Fayette County PA Archives News.....LETTERS TO EDITOR September 1972
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Evening Standard September 1972
SCHOOL MEMORIES, UNIONTOWN, PA:
     Dear Editor:  Not only are the little one-room schoolhouses disappearing 
from the scene, but also the little red two-room buildings (and just recently 
many of the larger school buildings).
     But the little two-room red schoolhouse I have in mind was the Hutchinson 
School in South Union Twp.  Seventy-five years ago, I first entered that 
school.  
     The teacher was Lizzie Dawson of Hopwood.  We had chart class, primer, 
first reader, second reader and other subjects.  There were no grades at that 
time.
     Both rooms had a bench for the water bucket, tin cup and wash basin.  All 
drank from the same tin cup--we didn't seem to worry too much about germs.  
Both rooms had the usual pot-bellied stove in the center of the room.  
     But number 2 room was a little unusual in that all the boys sat on one 
side of the room and the girls on the other.  My first teacher in room 2 was 
Samuel Curstead of Brownfield.  The next teacher was D.E. Bane who later 
became a well-known attorney here in Uniontown.
     Just recently, I noticed that the Hutchinson school building is no longer 
there--"Gone With The Wind" or is it called progress?
     As they come to mind, I will list the pupil's names I remember during the 
six years during which I attended school there.
     They include:
     Ben and Will Watson; Fannie Watson; Frances Montgomery; George and Sam 
Montgomery; Woodford and Mary West; Charles, Mary, Albert and Frank Whoolery; 
Letitia and Nora Show; Orangie, Lamoine and Sam Show; Charles and Mary Drews; 
Hreda and William Drews; Nonie Thomas; Ella Thomas; George and John Pastorius; 
Emmaline, John and William Adams; George Swift; Less and Harold Young... 
     Mary, Lizzie and Emma Lookota; Bertha Hutchinson; Sadie and Nell 
Patterson; William Ellis; Frank Moser; Ray Patterson; Alice Anderson; Alice 
Creighton; Ether Kear; Edith Emerson; Ada Weimer; Emma Thomas; Pearle Miller; 
Jessie and Ella Daughtery; Bessie Martin; Ethel Bell; Lucy Schafer; Jessie, 
Blanche, Stella and Pearl Hutchenson; Floyd Grigsby; Gustave Drews; Harry 
Curstead; Alice Rochester; Jennie and Nora Lookota; George Ramage; Jack 
Jenkins; Stanley and John Simpson; Paul West; Max Ludwig; Mary Shafer; Annie 
Pastorius and Lizzie Schofer.
     I never heard from or saw many of these persons after I left, but as 
practically all of them were from the Brownfield-Hutchinson area, maybe some 
who read this will find their parents' or grandparents' names or their own 
names.
     Many of us have heard stories from our elders about these little 
schoolhouses with no lighting, inadequate heating, outside toilets, etc.  
Students often had to walk miles through deep snow to get to school and eat 
cold lunches.
     Even the poet seemed a little nostalgic when he wrote, "Still sits the 
schoolhouse by the road, a ragged beggar sunning."  Sincerely, Name 
Withheld.     

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