictures were made Ulysses, Kansas; Melvin Ridenour,Cassville ; Vinson. Nickle, Cassville ; and Herman Trent, '. . . by Max Fields with his father , Pryor, Oklahoma. F~ELDS PHOTO Pa Fields a special guest because he had made the 1934-35 pictures.
