Alta School
District 84
Alta School
1932-33
Front Row: Jacob Menold,______,Leonard Menold, Althy Menold_______, Harold Predmore
Row 2: Mary Ann Davis,_________,<Mary Ellen Menold, Marie Centhold, Hazel Garmer, Georgia Starnes, Ann Bevency, Betty Starnes
Row 3: Vivian Leuthold , Gladys Short, Nettie Menold, Mrs. Castilel, Ruth Davis, Helen Menold. Virginia Worsfold
Alta School
1940-1941
8th Grade
Ann Bevency, Jean Carlson, Helen Metzger, Hazel Garmer, Betty Starnes, Georgia Starnes, Roy Baer
Alta School
1935
Mrs. Castile
Row 1: ________,Robert Davis,Bob Carlson,_____,David Carlson
Row 2: Walt Davis, Shirley Starnes, Jean Carlson, Louise Bevency, Betty Starnes, Bob Starnes, Dale Carson
Row 3: Bernice Carson, Ann Bevency, Hazel Garmer, Freida Metzger, Marie Leuhloed, Lois Carlson, Georgia Starnes, Helen Metzger
Row 4: Virginia Worsfold, Helen Luethoed , Ruth Davis, Mrs. Castel, MaryAnn Davis,______
Alta School
1937
Mrs. Castile
Row 1: Jean Carlson, Shirley Starnes, Donnie Dailey, Raymond Aldridge,
Kenneth Lynch, Bob Starnes, Fred Bevency, (Davis dog)
Row 2: Helen, Metzger, Betty Davis,Alice Metzger, Louise Bevency, Jean Cable, Bill Cable, Sylvia Aldridge
Row 3: Mrs. Castell, Ellen Maynard, Georgia Starnes, Lois Carlson, Frieda Metzger, Ann Bevency, Hazel Garmer
Alta School
1936
1935 (This is not 35, but from comparing faces maybe it is 1936)
Mrs. Castile
Row 1: ?, Harold Predmore, Fred Bevency, Jean Cable, Alice Metzger, Louise Bevency, Shirley Starnes, Kenneth Lynch, Bob Starnes
Row 2: Mrs. Castile, Betty Starnes, Georgia Starnes, Hazel Garmer, Freida Metzer, Lois Carlson, Ann Bevency, Helen Metzger, Jean Carlson
Alta School 1934
Alta School
District Number 84
The first schoolhouse in District 84 of Peoria County was a frame building, situated just south of where I. J. Cause’s house was located in 1918. It was known as District Number 6 at that time. The first school was held about 1858 and the first teacher was Helen Partridge, who, as was the custom of these times, boarded with each one of the families who had children in the school and stayed over the weekends with the directors.The Alta School is now about one quarter of a mile south of where the old schoolhouse stood. Mr. Hanson, Mr. L. Wilder, and I. J. Case who laid out the town of Alta in 1873 donated the site for the new school. In the year of 1877 a meeting was called for the voters in district number six to vote on levying a tax to build a new schoolhouse. The measure was passed and the school board elected, borrowed $1,200.00 from Miss Amy Silliman in the form of three bonds.Contractor John Horine erected the building in the summer of 1877, for $975.00 The new building was the most prominent feature of the town and at that time was the best building of its kind in Medina Township. The old school building was sold and moved to Alta where it was used for many years a dwelling house.The first few years that the new building was in use, the terms were divided up so as to make three a year. The winter term, usually taught by a man, and the spring and fall terms taught by a woman.School has been held each year in the Alta School since 1877, but no record has been kept of the salaries paid except for the last few years. The salary at the time the building was built, was about $30.00 per month. The more recent salaries have been $100.00 a month or more.In the year of 1918, the condition of the school and school yard was found satisfactory and the equipment met the requirements of the state regulations. The school had a merry-go-round, two tweeter-totters, and two outhouses. The school became one of the standard mediums of education in the county. Written in the 1930s
In 1945 the Alta School was destroyed by fire. The students completed their school year in the nearby Masonic Hall in Alta. The following year Alta School and 4 other schools consolidated and became Wilder-Waite School District 303. Classes were then held at Glendale, Orange Prairie, and the old Grange Hall (across from Orange School) until the new building was completed for the school year 1948-1949.
Alta School
Students in front of Alta School
Alta School
1941
Teacher-Evelyn Perkins
Row 1: Hollis Allen, Melvin Hohulin, Charles Predmore, ________, Ronnie Wabel, Hannah Allen, _______, Vernon Hohulin, Merle Carr
Row 2: Gerald Lynch, Alphie Hohulin, Herbert Southey, Bobby Starnes, Jack Gepp, Kenneth Lynch, Frederick Bevency, Edwin Felder, Ralph Carr, Hal Predmore
Row 3: Katherine Baer, Frances Bevency, Shirley Leuthold, Virginia Metzer, Margaret Baer, Lamae Leuthold, Doris Southey, Donna Southey, Judith Hinshaw, Wilma Baer
Row 4: Junior Rumerfield, Glenn Carr, Virginia Allen, Don Baer, Betty Reynolds, Rosemary Adami, Edna Baer, Eunice Leuthold, Shirley Starnes, Louise Bevency, Alice Metzger, Martin Hohulin
Allen Road and Alta Rd.
School faced Allen Road
Teachers
1937-38 Beulah Casteel or Castile (?)
1941-42 Evelyn Perkins
1943-44 Fern Steinhauser, Mildred Crabtree, Jean Applby, Lois Burt
1946-47 Walt Mulvaney, Mary Notzke, Lois Burt, Jean Appleby
Row 1: Jean Carlson, Shirley Starnes, Bob Starnes, Jean Cable, Alice Metzger, Louise Bevency, Fred Bevency
Row 2: Georgia Starnes, Robert Davis, Sylvia Aldridge, Ann Bevency, Helen Metzger, Betty Starnes, Walter Davis
Row 3: Hazel Garmer, Lois Carlson, Marie Menold, Frieda Metzger, Mrs. Castell, Mary Ann Davis, Bob Carlson, Raymond Aldridge
