Cass County Michigan Old Schools Rosters Updated Sep 11, 2012

  We are collecting information about the old schools of Cass County, Michigan, up to and including 1955. Please send us your old school information,
ie. graduating classes, school rosters or pictures. Graduating classes may be 5th, 8th, 10th or 12th grades. And school pictures and rosters from any grade are welcome.   Old schools of Cass County (work in progress)

1896 School District No. 9
Contributed Robert Phelps

Penn & Volinia Townships
Frona Waterstradt - Teacher

D. De France, Director
-----Students listed on program are:

Brownsville School
Dist. No. 1. Calvin Twp
Cass Co., Mich.
Sept. 1, 1902--May 22, 1903
School Officers
Wm. Puterbuagh     Philo Brown
C. M. Northrop
Presented by:
Marke P. LeMunyon, Teacher

The Scholars:

1905 - 1906

GENEVA SCHOOL, District No. 1
Penn Township, Cass Co. MI
September 4, 1905 - June 1, 1906

Miss Beatta CASTERLINE, Teacher

School Board:
Harry D. GLEASON, Director
Merril D. JONES, Moderator
Walter M. BOGUE, Treasurer

Pupils:

First Grade:
Pearl AVERY
Edith AVERY
Helen GLEASON
Leda SELNER
Alfred SHANK

Second Grade:
Guy BOYD
Myrtle BOYD
Bertha SELNER
William SELNER

Fourth Grade:
Rolland BOGUE
Raymond COOK
Lennie SHANK

Fifth Grade:
Ruth BOGUE
Margaret LINK
Victor SHANK
Thomas STAPLETON

Sixth Grade:
Hazel COOK
Daisy JONES

Eight Grade:
Ethel COOK

Submitted by Cathy O'Hare

1907 - 1908

GOODENOUGH SCHOOL Dist. 5
Volinia Twp., Cass Co. MI
Sept. 2, 1907 - May 28, 1908

Miss Lyle CASTERLINE - Teacher
Wm. H. C. HALE,  Com. of Schools

School Officers
Otis CROPSEY - Director
George CROPSEY - Moderator
F. A. JUDIE - Treasure

Pupils:

Pearl TYLER
Elda MOTT
Vera JUDIE
Nellie GRAY
Elvaro CROPSEY
Frank BROWN
Verna MOTT
Beatrice JUDIE
Wells CURTIS
Donald GRAY
Ebert L. LAWRENCE
Dorothy GRAY
Ethel LAWRENCE

NOTE: There is no grade classification so I have listed them as they were listed on the card.  Possibly older to younger or younger to older?

Submitted by Cathy O'Hare

1909 to 1910 District No. 4 Calvin
Contributed and notes from Marshall H. Sanders, Jr and Maurice W. Sanders
Moderator on front page is James H. Wilson - maternal grandfather
Two of the students Donald Wilson and Marguerite Wilson are his children.
Posted In Memory of James H. Wilson (1869-1948), Dr. James Donald Wilson, DDS (1904-1984) and Edith Marguerite Wilson Newsom (1902-2002.
(For large image of programs below, just click on picture)

Center School
District No 4, Calvin Twp. Roster
Circa 1908 to 1912
Contributed by: Marshall Sanders

ALLEGHANY SCHOOL Dist. 5
Penn Twp., Cass Co. MI
Sept. 3, 1917 - May 17, 1918

Miss Lyle CASTERLINE - Teacher
Ruth M. MOSIER - School Com.

School Board:
A. M. GLEASON - Director
F. J. STAMP - Moderator
John MCCULLY - Treasurer

Pupils: {listed in the order as listed on the card, no grade classification}

Maurice PLAYFORD
Mae STAMP
George MCCULLY
William HAITHCOCK
Robert CURTIS
Russell PRESCOTT
Winona GLEASON
Carrol MCCULLY
Wilson MCCULLY
Vance COOPER
Catherine GLEASON
Alberta HAITHCOCK
Lois CURTIS
Nellie GLEASON
Vera HARTSELL
Mildred MCCULLY
Evelyn GLEASON
Dorothy GLEASON
Neil PRESCOTT
Russell ALEXANDER
Frank MCLAIN
Jane GLEASON

Submitted by Cathy O'Hare

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Vandalia Intermediate School, Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan 1922-1923
Photo and Roster donated to this site by: Ruth Emeline Anderson Walker and Marjorie Anderson Norton

Grades: Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
Left to Right
Front Row: 7^th student Dorothy Louise Anderson (sister of Ruth Walker and Marjorie Norton )
Second Row: 2^nd student Alexis Calloway, 5^th student Johnny Copley, 6^th student Tour Copley

Vandalia Intermediate School Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan circa 1927

Photo taken March 27, 1927.
Teacher was Mrs. Lewis and 2nd Col. 2nd row, lad with glasses is Virgil Crandall
if you can identify the other students in this photo, please contact us.
Contributed by: Louis Crandall

For larger images, click on photos.

Vandalia Intermediate School Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan circa 1928
Photo and Roster donated to this site by: Ruth Emeline Anderson Walker and Marjorie Anderson Norton
Grades: Fourth, Fifth and Sixth

Left to Right
Front Row: Joseph Curtis, Edward Haines, Charles Kirk, Peter Young
Second Row: Dorothy Bonine, Ardith Hertsell, Charlotte Zietz, unknown, unknown, Ann Obrzut, Betty Wagner, Grace East, Rosalie Obrzut
Third Row: Phyllis Davis, Donna Haines, unknown, unknown, Hilda Curtis, Cleo Hodges, Ethel Young, Donna June Lewis, Leah Kirk, Janice Davis, Eileen Wagner
Top Row: Nelson Heslet, George Long, Elmer Hodges, Richard Kirk, Lyle Peterson, Joe Hunt, Ralph Zietz and Marion Davis, Teacher

Cassopolis - 6th Grade - 1947
Photo was too dark for proper scanning, but the student roster was:
Raymond Gilbert, Tom Bergman, Sally Olsen, Nancy Hansel, Lynn Stockdale, Virginia Scheuneman, Doloris Keithm, Jim Hilderbrand, Cecil Haines, Vernon Harall, Phil Stockdale,
Jerrel Reneberg, John Mitchell.
Second Row - Helen Frieman, Virginia Valvin, Joan Foster, Marilyn Fitzgerald, Dixie Spooner, Gary Smith, Melvin Monette, Howard James, Tom Willard Charles Taylor, Roger Haines.
Third Row - Ester Egelbarger, Mary Bowers, Lea Ray Parker, Marlean Bidwell, Vivian Dickerhoff, Toma Hibler, Alveron Danzy?, Jack Harington, Richard Brown, Bill Dungey.

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