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Home My WebLink About1997 school reunion filesFiles donated to Enfield Town History February 8, 2023 by M.C. (Jack) Hubbell "files scanned and placed on Enfield Town Historian Laserfiche 1 Enfield, Tompkins County, NY School Reunion Enfield 1997, August 2. Enfield Grange, Enfield Main Road, Ithaca, NY Pictures Roll 190 (copies of pictures) • picture of class 24 (other copies) • picture of woman 22 (other copies) • participants — 3, 2,1, 0 • Ruth Miller, Catherine Kellogg, --- 5 • group of school class mates — 7 • group of school class mates — center Doris Rothermich 9 • Pat Doughtery (right) group of school class mates 1 • Frances LaBombard, Carol Barnett, Carol Bowman group of school class mates 13 • Helen Heatherington (middle) group of school class mates • Older picture of class mates 17 • Registration/address list • Ithaca Journal August 2, 1997. Enfield classmates recall a bygone era. Lauren 5tanforth Did not scan maillist.address list see update of 2012 file. Original list for year is in original file. Persons attending the August 2nd 1997 school reunion Ballard, Charlotte Barnett, Carol # Barnett, Donald Beardsley, Eunice Billings, Earleen Bowman, Clara * Boyd, Shirley * Brewer, Eleanor * Daharsh, Althea Drew, Charlotte * Drew, Wilfred Ellis, Marilyn Emerson, Gertrude Fisher, Arlene Fisher, Donald * Galt, Hugh * Galt, Kathleen * Galt, Trudy Hetherington, Helen Hoover,Reni Howland, Helen Hubbell, Ann Hubbell, Bertha Hubbell, Charles Hubbell, Irene Hubbell, Jon * Hubbell, M.Clyde Hubbell, Peggy Hubbell, Richard Hubbell, Roger * Hubbell, Shirley Hurlbutt, Betty Kellogg, Catherine LaBombard, Dick LaBombard, Frances Laue, Florence Laue, Harold * Lehmann, Lawrence Lehmann, Mary Linton, Myrtle Linton, Robert Marion, Timothy W Marranr_a, Aileen Miller, Ruth * Owens, Chester Owens, Judy Reed, Jean Rothermich, Doris Rumsey, Betty Rumsey, David Salino, Carolyn Schaber. Helena # Scofield, Robert Scofield, Ruthann Smithers, Jessie Stamp, Howard * Stevenson, Norma Stevenson, Richard Stilwell, Larry Stilwell, Linda # StOUt. Blanch S Tompkins, Helen Walker, Katherine Warren, Donald Warren, Elnora Wo.itaniE:, Juanite Yeater, Sandra The Ithaca Journal Saturday, August 2, 1997 #70-97 AROUND TOMPKINS COUNTY Enfield classmates recall a bygone era Sledding home from school. Waiting for the drinking water to thaw out. And traveling to Ithaca to buy your lust dress for high school. These kinds of memories will come easily for more than 60 people this morning at the one- and two -room schoolhouse reunion at the Enfield Valley Grange, the fourth time Enfield elementary school alumni Frpm the 1920s, '30s and '40s have gathered together. . Before the Ithaca City School Dis- gjct consolidation in the 1950s and construction of Enfield Elementary !j600l, Enfield had 17 schoolhouses. The schools typically had one room, one very young female teacher with jest a high school education, and chil- dren ranging in age from 5-17 years old. There was no plumbing, no heat - fig (except from the wood stove) and students had to buy their textbooks. Since the students were confined to such a small space, you'd think the kids' manic behavior would run the teacher ragged. But order and disci- pline were adhered to and a great deal of learning was accomplished, espe- 'Volly for younger kids who were forced by proximity to listen to the teen-agers' lessons. School officials now might think of the schoolhouse as a simplistic and perhaps barbaric educational atmos- pliere compared with today's techno- logically -saturated classroom, but The Ithaca Journal Friday, August 1, 1997 ENFIELD Register autos for benefit car show The Enfield Volunteer Fire Compa- ny is holding the Cruise to the Coun- ABOUT TowN schoolhouse students talk about how much they learned from their older classmates and the close relatiopship they had with their teachers. "Our country schoolteacher had a closeness to her pupils, and cared for them like a family," said Enfield alum- nus Ruth Miner. "11tere was time for individual attention that isn't there today." Miller's teacher would take all the girls on a field trip to her house and teach baking and housekeeping skills, which sometimes meant an excursion to the "city" (Ithaca if you couldn't fig- ure it out) — a giddy experience for young girls who barely ever got the chance to leave horse, minus a trip to the Enfield grocery {tore. Miller remembeirs her first day of school during the 1020s in the Enfield Falls schoolhot&- because she was so short, the teacher perched her on top of a dictiorary in a two -seat desk — Enfield Reunion A reunion for people who attended one- and two -room schoolhouses in Enfield will start at 11 a.m. today at the Enfield Valley Grange on Enfield Main Road, with a dish -to -pass lunch being served at noon. Organizers advise bringing memories and any school memorabilia you have. and next to a boy of all things. Girls and boys weren't segregated in the schoolhouse — except for sepa- rate outhouses — but they were once they got to Ithaca High School. Attending Ithaca High School was stressful enough for a girl from a rural schoolhouse, but Miller said she des- perately ran around the building look- ing for the right line to stand in after school. When she attended high school in the 1930s, the boys would march (not walk, but march) out of one entrance and the girls would march from the other entrance. Punishments depended on which schoolhouse you attended and what teacher you had. Enfield resident Blanch Stout recalls punishments dur- ing the late 1940s that varied depend- ing on your gender — swift lashes to the hands for girls and a trip to the dreaded woodshed for boys. "I don't know what happened out there," she said. Lauren Stanforth covers town news in Tompkins County. She can be readwd at 274- 9246. try'97 Auto and Truck Show starting at 10 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 3 at the cor- ner of Routes 79 and 327. A large flea market, live DJ, kids games. refreshments and chicken bar- becue will be�.offered as well as vehi- cles from to 1920s, street rods, Corvettes, ri and foreign sports and muscle cars. wards will be given for best of sho people's choice, best paint, best engine, best interior and furthest distance traveled. Car owners may also register their vehicles from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the day of the show. Judging will start at 12:30 p.m. Registration costs $5 for in advance and $7 the day of the event. For more information about regis- tering before the show, contact Wade, VWhittaker at 564-o279 or Wayne Sny- der at 272-1149. All proceeds will go to benefit the Enfield Fire Department.