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 Join us for Week 229 of Orofino History Trivia a special feature to celebrate the history and heritage of Clearwater Country. This week is a little different. See the request below: Drop us an email at: info@windowontheclearwater.com. Please, let us know where you are from, if it is out of the area. Join in the discovery! Tuesday: Since it is back to school time, we are checking to see which schools, past and present, our readers remember. Please email your lists to the address above and if you can, tell us something about them such as location, time period and grades. We will let you know which ones we hear about as they come in. Wednesday: Timberline School is located between Weippe and Pierce just off State Highway 11 and is in its third year of having students of all ages. Thursday: Weippe Elementary School Friday: Pittwood School on Eureka Ridge, about 5 miles from Orofino. Fraser School (Fraser Area.) All 8 grades - consolidated with Cottonwood School in 1945. Fraser school is now a community center in Fraser. "I remember Orofino Elementary when the whole Orofino School was in the one building where the junior high is now. Then it was for grades 1-12. No kindergarten. Then of course Orofino High School. In my fifth grade year (1948) we lived in Wash. D.C. for six months whilst Dad worked for Sen. Henry Dworshak, I thus spent the second half of my fifth grade at Congress Heights Public School, in SE WDC. Mrs. Weston was our 5th grade teacher in Orofino and Miss Palmer in WDC. Saturday: "I attended Johnstown School 1949-50 in the field near Schmidt Mill Road. I walked there from home in Schmidt Mill. Then attended Weippe Grade School and on to Junior High and High School graduating in 1963. When in Junior High, one of the high school students attended the O.K. school on Three Mile Road. I'm still thinking there seems to be more in that area. Monday: "No one has mentioned Dent school, Elk Creek School, or Ahsahka.
I have a picture of a class at Angel Ridge school where Ralph Lacey attended when he was a first grader. It has to be out of Peck in the hills somewhere.
There must have been a school not far up the Cavendish grade, as Bud Conroy's mom used to row a boat across the river below my place and walk up to that school when she was a teacher, or that is what I was always told. That was before I first met her in 1945. There was a building near where Harvest Foods now is that was always called a school, but it was never used as one from the time I moved to Chases Flats in 1945. It sat East of the road into Harvest Foods, and was closer to the highway. It always looked abandoned to me." "Piper School--located on Grangemont highway. Most remembered event was when I was in 7th grade another student and I put a 22 shell in the wood stove. BANG We were kicked out of school for the rest of the day. We enjoyed our free afternoon." Additional schools: The Cavendish School and the Teakean School used to be separate one-room schools. Cavendish school was located at the junction of Cavendish Road and Freeman Creek Road. Teakean School was near the present Fire Hall on Middle Road. In about 1955 or 56 they were combined into one school in a new building with eight grades and two teachers. The two teachers at the new school--Alda McIver and Lottie Brock, each with four grades. Prior to this time all students were not bussed to the two schools. With the new school came a new bus with Bill Reece as driver. Which ones can you add? Sponsored by: Want accurate, daily news for Orofino and Clearwater County?
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