Oak Grove 1968-1969
Friday, August 23,
1968
First day of school. Enrolled 11 in 5th grade, 5 in 6th
grade. Social Studies Books.
5th Grade
1.
Wanda Atterberry #12
2.
Tina Gammon #11
3.
Charlotte Herrin #10
4.
Steven Hutchcraft #9
5.
Susan May #8
6.
Lea McCord #7
7.
Kerma McCormick #6
8.
Rhonda Neff #5
9.
Allen Pfaff #4
10.
Patty Thomason #3
11.
Debbie Trotter #2
12.
Tina Bennett #1
13.
Lois Rawls
6th Grade
1.
Cheryl Burger 1
2.
Donna Hutchcraft 3
3.
Vicki Parker 2
4.
Nancy Pfaff 4
5.
Diana Shaw 5
6.
Kenny Brooks 6
7.
Cyrus Austin
8.
David Austin
9.
Jerolyn Gammon
Lena [Rawls]
Vicki Parker $4.20 lunch
Monday, August 26,
1968
None absent
Insurance
Charlotte Herrin $3.00
Cheryl Burger $3.00
Rhonda Neff $3.00
Earl Neff $3.00
Terry Neff $3.00
Friday, Sept. 6,
1968
None
Insurance
Nancy Pfaff $3.00
Allen Pfaff $3.00
Monday, Sept. 9,
1968
Patty Thomason came at 2 o’clock
Sat. we started to Evansville. We got pass Carmi and Suellyn started having convulsions. We turned around and took her to the Carmi Hospital. They kept her there all night.
Monday, Sept. 16,
1968
None
Sue Parker will help test eyes. It is raining lightly this morning. Trixie is taking 13 hogs to Albion today to sell. Arith. Page 24. Arith. Page 36, 40. Add & Sub. Page 41. Social Studies read, Spell Unit 4 final, Spelling Unit 5 Trial
Tuesday, Sept. 17,
1968
None
Mrs. Braddy called today and said that she would not be here today because Dave [Braddy] was sick. Mrs. Tyler will teach her room today. My hogs Trixie sold yesterday brought $496.71. They didn’t weigh as heavy as I thought they would about 193 ½ lbs each $19.75 a hundred.
Friday, Sept. 20,
1968
Charlotte Herrin
Debbie Trotter went home at
11:30 with the toothache.
This morning my sow was making a big bed of stuff in the woods getting ready to have pigs. She had 8 pigs all doing well.
Monday, Sept. 23,
1968
None
Dave Braddy called this morning and said that Mrs. Braddy had the flu and would be unable to come today. Georgia Gaskill will teach in her place today. We went to see Dad at the hospital yesterday and he was feeling pretty blue.
Thursday, Sept. 26,
1968
None
The nurse will be here today to give oral polio. Leon and Larry Rich took Bernard and me to see Dad last night. He is a lot better.
Friday, Sept. 27, 1968
None absent
Vicki Parker went home at 1:15
I went to Fairfield last night starting a course from Southern [Illinois University]. Today Aden is suppose to come up and play softball game with us. We beat Aden today and we beat Sims tonight 10-8.
Friday, Oct. 18,
1968
Debbie Trotter came at noon
It was announced last night that
Jackie Kennedy is to marry a Greek within the next few days.
Monday, Oct. 21,
1968
None
Leon Rich called this morning wanting me to check on “To Kill a Mockingbird” a book that Mr. Edmison required the 8th grade to read.
Monday, Oct. 28,
1968
No school today. The well water pump was torn up this morning so we had to call school off today. Herman & I worked trying to get it fixed.
Tuesday, Oct. 29,
1968
None
Friday, Nov. 1, 1968
Tina Bennett
We are to have our Halloween party today. Last night I had the mid-term exam for the course at Fairfield. I did not know much! Pres. Johnson announced last night a halt of the bombings in North Viet Nam.
Monday, Nov. 4, 1968
None
Monday, Nov. 11,
1968
No school today Veterans’ Day
Tuesday, Nov. 12,
1968
None
Rhonda Neff went home at 12:15
Tonight is Board Meeting. I have been sick with a cold all
weekend. I am not feeling very well yet.
Wednesday, Nov. 13,
1968
Patty Thomason came at 9 o’clock
It was cold this morning. It was 18°.
Thursday, Nov. 14,
1968
None
I think I am getting over my cold. I think it was one of the Astronauts said if you doctor a cold you will get over it in a week if not you will recover in 7 days. The Illinois State Museumobile is to be here today. It looks like it will rain today. My big horned white faced cow should have her calf any day now.
Friday, Nov. 15,
1968
None
Tonight we play Berry at Berry.
Monday, Nov. 18,
1968
None
My white faced horned cow had a big bull calf yesterday in the rain. It rained about all evening and into the night. This morning it was about 35°. I was worried about the calf but it was running & jumping this morning when I went to see about it. Berry beat us Friday night. Tonight I have an administrators meeting to go to.
Wednesday, Nov. 27,
1968
Lea McCord
6th Social Studies
report on Confucius China’s Great Teacher.
The Great Wall of China.
Thurs. & Friday,
Nov. 28 & 29
No school Thanksgiving vacation
I had planned to get my corn out
over vacation but it rained too much.
Monday, Dec. 2, 1968
None
I have a meeting tonight at Center Street School starts 6 o’clock. Trixie took a hog to be butchered today. I stayed up tonight after I got back from the meeting & watched The Call of the Wild.
Tuesday, Dec. 3,
1968
None
It is suppose to snow
today. Larry Elliot resigned from
McLeansboro Radio station
Wednesday, Dec. 4,
1968
None
It did not snow. The sun is suppose to shine today. Today I am 32 years old. It seems impossible that I could be that old. I guess I will have to start acting like it. Mr. Albert Miller was out today.
Thursday, Dec. 5,
1968
None
Tonight is my last night of class at Fairfield. I will probably flunk the final exam because I have not read the text nor the outside reading or have I studied my notes.
Tuesday, Dec. 10,
1968
Charlotte Herrin
Kenny Brooks
The weather is milder this morning about 30°. I really had a rough day yesterday and a rough night last night with my cold. I will probably have another rough day today the way I feel now. Tonight is Board meeting night.
Wednesday, Dec. 11,
1968
Kenny Brooks
We got our pictures yesterday. We had Board meeting last night. It is sunny and nice today. I feel a little better. My cold is beginning to clear up I think.
Thursday, Dec. 12,
1968
Kenny Brooks
Iwent andtook some boys last night to see Wayne City High play Cisne in the Holiday tournament. Wayne City won 50-49. This morning Gen called and said Herman was sick so I have to drive his bus this morning. I drove the bus for Herman tonight. Gen and Tom came down and cleaned the school.
Friday, Dec. 13,
1968
Kenny Brooks
This is Friday the 13th.
Wednesday, Dec. 18,
1968
Cheryl Burger
Charlotte Herrin
Today is the last day for the immunization series. It is warmer. It rained last night. It is suppose to rain more and turn to snow today. Bluford won the Wayne City tournament last night over Wayne City. I did not get to go Trixie was mad.
Thursday, Dec. 19,
1968
Cheryl Burger
Patty Thomason came at 8:50
It is warmer today 43° was the low last night. It rained slightly and the wind blew hard. Tonight is the night for our Christmas Program. Things are going smoothly or I am so mixed up I do not realize what’s going on. It is hard to realize that the Christmas program will be here within a few hours and tomorrow we will exchange gifts.
Thursday, Jan. 2,
1969
Tina Bennett is back in school
today
Kenny Brooks absent
Vacation is over!! The Bennetts were suppose to have moved. I went to see Richard and he told me he was going to leave but the children all came to school this morning.
Friday, Jan. 3, 1969
Lea McCord came at 12:30 she had
to go to the doctor
Kenny Brooks
Leon Rich & Bob Barbee combined my corn yesterday. It made about 20 bu. Per acre but they said they left a lot in the field because it was down and frozen to the ground. A cold wave is coming today. This morning when I got up it was 25° and when I left for school it was 20°.
Thursday, Jan. 16,
1969
David Austin
Patty Thomason
It is raining this morning. It is warm.
Friday, Jan. 17,
1969
David Austin
Charlotte Herrin
Today is the last day of the 2nd term. It is still raining and warm. It has thawed out and is really muddy and bad. Young big white faced cow had a bull calf last night. It was not able to stand up this morning when I found it. It was in the rain & mud in the open field. 48 days in the term.
Monday, Jan. 20,
1969
Cyrus Austin
(Cheryl Burger will be he[re]
this afternoon. Cheryl did not come she
was absent all day.)
Friday evening I got the cow and calf in the barn. It was still raining and muddy. I had quite a time. The calf’s front legs are deformed; twisted and turned under. He is getting better. Trixie took Suellyn to the doctor for a shot for a cold and I never went to the ball game. We are suppose to get a new furnace for our room today.
Tuesday, Jan. 21,
1969
Cyrus Austin
Debbie Trotter
Last night we played Knights Prairie in a lightweight tournament at Beaver Creek. We beat them. Trixie went to Carbondale today to take an ACT test. It is awfully bad and foggy and rainy out today.
Monday, February 3,
1969
Wanda Atterberry
Charlotte Herrin
The roads are settling
some. I get griped at if the buses doesn’t
run on the road and if they do.
Tuesday, Feb. 4,
1969
Charlotte Herrin
Last [night] Roland Burger and I attended a Schoolmaster Club meeting at Johnsonville. This morning when I got to school the bus garage door was busted up. It lookedlikeas if had not been all the way upandwhen the bus backed out. Trixie started to Rend Lake College today.
Wednesday, February
5, 1969
Charlotte Herrin
Trixie doesn’t know I came to
school. This makes it seem like a
one-sided affair.
Thursday, February
6, 1969
Charlotte Herrin
It rained last night and is raining now. I have a hog dying. I noticed it a few days ago with a large wound on its shoulder. It looked as if it had been caught under something or the old sow had fought it. It was down yesterday morning. I thought it would be dead by now but it was still alive this morning. I think it got lockjaw by the way it acted.
Friday, February 7,
1969
Charlotte Herrin
Lea McCord
Kenny Brooks
It is still rainy and very
foggy. The hog was dead when I got home
last night.
Monday, Feb. 10,
1969
Wanda Atterberry
Donna Hutchcraft
Patty went to the dentist at 3 o’clock
Jerolyn Gammon new student in the 6th grade entered today. Zella Lathrop’s sister in Florida died Saturday and they drove down with her sister from Cahokia, Ill. [Narene Merritt died and Louise Martin was the sister in Cahokia].
Monday, Feb. 17,
1969
New students Lois & Lena
Rawls
Charlotte Herrin
Debbie Trotter came at 10:30
Trixie called this morning after I got to school and said that Mrs. Wheeler had called and wanted her to take her to the doctor.
Tuesday, Feb. 18,
1969
None
Mary Withrow called last night
still having trouble with Herman turning around in her drive way.
Friday, February 21,
1969
Lois Rawls
Lena Rawls
I received word today that
Elston Gurley died this morning at 9 o’clock of a heart attack.
Monday, February 24,
1969
Steven Hutchcraft
Lena Rawls
Elston’s funeral will be today at 2
o’clock. Mrs. Gaskill will teach this
afternoon for me.
Tuesday, February
25, 1969
Steven Hutchcraft
Lena Rawls
Charlotte Herrin
Albert Miller was out today.
Wednesday, February
26, 1969
Lena Rawls
Patty Thomason
Steven Hutchcraft
I am all shook up.
Thursday, February 27, 1969
Lena Rawls
Patty Thomason
Steven Hutchcraft
Robert Buchanan came down to see me last night about Bobby getting his hand caught in the door at school.
Friday, February 28,
1969
Lena Rawls
Charlotte Herrin
Steven Hutchcraft
Patty Thomason
The last day of the month! It is snowing this morning and is suppose to accumulate up to 5 inches. God save the Queen. We got about 5 inches of snow. We turned school out at 3 o’clock.
Monday, March 3,
1969
Lea McCord
Patty Thomason
Charlotte Herrin
I took hay to the field in the truck Sunday morning and got it stuck. It is still there. Trixie brought me to school. I am sick. I had fever all night last night. I hope I can make it through the day. The snow is about all melted.
Tuesday, March 4,
1969
Charlotte Herrin
Patty Thomason
I like to have never made it through the day yesterday. I went home as soon as school was out and went to bed and stayed there till 6 o’clock this morning. I took my temperature at 4 o’clock last night it was 102.2. This morning it was a 100. I hope I can make it through this day of school. I don’t feel very well. I didn’t do my chores this morning.
Wednesday, March 5,
1969
Charlotte Herrin
Cyrus Austin
Boys don’t loaf in restroom. I got to feeling better at school yesterday. I went home and did my chores, pulled the truck out, and got to feeling worse. I felt pretty bad last night and I feel bad this morning. I hope I can make it through the day. We are suppose to take the students to Wayne City today to see the Senior Play at 1 o’clock. I let the teachers take the students to the play and I went home and went to bed a while then I went to the doctor and got a shot.
Thursday, March 6,
1969
Charlotte Herrin
Rhonda Neff
Cyrus Austin
(Kerma McCormick ½ day)
Mrs. Gaskill is teaching my room today. I spent a miserable night last night. I called Georgia Gaskill this morning. She is going to teach for me today. I went back to the doctor today and got another shot. I had Trixie call Mrs. Gaskill tonight and have her teach for me tomorrow.
Friday, March 7,
1969
Wanda Atterberry
Charlotte Herrin
Susan May
Kerma McCormick
Cyrus Austin
Kenny Brooks
Mrs. Gaskill is teaching my room today. I feel some better but I still feel pretty bad. The astronauts flew their lunar module today away from the command module and docked back again.
Monday, March 10,
1969
Wanda Atterberry
Susan May
Kerma McCormick
Nancy Pfaff
Cyrus Austin
Kenny Brooks
I am back in school this morning. I hope I can stay. I have an Adm. Min. meeting tonight. I don’t know if I will make it or not.
Tuesday, March 11,
1969
Susan May
Kerma McCormick
Tina Gammon
I feel better today. It was 18° this morning. Trixie is going to stay home with Suellyn I did not got to the Ad. Min. meeting last night. Tonight is Board meeting.
Wednesday, March 12,
1969
Jerolyn Gammon
Susan May
Kerma McCormick
We had Board meeting last night.
Monday, March 17,
1969
Lea McCord absent
All present
Lea McCord got her finger caught
in the door this morning and Herman took her home.
Trixie is taking my hogs to market today. Barbara Chambliss saw me Saturday and jumped me about the Mr. Edmison telling the girls they would have to walk home from the volley ball game. I didn’t know anything about it until then. She said the next time she was coming to school and there would be big trouble.
Tuesday, March 18,
1969
None
My hogs were awfully big. They averaged 243. The old sow weighed 550. Lea Neff called me this morning and said that she would be an election judge.
Wednesday, April 2,
1969
Charlotte Herrin
It rained a little last and this
morning.
Thursday, April 3,
1969
None
Denise Edmison visited today. Easter egg hunt today. All of my cows were out this morning and over on Katherine Nicholson.
Wednesday, April 16,
1969
Steven Hutchcraft
Jennie Ruth was down this morning with Red Cross materials. It was sunny and beautiful this morning. I took the “Grapes of Wrath” home with me last night from Mr. Edmison’s room. I don’t think elementary grade students should read it.
Thursday, April 17,
1969
Steven Hutchcraft
The sun is shining and it is pretty and the weather forecast, though, is that it is suppose to blow and rain this evening and chances of hail storms.
Friday, April 18,
1969
Lena Rawls
It rained about all night last
night. It rained this morning but has
quit now.
Monday, April 21,
1969
None
It was a beautiful day yesterday. Trixie the children and I went walking after dinner. This morning my angus heifer was bred by my angus steer. Mr. Edmison’s bus won’t start this morning. I called to tell Clyde & Herman to pick up his run.
Tuesday, April 22,
1969
Charlotte Herrin
I went to Mt. Erie last night to
see about a position in their school.
Wednesday, April 23,
1969
Charlotte Herrin
Patty Thomason
Last night we went to the funeral home to see aunt Jennie [(Robertson)] Johnson. Today Mrs. Gaskill is to come at noon and teach Mrs. Braddy’s room. We are going to turn out early so that we can take an x-ray.
Friday, May 2, 1969
None
Mr. Connie Allen is suppose to
be out today and test the eighth graders.
Monday, May 5, 1969
Tina Gammon
Suellyn spent an awful night
last night seeing men, bears, etc.
Tuesday, May 6, 1969
Steven Hutchcraft
I had an admin. meeting last night at Fairfield. I had the time mixed up and went at 7 o’clock instead of 6:30 and they were eating supper when I walked in. Assistant State Supt. Spoke. He said that there was legislation to have one teacher per grade by July 1, 1970.
Wednesday, May 7,
1969
Wanda Atterberry
Mrs. Lane is not to be here today. I guess Mary McCormick will cook in her place. Yesterday Olan Bullock started bulldozing out the fence row between Murvin McCord and me. This morning one of my cows was bulling and I have no bull. It looks like rain today.
Thursday, May 8,
1969
Wanda Atterberry
I have an appointment tonight at Goreville about a position in their school system. I took the big young cow to Bernard’s last night to his Bull to get bred. It rained last night.
Friday, May 9, 1969
Wanda Atterberry
I went to Goreville last night. He said he had 3 or 4 good applicants. Kenneth Draper died early this morning of cancer. Several people in that area have died of cancer. My Gu[e]rnsey cow had a heifer calf last night when I got home from school. This is the first time she has had a heifer.
Monday, May 12, 1969
None
Tonight we are having a supper
for basketball players and cheerleaders.
Tuesday, May 13,
1969
Charlotte Herrin
Lena Rawls
Tonight is Board Meeting. I need to decide what I am going to do.
Friday, May 16, 1969
None
I will finish up on achievement test today. Tonight we take the cafeteria worker to McLeansboro to a show. Saturday night the Board has a meeting. Supper and an interview with Lanny Smith.
Monday, May 19, 1969
Rhonda Neff came at 1 o’clock
Patty Thomason is suppose to be
here before dinner, came at 1 o’clock
Satruday night I am at school. Tonight we are to have a supper for the Board Members and then have a meeting with Lanny Smith.
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