Longfellow School Opens To Students
Classes Moved from Temporary Quarter in Other Buildings
Two hundred eighty students were transferred Monday from their temporary quarters at other buildings to their new rooms at the Longfellow school. The transferred students had been assigned to Longfellow at the beginning of the term and attended classes at other schools awaiting completion of the new building which was occupied Monday for the first time.
The transfer was effected with a minimum of confusion since the students were transferred by classes and retained their same classmates and same teachers.
Mrs. Rupayne Akin and 46 kindergarten pupils were transferred from the Lincoln School. Twenty nine pupils in the first grade taught by Charlotte Randolph and a similar number of first graders taught by Grace Thomas were moved from the Washington School. Twenty eight in the second grade taught by Emily Deason and 27 in the same grade taught by Alline Goddard, as well as Helen Rodenberg’s 28 third grade pupils and June Sanders’ 34 fourth grade students had been at the Washington School also. From the Mission Ridge School, 32 fifth graders taught by Bernice Gore and 27 sixth grade pupils taught by Wayne Whitehead took their places in the new Longfellow School building.
Allen Bryan is principal of the new school.
The school cafeteria has not been completed, and some minor work remains to be done. However, temporarily provision is being made for the lunches, and the work that remains will not interfere with the operation of the school.
(Marion Daily Republican, January 10, 1955)