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Interview with Edna Trexler
Dick Hall and Edna Trexler
An interview with Edna Trexler regarding her experiences in a one-room school house
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Interview with Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Evert
Darlene Jensen and Elmer Evert
An interview with Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Evert regarding their experiences as students in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Elsie Wagner
Steve Mollach and Elsie Wagner
An interview with Elsie Wagner regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Esther Beer
Jacques Molleker and Esther Beer
An interview with Esther Beer regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Oral Espland
Helen Pitman and Oral Espland
An interview with Oral Espland regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Mildred Tacha
K. Randolph and Mildred Tacha
An interview with Mildred Tacha regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Frank Randel
Phil Riedel and Ira Frank Randel
An interview with Frank Randel regarding his experiences in as a superintendent of rural schools.
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Interview with Bernadine Sitts
Tamara Riggs and Bernadine Sitts
An interview with Bernadine Sitts regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Florence Wilson
Tamara Riggs and Florence Wilson
An interview with Florence Wilson regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
This collection features oral history interviews focusing on one-room schoolhouses in rural Kansas. The last one-room schoolhouse teacher in Kansas, Selola Lewis, is included in this collection. She taught at the Dermot School in Morton county until the final one-room school closed in 1992. Students from the Fort Hays State University College of Education conducted the interviews of former students and teachers who attended and taught in one-room schoolhouses. Interviews were conducted as part of an effort to develop a significant collection of oral resources that would supplement other primary and secondary local history materials residing in the Plymouth Schoolhouse Archival Collection in Forsyth Library and the Plymouth Schoolhouse building located on the FHSU Campus. Interviews were originally recorded on cassette tapes and then transferred to digital media. The files have been edited to improve the user experience through enhanced sound quality and time management. No voice content has been removed or altered. Raw files of the original interviews along with supplemental materials like teacher biographies and district histories are available upon request.
The primary source materials contained in the Fort Hays State University Special Collections
and Archives have been placed there for research purposes, preservation of the historical
record, and as reflections of a past belonging to all members of society. Because this material
reflects the expressions of an ongoing culture, some items in the collections may be sensitive in
nature and may not represent the attitudes, beliefs, or ideas of their creators, persons named in
the collections, or the position of Fort Hays State University.
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