Wright School Memories

I rode my horse, Rex, to my first teaching job at Wright School. I started the fall of 25 after I graduated, as at that time one didn’t have to have a college degree to teach. I remember my Dad going with me to school one morning after a huge snow storm. The snow was so deep and packed so hard that we rode our horses over the fences to get to the school house. When I got there, cold as I was, wrapped in a horse blanket, I had to start a fire in the pot-belly stove so the children could get warm. I was not only the teacher but also the janitor.

—Mary Ruth (Pollard) Brown

I started school in 1925 at the Wright School. My first and second grade teacher was Miss Mary Ruth Pollard. We only had 15 or less students most years and I remember a couple of years that I was the only girl. I graduated in 1933. My teachers at Wright, besides Miss Mary Ruth, were Letha Burklizer, Kathryn Moss and Mary Elizabeth Eustace Doyle. Some of my classmates were Fred, Lillian and Elsie Wright, Raymond Hogan, Harry Lee Swanson, Gene and Hershal Williams, Aaron Edward and Betty Jean E!sbury, Billy Riley, Lillian Dell and Naomi Tipton, Marvin and Melvin Thomas, Raymond Conley, Eugene Curry, Howard Simpson and Westley Lierly.

—Ruth (Tyner) Hayden