Hawthorne Grade School

 

  

Built in 1912 ("completed in 1930") at 715 N. 9th St.  It is currently rented to the Higher Praise Church but steps are being taken to sell it.  The new photo is from 2003.

          How Hawthorne Grade School Got Named

 

     It was 1912.  A new grade school had just been built and it needed a name.  Here's how the Journal reported it in June, 1912.

 

     Salina's new school building north of the Union Pacific tracks will be known as the "Hawthorne" and the honor of suggesting the name selected by the board of education at the meeting last night belongs to John Lantz, the seven-and-a-half-year-old son of the Rev. B.R. Lantz, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church. In addition to the honor of having the name he suggested chosen by the board, John will also receive the prize of $2 offered by the Journal for the child under 15 suggesting the name by which the school should be known.

     The name, Hawthorne, was chosen by the board after a thorough discussion in which the other names were each carefully considered. It is an appropriate name for a school and will meet the approval of a large number of citizens.

     The Journal's contest elicited a great deal of interest on the part of the children, and the board of education had a fine list of names from which to choose. Many of the children voted for names sug­gestive of the location of the school, such as Northern, North Park, North Star and North View. Others suggested names incorporating the name of the street on which the new building was located, and Grand View and Grand Avenue received favorable mention. Among the other names sent in by the children were Somerlid, Progressive, Protection, IXL, and Security.

 

Third Grade.

Photo courtesy of Joan (Stermer) Linam

 

Third Grade, Miss Woodard

Photo courtesy of Sharon (Doebert) Bowen
Third Grade, Miss Woodard 

Back Fow:  Ruth Ann Obenchain, Vivian Piper, Karen Fulker, Nettie Smock (?), Carol Eirley, Juanita Nichols, ?.

Middle Row:  Etta Lipps, Sondra Walters, Sharon Doebert.

Front Row:  Pat Blick, Bunny Lovelace, ?, Mary Lou Wilcoxen, Jean Frink, Barbara Burt, Sharon Long, Jeanette Turner, Joyce Sanborn

Photo courtesy of Sharon (Doebert) Bowen

 

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Fourth Grade.   Mrs. Eva Velharticky.

Back Row:  Fulkner, Sanborn, Baker, Wilcoxen?, Cross, Christine ?, Walters, Emma ?, Crawford, Dority, Crook, Cox

Second Row:  Summers, Yvonne ?, Lovelace, Blick (circled), Obenchain, Kitterman, Fitzpatrick, ???, Jean ?, Eirley, Williams.

Front Row:  Wise, Bledsoe, Constable?, Hankinson, ???, Crawford, Peters, Jerry ?, Turner, Long, Boyer, Dearing.

Photo courtesy of Pat (Blick) Richards

 

Fourth Grade Brownie Troop '48-'49  

Back Row:  Vivian Piper, Nina Mae Dearing

Middle Row:  Yvonne Newsome, Barbara Boyer, Sharon Marty, (obscured)

Front Row:  Karen Fulker, Barbara Kitterman (in hat), Pat Cruce, Jeanette Turner, Joan Stermer, Sharon Doebert.

Photo courtesy of Sharon (Doebert) Bowen

 

6th Grade, Mrs. Dugan

Photo courtesy of Charles DeLaney

 

6th Grade, Mrs. Dugan

Photo courtesy of Joan (Stermer) Linam

 

6th Grade, Mrs. Dugan

Photo courtesy of Joan (Stermer) Linam

 

Sixth Grade Scandanavian Dancers.

Sharon Long, Chuck DeLaney, Frances Couch,

Joan Stermer, Juanita Nichols, Eldon Constable.

Photo courtesy of Joan (Stermer) Linam and Charles DeLaney

 

Sixth Grade Scandanavian Dancers.

From Left:  A, B, C, Doris Summers, D, Sharon Long, Chuck DeLaney,

Frances Couch, Dick Wakefield, (aisle), E

Photo courtesy of Janet (Turner) Bailey